A Guide To Laying
Beat The Market - Specialise!
The primary mistake a lot of reasonably smart recreational punters make is that they bet on the events which are served up to them when they happen to be available to bet. This can turn a small advantage in terms of ability to analyse form and calculate percentages into a huge disadvantage betting on events on which they haven't fully applied themselves and which may have no punting angle for them to utilise. This particularly applies to betting shop punters who are bombarded with betting "oppor
If you speak to most successful professional gamblers about their success, they are liable to be coy about what exactly their secret is, but all of them will reveal that they make a regular profit by specialising in the areas where they know they have an edge ~ they are not dictated to by the schedules of the big bookmakers and that’s why they live in those fancy houses and look so smug all the time. They can teach you a lesson.
It’s true to say that the odds compilers of the major bookmakers are clever lads but if you have your wits about you then they needn’t be a step ahead of you. The advantage you can have over any bookmaker who has to price up every potential outcome of every televised sporting event is the fact that you can concentrate on a tiny fraction of their workload and find your niche. What that niche is is entirely up to you, but even if you have previously been a “fun” punter you will have found certain sports, race types, specialist markets where you feel that you are on safe ground. This should guide you to the specific grounds where you should do punting battle. In ignoring other events which merely take up your time and potentially your money, you will quickly become a genuine expert in your field and will find value angles that wouldn’t have occurred to you before.
The fact that most punters lack discipline will meant that on a regular basis, the unwary will stray onto your patch without having done the preparation you have ~ they will become easy pickings as once you may have been before you learned this most valuable of lessons.
As an interesting aside, I know of one successful punter who specialises, not in Darts or Golf or even Reality TV but? in those markets which are available after drinking up time at the weekend, reasoning that punters rolling home drunk and logging onto their exchange accounts are the easiest of all punters to relieve of their hard earned!