Too many football bettors put all their efforts into picking winners, and not enough effort in doing something that would save them a lot of money in the long run; shopping around for the best prices. It's just common sense. Why place a bet at -110 when you can find the same bet somewhere else at -105? And one of the easiest ways to find a better price is to visit sportsbooks that offer reduced juice on most pointspread and total bets. Like 5Dimes.com.

5Dimes often offers reduced juice on football lines, sometimes as low as -101. And if you don't think there's significant savings in betting with reduced juice vs. playing the same old sportsbook prices, you might want to do a little math.

Say you play five games a weekend, at $1,000 a pop. With 17 NFL regular-season weekends, that's 85 wagers in total. Now, let's say you had a good season, and won 50 of your 85 bets. That's just under 60 percent. Using the standard sportsbook price of -110 on those bets, your winnings would come to $50,000, while your losses would total $38,500. That's a net profit of $11,500. Not too bad. But by playing with reduced juice, it could have been even better.

Now consider if you had placed those bets with a 5Dimes reduced juice price of -105. Using that same winning percentage, your winnings would again be $50,000, but your losings would add up to $36,750. That's a net profit of $13,250, and a difference of $1,750 from the -110 price. That's some real savings, all while making the exact same bets.

And those examples were using a 60 percent winning percentage, which is incredibly tough to do in the real betting world. Even good bettors know it's difficult just being right 55 percent of the time. And reduced juice betting would really come in handy in that case. It would likely be the difference between turning a profit and just treading water.

So all football bettors, whatever their level of action, should use their heads and seek out reduced juice wagering. In the end it's like money in your pocket.