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All-Sports Expert Betting Tips to Help Win Cash this Week

by - 5/23/2016

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Betting on sports is fun and exciting, but the bottom-line goal is to win as many of your bets as possible. Nobody likes to lose, especially when money is coming out of your bankroll at your favorite online sportsbook. That is why you need to use every angle possible to gain an edge against your book. One of the best ways is uncovering a few expert betting tips that can go a long way towards predicting the winning outcome of a particular matchup.

Doc's Sports has always been known as a great online resource for exclusive sports betting information. Behind an experienced team of expert handicappers, it has also become a trusted source for high-unit plays with Doc's Unit Betting System that tend to pay off in a big way. This week's expert betting tips are all geared towards putting some extra cash in that betting bankroll.

Betting On the Best in Golf's Majors

The 2016 Masters is in the books, with Danny Willett stunning the field as a huge long shot to win the green jacket. Three of professional golf's top players in the world are busy gearing up for the next shot at winning a major this season with the US Open at Oakmont right around the corner.

BetOnline has recently updated the betting odds for major wins in 2016 for Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. With three still on the schedule, Day and Spieth's odds to win one are both set at +200, with McIlroy's odds to win one set at +220. From there the odds go up dramatically to win two or even three for each of these golfers. The odds that Day does not win any of the three are -240, followed by Spieth at -260 and McIlroy at -300.

Picking winners in any golf tournament is tough, let alone a major, but I would not bet against any of these three right now. What I would bet on is the +200 odds that Spieth does win a least one of the next three major events. His recent meltdown in the final round of the Masters should actually serve him well the next time he is contention. I am impressed with the fact that in his last five majors that he has won twice and finished fourth or better in the other three events.

Betting Against the Banged-up Blues

Accurate injury reports are crucial when it comes to betting on sports. When a star player is listed as day-to-day it opens up a wide area of speculation as to whether or not they will actually play in their next game. When it comes to finding an accurate NHL injury report, things become even cloudier since most coaches are extremely tight lipped when it comes to the playing status of anyone who was nicked up their last time out.

The St. Louis Blues saved their Western Conference Finals series against San Jose with a huge 6-3 victory this past Saturday as +142 road underdogs to even the best-of-seven series at two games apiece. This followed a pair of shutouts in which St. Louis was outscored 7-0. The bad news for the Blues is that their top two point scorers in these playoffs, David Backes (7 goals, 6 assists) and Robby Fabbri (3 goals, 11 assists), left Game 4 with undisclosed injuries.

St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock has remained mum on their actual playing status for Monday night's pivotal Game 5. The Blues have been listed as -119 home favorites by BetOnline, but the Sharks look pretty good as +108 road underdogs. Another concern to go along with the health of these two players is Hitchcock's decision to stick with Jake Allen in goal. He got the start for a struggling Brian Elliott in Game 3. And while he did make 31 saves, he also gave up three goals. I get the feeling that St. Louis is going to wish it saved some of the six goals it scored on Saturday for Monday night.

Betting On Home Underdogs in the NBA Conference Finals

The Toronto Raptors finally ended Cleveland's impressive winning streak in this year's playoffs at 10 games with a crucial 99-84 victory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals as six-point home underdogs. They have been listed as six-point underdogs again at home for Monday's Game 4. The Oklahoma City Thunder ran all over Golden State in Game 3 of that conference finals series with Sunday's 133-105 victory as 2.5-point home underdogs. The Thunder will try and take a surprising 3-1 series lead on Tuesday night as slight 1.5-point underdogs on their home court.

Betting trends always have to be taken with a grain of salt, but according to Covers you might want to roll the dice again on both of these teams as dogs at home. Going all the way back to the NBA Conference Finals in the 1991/92 season, there has been 33 games in this round in which a home team closed as an underdog. Straight up, the home team won 19 of those games and against the spread they went 20-12-1. Making Toronto even more attractive on Monday night is the fact that teams that were home underdogs of more than 2.5 points posted an 11-5 record ATS in 16 games.

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