Soccer World Cup Lines

The 2010 Soccer World Cup to be hosted in South Africa will no doubt be one of the major sports events of the year, as a spectacle and for the huge volume of bets that will be placed on a variety of possible outcomes at online betting sites and act land based sports books around the world.

There is an amazing range of betting possibilities, and we'll be bringing you live lines from some of the most popular sportsbooks during the tournament.

Odds makers who are responsible for pricing the lines for World Cup betting markets are we aware that the two biggest markets will be to pick the outright winner of this the 19th World Cup and to select the top individual goals scorer, or Golden boot. There are many other possibilities such as picking group winners for each of the eight groups, as well as getting the possibility of a team making it to the last 16, quarterfinals and so on.

Most World Cup fans like to bet on the favorite and on the Over for total goals, and so odds makers shade those betting lines because a lot of casual bettors will still take prohibitive odds. Look closely at the line for the draw or the upset win, as these can provide excellent betting value in the group phases.

World Cup betting lines can be very soft and are generally beatable. There are a lot of games that feature teams that are not well-known and are underestimated. With a bit of homework, it is possible to find value in many matches, and you should devote most of your bankroll to these markets as opposed to trying to win proposition (or outright) bets that at the best of times are impossible to forecast with any degree of accuracy.

Below are live Soccer World Cup lines courtesy of BetUS.com.

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