BETTING: A Deal With Prediction

by Rufai Bolaji James



Betting is gaining momentum in the country through the popularity of sport bet. Sport fans are taking their passion to another level,  many soccer lovers have realized that the matches’ score they predict for fun could actually fetch them some money.
Before now, Pool staking and the common Lottery known as ‘Baba Ijebu’ was the most popular form of gambling in the country. Pool staking predicts scores of football games while lottery is predicting the exact number the lottery machine will display.

Sport bet deals with prediction of scores, time of goals, who is to score. It is played by different categories of people, 18 year of age the preside age grade for those who are qualify to play.
In an interview with a student who pleaded anonymity, he said “students’ play this sport bets because they need money and think it is the short cut to which they can get fast money, dealing with the fact that students think they have good knowledge on football and other sports. He also claim that student get to know this sport bets through social media and publicity of the previous winners.
He further stress that playing this sport bets deal with the total faith you have in yourself and arranging teams which he thinks can upset the odds of the game and hope for the best result.
Numbers of sport bet organization are increasing and growing day by day in Nigeria, some are available for play online and local centers of the prefer sport bet. The online players can easily visit the sport bet site to stake their bets while local customer who don’t have access to internet  go to local centers close to them to stake their bets in safety, trust and comforts.
Sport bet organizations operate 24 hours of the days and seven days a week. Agents at local centers get their profit through the commission on every game play in their center each day or week.
For players, the amount to be won is determined by the accuracy of the prediction and the amount staked on the odds. Sport bet odds are in decimal forms like 1.00, 2.65, 3.21 and so.

My question is, how is it done and how can one makes a sure bet?