Sports betting is a game of skill. The challenge is to gather and analyze as much information as you can about a game, weigh the probabilities of each team winning, and subsequently compare your opinion to the oddsmaker’s. Make the right judgment and you win. It’s as simple as that.

The Super League season may well be over until next year, but there is international rugby league on the horizon with the Tri-Nations rapidly approaching.Australia will be favourites for the Tri-Nations, rugby league’s top international competition, but all Great Britain fans may be tempted into a rugby bet and will be hoping that Brian Noble’s men can at last step out of the shadow of the Aussies and cause a major upset Down Under.New Zealand were shock winners last year but the Aussies in particular, will be looking for revenge on their arch-rivals from across the Tasman Sea.

Meanwhile, the rugby union season is just underway and rugby betting markets are opening up all the time with the autumn internationals set to begin in early November.The cream of the southern hemisphere will take on Europe’s finest and, as well as outright winner markets for each contest, punters will be able to have a first try scorer rugby bet, handicap betting and a possible Grand Slam by any of the touring sides this winter.Looking ahead to the Six Nations, France are expected to head the rugby odds but a new-look England coaching set-up might have something to say about that, while Wales will want to bounce back from their disastrous showing last season.

The World Cup is less than a year away now and England will have to improve if they are to successfully defend their title that they won so dramatically in Sydney in November 2003, when Jonny Wilkinson dropped the all-important goal in the final few minutes of extra-time.Rugby betting is exciting as the rugby odds can change so dramatically with five points for a try and a possible seven for a concerted score meaning the lead can change hands several times during a game.There is so much rugby, in both codes, set to be played in the next year that rugby betting never stops and, with a rugby free bet available on Bet Ob Rugby, why not back up your opinion with a rugby bet on your favourite side.