For football fans everywhere the outcome of a game is obvious, its a home win, a draw or an away win. In league matches the relative strengths of the teams is close, often providing a great deal of entertainment as games go to the wire. However there are many cup matches where the relative strengths of both sides are miles apart and these matches in particular offer themselves to the punter in the form of Asian handicap betting opportunities.
Asian handicaps have become a great favourite with punters in recent years, especially in the field of football. Whats so good about them ? well they can turn a non event, where one team is vastly superior to the other, into an interesting betting medium.
An example best illustrates how these handicaps function. Lets assume a ficticious football match of ManU versus Crewe Alexandra. Football enthusiasts know that, barring miracles, ManU will win comfortably. So the layer offers the match with ManU handicapped by 1.5 goals, for example. All of a sudden the match becomes more interesting as a betting medium, punters are now betting on the prospect of ManU winning by more or less than 1.5 goal difference i.e. Manu score (-1.5) versus Crewe Alexandra. This is what is at the crux of Asian handicaps, a weighting that redresses the balance in uneven competitions.
Perhaps its pretty obvious that there is no such thing as half a goal and, in these cases, there are only two outcomes, win or lose. Where the handicap offered is a whole number then the outcome is per a normal football contest, win, draw or lose.
In general Asian handicapping is particularly prevalent on betting exchanges as some punters like to take a view as layers whereas other punters like to take a price in this form of betting.
Asian handicaps are mostly used in football betting although there is no reason why they cannot be used in any other form of betting where there are two sides to the contest.
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