Best Live Streaming Betting Sites in Australia

The overall sports betting experience has changed for punters in recent years with the introduction of live streaming sports through betting sites. In some sports and leagues, you don’t have to worry about subscribing to streaming platforms like Optus Sport or Kayo Sport to catch a game, but it's important to note that only a few bookies stream live sports through their website. 

So, I’m here to steer you in the direction of the two best live streaming betting sites in Australia!

• Open an account with bet365 and make a deposit which can be as little as $1.
• At the top of your screen, click on the ‘In-Play’ tab.
• Navigate through the menu bar to find which sport or game you would like to view.  

• Click on the ‘play’ icon to the right of the game or match and start streaming!

*Watch live sport such as soccer, tennis and basketball on your mobile, tablet or desktop. To qualify, you must have a funded account or have placed a bet in the past 24 hours. According to Australian law, we must inform you that live streaming on bet365 is exempt from Parts 3 and 4 of the Broadcasting Services Act (Online Content Service Provider Rules).

• Create or login to your Unibet and deposit over $1.
• Click the menu on the top left corner and navigate to the ‘Sports’ section.

• Then click ‘streaming’ which will take you through to all of the games that can be live streamed currently.
• Press the ‘play’ icon to the right of the game you want to watch and Bob’s your uncle!

Pretty bloody close! For both of these bookmakers, you need to have a funded account in order to use their live streaming sites. As mentioned earlier, you only need to have at least $1.01 in your Unibet  account. Another way to watch is to place a bet in the last 24 hours. Either way, it’s a lot cheaper than any other live streaming sites for sports in Australia!

Also, beware that live streaming in Australia is only available to eligible customers. Bookmakers have the right to ban you from using this part of their site if they wish to.

Yes, but it is quite a painful process. In order to place a bet during a game you must call the operator you are betting with, provide a reference code which you will find on the sporting event you want to bet on, and lastly, tell them how much you want to stake. Unfortunately, this process can take quite some time if their phone lines are busy or if the odds are rapidly changing during the game.

In other countries, you can place a live bet online through the bookmakers’ website, like you would for any other pre-match bet. But sadly, Australia is behind the times, and online live betting is currently not permitted.

Yes, although for Australians it’s a lot more difficult to be profitable. This is because online live betting is illegal and the process of phoning in live bets really stalls the process, which can result in missing out on great odds. Sometimes, you will find a great bet on the live betting market, but by the time you call in, the odds have changed.

So, for live streaming betting to be profitable, speed to market is very important. But, with all of this in mind, live stream betting can still be a profitable long-term investment. Live betting products are all automated by bookmakers, they rarely have any human touch. So like anything in sports betting, or even life, if you invest time into the live betting markets you can find yourself an edge.

You have to ask yourself the question - am I sharper than a computer at predicting what the odds on a game should be right now? There are certain things an algorithm cannot predict or see that a human can. Here are some examples of situations than an algorithm most likely isn't factoring into their pricing during a game:

• Weather changes over the next 30 minutes. Is there about to be a big downfall of rain that could decrease the amount of points scored?
• Is a player or team playing very recklessly and have an increased chance of receiving a red card or being sent off?

You’ll notice that these are situations an algorithm will find hard to factor into their odds compiling. Don’t use stats or data to try and beat an algorithm, use ‘outside-of-the-box’ factors, and in the long term you should be successful.

There is no single sport that is best for everyone in the world to live bet. But, below I will highlight some of the criteria to keep in mind when you are choosing a sport for live stream betting:

1. How popular is the game? The best sport to live bet will always be the least popular game. Why? Because the fewer people watching the game, means the bigger the opportunity there is for you to find holes in the market. If there are 500 million people watching the World Cup Final and 500 people watching a WNBA game, where do you think the bookmakers' resources are going?Most punters will find it very difficult to beat a market where lots of bettors are already shaping the market, so try to find a game or match that is not very popular, that way you don’t have to compete with many other people.

2. How delayed is your stream and is it good quality? This might be the most important factor as there is no point in betting on a live event that you are not watching live! As I mentioned previously, speed to market is imperative when betting on sports live. If you’re watching a game behind the live time then you’re missing out on valuable information.

   Although, if your stream is slightly delayed, which it will be in most cases, place your bets during breaks in play, like a timeout in the NBA or a change of ends in a Tennis match. That way, if you have a 30 second delay, you won’t miss any action that affects your betting process.

3. What sport do you know best? As you are betting against an algorithm that lacks human involvement, it’s important that you know more than the computer! So, although it’s important to bet on an event that lacks popularity, it’s also important that you know everything about that particular team, player, game etc. So make sure you are live betting on a sport that you know everything about! Find a niche sport or betting market that you can become an expert on.

Another sport you can live stream on betting sites is Horse Racing, one of Australia’s great past times! Unlike live streaming sports on betting sites, there are more options when it comes to streaming Horse Racing as many more bookmakers offer this product. So, to help you out, we went looking for the best live streaming sites in Australia for Horse Racing and narrowed it down to our top three.

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