Thursday, 28 October 2010

An Eclectic band of authors !

Good Morning all

The authors of postings are giving the readers a real flavour of how you can approach placing  wagers in the sport we so obviously love.
from the first bet we placed (usually through mums dads families etc and probably the grand national at that) learning how to be selective is a long drawn out process of highs and lows - hope this blog will short cut some of the learning process and stings that come from over confidence and inexperience.

 As a young man  more often went home from the course without the price of a cup of tea than when I went home with a decent profit.  All of the Authors - trading/ laying/ number crunching/ rating/ are here for one thing and that's passing on  information.

 So Today's pearl of wisdom........ It does no harm for me to say to you Dont Go Mad -- Betfair gives you the chance to look again at how you are doing far better than any other betting medium. (look at the "below minimum bet"(earlier posting in the archive) if your a newbie and

  • Make use of the place betting available to you -- yep its a difficult transition to leave the each way betting that you have got used to in the bookies  and yes i know betting in the place market betfair is not the quarter odds of the bookies in the main BUT going for a place bet with your stake doubled instead of halved for the win Makes sense. The object is to make profit and have the excitement of owning the horse: for the duration of the race at least 
A Big thank you to every one who contributes to the blog

Bob

   

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