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Prop bets are a great way to add even more excitement to sports betting. Entertainment value has always been a big selling point with prop bets. However, many people are surprised at the amount of profit potential they have, especially when it comes to a long-term sports betting strategy.

Sports bettors who win with prop betting have the ability to differentiate between entrainment bets and skilled bets for profit. Here, we're going to look at the latter, along with the different kinds of prop bets available, and where you can get started with a risk-free bet.

What are prop bets?

Prop bets allow you to place a wager on events that occur within an individual game or entire season. These bets aren't concerned with the overall result, as spread betting and the money line take care of that. Instead, you’re looking to bet on statistics, individual performances, or lighthearted propositions that aren’t even related to the game, e.g. “will the announcer tell us where he went for dinner last night?”.

Individual sportsbooks offer different prop bets with regards to what you can bet on. Having said that, there are a number of standard bets that are always available. Prop bets like whether the star player will score a touchdown/point, etc., or who will score first, are almost unanimous across all sportsbooks.

Prop bets and odds

Because there are so many different kinds of prop bets, there isn’t really one standard way of presenting the odds. However, one thing always remains true in a prop bet, and that’s that they are usually an “a vs b” or “yes or no” proposition. So the line is always easy to understand. For example, there might be a proposition bet on how many touchdowns Tom Brady will throw for in the AFC Championship Game. The sportsbook will either leave it as a “yes or no” outcome or set a total. It might look like the following.

The prop bet could be even simpler, such as “will Tom Brady score a touchdown in the AFC Championship game?” In this case, you would choose “yes” or “no”.

Here's another example, this time from an MLB game.

Whether you win this prop bet or not depends more on your knowledge of baseball rather than luck. Of course, these odds suggest that the Yankees are the far better team in the first innings. However, there may be other reasons for the sportsbook making them the favorite, like the fact that they're playing at home, or have a better overall record. By studying other factors, such as form, you may decide that the odds offered for the Mets are worth a bet.

Types of prop bets

There’s a wide variety of prop bets available on almost any sporting event at sportsbooks like FanDuel and FoxBet. Here are some of the most common prop bets you can expect to find.

• Futures Bets: As the name implies, these are wagers on future occurrences. Examples of futures bets include “who will be named game MVP?”, “who will score the most home runs?”, and “which team will win the NBA championship?”.
• Will it occur?: This is a simple “yes or no” proposition. Examples include “will the Bills score a touchdown in the fourth quarter?”, “will Phillip Rivers score more than two touchdown passes?”, and “will the Atlanta Braves score three or more home runs?”.
• First on the Team: This one is also self-explanatory. You’re making a prediction on who will do something first? Examples include “who will catch the first pass?”, and “who will sack the quarterback first?”.
• Timing Wagers: Some prop bets are based on a set period of time to complete the wager. For example, “how many minutes will have gone by scored the first touchdown?”, or “how long will the National Anthem last?”.
• Individual Performances: Here, the bet is on the performance of a particular athlete. A sportsbook might offer prop bets such as “who will be the game’s leading rusher?” and “who will have the most receiving yards?”.
• Team Point Totals: This type of prop bet is based on the margin of victory or total points scores. Variations of this include the total number of points scored by a team in the third quarter and the exact margin of victory.

How can I get a free prop bet?

While almost all sportsbooks offer prop bets, and many offer free bets for new customers, Oddschecker recommends FanDuel and BetMGM. Not only are these two of the most reputable sportsbooks in the industry, but they also make it really easy to get started, thanks to their generous welcome offers. When you make your first bet with FanDuel, they have you covered by refunding your first bet up to $500 if you lose. So it’s 100% risk-free. They will credit your account so you can place more bets, making prop betting even more fun. BetMGM makes the same offer and also has a nice range of prop bets available, so you might want to look at both FanDuel and BetMGM to find the right prop bets for you.

Oddschecker provides an odds comparison service so you can see all the odds, offers, and promotions from every single sportsbook in one place. They also provide free picks and analysis across every single sport. This means that at Oddschecker, you will always be able to see the best NFL odds and picks the market has to offer.

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FAQ

What can I make a prop bet on?

There’s are no limits as what prop bets can entail. You can bet on anything from the coin toss in an NFL game to the last player to score a touchdown. Check in with your favored sportsbook regularly to find out what prop bets are available.

How are prop bets paid out?

