Betting on football is a hobby that a great deal of men and women enjoy, it's really a bit of fun, and also you possess the chance to win something which appeals to a great deal of individuals. Obviously it is important not to risk more than you may afford to lose, but as long as you are sensible there's nothing wrong with it.

There are actually three main ways you can place a bet, win bets, lay bets and each way bets. There are other more complex methods, but these three will be the main forms and it's best to stick to these for a while at least.

Win betting is in which you bet on someone or something to win. So if you are betting on a football match between teams A and B, and also you bet that team A will win, that would be a win bet.

Lay bets are the place you bet on someone or something to lose. So using the same example, if you bet on team B losing the match in which case you would be placing a lay bet.

Each way bets work slightly differently and can not really be applied to a match between two teams, but may be placed in football betting by looking at league tables and betting on their own outcome. When you bet on someone to win or place that implies that you are betting on them either coming first and winning, or becoming among the runners up - usually positions 2, 3 and sometimes 4. So if you bet on team A to win or place within the league table you could be placing an each way bet.

Accumulator bets are a type of betting popular in excellent online football betting. This really is the place you place a series of small bets of among the above forms - usually win bets - but you link them together so that all of your predictions have to come true for you to win anything, but whenever you do win it's more than it would be if you bet on each separately. So you might bet on team A to win match 1, then team C to win match 2 and after that team E to win match 3. To get it right you'd requirement for teams A, C and E to win. The way it works is the fact that the winnings from each bet are carried forward and used as the stake for the next bet so that the pot of money you are betting each time grows as does the potential winnings, it is this accumulation of money that gives this sort of bet it's name.

Whenever you first start betting it's worth remembering that the bookies who take bets all of the time are pretty good at understanding the forms of the teams that you'll be betting on. They don't often get it wrong which is why you are more very likely to win on something with short odds than you are to win on a long shot. Odds are the ratio of stake bet, to potential winnings. Odds of 2:1 are shorter odds than those of 14:1. Looking at the form of the many teams is the way that you can help yourself to have a better chance at winning when you place bets too. Even though it's worth remembering that all betting is essentially a game of chance.