Hello all...this is offically my first blog entry and just wanted to share some thoughts of mine on my recent success in sports betting. Not sure if this will benefit many, but hopefully it gets across to a few!
This past football season i entered my 6th season of sports betting and have just now begun to find a "calmness" to my action. The obvious flaws have always shown in my record books (chasing, parlays, lack of money management, and worst of all- betting for action!) all of which intertwine in some way. However the 2007 and 2008 baseball season's really were eye openers for me and i've been able to use the same mindset and philosophies in both my past football season and the current basketball season. Here is six base rules I follow and STICK TO THEM RELIGOUSLY!
1. Bet teams that I have some already known knowledge of...meaning sticking to teams that I am a fan of and even betting against them when neccessary, betting games where i've seen both teams play enough to know the matchups before I even begin looking into the stats, and never taking advice from those claiming to "know" this or that team-stick to your own thoughts and if this profession is for you it will show!
2. Look thouroughly into the numbers of both teams involved no matter the already known information you have on the game (research, research, research!)
3. Follow line movements and money being put into either side...if anything even appears fishy, just consider it one less game to "sweat" and don't touch it!
4. Never even consider betting a "bad team"- I learned the hard way in my early years of sports betting, but found this out and feel it creates much less frustration!
5. Money Management-I more than likely have a much smaller bankroll to manage than most of you others so its not too difficult for me, but is still just as important. I have been lucky enough to increase it each year-but still stick to my guns and suggest the same as this may be the biggest of all my rules.
6. Living and believing in 1-5 allows my number 6 to happen much easier ...which is being comfortable even with bets lost. That may sound kind of silly but many of you know exactly what I mean. By that i'm talking about putting in enough research, insight and disciplining the $ bet that even though things don't work out, you know that your work was put in and your money was bet on what you percieved as a profitable bet as well as still having $ to invest...
Like I've said before I definitely learned the hard way on how to profit from this mysterious art of sports betting! But just wanted to share a personal look into what I have found to be a workable system. I'm well aware that many others have posted similar insight, but hope that my layout to beating the books will help one of you ! Peace and good luck
funny how this conference got torn apart for how "boring" their games are all season long and how low scoring games seem to be..yet as tourney play unfolds teams such as baylor, kstate, pitt, and now cal tonight find out why big ten games are low scoring...now ill be the first to admit that the big ten doesnt have the most athletically talented athletes, but unlike the big 12 defense isnt optional up here...i go back to the big 12 title game where open jumpers were there aboout 80% of the time...in the big 10 teams and players actually play defense every single possesion and in turn, games dont turn out 85-80...and as boring as a 56-50 game might be i think its funny as hell to watch a team like kstate that has great athletes play so unfundamentally sound and get so frustrated with the defense they saw saturday.
and to be honest games like the big 12 title game were entertaining to watch, but i kept thinking if i was actually a fan of one of those teams id be pulling my hair out after seeing my team give up so many easy uncontested baskets