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Betfair Ascot Chase Preview

Today at 3pm the Betfair Ascot Chase race takes place. At the Race Advisor this comes under our Big Race Trends and we have all the trends shown for the last 10 years. If you aren’t yet a member of the Race Advisor then you can join here. It has been a little while since I did a race preview…

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Calculating Lay Bet Return On Investment

It is important to know your return on investment (ROI), but when it comes to lay bets you must make sure that you calculate it properly. When calculating ROI you usually add to together all your bets and divide the amount of profit you have made by the amount you have bet. Unfortunately this does not work for lay bets…

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PIV is better than Impact Value

In my last post I talked about how you can use impact value to analyse the strength of pretty much any factor, rating or selections in any sport. Today I want to share with you an even more powerful way of doing this. It is called Pool Impact Value or A/E. I personally prefer Pool Impact Value, a term made…

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Why You Should Use Impact Values

If you are a regular at the Race Advisor or other betting forums then you may have heard of the term impact value before. It is unknown amongst the majority of the betting public and often its value is not understood. However for those who understand the power of impact values a complete knew way of analysing factors in sports…

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Do Trends Work?

It is not unusual to want to analyse the trends of previous races before a big race. Finding trends involve looking at the same race over the past 10 years or more to determine what type of horse wins the race. In fact it is a simpler form of something that is known as profiling. You can profile both horses…

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Home Advantage In English Football

Guest post written by Ricky Dowling We have now passed the half way point of the 2011/2012 English season which provides a nice opportunity to compare the season so far with last season in terms of the percentage of games won by home teams, and look at how some teams are performing in their own right. You would generally expect…

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Why Betting More Than One Horse In A Race Is Good

It is a common mistake to want to bet a single horse in each race. If you honestly only think that one horse can win the race then by all means bet a single horse. However how often do you think that there is only one horse with any possibility of winning the race? I would bet that it is…

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Why You Shouldn’t Listen To Racing Presenters

I was at a party the other night and was chatting with someone who is not only a profitable bettor but also has a love of the sport of horse racing. This love of the sport has lead him into contact with a some of the TV personalities that we see presenting on channels such as Racing UK. Not only…

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Bettor Than Average

Guest post written by Ricky Dowling This guide is going to improve your Over/Under score-line bet selections. When betting on over/under score-lines in football matches it’s tempting to look for 2 teams with high/low average score-lines. For example, team A hosts team B, over the past 10 games team A has an average score-line of 2.8 goals per game. Team…

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UK Horse Racing Statistics As A Betting Tool

UK horse racing is one sport that receives a lot of betting attention. A lot of systems and strategies exist which can be used by bettors to place a wager. The role of statistics in UK horse racing betting cannot be underestimated. Horses cannot talk like human beings. If a great tennis player is having a bad run, he can…

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Betting With A Good Staking Plan

Betting is something that requires a high level of planning and discipline in order to achieve the desired results. As a popular saying goes, to fail to plan is to plan to fail. This is very true in betting or wagering. As such, a staking plan has to be in place whenever a bettor wants to place a wager. What…

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Why Over Fitting Will Lose You Money!

Over fitting is a bettors worst enemy! Because of this I think that it is important that you have a good understanding of what it is and why it is so dangerous. Every bettor has a selection process. This can be anything from choosing a horse with your favourite name to an advanced analysis. It doesn’t matter whether your process…

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Finding The Holes In Your Betting!

You are bound to have holes in your betting. These holes are losing you money every time you continue to bet. I know that I have them and I believe that every single bettor has them. The ideal is to get your betting to a stage where there are no more holes. However while this is the perfect scenario I…

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Finding Selections – The Beginners Guide

It is very easy to get over whelmed with sports betting and particularly horse racing. In horse racing there are so many factors to take into consideration and everywhere you look there are ratings but no information on what they mean! This makes it hard for the new bettor to get to grips with what they need to do and…

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Creating A Tissue In Horse Racing

Guest article written by Eddie Lloyd In this first article on how to create a tissue I thought I’d show you a very simple method for rating horses and converting these into odds. Creating your own tissue can be a very profitable approach to horse racing and many professionals use this technique to make their living. So what is a…

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Using ROI, Strike Rate and Profit to assess selections

When we are deciding if selections are worth betting on for us it is important to use both ROI, Strike Rate and profit. If you haven’t read my last two posts about ROI and Profit then you can do here and here. What is it we are looking for in our selections? We are looking for a good profit and…

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How To Calculate Return On Invesment (ROI)

Last week we looked at why it was good to use ROI rather than profit to determine whether a certain set of selections are working well. If you haven’t had a chance to read it then you can take a look here. This week I would like to show you how to calculate ROI. If you find maths a scary…

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What Is Return On Investment And Why We Should Use It!

When we are betting profit is often considered the bottom line. This is understandable because we all want to know how much money we are going to make in the long-term. If there was another way wouldn’t you want to know what it is? Did you know that there are some problems when we look at profit figures on their…

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The Truth About Ratings

I have no doubt that you have seen ratings before. As sports bettors we find that ratings enter into our lives on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter what your sport is, you open the paper and there is a rating of some form. The most obvious example is horse racing and the Official Rating (also known as the OR).…

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The Pursuit of Value

The Pursuit of Value is without a doubt the most important thing when betting Guest article written by Robert Carmoody from www.betclubuk.com To fully understand this you will need to apply Basic Mathematics to all of your betting. The Maths we are talking about is basic schoolroom stuff. Quite often those who bet will fail to see the connection between…

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