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Understanding scoring trends around Europe - guide to the over/under market

Understanding scoring trends around Europe - guide to the over/under market

The goals markets are some of the most popular for footballpunters and there are so many options and possibilities that Imight even assume they will eventually surpass the traditional gameoutcome markets.Trying to figure the exact number of goals in a
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Which Novice Race Produces Most Champion Hurdle Horses?

Which Novice Race Produces Most Champion Hurdle Horses?

As regular visitors to OLBG race days would expect, there are always many exciting conversations between members at the course. One that sticks in the mind was which novice hurdle race provides the most Champion Hurdle winners.
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NCAA Tournament Trends

NCAA Tournament Trends

The College Basketball regular season is coming to a close over thenext two weeks as we head towards the conference tournaments andthe season finale with the NCAA Tournament.It'll be a few weeks before we know the 68 teams who willparticipate
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How to Profit From Being Nearly Right

How to Profit From Being Nearly Right

I will be looking in-depth at three of the tools available to punters and identifying ways that each might be used profitably on horse racing. Ultimately though, I hope to be able to combine all three into one.
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Should Female Jockeys Get A 4lb Claim?

Should Female Jockeys Get A 4lb Claim?

To say that France Gallop have gained a bit ofattention with their recent announcement would be a bit of anunderstatement, but for those that have not heard about this yet,the news was that women riders in France will get a
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Can You Trust Betting Tips and Should You Follow Sports Betting Tipsters?

Can You Trust Betting Tips and Should You Follow Sports Betting Tipsters?

Why do tipsters take the time to add betting tips? I suspect it is partly fuelled by our egos. We want to be successful tipsters and to be feted as an expert in whatever sport we tip on.
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A Weeks Punting Overview: Discipline Over Emotion

A Weeks Punting Overview: Discipline Over Emotion

We are all guilty of being human. We are all guilty of our emotionsgetting the better of us. This was portrayed to me this week onGordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where even chef top dog Ramsayattacks a customer for saying that
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Your Bookmaker Uses Poisson Distribution and So Should You

Your Bookmaker Uses Poisson Distribution and So Should You

I was listening to a podcast where a bookmaker representative mentioned his firm using the Poisson distribution to calculate football prices. If it's good enough for the enemy then it is good enough for us as bettors.
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Profitable Horse Racing Betting System - Introducing the VALUE CALCULATOR

Profitable Horse Racing Betting System - Introducing the VALUE CALCULATOR

The purpose of this blog is to introduce the concept of a methodology for determining the odds at which a runner becomes a potential value bet in any horse race, which I have christened the VALUE CALCULATOR. Before I document how
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Can defense propel a team to Superbowl victory?

Can defense propel a team to Superbowl victory?

I wrote a blog looking at recent defensive trends in the NFL and whether these carried through into the post season. I updated the NFL stats looking to see if trends could be spotted.
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