The Italian season got underway last weekend with current champions, Inter Milan, getting off to a slow start by drawing their opening fixture at the San Siro, while their main rivals, Roma, Juventus and AC Milan all recorded opening victories. Anyone who’s backed Inter on PinnacleSports.com’s Serie A futures market shouldn’t worry just yet, as they did the same last season, before running away with the Scudetto. PinnacleSports.com continues to offer up to 60% better Serie A Asian Handicap prices.

Another week into the German league, and another emphatic win for Bayern Munich, who consequently harden as favourites in PinnacleSports.com’s Bundesliga betting market. Last season’s championship was so gripping because a number of teams had realistic chances right up to the final weeks. This time around Bayern Munich are giving strong early indications that they could run-away with the title. It is however, refreshing to see a number of unfashionable teams - Arminia Bielefeld, VFL Bochum and Eintracht Frankfurt – keeping pressure on the leaders. Check out PinnacleSports.com for up to 60% better Bundesliga odds for week 4 fixtures.

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Last weekend’s Premiership game at Anfield between title hopefuls, Liverpool and Chelsea, once again proved how the outcome of football matches can turn on the decisions of officials. Referee Rob Styles has admitted he made a mistake in awarding Chelsea a penalty that allowed them to salvage a point, thereby robbing the Reds of two. Of course Styles’ mistake will have made a huge difference for bettors on the game, but unfortunately bad refereeing decisions are an occupational hazard of football gambling. What such events should underline for punters is the importance of maximising the benefit from those elements of betting within their control, such as always getting the best available price. For Premiership betting this will invariably be found at PinnacleSports.com, offering up to 60% better Premiership odds.

With the German Bundesliga just two weeks old it should be too soon to draw any serious conclusions, but Bayern Munich’s performances have already led many pundits to declare them certain champions. Serious bettors will want to see more evidence before making that assumption, but the Bavarians have started in ominous form. The only sensible way to oppose them might be to take advantage of the value in PinnacleSports.com’s Asian Handicaps, priced at up to 102%.

Defending Spanish champions, Real Madrid, get the 77th La Liga season underway on Saturday, facing Atletico Madrid in a local derby at the Bernabeu. Los Blancos secured the title on the final day of what is considered one of the most exciting and controversial seasons in the history of the Spanish top flight. With the serious business about to begin, bettors must judge the impact of the frantic horse-trading of players, that has been seen during the off-season. The next step is to find the best La Liga betting odds available, usually found at PinnacleSports.com, specialist in over 40 European domestic soccer leagues.

New Italian Football Season Begins Saturday: Though the Italian league season doesn’t kick-off until Saturday, the first silverware has already been decided. Roma repeated their Coppa Italia victory over current Serie A champions, Inter Milan, by winning the Italian Super Cup last Sunday. The two teams dominated the domestic scene last season in the wake of the match fixing penalties, but how will they fair on a level points playing field, and with the return of the Old Lady – Juventus? However the season unfolds, be sure of up to 60% better Serie A odds at PinnacleSports.com.

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It may be only four years since Jonny Wilkinson kicked England to the most dramatic win in the short history of the Rugby World Cup, but a great deal has changed since that victory in Sydney. Wilkinson has barely kicked a ball in anger, and the victorious English team are a sorry shadow of the side that were greeted as returning heroes.

As with each of the five Rugby World Cups since the competition’s inception in 1987, New Zealand start as strong favourites for the 2007 event in France starting on September 7th. Since leading online sportsbook, PinnacleSports.com, first posted markets for the competition, the All Blacks have attracted continued support, and following a winter of convincing victories over all the major rugby powers, the current price in PinnacleSports.com’s Rugby World Cup betting market of 1.429 represents the best available value for New Zealand.

The great advantage of betting on the first five innings in baseball, otherwise known as the first half, is that your fate is in the hands of the two starting pitchers. You can safely ignore both benches and both bullpens which puts any handicapper in a much stronger position as it is mostly random which bench players are used and which pitchers come in from the pen to face particular hitters. This helps in two ways:

As the new Premiership takes shape, football bettors might benefit from reassessing their approach to gambling on the English top flight. In recent seasons Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd (more commonly known as ‘the big four’) have widened the gap between themselves and the rest of the league as their financial strength has allowed them to consolidate their power, particularly at home.

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Normally when you handicap a game in any sport, you have to evaluate an individual team’s offensive and defensive capabilities. The performance of one during a game, will usually influence the other, such as when and where the offense will receive the ball, and under what circumstances. Baseball is different as regardless of how well the offense or defense are performing, each team receives twenty-seven outs to score as many runs as they can, and a further twenty seven outs to limit the opposing team to as few runs as possible.

Ah, the start of the new season! Optimism reigns supreme, with everything to play for. This weekend sees the start of the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League, and although there has been little movement in the Premiership futures market, the ‘Bayern to Win’ line got hammered down to 1.54 by mostly public money before it received any resistance. Looking at specific games for this weekend, here are the hot ones according to the players:

Premiership Betting - New Season, New Opportunities: The approach of a new Premiership campaign, bringing new players, managers and owners should fill bettors with excitement. However, week one of the Premier League offers three-way bettors the increasingly common prospect of backing Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United at home in a multiple worth scarcely over even money. The natural antidote for these unappealing one-sided Premiership betting markets is Asian Handicapping. The Internet’s largest online bookmaker, PinnacleSports.com, is a market leader in Asian Handicap betting pricing markets to c. 102% compared to 1X2 markets priced between 108% and 114% at traditional bookies. The smartest decision you could make this season is moving to Asian Handicaps at PinnacleSports.com, the choice of the sharp player.

Bayern Munich Strong Favourites in Bundesliga Ante-Post Betting Market: After Bayern Munich’s expensive new signings helped them lift the Premiere League Cup in July, the Bavarians are hot favourites at 1.556 in PinnacleSports.com’s Bundesliga betting market, to put last season’s miserable campaign behind them, and return to the top of German football. Any doubters, who feel that the Bavarians cannot buy their way out of decline, can back the field at 2.700 in a two-way market priced to just 101.3%. With that kind of pricing model, the smartest move punters can make this season is betting with PinnacleSports.com, offering up to 60% better Bundesliga odds than traditional bookmakers.

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In their last two Premier League campaigns Tottenham Hotspur have come agonisingly close to fulfilling their burning ambition of playing in the Champions League. Finishing in fifth position on both occasions, just one place behind their bitter North London rivals, Arsenal, the club are on the verge of breaking into the Premiership elite. The Premiership betting market at leading online sportsbook, PinnacleSports.com, reflects this situation with Spurs rated 55.14 chances for the new season, behind the ‘big four’ of Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd.