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Jun- 2010 -1 June
Creating a Database for Racing ā Part 3
There has been a little bit of a break since I finished writing part one and part two of how to create a database for racing. Carrying on from where we left off puts us at the stage of designing the table layouts. A database is made of different tables and each table contains data. For example a Trainer table…
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May- 2010 -31 May
Managerial Changes and the Impact it has on a Team (Part Two)
Guest post by Paul Micelli While new managers will usually be aware of the honeymoon period and a few short weeks of grace, they will also be looking to avoid the possibility of finding themselves standing on the metaphorical trapdoor. The trapdoor refers to a level of minimum points that a manager must attain during a section of the season…
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28 May
Managerial Changes and the Impact it has on a Football Team (Part One)
Guest Post by Paul Micelli As the latest English football season draws to a close, the managerial merry-go-round begins in earnest as a number of high-profile figures find themselves looking for new employment before the start of the forthcoming 2010/2011 campaign. In turn, clubs who have recently dismissed or lost a manager will be looking for new faces to lead…
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27 May
Thought Patterns That Stop You Profiting From Betting
All of us screw up from time to time: we bet with our hearts instead of our heads we click on the button without shopping around we think it’s outrageous that a team is available at such long odds so we back them without stopping to ask why (I did this once – I’d misread the kick-off time and my…
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25 May
The Psychology of Tennis (Part One)
Guest Post by Paul Micelli The role of psychology in tennis is often made more complicated than it really needs to be by a string of tactically-absorbed coaches and lazy sports commentators who prefer to talk about their idealistic visions of the game instead of focusing on the realistic aspects of what is actually being presented to them. The last…
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24 May
Under and Over 2.5 Goals ā A Market Trading Strategy for Football
Guest Post by Paul Micelli Sports bettors are continually finding new areas to exert their talents and one of the most prominent areas of growth concerning football strategies has been the betting exchange market. In particular there are a number of systems that are designed to capitalise on the under/over 2.5 market. While many strategies applying to this particular form…
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21 May
How To Use A Horseās Draw To Profit
Earlier this week I wrote a review of Nick Mordinās Winning Without Thinking. While I was re-reading the book to write the review there was a section on betting the draw and a strategy that he used. I thought that it would be a good idea to re-analyse this strategy and look at how we might be able to use…
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20 May
The Double Chance Football Strategy
Guest post by Paul Micelli One of the most appealing soccer betting strategies to be found anywhere involves the rare situation where you donāt necessarily need to see your preferred side win to make a profit. The system itself is actually referred to as the āDouble Chanceā strategy because the sports betting enthusiast will be backing a side on two…
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19 May
Testing A New System
Guest article by Malcolm Pett from Greyhorse Bot One of my great loves is trying to figure out betting systems. Yes I know that there are people that think they donāt work and there are others that think they only work short term etc, etc. To be honestā¦I sort ofā¦donāt care what people think! I just like trying to find…
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18 May
Winning Without Thinking ā Book Review
Winning Without Thinking is one of Nick Mordinās books and is designed as a guide to betting systems. It was a book I read very early on when I first started to take my betting seriously. With 21 chapters and just over 300 pages there is certainly a lot of information to take in. Nick Mordin has a very nice…
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17 May
The Big 100 Cricket Spread Betting
Guest article written by Paul Micelli There is much talk in cricketing circles regarding the āNervous Ninetiesā and the theoretical concept that many batsmen lose their wickets as they approach an elusive century. However, a quick glance at most cricketing scorecards will indicate that the reality is somewhat different. In fact, more batsmen lose their wickets shortly after scoring 100…
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14 May
What Is The Chance Of Me Losing My Bank
The chance of you losing your bank, commonly known as ārisk of ruinā, 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 UKās main betting exchanges but can profits actually be gleaned from greyhound racing…
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12 May
The Betting School ā A Review of Betting System Review Sites Revisited
Todayās post is going to be a short one as I have been getting crazily busyĀ 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 hasnāt lost…
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7 May
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer? ā 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 ā The Winning Strategy (Part Four ā 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 fromĀ 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 ā The Winning Strategy (Part Three ā 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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