Prop bets are paid just like any other bet. Typically, each side of a prop bet has an equal payout in order to encourage betting on both sides.

Where did prop bets come from?

Prop bets initially became popular as a reaction to the excitement of the Super Bowl, with the first touchdown scored being among the first prop bets offered. The popularity of prop bets continues to grow, as most sportsbooks offer these kinds of bets for NFL games, as well as the NBA, MLB & NHL.

In gambling, a 'proposition bet' (prop bet, prop, novelty, or a side bet) is a bet made regarding the occurrence or non-occurrence during a game (usually a gambling game) of an event not directly affecting the game's final outcome.

Proposition bets in sports are differentiated from the general bets for or against a particular team or regarding the total number of points scored. Traditionally, proposition bets can be made on outcomes such as the number of strikeouts a pitcher will accumulate in a baseball game, whether a non-offensive player will score in an American football game, which team will score the first points of the game,^[1] the discipline record of teams in a match, the timing of certain events, the number of specific events per team or in the entire match, realistically any statistically discrete event contained in a match or game could be bet on.

Fixing part of a match for a certain result in a proposition bet is called spot-fixing.

Wsop Prop Bets

Examples[edit]

There are a wide range of events or outcomes commonly bet on, including:

• Which specific sub-outcomes occur during a game in which multiple sub-outcomes normally have the same value, for example:
• The number of balls/strikes thrown by a baseball pitcher
• Which team scores first in a match
• The specific face value of one or more individual dice in craps
• Which cards will make up the flop in a hand of poker
• Which cards are dealt in blackjack: Over 35 different blackjack side bets are widely recognized in casinos. On some bets, such as the 'Lucky Ladies' side bet that wins only if the first two cards dealt to a player equal 20.^[2] These bets are rarely favoured by experienced gamblers as the house edge on them typically exceeds the edge in a normal game. For example, the 'Super 7s' side bet in blackjack has a house edge of 12.6%,^[3] while blackjack itself has a house edge of around 1% if the player follows basic strategy. There are side bets however that have very low house advantages such as 'The 18 Bet' at the Eureka Casino in Mesquite which is almost under 2%.
• Specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word 'brave' in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the colour of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as a Gatorade shower

Some jurisdictions do not allow casinos to offer any type of non-sport related proposition bets,^[4] but these kinds of prop bets can often be found online.

Dare for money[edit]

Less commonly, 'proposition bet' (in this context also 'one-of-a-kind bet') denotes a dare for money. The bet is on whether the 'dared' person will make a given event happen. If the 'dared' person accepts the bet, he will collect if he succeeds or pay if he fails.

Poker Player Prop Bets

For an example detailed in the book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, David Grey once bet Howard Lederer, a professional poker player who became vegetarian following gastric bypass surgery, $10,000 that Lederer would not eat a cheeseburger. Lederer accepted the wager, ate the cheeseburger, and won the bet.

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Spot fixing[edit]

Spot-fixing is an illegal activity where a person involved in the game takes steps to ensure a certain result for a proposition bet. Instead of fixing an entire match, or shaving points, spot fixing can be done with as little as one player, and can involve ensuring a certain outcome on only a single play, and may be completely unrelated to the points/results in a game.

Poker Player Prop Bets

Examples include Matt Le Tissier attempting to fix the time of a throw-in by kicking it out immediately after the game started,^[5] or Ryan Tandy attempting to fix the first point scored method in a rugby league game, failing after the opposition decided against kicking a penalty goal and instead scored a try.^[6] Multiple cricket players on teams at all levels of the sport have also attempted to fix events, such as the number of wides or no-balls in an over or the number of runs scored.

The fact that these minor events often contribute a minor or non-existent impact on the score or result of a game makes recruiting players for spot fixing an easier attraction than attempting to fix an entire match that may consist of dozens of players.

References[edit]

Poker Prop Bets

1. ^'An Introduction to Proposition and Matched Betting'. SB Pal. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
2. ^'Blackjack Side Bets'. WizardofOdds.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
3. ^'Blackjack Side Bets - Super Sevens'. WizardofOdds.com. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
4. ^'Super Bowl Prop Bets'. Bet the Super Bowl. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
5. ^'Le Tissier in failed betting scam'. BBC Sport. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
6. ^'Tandy guilty in NRL fixing scam'. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Abc.net.au. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2014.

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