What's your betting style? Favourite type(s) of bet? What stakes do you put on-big/small? Do you back favourites or outsiders? Do you back jockeys, trainers or owners? Just horses you like the name of? Or have a connection to you somehow? Speed? Form? None of these? What's your betting frequency-everyday/weekend etc.? What sites to you use? Do you have limits?
For me, I like a good jockey/trainer combination, or simply a jockey double/trixie.
I'm also a sucker for same shirt/owner acca's, but I appreciate they don't come in that often, I just love it when they do.
I usually bet every day, anywhere from 10-100 bets per day, I can have 10 pages of bets open on SkyBet, which is my favourite site.
My stakes are usually fairly small, I'm not one for putting a £50 single, double or treble on, if I want a big bet it's more like £5 or £10 win or E/W.
I tend to only go for horses that are 5/1 and above, and avoid favourites. I will back a favourite if I like it and there's a few others I like, I'll do a win yankee. But I just think it's so much more disappointing when you need a favourite to win and it's useless, if you're 16/1 comes last you're nowhere near as disappointed, so I go for outsiders, you can only be pleasantly surprised by an outsider.
I try to hit multiples to bring in big amounts, and will play £0.10 E/W acca's, or put 7 horses in with big odds and play E/W doubles, or 3/4 big odds horses and play a small stakes E/W trixie or yankee.
So small stakes and combine multiple horses is how I try to win big, e.g. I had a nine-fold at Cheltenham, 3 favourites from day 1, day 2 and day 3, all won day 1 and day 2 but all lost day 3 - I had £0.10 E/W on it, and after day 1 and day 2 I was on for £8k, my mate stuck £100 on a treble on the same 3 favourites day 3 and would have only won £1,600, all 3 lost so he lost £100, but I only lost £0.10. I think my way is better as you lose less - he lost £2,400 at Cheltenham, I lost £36. I think small stakes are better and less risky, you just have to hit 4+ horses for a good return, but if you don't, you haven't lost much and try again the next day.
Finally, I will overlap bets e.g. I might have Oisin Murphy and William Buick, even if they're at the same place and my bets conflict - I'll have two bets on knowing that only 1 can come in, but I wonder if that's stupid and I'm wasting a bet? Should I just pick one or the other (or mix them together) and only have 1 bet? Would you put two bets on that conflict, knowing that 1 is guaranteed to lose?
For me, I like a good jockey/trainer combination, or simply a jockey double/trixie.
I'm also a sucker for same shirt/owner acca's, but I appreciate they don't come in that often, I just love it when they do.
I usually bet every day, anywhere from 10-100 bets per day, I can have 10 pages of bets open on SkyBet, which is my favourite site.
My stakes are usually fairly small, I'm not one for putting a £50 single, double or treble on, if I want a big bet it's more like £5 or £10 win or E/W.
I tend to only go for horses that are 5/1 and above, and avoid favourites. I will back a favourite if I like it and there's a few others I like, I'll do a win yankee. But I just think it's so much more disappointing when you need a favourite to win and it's useless, if you're 16/1 comes last you're nowhere near as disappointed, so I go for outsiders, you can only be pleasantly surprised by an outsider.
I try to hit multiples to bring in big amounts, and will play £0.10 E/W acca's, or put 7 horses in with big odds and play E/W doubles, or 3/4 big odds horses and play a small stakes E/W trixie or yankee.
So small stakes and combine multiple horses is how I try to win big, e.g. I had a nine-fold at Cheltenham, 3 favourites from day 1, day 2 and day 3, all won day 1 and day 2 but all lost day 3 - I had £0.10 E/W on it, and after day 1 and day 2 I was on for £8k, my mate stuck £100 on a treble on the same 3 favourites day 3 and would have only won £1,600, all 3 lost so he lost £100, but I only lost £0.10. I think my way is better as you lose less - he lost £2,400 at Cheltenham, I lost £36. I think small stakes are better and less risky, you just have to hit 4+ horses for a good return, but if you don't, you haven't lost much and try again the next day.
Finally, I will overlap bets e.g. I might have Oisin Murphy and William Buick, even if they're at the same place and my bets conflict - I'll have two bets on knowing that only 1 can come in, but I wonder if that's stupid and I'm wasting a bet? Should I just pick one or the other (or mix them together) and only have 1 bet? Would you put two bets on that conflict, knowing that 1 is guaranteed to lose?
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