Just like gambling in Las Vegas always offers the house the best chance for winning, bookmakers usually enjoy a slight advantage over their customers whether they are betting online or the traditional way. Generally speaking a bookmaker will hold an 11-10 advantage over his customers while smaller bets might appear more to be around a 6-5 advantage. These slight odds means that whoever is the bookmaker must be able to survive both short term and long term loss due to the variances in different types of betting schemes that might come their way in normal betting procedures.