Which Athlete Has Made You the Most Betting Money?

Sport betting is one of the many ways through which you can make money. (That’s obvious, yea?!)

Betting is all about backing a sporting event to happen or betting against its occurrence. It could be backing a team to win or betting against the possibility of the total match number of points to exceed a certain amount.

Betting markets are limitless, making bettors spoilt for choice.

But as many as these possible events are, the likelihood of their occurrence is based on the players/athletes in action.

There’s one question we are more interested in today though: Since you’ve been placing bets, which athlete has made you the most betting money?

In football, there are quite a number of ways a player may have made you some money over time.

Take for instance this just-concluded season. Mohamed Salah scored 32 goals in the Premier League. Somebody somewhere must have consistently made some money from this Egyptian’s goals, via the ‘Mohamed Salah to score at anytime’ betting option. Or even simply “Liverpool to win”.

Generally speaking, attackers in football help bettors make money.

Whether you bet on a player to score or a team to score, or you predict a correct score, you’re indirectly backing any one of the players to help you win a bet.

But what about the goalkeepers?

A case study for this one is David De Gea.

This past Premier League season, he made 115 saves and kept 18 clean sheets. This directly means that this season, De Gea helped those who bet on Manchester United to either keep a clean sheet or “win to nil” make money.

You get the drift now?

But it’s not only in football.

In basketball, athletes like Steph Curry, Lebron James, Al Horford, Kevin Durant, James Harden and co have all been helping bettors to make some money from the NBA Playoffs this season by scoring a number of points which directly influences the outcome of markets, like ‘Team to Win,’ Half with the Most Number of Points,’ ‘Total Match Points’ among others.

It’s the same in tennis. With the Grand Slam in France fast approaching, Alexander Zverev has been winning games, sometimes winning the first set of the game and helping those who invested their money in that market to make even more money.

What of Formula 1? There have been at least 3 different race winners this season: Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. In the head-to-head market of F1, these different winners have definitely helped bettors to win some cool cash.

Ours is a long list, but we would love to hear from you.

Think back on your betting history. Which athlete has won you the most betting money – either via a last-minute penalty save or last-minute goal or three-point shot made?

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