NHL Playoffs Off and Running

by WagerHome Blog on April 23, 2024

The Stanley Cup Playoffs continue to be one of the most exciting events each year, and that has already been seen in 2024. Action in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs is just getting going, but there have already been some great matchups that have taken place. 

While every day tends to bring some excitement and drama, Wednesday is going to be the best day of action up to this point. There are three big games set to take place, with two massive showdowns coming from the Western Conference. 

Not only should you be looking into the betting options for each game, but now is the perfect time to start accepting wagers on your own. Becoming your own bookie is now easier than ever, and you can get some help when setting up a PayPerHead site. 

Here is a look at three of the top NHL Playoffs games taking place on Wednesday, and how you can become your own bookie today. 

Drama in the Western Conference

The NHL Western Conference is absolutely loaded with great teams this year, and four of them will be on the ice on Wednesday night. A pair of Game 2’s will be on the schedule on Wednesday, and a chance for two teams to take a big advantage. 

The Vegas Golden Knights already stole a game on the road against the Dallas Stars, and the defending Stanley Cup Champions will look to get it done again. Dallas is a team with a ton of veteran presence, and it’s hard to picture them not responding in a big way. 

Los Angeles will be trying to steal home ice advantage from Edmonton on Wednesday night, but the Kings will have to play much better. The Oilers came away with a 7-4 win in the series opener, and this should be another dominant performance. 

In the Eastern Conference, the Toronto Maple Leafs will be looking to take a 2-1 series lead over the Boston Bruins on their home ice. This has been a thrilling series up to this point, but Boston should play well enough to win this game. 

Get Set With WagerHome

Now is the perfect time to become your own bookie as the NHL Playoffs are just now getting started. Not only that, but the NBA Playoffs are taking place throughout the upcoming weeks as well. 

Instead of searching around on the internet for the best sports betting opportunities, now is the best time to become your own bookie and really cash in. WagerHome.com wants to help you out on this journey, and they provide a number of resources to make that happen. 

Setting up a PayPerHead site is the first thing that you need to do on the path to becoming your own bookie, but there are other things to consider as well. Not only will WagerHome help you get your site set up and running, but they can provide additional assistance as well. 

There is no time to delay as getting your PPH site up and running immediately is going to give you the best chance to cash in.

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Stanley Cup Playoffs Set to Begin

by WagerHome Blog on April 18, 2024

The 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs are set to begin this weekend and there are going to be a number of great matchups set to take place. While there isn’t a ton of betting action throughout the NHL regular season, the action really starts to ramp up in the playoffs. 

This is one of the best postseason events in all of sports, and there are going to be some great ways to bet on all of the action. Instead of simply betting on all of the upcoming NHL action, now is the perfect time to become your own bookie. 

The first step to becoming your own bookie is to set up a PayPerHead site, and that is where all of the action is going to come in. You can set up a PPH site on your own, but it’s a better idea to get some help in order to set this up. 

WagerHome has been helping up and coming bookies for the last few years, and that can be the case with you as well. Here are some of the tips to using WagerHome.com and a look at what’s to come in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. 

WagerHome Provides Help

In order to become a successful bookie, you are going to want to have the best PPH site that you can possibly have. Instead of trying to figure out how to accomplish this on your own, it’s a good decision to reach out to WagerHome. 

WagerHome will walk you through all of the steps to becoming your own bookie, but the company will also allow you to make some individual choices. Since this will be your own PPH site, you are going to want to make some key decisions when it comes to the design. 

While setting up a PPH site is an extremely important part of becoming your own bookie, you might run into some other challenges along the way. WagerHome will continue to be right there by your side and it can answer any questions that you might have. 

Some Great Action Coming

Making a futures bet on the eventual Stanley Cup winner is going to be a great option to explore, and it’s a great way to offer bets as well. The Carolina Hurricanes are currently the favorites to win the title at +650, and the Florida Panthers are next at +700. 

The betting odds don’t really fall off after the top two teams, and this is going to be an event that comes with plenty of twists and turns. The Western Conference is going to be where most of the exciting takes place as there isn’t really a big betting favorite in the mix. 

The Vegas Golden Knights were able to win the Stanley Cup a year ago, but this year it will be the Edmonton Oilers that are in the mix. Not only should you offer betting on the Stanley Cup winner, but there are great bets to accept on every NHL game.

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2024 NBA and NHL Betting Odds

by WagerHome Blog on June 14, 2023

For the first time in their 47 years in the NBA, the Denver Nuggets are NBA champions. For the first time in the history of Las Vegas, they have a professional sports championship unless you want to count the UNLV basketball team from 1990 coached by Jerry Tarkanian.

We won’t see either champion play again until October, but the betting on the champions for next season is already open.

