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Betting Approach - What are the best types of bet to place on football and why ?
Betting Approach - What are the best types of bet to place onfootball and why ?As mentioned before in a few others blogs of this type, right nowseems a very good time to take a break from focusing on bettingdirectly
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Betting Approach - what do you think the most common betting mistakes are ?
Betting Approach - what do you think the most common betting mistakes are ? We have all made them but right now seems a very good time to dig deeper and find our where many of us go wrong.
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Betting Approach - What have you learned from betting on football over the years ?
Betting Approach - What have you learned from betting onfootball over the years ?With Royal Ascot now finished and with the domestic football seasonnot starting until August, right now seems a very good time to takea break from focusing on
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LAYING Delving deeper into the dark art.
LAYING. Delving deeper into the dark art.I have run a series of blogs on the subject of laying. Maybe now isthe time to dig a bit deeper into the complexities of the subjectand perhaps explode a few myths along the
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Does Squad Consistency Breed Success in Football?
The number of players used by each football club in a season can be relevant, so i thought I would undertake a statistical analysis to discover whether using more players benefitted or hampered a team's final finishing position
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Confirmation Bias - Rules Of Thumb
Hopefully this is entirely unnecessary but let me start out by saying I am not advocating murder; the darlings referred to in what I say next are a metaphor for pet theories.
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Don't force the bet - some thoughts about Multiples, Yankees and Lucky 15s
OLBG is the Great Barrier Reef of betting forums, rich with diverseand interesting sports fans and punters who ebb and flow with theendless daily tide of betting markets, seeking to gain an edge onthe bookmakers.Don't force them.A common topic currently
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Confirmation Bias - Why You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
People who bet on any sport, have something incommon; they think they know something about the horses/footballteams/greyhounds etc that the bookmakers don't and that the oddsare wrong. They must think this because we know that bookmakers arenot charities, and they
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Betting on bookings; the card markets & the impact of the referee
You can now bet on bookings, Will it be a red or yellow card? Who doesn't love a good crunching tackle, or a melee of players pushing and shoving.
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Betting Traps - Sunk Cost Fallacy
A friend of mine was telling me the other dayabout his car; it used to be a reasonably good one, but it isstarting to get a bit old. He had a choice between spending quite asubstantial amount to get his
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