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# 2006 Soccer World Cup - Betting on Props
Prop betting is short for "proposition" betting, and it is just that - you bet on the results of a proposition. Or, seen another way, someone enables you to a proposition and you set a bet on whether or not you trust it. It's the most natural form of betting, and is actually no distinctive from a bet among friends on anything imaginable.
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In a formal betting environment, such betting on the 2006 Soccer World Cup, proposition betting would typically cover components of the games that are not the central ones to the game. A normal proposition bet would be [sbobet88 mobile](https://luisszaran.org/) on the consequence of the pre-match coin toss, or who'll score the most goals in a casino game, during the pool stages, and for the entire tournament.
Another would be who will make the first score, or who'll score last. The most obvious candidates will be the strikers for the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica.

It's this that one could call the tamer side of proposition betting. Top professional poker players at the recent World Series of Poker indulged in certain highly publicized proposition betting without playing poker. International television networks broadcast coverage of players like final table finalist Mike Matusow, playing various prop bet games against each other.
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This can be a hybrid form of prop betting, where in actuality the players place profit a pool and try to beat each other at various games like card tossing, with the winner claiming the pot. High stakes prop betting is really a rarefied world where in actuality the pressure of playing for huge sums of money is the key challenge in itself. Top high stakes gamblers will often play against top professional golfers for huge sums of money, and regularly beat them. One would think that the professionals would clean up, but they're not used to having fun with such vast sums of their own money at stake on each hole, and literally buckle beneath the pressure. The experienced prop bettors are used to it, and invariably win the games and the money.

This year's Soccer World Cup will have a huge selection of proposition bets available. Some present serious possibility to generate income, and others are just for fun.