2024 NBA Champion Favorites

Denver Nuggets (+450)
Boston Celtics (+550)
Milwaukee Bucks (+700)
Phoenix Suns (+900)
Golden State Warriors (+1200)
Los Angeles Lakers (+1200)

Two-time MVP and new NBA champion Nikola Jokic is establishing himself as one of the best players of all-time. He is just 28, and that makes him the oldest of the Nugget’s core. They are the favorites to win another championship because they were easily the best team in the playoffs, and they bring back everyone for another year.

The Boston Celtics are the second betting favorite because of the youth of stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The team around them was a title contender this year, and it will be again a year from now.

The Miami Heat, who beat the Celtics in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, are only ninth on the favorites list.

2024 Stanley Cup Champion Favorites

Colorado Avalanche (+700)
Vegas Golden Knights (+800)
Carolina Hurricanes (+1000)
Florida Panthers (+1000)
Edmonton Oilers (+1200)
Boston Bruins (+1200)
Dallas Stars (+1200)

Never before has an expansion team won the Stanley Cup as fast as the Vegas Golden Knights. In just their sixth season in existence, Vegas is the Stanley Cup champion. They took out the Florida Panthers in five games, outscoring their Eastern Conference opponent 26-12.

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It was a dominant performance, but it was not enough to put them atop the favorites board to repeat as champions next year. That honor belongs to the Colorado Avalanche, the 2022 champion that was undone this last season by a host of injuries.

It’s worth noting that despite the historic season of the Boston Bruins, they are only tied for fifth on this list with the Oilers and Stars – two teams that lost to Vegas in the playoffs. The Bruins set the record this year for most wins in a season with 65, and most points with 135. However, they became the seventh President’s Trophy winner since 2000 to lose in the first round.

Pay Per Head Software

The playoffs in the NBA and NHL are over, but that means there are two drafts that can be wagered. Plus, futures bets for both leagues, the NFL, and baseball, keeps rolling on. The U.S. Open is also this week. With so many sports to bet, the only way an independent bookmaker can cover it all is with a pay per head software partner.

With WagerHome.com as that partner, you get a fully customizable website, access to WagerHome’s huge menu of sports and betting options, plus EZ Live betting. See a demo today at WagerHome.com, and get your first four weeks of membership absolutely free.

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First-Round Betting Picks for Stanley Cup Playoffs

by WagerHome Blog on July 30, 2020

When the NHL drops the puck on Saturday for the start of the run for the Stanley Cup, it will be 143 days since the season was paused in March. The league has added a new team since then – the Seattle Kraken – but they haven’t played a single minute of meaningful hockey.

Give yourselves a round of applause for surviving this long, and for the absolute treat that is in store for us in the coming weeks. Not only do we get August hockey for the first time ever, but the Stanley Cup Playoffs – always one of the best events on the sports betting calendar – is going to be bigger and better than ever.

We currently have 24 total teams, eight qualifying series, and for the first time, a round-robin between the top four in each conference to determine seeding.

Minnesota Wild (+110) over Vancouver Canucks

While the rest of the skaters will be working to get back their legs, goaltending will have the advantage in the early stages of this tournament. It’s always key anyway (see: St. Louis Blues 2019 Stanley Cup Champions), but this year even more so.

Minnesota has the better goaltending, and, just as important, more defensive control of their back zone. This is a close matchup – maybe even a tossup – which means the smart money is on the positive number, which is the Wild.

Pittsburgh Penguins (-230) over Montreal Canadiens

It takes a lot to recommend putting money down on a -230 bet. But “a lot” is exactly how to describe the talent disparity between these two teams. A bad patch in early March is the only reason Pittsburgh is even stuck in the qualifying round.

On the other side, Montreal is ranked 24th out of the 24 teams still alive, and they finished the season in March with just four wins in 14 games.

If you like easy money, you like Pittsburgh.

Round Robin Odds

Both conferences will see four-team round-robin battles for the top seed.

Eastern Conference

  • Boston Bruins +140
  • Tampa Bay Lightning +185
  • Philadelphia Flyers +550
  • Washington Capitals +550

Western Conference

  • St. Louis Blues +175
  • Colorado Avalanche +225
  • Las Vegas Golden Knights +300
  • Dallas Stars +550

Boston is on a revenge tour after losing Game 7 in the Finals last year. The layoff helps their legs immensely, and they are a safe bet to emerge as the No. 1 seed.

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The Blues are the defending champions and the favorites in the West. But at +225 a little money on the Avs feels like a good value bet.

Pay Per Head Software

With five games on Saturday, five more on Sunday, and another six on Monday, NHL betting is going to be on fire. To manage the rush and make the most of your profit opportunities, independent bookmakers really should be partnered with a pay per head software provider.

The top PPH companies, like WagerHome.com, handle all of your administrative needs, allowing you to spend your time growing your client base. Get a free PPH demo and four weeks to test it out at WagerHome.com.

