Michael Wilding
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May- 2010 -14 May
What Is The Chance Of Me Losing My Bank
The chance of you losing your bank, commonly known as ‘risk of ruin’, is a concept that is not often discussed in the world of gambling and, in my opinion, this is a very big mistake. When you go to a bank or a stock broker to invest your hard earned cash, one of the first questions you have to…
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13 May
The Betfair Winning Greyhound System
Guest article written by Paul Micelli While many sports betting enthusiasts continue to make a respectable profit from laying horses, the world of greyhound racing continues to be clouded by uncertainty and inexperience. The utilisation of successful horse racing systems have worked for many years on the UK’s main betting exchanges but can profits actually be gleaned from greyhound racing…
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12 May
The Betting School – A Review of Betting System Review Sites Revisited
Today’s post is going to be a short one as I have been getting crazily busy recently with my own betting, ProRatings being imminently near re-launch (just waiting for the first batch of ratings to get up to date), working on a massive site design overhaul of the Race Advisor and a lot of new plans. Nearly a month ago…
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11 May
How to Beat Online Poker Part 2
This is a multi-part article in which Egor, creator of the hottest poker bot on the web, explains what it takes to derive an income from playing online poker. In our last installment, we started building Fred, a successful online poker player. We envisioned what the final Fred will be like: A good, skilled poker player who has access to…
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10 May
The Away Team Strategy
Guest article written by Paul Micelli One of the biggest advantages a football side can have is playing on home turf. Some managers have made a living out of turning their home stadium into a fortress and in recent years, the likes of Jose Mourinho have taken this concept to a whole new level. The self-proclaimed Special one hasn’t lost…
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7 May
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer? – Laying
This time last week we looked at which races may provide the backer with a better opportunity for making a profit. This week we are going to do the same for the layer. We split all the races up by classification last week to see the best place to start for the backer or the layer. The odds were also…
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6 May
Outright Tennis Betting – The Winning Strategy (Part Four – The Importance of Seeding)
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Having established in part 1, part 2 and part 3 that the type of tournament, draw and previous form will all be vital components in selecting the outright winner from a particular competition, the next final factor that needs to be studied before laying a bet is that of tournament seeding. Seeding operates in…
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5 May
Profitable Trainers In May
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends This month I am looking at trainer performance in May on the flat. Trainers tend to be creatures of habit and tend to peak / trough at similar times each year. This article is based on Flat trainers in the month of May with data taken from 2004 to 2009. May sees the…
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4 May
Outright Tennis Betting – The Winning Strategy (Part Three – Understanding Form)
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Last week we started to look at a winning strategy for betting on tennis. The first part was an introduction into how we were going to find winners and the second part looked at the draw. The third part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy takes a look at the one major influencing…
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3 May
Building Your Own Racing Database – Part 2
Last week we started looking at the process of building your own horse racing database. While I am focussing on horse racing, this guide could be easily modified to help you build any kind of sports betting database. By now you will have decided exactly how you want to use your database and what information you will need to extract…
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Apr- 2010 -30 AprilAdvice
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer?
Which races are better for the backer or layer is a question that I have been asked many times. It is time that we start to de-mystify this question and look at some of the statistical facts behind which race types may provide better opportunities for the backer and the layer. I have limited the horses that I am looking…
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29 April
Outright Tennis Betting – The Winning Strategy (Part Two – The Draw)
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Following on from the first part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy, we have now established two vital factors: Selections must only be made in high profile tournaments Selections must only be taken from a high profile tournament after the draw has taken place The second part of the system teaches us how…
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28 April
The Simple World Cup Betting Strategy
Guest article written by Paul Micelli With the 2010 World Cup in South Africa just a couple of months away, sports betting enthusiasts will be looking to cash in on the most prestigious soccer tournament in the universe. This simple mathematical betting strategy reaped rewards in the 2006 competition and can be easily utilised during the forthcoming 2010 competition. In…
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27 April
Building Your Own Racing Database – Part 1
I have had a lot of requests from readers who are interested in building their own database and are not sure how to go about it. In response to these requests I am going to write a series of articles outlining the process that I used to design and build my database. This is by no means the best way…
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26 April
Outright Tennis Betting A Winning Strategy – Part 1
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Tennis betting systems still remain as something of a mystery, even to the most serious of sports betting enthusiasts. This is reflected in the large number of overpriced software packages that are currently available on the internet promising untold riches by simply inputting statistical information relating to top-ranked players. In reality, the only people…
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23 April
The Effect Of Headgear On Horses
There are a lot of differing opinions about whether the use of headgear affects a racehorse for the better or for the worse. In this article I am looking to uncover some statistics that will begin to make this clearer. To start it is important that we get an initial overview of how runners with headgear perform in general. Runners…
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22 April
An Introduction To Matched Betting
Guest post by Darren Hall from Bet72 As bookmakers look to attract new customers, many will offer free bets and bonuses as an incentive for people to sign up with them. You know the sort of thing: “Bet £50, receive a free £50 bet” when opening a new account. OK, that is good news you may be think, well in fact…
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21 April
Top Ten Things Not To Do For New Bettors
When you decide to take your betting from recreational to a more serious past time then like learning anything this is the time when you are likely to make the biggest mistakes. This post looks at the top ten mistakes that are made when going from recreational betting to serious betting so that you don’t need to make them. 1.…
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20 April
How to Beat Online Poker Part 1
This is a multi-part guest article in which Egor, creator of the hottest poker bot on the web, explains what it takes to derive an income from playing online poker. How do you make a good online poker player? Well first you need to start with a good offline poker player. That is a basic and necessary ingredient. Then you…
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19 April
The Monthly Book Review – Braddock’s Complete Guide
This is going to be a new feature at the Race Advisor. I have an arsenal of racing literature, some excellent and some not so good. There is always more to read and as you may have guessed I like to read as much as I can. If I can get even the beginning of an idea from a book…
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