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The Psychology of Gambling – Myth 2

Myth 2 – Bookmakers use inside information to calculate their betting odds and you can’t beat them. This is a very common miss-conception and today I would like to try and prove to you why it is not true. To do this I am going to begin at the end (so to speak). You can clearly beat a bookmaker. In…

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What Has Happened To Our System Test?

Guest article by Malcolm Pett from Greyhorse Bot Hi all, This month I would like to update from the trial I started last month using the Grey Horse Bot. You can read the last article here: http://www.raceadvisor.co.uk/making-a-profit-automatically/ I mentioned in the above article that I was being a bit “wacky” and using a progressive staking system which laid the place markets…

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The Pitfalls of Greed

We have all seen claims of being able to make a fortune from betting. The sort of claim that you can turn a £50 bankroll into £5000 in just a few weeks! Although most of us know that this is just not going to happen we are still very susceptible to other forms of greed. Greed is an ever lurking…

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Football Spread Betting For Beginners – Part 3

Guest post written by Paul Micelli. The third part in our series continues looking at the different types of spread bets that are available on football. Betting on Football Shirt Numbers Betting on football shirt number is an incredibly fun option that adds a different edge to spread betting. The index is available on all live games and the result…

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Wimbledon 2010 – The Definitive Betting Guide

Guest post written by Paul Micelli. Monday 21st June 2010 sees the start of the most prestigious grass court tennis tournament in the world and culminates in the men’s singles final on Sunday July 3rd. The tournament is already shaping up to be one of the most fascinating showdowns for many years and bookmakers are already reporting unprecedented interest in…

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The World Cup – What’s Going On?

Guest post written by Arthur Browne. What a start to the World Cup week it’s been. The French are in total disarray, Italy and England have both started sluggishly while Brazil and Argentina both look to be coming nicely to the boil. Where can you find value as the week ahead unfolds? I’ve put together a range of possibilities so…

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The Psychology of Successful Gambling – Myth 1

How you approach your betting is going to affect the success that you have as much as finding good selections. I am not for a moment saying that you can make a profit without finding the right selections, you can’t, but you can lose the profit you may otherwise have made by not having the right mind set. It is…

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Football Spread Betting For Beginners – Part 2

Guest post written by Paul Micelli In lasts week article we looked at the advantages of spread betting, how you can get started and why football betting is a good sport to spread bet on. Supremacy Betting on Football The Supremacy Bet is usually available on all televised matches although most online sports spread betting companies will offer a market…

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Creating a Racing Database – Getting The Data

This is the fourth part in the series where we have been looking at creating your own racing database. If you haven’t read the first three parts then you can do so using the links below. Creating a Racing Database Part 1 Creating a Racing Database Part 2 Creating a Racing Database Part 3 In today’s post we are going…

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A Versatile Automated Betting Bot

You may remember that we ran a feature a short while ago to find out which were your favoured system testing websites and the two leaders by a long way were The Betting School and Betting System Truths. Following your requests I got in touch with Darren Power and James Fitzmaurice and both have kindly agreed to provide the Race…

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Football Spread Betting for Beginners

Guest article written by Paul Micelli Traditional betting patterns have seen some significant changes in recent years and the rise in popularity of spread betting continues to see the conscientious sports betting enthusiast enjoy excellent profits. However, sports spread betting remains something of a mystery for the casual punter and the random collection of numbers will make very little sense…

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An Introduction to Portfolio Betting

‘Portfolio Betting’ is a phrase that you hear occasionally talked about, usually by system bettors. I think the phrase itself is slightly misleading because, as far as I am concerned, every profitable bettor is a portfolio bettor. What I mean by this is that anybody who is successful at betting is going to have more than one way of finding…

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How To Bet On Cricket

Cricket has seen a recent surge in popularity as far as sports betting is concerned. Although the county game in the United Kingdom doesn’t enjoy the same profile it did several decades ago, the introduction of new formats such as the Twenty20 competition have made cricket a much bigger betting attraction. The game offers numerous opportunities to make profits and…

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Long Distance Travellers – Do They Make Money?

Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends Each day the Racing Post and most daily newspapers highlight horses that have travelled a long distance to race. Why are these horses noted each day? The reasoning behind it is almost certainly this – if a trainer and/or owner are keen to travel a long way to race their horse(s) then the…

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Guide To Profitable Dutching

I believe that value is the most important part of betting. As I am sure you have heard many times, you can select as many winners as you want but if you aren’t getting good value in the odds then you will still lose money. I have been looking at new ways of getting good value in the odds and…

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What do the Racing Post Ability Ratings mean?

A number of weeks ago a reader asked me what the ability ratings that are available to Racing Post members actually mean. These are usually in the form of one, two or three ticks. As so often seems to be the case with the Racing Post, when you actually try and find information on how they make their ratings through…

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Managerial Changes and the Impact it has on a Team (Part Three)

Guest post by Paul Micelli The concept of Honeymoon periods and trapdoor dismissals doesn’t just appear to be validated in the case of Tottenham Hotspur. A quick study of statistics relating to the Premier League since it’s inauguration until the end of 2008 would indicate that the vast majority of clubs who employed a new manager experienced improved form during…

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Using Official Rating To Estimate Class – The Written Version

I was asked last week if I would provide a written version of exactly what I did in the video so that the steps could be followed while the video was being watched. Today that is exactly what I have done. I used the Sporting Life website for no other reason than it is 100% free and the information is…

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Successful Risk Free Matched Betting For The World Cup 2010

Guest post by Darren Hall from Bet72 This year’s World Cup in South Africa will be a betting bonanza with bookmakers offering a veritable feast of free bets and bonuses.  As an avid England supporter I know only too well not to rely on the Three Lions when it comes to the crunch.  So instead of banking on the Three Lions…

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The Psychology of Tennis (Part Two)

Guest post by Paul Micelli To recognize the type of player who relies on hitting the ball as hard as possible and continually rushes to the net in an erratic fashion is to recognize a man who has no specific direction of attack when playing the game of tennis. On a psychological level, the player often displays rare flashes of…

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