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If you're reading this, it may be because you've gone through theexperience of having one, or more, accounts closed by the majorbookmakers. It's becoming a more common-place occurrence and is nolonger reserved for the ultra-shrewd, big-playing gambler. It'shappening to punters

Keeping your own Match Ratings and using them to PredictResultsIntroductionI've been keeping records of my own match ratings for each PremierLeague game this season. It's something I've been meaning to do fora while and something I know that plenty of

I would like to start this blog with a story that many readers willfind unbelievable, but is the absolute truth.In November 2000, a work colleague and I started to visit a newlyopened independent bookmaker's premises, which was convenientlyclose to our

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE FLOOR.Somewhere at some time long ago, somebody shattered a mirror,following this they experienced a boatload of nasty things foraround 7 years, and then they had a change of fortune. In aperfectly understandable need to understand what

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‘Team To Score' Multiples; My New Favourite Bet TypeOver the last few weeks I have been trialling a new, or at leastnew to me, betting strategy. It goes like this; I choose no fewerthan 8 teams to simply score a

For the purpose of this blog, it will be assumed in all cases that odds accurately reflect each horse's chance of winning. The same odds will then be used to estimate the place odds as accurately as possible.

In an obscure B-Side to one of their earlysingles, the band Oasis asked listeners, “Do You Wanna Be ASpaceman?” Probably by the time of life they were listening to thissong, most people would have given up any childhood hopes ofbecoming

I'm a maths geek. I really like probability. So when I make a betalways like to compare the probability of the result I am bettingon to the odds from the bookies. It is not for everyone but itgives a good

Why Fiddling With Markets Can Be Your DownfallWe all like bigger odds on our bets but quite often we pay theprice for seeking out those odds and betting on ‘fiddly' markets.So much of making profit in football betting is about