bwin.com has announced a new £5 free bet offer which is exclusive to readers of bwinbetting.com, the new football betting site which arms punters with all the info they need to take advantage of the best odds offered by the world’s largest online gaming company.

bwin.com is offering customers a new £5 free bet offer through its recently-launched football betting site, http://www.bwinbetting.com. The incentive is exclusively available to bwinbetting.com readers and has been launched in time for the new football season, which is now just weeks away.

With no deposit required, the £5 free bet offer couldn’t be easier to claim. All customers need to do is head to the competitions page on bwinbetting.com, enter their mobile phone number in the designated text box and follow the instructions they receive via text message. The free £5 will be automatically added to their bwin.com accounts, allowing them to start betting immediately. For those not yet signed up for a bwin.com account, the £5 free bet offer can be used on top of the existing matched £25 free bet new customers receive for registering.

Once the money is in a customer’s account it can be used to place bets on the 90-plus sports catered for by the world’s largest online gaming company. The free £5 must be bet at least three times before it can be withdrawn and the offer must be claimed before 31st December 2011. The one remaining caveat is that the offer is only available to people with a valid UK phone number.

Known to football fans across the world as the shirt sponsor of Spanish giants Real Madrid, bwin.com launched bwinbetting.com earlier this year with the aim of ensuring punters can make the most informed betting decisions possible. It features previews of all the latest games across a wide variety of leagues and cups, a comprehensive stats section, betting tips and football news.

“We cannot wait for the start of the season at bwinbetting.com and know that UK football fans feel the same way,” said editor Chris Bryant.

“So we decided to offer this £5 free bet promotion to allow our readers to take advantage of the huge range of football odds offered by bwin for what promises to be another great campaign.”

If you have a favorite sport that you are passionate about, the next logical step is to want to learn how to place a bet on your favorite team or player. There are a great number of resources available when you want to learn what is the best way to bet on sports. For example, if you are looking to bet on either football or basketball, you will most often use the Point Spread method. You would need to understand how the favorites and underdogs are chosen and also you will need to understand how handicaps are awarded and what those handicaps mean in terms of winning or losing. Then there is golf which has so many ways to make a wager that you would almost need to keep an instruction manual with you while making a wager!

Baseball is perhaps one of the easiest games to bet on because you can either pick your favorite team OR your favorite pitcher. You can choose whether to keep your bet alive even if the pitchers get changed prior to opening pitch or you can choose to get your bet refunded if the pitchers are changed up before game. Remember, the pitcher is awarded the win or the loss so winning a bet is most often correlated to which pitcher was credited with the win. No matter which game you choose to bet on, you can learn new and creative ways to place a bet if you take the time to research ways to wager on that particular game.

While golf has been labeled as one of the most social, if not the most social, sports on record, there are a good deal of ways in which to bet on the game. Added to betting on the game itself, there are side wagers you can make to pick up a few extra bucks as well. Some people just like to bet on the game for the sake of betting since they don’t really enjoy watching the game itself. Unless you are an avid golfer, you probably can’t sit still to watch an entire game from hole to hole. Since most people will play the game for the camaraderie it provides, many of those folks wouldn’t actually sit down to watch an entire game on television. Betting on golf is another matter altogether.

Some of the popular ways to bet on golf actually have names! These include such titles as Sandies, Nassau, Barkies, Bingo-Bango-Bongo, Round Robin, Arnies, Wolf, Criers and Whiners, Gruesomes and Aces & Deuces. Unfortunately, the more ways you can bet on a game, the more difficult it is to learn to bet. For this reason it is suggested that you find a good site online that will teach you how to place bets and side wagers on golf. Of course, if you play the game, then you probably know how bets are won and lost and will not need much help placing your bet. The great thing about sports betting is that you don’t really need to even like the sport to place a wager. Whoever said it’s not whether you win but how you play the game? It couldn’t have been a sports bettor.

If you are looking for a sport that you can wager on year round, tennis would be a good sport – even if you don’t enjoy watching the game! Unlike other sports, tennis is played 12 months out of each and every year because of it is played around the world. Therefore, if it cold in one area of the world, it is warm enough to play it somewhere else! Unfortunately, betting on tennis isn’t as widespread as it should be and is really dwarfed by bets placed on football (American as well as European!), basketball, baseball and even rugby. However, there really is a ton of money to be made on tennis wagers if you understand how to bet on the game. Once you understand the system, you can actually make profits week after week, month after month.

There are two places where you can consistently place bets on tennis, even though there are not too many places that take bets on the game. One place is Bookmaker and the other is called 5 Dimes. Some of the big games you will want to place a wager on would be Wimbledon, The French Open, The US Open and even The Aussie Open. Once you understand that this game runs year round, the first thing to do would be to find a site that actually teaches you methods of betting on tennis. There are a number of good tutorials online that provide tips for betting on tennis. Whether you want to bet on tennis consistently, or are just looking to place a few wagers when your favorite sport is off season, take the time to learn a bit about betting on tennis before you place that first bet.