Traditional betting requires you to place a bet and get some form of fixed return if your selection ends up coming true. On the other hand Spread Betting requires you place a bet and then your returns are paid back based on just how correct you were.
For example if you were to place a bet on the total goals in a Manchester United game over 3 and the final score turns out to be 4-1 (therefore totalling 5 goals in the game) you would have won 2 goals which with a bet of 100 means a 200 profit. However had you just placed a traditional odds bet with the odds being evens then you would have just made 100 profit.
As you can see from the example just shown when you make spread bets compared to traditional bets the levels of profit you can make significantly sky rocket. The only problem with this is that although your profit will sky rocket it also means that your risk factor for each bet will be much higher. Taking you back to our example imagine that there were no goals in the game. With traditional betting you would have just lost you initial 100 but with spread betting you have now lost 300 (3 goals multiplied by 100 stake).
Showing that although there are massive amounts of profit available from Spread betting on sports it also means that there are huge risks involved and the possibilities of losing much more than your original stake are very real.
Author: Andreas Y James
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