Basketball Betting Bonuses

Regardless if you're a complete newbie or have placed thousands of bets on basketball, there's always something more to learn, to give you that extra edge against the house. No matter what level you're at, there's always pitfalls to avoid and extra value to claim. 

In the following section, we're gonna go through some tips and tricks to help you out with your basketball betting. We've compiled basic and useful information about what leagues to bet on, what markets to play, and what bonuses that suit you best depending on your skill level. Rookie, Mid-Level or Veteran. 

So you're a newbie looking to get into basketball betting? Congratulations! You've stumbled upon one of the most efficient ways to make one of the greatest sports on the planet even more exciting. Betting on basketball can be a lot of fun, especially when done right and successfully. The key to achieve this as a new player is to keep the bets simple, and the stakes small.

Keep the bets simple, and the stakes small

We know it's tempting to grab the biggest bonus possible and put together a massive parlay with huge payout potential. In this section, we're gonna tell you why this is usually not the best way to get started. 

Checklist Before You Claim A Bonus:

1. ✅Glance through available promos in your state.
2. ✅Pick a solid offer from a legal sportsbook.
3. ✅Make sure basketball markets are valid.
4. ✅Check important T&Cs like turnover requirements, min. odds & expiration date.
5. ✅Check available deposit/withdrawal methods at the sportsbook. 

As a rookie, you're likely mostly interested in betting as a fun way to make NBA and WNBA games more exciting. This is a solid starting point. All the sportsbooks offer plenty of odds on every player, team and game, and it's easy to find live coverage to follow along in real-time. You can also easily bet on players and teams that you're familiar with, even though the odds are usually lower at the highest leagues.

While in-game live betting is really exciting, it's not a good choice for beginners. Basketball games can take a turn extremely fast, and betting in the heat of the moment with a live time limit is a recipe for making wrong decisions. 

Keep It Simple With These Basketball Markets:

• Money line
• Point spread (for the slightly more daring)
• Over/Under (fun variety to money line)
• Simple player props (if you know the players well)

If you want to try live betting, advanced player props or parlays, go ahead. But keep in mind that your odds of winning are drastically reduced, so keep the stakes small. Also remember that futures lock up your money for a long time.

Keeping it simple is still the name of the game. Peak NBA season often sees a massive surge of basketball promos, and they can be quite advanced. If a promo is targeting parleys regarding multiple NBA teams, have complicated restrictions or limits this and that, simply ignore it. 

Bonus Bets and Second Chance Bets normally span over at least two games (due to the qualifying bet), which lets you use them for multiple game nights. The minimum deposit is usually low, and bonus amounts are generous. Just make sure to double check the minimum odds allowed if you plan to bet on a favorite.

Bet-to-Get promotions can be a solid pick, but there are often slightly more complicated terms attached to them. If you find one that fits your needs perfectly, go for it, but make sure you check out the T&Cs.

Starting to feel a bit more warmed up in your game? If you're starting to get the hang of how betting works, win a decent amount of your games and know your way around the sportsbooks, you've most likely reached the mid-level of basketball bettors. This is when it starts to get really interesting, and your odds of turning a profit increase drastically. 

Improving Your Basketball Betting At Mid-Level:

• Start tracking your wins and losses.
• Start using sports statistics websites to prepare your bets.
• Focus on finding hidden value for your bets.
• Explore smaller leagues and games in other countries.
• Consider practicing your in-game live betting.
• Consider signing up to multiple sportsbooks, to get wider coverage, more promos, frequent boosts and the best odds available. 

As you reach the intermediate level, starting to look closer at both how you bet and what you bet on becomes more important. The biggest leagues and games have the best coverage, but the sportsbooks know them very well. Finding a really good misplaced odds on an NBA game is unlikely. Live betting and smaller leagues offer better opportunities. 

Smaller leagues offer better opportunities

Testing the waters in overseas leagues like the EuroLeague, Spanish Liga ACB or Chinese Basketball Association will likely have much better odds that you can take advantage of, if you find access to the right statistics. Smaller leagues means less coverage in the U.S., which usually means better odds. You might need accounts with multiple sportsbooks to find available odds, however.

Naturally you'll still want to bet on your favorite teams. Continuing to place simple money lines on NBA games will still lead to a small profit, which boosts your betting bankroll. But if you hope for the big wins in the home leagues, you'll have to get more invested in live betting, parlays, advanced player props and betting using handicap in the form of point spreads.

If you have been betting long enough to call yourself mid-level or intermediate, you likely claimed quite a few promotions already. The trick at this point is being able to easily identify a good deal and restrictions in the terms that make the bonus a poor choice. 

As an experienced bettor, you will be able to target the biggest deposit bonuses, feeling comfortable enough to meet the turnover requirements and convert the bonus funds to withdrawable cash. No sweat bets, bonus bets, deposit matches and bet get promos; it doesn't matter as long as nothing in the T&Cs strike you as off-putting. 

Eventually you'll start to run out of bonuses to claim. This is when it gets particularly important to have accounts with multiple sportsbooks, so you can keep an eye on the regular profit boosts. Boosted odds are a great way to add that extra value to odds that normally wouldn't make you raise your eyebrow. Refer-a-friend bonuses are also a way to keep getting extra bang for your buck.

If your aim is to become an expert at betting, on basketball or any other sport, there are a few things you need to pay particular attention to that most pros do. Number one is to always keep extensive track of your results. Analyzing your wins and losses to find trends or anomalies, and to figure out what works best for you in smaller leagues, is crucial. 

Keep extensive track of your results

At this level, betting on the NBA is probably mostly for fun and to root for your home team. Small foreign national leagues should be your primary focus when trying to locate value in misplaced odds. Live betting offers particularly good opportunities, if you can find the odds and streaming.

As they start nearing an expert level, pro bettors often realize that they have developed a sort of second sense. A quick glance is sometimes all it takes to get a feeling for a game, and trusting your gut, especially in-game, can often lead to huge rewards.

Less media attention means fewer analysts, which means that the sportsbooks run a higher risk of misplacing the odds, sometimes only temporarily before being corrected. The real money lays in smaller competitions like the G League, or overseas leagues like BBL, Serie A, LNB, BSL, PLK, B.League, Australian NBL and PBA, to name a few. 

In-game betting at a quick paced sport as basketball means that the sportsbooks are sometimes slow at correcting and updating live odds, meaning that a skilled bettor trusting their gut feeling can quickly take advantage. This does not just apply to smaller leagues, but the big leagues too. If you can trust your gut. 

Back to the basics

Many very good bettors are able to lay down parlays with a large number of legs, stretching multiple matches, maybe including both money lines, spreads and advanced player props. This is sometimes what's needed to make a reasonable profit at leagues such as the NBA or CEBL. But veteran players also realize that those good old money lines and over/under bets are not just fun, but also some of the safest bets. Back to the basics.

Let's keep it real here. Most advanced bettors rarely ever use betting promotions. Not because they aren't interested in them, but mainly because they claimed all the sign-up bonuses already. When a new sportsbook is launched, veteran players normally just grab the bonus if it's acceptable, or ignore it if something in the terms seem off. Temporary special promos can offer good opportunities. But there are still ways to get better value in your betting.

Profit boosts add much needed additional value

For experienced players, keeping multiple sportsbook accounts is important for getting the best odds available, and a wide market coverage. But even more so for the odds boosts. In peak season, every game day sees an influx of these mini promotions. Profit boosts add much needed additional value to those big games, sometimes making a bigger risk worth taking, or making it worthwhile betting on the favorite.