Online sports betting continues to increase every year.  However, during the first five months of 2009, the increase has been dramatic.  One of the reasons for this increase can be attributed to a huge falloff in land-based casino gambling.  In Las Vegas alone, gambling is down around 14%, with almost a 20% decrease in sportsbook gambling.  For the first time in history, there was more betting on the Super Bowl in online gambling parlours than in land-based casinos in Vegas.

During the first five months of 2009, major sporting events created huge betting forays on the Internet.  Some of these events were:  the NCAA Football Title Game; the NCAA Basketball Championships; the Super Bowl; College Bowl games; professional soccer and European Football clashes; the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in horse racing; and the National Hockey League and National Basketball Association Playoffs and Championships.

While betting has been keen on these contests, the shrewd sports betting investor stood to make a bundle if the wager was placed before the season began.  These wagers feature lucrative odds, and return huge profits for those who have the gift of prognostication accuracy.  If you enjoy sports, and who doesn’t, then it would behove you to try your luck on selecting some sports champions for the upcoming year.

Some of the upcoming wagers on your online sports betting calendar includes the World Series of Baseball winner and the NCAA College Football Champion.  You can also wager on the U.S. Tennis Open in September played in Flushing, New York, and the eventual N.F.L. Super Bowl Champ for the 2009-2010 season.

Our own online sports betting prognosticator, fell short with the Vancouver Canucks, but apparently had the crystal ball working to perfection with regard to the N.B.A. Championships.  It was last fall that the OnlineGambling.co.uk Guru predicted that the Los Angeles Lakers would take the title, and that Kobe Bryant would be named the Most Valuable Player of the Championship Series.  If you placed a wager of $100 on each of those lines, you would have lined your pockets with well over $1000. 

The benefits of placing online sports betting wagers on league and event winners is that the odds are great, and you can root for your team the whole year long.  Have some fun and place a few online sports betting wagers on the upcoming college season now – the odds are ripe for the taking!