Friday, July 22, 2011

Why People Bet Online (Part 1)

Nowadays people like to bet online, and according to unofficial statistics that's a RM billions industry in Malaysia.

Well, betting or gambling has always one of the 10 most desires of mankind. People like to watch football and place some bets, first they start off among friends then they bet for money and for the excitement of it. People buy lottery, toto, or go to Casino for the same reason, they like gambling, the thrill it brings is enormous.

1. Online Bookies Vs Agents

Conventionally in Asia, people bet through agents by phone calls, or in Sports Cafe where they show the games. Recently, the trend is to bet online through companies who offer betting online. And people like it, because by betting live online, they can watch the games and the odds running at the same times, and place bets. Normally, if you can choose a good bookie with license then you are safer compared to betting with agents. There's countless example of agents running away with the huge amount of money, and you lose everything.

Furthermore, some times betting through agent can make your life a living hell, because you cannot control your desire to bet more, and remember agents do let your owe them money for betting. I had a friend in JB and he's used to be a gangster. True story, he told me, he was working for loan shark and went to burn people cars and houses because they can't pay back debts because of gambling.

Betting online you need cash, and you can only play with the cash you have, you cannot owe the bookie money. So you manage your fund easier and do not go too far. So for recreational betting, it's much better to have a online bookie for your betting service. One more thing I like about betting online is that it offers a lot of different markets, leagues, cups, you can bet on almost any matches you like.

Take a look at M88.com market, and take note that this is low season for soccer:


You can see a lot of leagues offered for members to place bets. M88.com offers like +5000 live games. Well, so going to websites and control your games/betting is better than pick up a phone and call for agent. Your motion may have passed already so by the time you have reached the agent you bet can be inaccurate or invalid.

2. 100%  bonus vs flat cash

Most of the online websites nowadays all offer welcome bonus, and you will get bonus for your first time deposit. So you can extra compared to get nothing from agent. Check out M88.com fancy banners of this bonus


Furthermore, bookies always have promos to attract their members like Cash Rebate, Free-bets from times to times. Sometimes they even offer some premier packages for you to go to Macau, or tickets to football matches, concert and etc. Well, I don't know about you, but there are a lot more benefits if you are playing with online betting websites. For example:


These 10 lucky winners got the tickets to watch Liverpool and Chelsea matches when they travel to Malaysia for EPL Tour. Haha, not like it's easy to win, but who knows if you get lucky eh?

3. You are at your own game

Well, in Malaysia they have KIOSK. These places are like Cyber Cafe but they allow you to bet inside and of course you have to pay cash. My friend got busted once, and went through hell lot of troubles. Playing online, you are at home, safe and sound. If you don't like people to find out that you are accessing gambling websites, change setting of your browser to not remember the history. I never got problem with any of the betting websites that I go into. Another good thing is that you can bet any time you want, when you wake up or 4AM in the morning, or midnight. Well if these things do not convince you, I ll see you in part II

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