Bookmakers, Odds Compilers And The betting Market (Part 1:)
December 17, 2012 by Jonathan
Filed under Money Management, Recent Articles
Bookmaker or Turf Accountant? Which would you rather be? Actually one is a more up-market name for the other! They both take money offered as bets by those betting on a particular outcome for an event. Then they pay out to those that were correct in their predictions of that outcome. For any bookmaker to […]
11 Essential Tips To Increase Your Jumps Racing Profits
October 20, 2011 by Jonathan
Filed under Horse Racing, Recent Articles
Betting on horses over the jumps can be a risky proposition for the ill informed punter. To help you avoid the most common mistakes, we have put together 11 essential betting tips. Following these principles throughout the National Hunt season will help to ensure money stays in your betting bank and not in the bookmakers […]
What factors change the odds on the Betting Exchanges?
October 4, 2011 by Jonathan
Filed under Betfair Tutorials, Recent Articles
In this article we look at the various factors and influences which cause the odds to move on the betting exchanges. Exchange of opinion What makes odds move on the Betting Exchanges? The short answer to the question is: optimism and pessimism. The optimists (backers) think the horse will win, so they bet it to […]
Handicaps versus non Handicaps
December 17, 2010 by Jonathan
Filed under Horse Racing, Recent Articles
A different approach Horse racing is a wash with facts, statistics and worst of all media hype. In part this is why so many people place ill informed bets based around urban myths and media hype, such as: only backing top jockeys or following trainers blindly. Betting shop punters are especially guilty of this kind […]