Usually here I give you mostly informational pieces with my a little of my opinion at the end, but in this article I'm going to something a little different. I'm going to tell you how betting has enhanced sports for me. When I say performance enhancing draws, I'm obviously just spoofing the common sport topic of performance enhancing drugs. Here draws don't me ties. They simply mean bets. Yes, it is an actual synonym of bet; I looked it up on thesaurus.com.
It all started last month. One of my best friends, and now fellow sports blogger Kyle Picano, started telling me all about the bets he does. So one day I finally started asking about betting in general. He told me one of his websites you have to put money into and the other is free and costs you nothing. I was quite intrigued by the idea of betting at no risk, which is essentially what the free site was. I joined the site, its called centsports if anyone is interested, and started making bets. How the site works is that it gives you 10 cents, paid with by the ads on the site, and you can bet that 10 cents however you want. If you bet it all and lose? Well then they give you 10 more cents. They also have bonus offers that will give you more money if you do surveys, join certain website, and other things like that. I found out I early on in my betting career that I like to have money on a lot of games. This would always annoy Kyle, who believes in betting it all to gain more money before betting on multiple games. Sometimes I did just bet it all, but most of the I would divvy it up 2, 3, 4, or even 5 ways.
At first, I did not win much because I was still learning how to bet. I also was betting on teams that had huge payouts but were heavy underdogs. But I think a month has past since I started betting and I finally broke through. Yesterday I won over 6 dollars on two 5-line parlays, which means 5 games or matches in one bet. My previous high was about 43 cents. Today was the first day in which I had dollars in a play instead of cents. I started off the day with over 7 dollars in various bets with the chance to win over 30 dollars. When you have the chance to win 30 dollars betting on a variety of different sports, this obviously makes sports way better.
When you have money on the line, it forces you to align yourself with whoever you bet on. So it turns a game or match that you wouldn't normally care about into something you'll stay up all morning following just to see if you won some cash. I never used to follow the sports of tennis and soccer. Dating back to the day I started betting, tennis has been the sport I have watched most and soccer is one of the sports I've won the most money on. As you can see, betting as widened what sports I follow. Money talks and sports betting is a great example of that. I'm all for performance enhancing draws.
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