{"id":4177,"date":"2022-04-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:48:29","slug":"weekend-wisdom-sportsbooks-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/weekend-wisdom-sportsbooks-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wisdom: Sportsbooks Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a year or two ago with a slight murmur, which then turned into a rumbling, and now into an earthquake, sportsbooks have the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2022-03-30\/sports-betting-app-promos-make-bettors-look-for-new-edge\">hit the manufactured spend community and churning world in force, now at peak with an expos\u00e9 article at Bloomberg<\/a>. Whether or not you\u2019re a gambler or have any interest in gambling, sportsbooks ought to be a part of your manufactured spend and churning toolkit because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are easy <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sportsbook\/comments\/s08tgv\/new_yorkers_how_to_make_7k_guaranteed_from_these\/\">sign-up bonuses which sum to between $5,000 and $10,000<\/a> (think bank sign-up bonuses)<\/li>\n<li>Some books will accept Visa or Mastercard gift cards (think liquidation)<\/li>\n<li>Grocery stores sell sportsbook gift cards (think credit card category bonuses)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds a lot like the manufactured spend and churning playbook, eh? With that in mind, a few notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if sportsbooks aren\u2019t legal in your state, you can still participate anytime you\u2019re in a state where they are legal<\/li>\n<li>You can play both sides of a bet on two different sportsbooks to avoid losses (betting arbitrage sites help make this easy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great. So, let\u2019s chat about how to avoid shutdowns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bet all the money you add before cashing out (just play both sides to avoid losing)<\/li>\n<li>Bet in roundish numbers like a normal person would<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck, and have a nice weekend!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4180\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4730-1024x981.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4730-1024x981.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4730-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4730-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4730.png 1200w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>How is this related to sportsbooks? I\u2019m not sure, but it had to be published so here we are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a year or two ago with a slight murmur, which then turned into a rumbling, and now into an earthquake, sportsbooks have the hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}