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How do I pick a winner in sports?

Picking a winner, either for fun or for profit (if you’re a betting man!) is not always the easiest task. While certainly in some match-ups (a top vs bottom premier league team, or undefeated fighter va a journeyman for instance) the outcome is much more assured, there are plenty of competitive sporting events where it’s more a matter of degrees and weighting up various pros and cons.

There are aspects of lucky and chance in the mix too, because nobody can truly, perpetually predict ‘what comes next’. However, if you’re right more often than not you may well be jackpot jill, when compared to the average Joe.

Even if you’re a pro or analyst of sorts, some events, such as the recent Grand National in the UK have so many variables that it’s far from a formality to deduce what the result will be. As such it’s more about the value of the given betting odds on the day rather than the need to pick the winner in every event you’re betting on. Play the percentages!

A decent comparison to all of this is with the poker crowd at casinos, both online and off. While there are no doubt elements of luck – as no-one knows which cards they’re going to receive – how you play your hand (or rather how you use your knowledge and ability) can be key to winning or losing long term. It can separate the high roller online casino types from those just ‘winging it’. Keep your cool and use your head, and you’ll go far!

Who is or was the top Australian Sportsman?

Of course, asking who the best sportsman or woman from a particular country is, is about as subjective as it comes. There are any number of potential answers to that question. It does pay to consider though that the best sportsman doesn’t necessarily come from the most popular sport in any given country. Personally I’d say that this is the case with Australia and that swimmer Ian Thorpe is one of the countries greatest ever sportsmen.

The Sydney born swimmer more than earned his stripes – and nickname of ‘Thorpedo’ – during the course of his career. All in all he won 5 Olympic medals  (an Australian record), set 22 world records, and excelled at the highest level in a country where sporting excellence is viewed as the pinnacle of achievement. His discipline was core to his success. While many of us were chilling on bestaucasinosites online casino, he was doing lengths in the pool.  100m, 200m, 400m, no distance was beyond his abilities.

The early 2000s saw him at the height of his abilities, and after taking a break in 2005 his efforts to return never quite saw him reach the dizzying heights of those former years. His final comeback attempt was the 2012 Australian Olympic trials for the London Olympics.

His Olympics successes included finding initial gold success at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with repeats at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He claimed several golds at various World Championships too. His fame and popularity at its height was worldwide, and record and talent unrivalled. No doubt many real money casinos us and sportsbook fans were cheering him on too. In fact there is very little in the sport that he did not achieve. He had nothing more to prove.

 

What are some Modern Classic Vegas Boxing Bouts?

If anyone ever asks you where the home of boxing is, or perhaps where some of the biggest fights have occurred, more often than not there will be one reply, Las Vegas. The bright lights of Vegas, Nevada have long been synonymous with both casinos and boxing. The former – casinos – is true to the point where even themed sites from other countries, such as the best online casinos australia seek to recreate that classic vegas feel. The latter – boxing – brings to mind classic moments from some of the most memorable match ups in boxing history.

One Vegas brawl that I remember staying up to watch in a bleary-eyed state was the bout between Floyd Mayweather andRicky Hatton. A true fan favourite, Hatton was accompanied to the MGM by thousands of British fans looking to support him against a boxing great. Unfortunately for him, the world stage proved to be a level too far compared to being a local legend on the domestic level.

In 2017 Mayweather (undefeated to this day) was back in Vegas, this time taking part in what was seen as a gimmick of sorts by some; a fight against former UFC champion Conor McGregor. Though he may have taken the fight on account that he was fighting someone with little boxing experience, McGregor actually put on a good performance. The bout is the second highest ‘boxing gate’ gross fight in Nevada to this day, bringing in $55 million+. The highest gross being Floyd Mayweather (again!) vs Manny Pacquiao in 2015, grossing $72 million.

We need look no further than Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder in February 2020 for the last pre-pandemic Vegas masterlcass in boxing. Off the back of the first epic match-up between the two, Fury showed exactly how it’s done at the MGM. Vegas is on another level with venues doubling as casinos and sports venues, though of course there are options like best payout nz casinos for online players too. We can’t all be lucky enough to be in Vegas 24/7! In any case, let’s hope it’s not long until the next epic boxing classic. It’s about time we had more top level sport to look forward to!

What was the shortest-ever Grand Slam singles tennis final?

Many of the records relating to the shortest-ever Grand Slam singles tennis final in history were established well before the so-called ‘Open Era’, which began in April, 1968. Consequently, timings tend to be a little ‘hit-or-miss’ so, as a reference point, let’s start with the altogether one-sided ladies’ single final at the French Open in 1988. On that occasion, Steffi Graff took just 32 minutes – split into two sessions, of nine minutes and 23 minutes apiece – to defeat Natasha Zvereva 6-0, 6-0. I’d had sessions on meilleurs jeux au casino that have lasted longer than that. Sacré bleu!

However, if earlier records are to be believed, in the Wimbledon ladies’ final in 1922, Suzanne Lenglen need just 23 minutes to dispatch Molla Mallory 6-2, 6-0. Wimbledon was also the scene of the shortest match in the history of Grand Slam tennis, albeit not in the final. In the first round of the ladies’ singles in 1969, Briton Susan Tutt beat compatriot 6-2, 6-0 in just 20 minutes, before losing 6-0, 6-1 to foruth seed, and eventual champion, Ann Jones in the second round.

Of course, in Grand Slam singles, men play best-of-five, rather than best-of-three, matches; heading even further back in the annals of tennis history, in 1881, William Renshaw needed just 37 minutes to defeat reigning champion John Hartley 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 in the men’s singles final at Wimbledon.

In more recent (today in fact!) Tennis news, three time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka has reached the semi final of the Australian Open 2021 in just 66 short minutes. She has already won two Australian Opens and is just the third player in tennis history to win all four of her first four Grand Slam final matches. I wonder if I can emulate that level of success on australia online casino. Time will tell!

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