We have talked about the importance of shopping around and sites like Oddschecker are a huge help in terms of getting the best bookmaker prices. One aspect that is really important is understanding what other options you have available to you. Let’s take a look at a relevant example today. The big horse race today … Continue reading 117. Shop Around (2)
As Hurricane Ian batters Florida it reminds me of something that happened in my early days at Betfair. Firstly, I hope that everyone is ok as it looks horrendous in Florida atm. Have spent plenty of time there and could not recommend the beaches at Clearwater highly enough. In our team we were responsible for … Continue reading 116. Weather
Another day another fine handed out by the Gambling Commission. This time it was £2.87m to Betfred for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures. Another slap on the wrist warning about future failures. One of the headline aspects to the story was a customer being able to deposit and lose £70k over a ten hour … Continue reading 115. Responsible Gambling (2)
I think we saw on the opening weekend of the NFL that coaches are human and that they often make poor decisions when the pressure is on. One of the decisions that played out this weekend was just insanity and really makes you question what you see. It involved Justin Herbert the Quarterback for the … Continue reading 114. Coaches
I have always thought staking and staking plans to be one of the more overrated factors when it comes to being successful at betting. That’s not to say that if you absolutely butcher it that it wont be a potential game changer. So much attention is given to it though. Relatively. I think as long … Continue reading 113. Staking Plans
I was recently reminded of a very simple premise in this game. If you place a bet that cant win, it shouldn’t be able to lose either. There tends to be a fairly unique set of circumstances around these bets these days. Most non starters have bets voided/refunded. The one I was reminded of involved … Continue reading 112. Can’t win can’t lose
One thing I am seeing continually at the moment is a huge disconnect between short and long term goals. It applies to so many different walks of life. I see it all the time in sport but we are also seeing it incessantly in Politics and Finance. A good starting point with this would be … Continue reading 111. Short and long term goals
It feels an appropriate time to talk about the frustrations you experience in this game and how often they are completely out of your control. This is a reference of course to last weeks NFL match between Seattle and Denver and what transpired. Lets put it into some context before we talk about it as … Continue reading 110. Frustrations
The NFL is one of my favourite sports and it resumes later this evening with the Bills and the Rams. Following on from yesterday it serves no one any real purpose to come up with narratives for what will happen. Instead I will give a few pointers though about betting on the sport more generally. … Continue reading 109. NFL
I see and hear so often people explaining why they think a bet is good value. This is something that you see with tipsters, literally, all the time and anyone who is trying to justify a selection. They create a narrative to justify the selection. They will say something like, this golfer has had four … Continue reading 108. Narratives
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