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Jun- 2010 -18 June
The Psychology of Successful Gambling â 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 canât, but you can lose the profit you may otherwise have made by not having the right mind set. It is…
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17 June
Football Spread Betting For Beginners â 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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16 June
Creating a Racing Database â Getting The Data
This is the fourth part in the series where we have been looking at creating your own racing database. If you havenât 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 todayâs post we are going…
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15 June
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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14 June
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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11 June
An Introduction to Portfolio Betting
âPortfolio Bettingâ 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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10 June
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 doesnât 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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9 June
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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9 June
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 arenât 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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8 June
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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7 June
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 doesnât just appear to be validated in the case of Tottenham Hotspur. A quick study of statistics relating to the Premier League since itâs 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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4 June
Using Official Rating To Estimate Class â 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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3 June
Successful Risk Free Matched Betting For The World Cup 2010
Guest post by Darren Hall from Bet72 This yearâs 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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2 June
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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1 June
Creating a Database for Racing â 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
Using Official Rating To Estimate Class
Unfortunately changes made to the Sporting Life website in August 2012 means that the copy and paste no longer works and you need to enter the ratings by hand. To see the written version of the above video then please follow this link. Downloads You may need to right-click the following links and select Save Link As to download the…
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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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