The Sports Geek Blog
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Thursday Night Football Week 10 Predictions: Raiders vs. Broncos
Finding the Thursday Night Football best bets this week can be tricky, but our team is here to help! We will share our analysis and expert predictions throughout the entire NFL season, including recommended TNF player props.
The Las Vegas Raiders and Denver Broncos get Week 10 started in an AFC West rivalry clash in primetime. Check out our Thursday Night Football predictions and top picks at...
Best NHL Anytime Goal Scorer Predictions for Today, November 5
Picking the best NHL anytime goal scorer bets today can be time-consuming, but our hockey experts are here to help! They will share their goal scorer predictions daily from October to the Stanley Cup Final in June.
Here are our daily NHL goal scorer predictions for tonight, November 5:
You can find the reasoning for our recommended NHL goal scorer picks in the next section. Also, read bel...
NFL Survivor Picks This Week: Safest and Riskiest Predictions for Week 10
Finding the right NFL Survivor picks every week to win your pool can be difficult. Our team is here to help by providing three suggestions: safe, medium, and risky Survivor Pool picks, so you can decide if the time to take a gamble is right.
Without further ado, let’s move on to the best survivor picks for Week 10 of the 2025-26 season. We provide a summary first and our reasoning afterward.
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UEFA Champions League Picks Today: UCL Predictions for November 4
Finding the best Champions League bets every week can be challenging because it requires a solid understanding of multiple soccer leagues. I'm here to help with their free UCL betting picks and predictions for today, November 4.
Here’s a quick snapshot of my Champions League picks, and the reasoning is available below.
Champions League Best Bets Today, November 4 (Snapshot)
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How to Become a Professional Sports Bettor: Gambling as a Career
Sports betting as a career sounds like the perfect job: you get flexible hours, constant action, and the chance to turn passion into income. But reaching that level takes discipline, patience, and a long learning curve. Few people get there, but understanding what it involves is the first step.
I’ll look at what sports gambling as a career involves, how professionals approach it, and shar...
CFP National Championship 2025-26 Odds: Hook‘em Horns?
With the football season well underway, the 2025-26 College Football Championship odds are a good indicator of which teams are most likely to win the title! The futures markets suggest we should have a competitive season in the first year of the 12-team playoff.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are favored to repeat, but multiple other teams will be hoping for a strong run. Let’s evaluate the latest CF...
Celebrity Death Pool – How to Play & How to Win
It’s a little bit morbid, it’s a little sardonic, it’s the Celebrity Death Pool.
An informal betting game based around picking the death dates of famous people, Celebrity Death Pool is the latest pop-culture incarnation of the long-lived dead pool. Bets made on predictions of death have long been a dark way for humans to deal with suffering and mortality.
You’ll fi...
What Is an Action Reverse Bet? (And How Do 'If Bets' Work?)
You're looking to head into the sports betting realm, but first, you'd like to research all the different types of bets. That's smart of you. Because in sports betting, there are a few ways you can bet and hopefully win. Action reverse bets are one such type of many bets, and today's post explains them.
We will cover all the basics, assuming you are a first-time sports bettor or...
How to Determine Slot Machine Payout Percentage
Slot machine payout percentage determines your chances of getting that big win. In this guide, we can identify four basic ways to figure out the payout percentage of a particular slot machine.
We also help you determine the payout percentage of a slot machine you’re about to play. I thought of four solid methods for working out a machine’s theoretical RTP and decided to put them...
7 Facts About Wong Strategy in NFL Teaser Betting That Can Help You Profit
For far too many years during my time as a sports betting enthusiast, I was making a crucial error whenever I took a “teaser” ticket during the NFL season. For folks who aren’t familiar with teaser bets, this clever method of wagering allows the bettor to tilt point spreads and/or Over-Under totals in their own favor.
For example:
if you liked the Miami Dolphins as (-3) favo...
Can You Win Profits with Virtual Sports Betting?
Virtual sports betting looks much like the real thing in many ways. It uses high-quality graphics and animations to appear just like a real sports match or race.
Therefore, you may feel that virtual sports gambling can be profitable under the right circumstances. After all, regular betting rewards the best gamblers with profits.
But does virtual wagering actually gi...
Is It Legal to Bet on High School Sports?
Is it legal to bet on high school sports? As many of you know, the 2018 decision by the United States Supreme Court has paved the way for legalized sports betting across the United States.
The court specifically nulled the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, deeming it unconstitutional. Does this mean that it will become legal to bet on high school sports?
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14 Betting Systems to Try Next Time You’re in a Casino
Betting systems are a losing proposition in the long run. That’s an established fact, and I won’t argue with that fact here.
What I will say is this:
Betting systems can make for some entertaining gambling sessions.
And you can sometimes win with a betting system, just like you can sometimes win without a betting system.
You’re welcome to try any of the betting systems listed bel...
If You’ve Never Played a Card Game Before...
One of the most popular ways to gamble is to play card games.
But what if you’ve never played a card game before?
I know it seems impossible, but I’ve met people who don’t know the first thing about a deck of cards.
This post aims to provide a concise introduction to card games for people who know absolutely nothing about the subject.
The Features of a Standard Deck of Cards
Most card games...
How to Bet on Disc Golf
People unfamiliar with the sports often mistakenly call disc golf “frisbee golf. “
George Costanza, on Seinfeld, called it “frolf.” That caught on, too. But the real name of the sport is disc golf.
And, according to the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA), it’s one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States.
From its humble origins of college students throwin...
7 Facts About Virtual Sports You May Not Have Known
Virtual sports have been around at least since Atari invented the game of Pong was in 1972. If you didn’t realize Pong was a virtual sport now you do. It is based on table tennis (you know – ping pong).
And if you’ve never lost a bet on a Pong or table tennis game then you’re probably not a real sports bettor. Many a Pong game decided the fate of empires in bars around the world.
Up until 20...