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MLB, NBA, NHL All Set to Return in July

by WagerHome Blog on June 30, 2020

Normally, the sports calendar in July is so slow that ESPN puts out its annual award show, The Espys, just to help fill the void until things return. With only baseball to fill our weeks, and NFL training camps beginning at the end of the month, sports fans and sports bettors know that July is the best time to take family vacations.

Not this year.

Get ready for the greatest month of July the sports world has ever seen.

The Return of Baseball

Finally, after multiple weeks of negotiating, fighting through the media, telling us the season was 100% going to happen, then not happen, and then happen again, MLB and its players union have an agreement to begin the season on July 23.

It will be an all-out 60-game sprint to the playoffs and a season unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, with all teams only playing games against their division or the corresponding regional division in the other league (NL East vs. AL East, and so on).

NBA Seeding Games and Playoffs

One of the reasons the NCAA Tournament is so great is that there is no waiting for basketball to start. Games tip off early, and never seem to stop. Now imagine an NBA world like that. How amazing would it be?

Imagine no more, because when the NBA resumes on July 30, they will play 88 seeding games to finish out the season in just two weeks time. Twenty-two teams, three courts, four television networks (TNT, ESPN, ABC, and NBATV), and games starting as early as 12:30 pm ET through as late as 9 pm ET.

You can’t really go anywhere at the moment, so grab your remote, your favorite betting app, and prepare for NBA basketball overload.

NHL Playoffs

A Stanley Cup Playoffs like we’ve never seen before will also be coming to our televisions in late July. Twelve teams from each conference are in, with the top four teams in each playing a round-robin tournament for seeding, while everyone else plays in a best-of-five series for the right to get into the final playoff bracket.

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The NHL still hasn’t decided which cities will serve as hubs for these games, or when exactly players will report. A new CBA is close to finalization, which, along with creating labor peace for the next six years, will create the return-to-play protocols, including a date certain for the resumption of training camps and the playoffs that follow.

Pay Per Head

As the saying goes, get in while the getting is good. And the getting is about to get really good with all the sports action and betting that is coming our way.

The best bookies need the best bookie software and a pay per head service that can truly enhance their business. For a nominal price per head, bookmakers get a fully customizable website, detailed client reports, 24-hour customer service, and all the sports and automated odds and lines your clients could ever want. Get your pay per head demo for free right now at WagerHome.com.

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Restart Updates For NBA, NHL; MLB Negotiations

by WagerHome Blog on June 11, 2020

You can now get a haircut, go to a restaurant, and very soon you will be able to watch major American team sports on television. We’ve almost made it. Congratulate yourself, and then get ready for the wildest summer of sports you’ve ever seen as leagues continue to put together their plans to restart.

NBA Going to Orlando

The NBA’s return won’t happen until July 31, but when it does, watch out. If you thought two months of playoffs with 16 teams was intense, the restarted NBA will feature 22 teams, eight seeding games, a play-in tournament, and then a full playoff schedule of 16 teams, with every game taking place at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando.

We’ll get the draft lottery at the end of August and October will feature the end of the NBA Finals, the Draft, and the start of free agency. Then, a new season is set to begin Dec. 1.

All of this has been approved by both the league and players union, but, as with everything in the sports restart world of COVID-19, it’s all subject to change.

NHL With 24-Team Playoffs

One-upping the NBA is the NHL’s agreed-upon restart format. The top four seeds in each conference will play a round-robin to determine final seeding, while the other 16 teams (seeds five through 12 in each conference) will play best-of-five series to determine who moves on to face those top seeds.

An exciting change and one many hockey fans have been pushing for long before this season, is that each playoff round will be reseeded. Instead of a hard bracket, which would render the round-robin of the top seeds moot, the top seed will always face the lowest remaining seed.

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Teams have begun to return to their practice facilities, and the league hopes to resume play by late July/early August in two yet-to-be-selected hub cities – one for all Eastern Conference games and the other for all Western Conference games.

MLB Remains A Mystery

For weeks we have heard: “Don’t worry, there is too much money at stake for baseball to cancel its full season.”

Maybe that’s the problem. There is simply too much money at stake, both for 2020 and beyond, for MLB and its players union – two long-time adversaries – to come together.

Sliding scales, prorated pay, and different season lengths have all been discussed. Even the dreaded label “salary cap” has been said.

They’ve blown past their self-imposed June 1 deadline to get a deal done, but negotiations do continue. So does that mean there is still hope for a baseball season? Las Vegas oddsmakers say yes.

There is still a 75% chance a season will be played. But with each passing day, that becomes a longer bet.

Pay Per Head Software

Baseball notwithstanding, sports betting is coming back in a big way, and if you run your own bookmaking service, you need to be ready. Now is the perfect time to join forces with a pay per head software provider and make the most of the coming wave.

A partnership with WagerHome.com gets you a fully customizable website, automated odds, complete customer support, and all for a small fee per person.

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