Guest post by Paul Micelli While new managers will usually be aware of the honeymoon period and a few short weeks of grace, they will also be looking to avoid the possibility of finding themselves standing on the metaphorical trapdoor. The trapdoor refers to a level of minimum points that a manager must attain during ...…
Guest Post by Paul Micelli As the latest English football season draws to a close, the managerial merry-go-round begins in earnest as a number of high-profile figures find themselves looking for new employment before the start of the forthcoming 2010/2011 campaign. In turn, clubs who have recently dismissed or lost a manager will be looking ...…
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All of us screw up from time to time: we bet with our hearts instead of our heads we click on the button without shopping around we think it’s outrageous that a team is available at such long odds so we back them without stopping to ask why (I did this once – I’d misread ...…
Guest Post by Paul Micelli The role of psychology in tennis is often made more complicated than it really needs to be by a string of tactically-absorbed coaches and lazy sports commentators who prefer to talk about their idealistic visions of the game instead of focusing on the realistic aspects of what is actually being ...…
Guest Post by Paul Micelli Sports bettors are continually finding new areas to exert their talents and one of the most prominent areas of growth concerning football strategies has been the betting exchange market. In particular there are a number of systems that are designed to capitalise on the under/over 2.5 market. While many strategies ...…
Earlier this week I wrote a review of Nick Mordin’s Winning Without Thinking. While I was re-reading the book to write the review there was a section on betting the draw and a strategy that he used. I thought that it would be a good idea to re-analyse this strategy and look at how we ...…
Guest post by Paul Micelli One of the most appealing soccer betting strategies to be found anywhere involves the rare situation where you don’t necessarily need to see your preferred side win to make a profit. The system itself is actually referred to as the ‘Double Chance’ strategy because the sports betting enthusiast will be ...…
Guest article by Malcolm Pett from Greyhorse Bot One of my great loves is trying to figure out betting systems. Yes I know that there are people that think they don’t work and there are others that think they only work short term etc, etc. To be honest…I sort of…don’t care what people think! I ...…
Winning Without Thinking is one of Nick Mordin’s books and is designed as a guide to betting systems. It was a book I read very early on when I first started to take my betting seriously. With 21 chapters and just over 300 pages there is certainly a lot of information to take in. Nick ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli There is much talk in cricketing circles regarding the ‘Nervous Nineties’ and the theoretical concept that many batsmen lose their wickets as they approach an elusive century. However, a quick glance at most cricketing scorecards will indicate that the reality is somewhat different. In fact, more batsmen lose their ...…
The chance of you losing your bank, commonly known as ‘risk of ruin’, is a concept that is not often discussed in the world of gambling and, in my opinion, this is a very big mistake. When you go to a bank or a stock broker to invest your hard earned cash, one of the ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli While many sports betting enthusiasts continue to make a respectable profit from laying horses, the world of greyhound racing continues to be clouded by uncertainty and inexperience. The utilisation of successful horse racing systems have worked for many years on the UK’s main betting exchanges but can profits actually ...…
Today’s post is going to be a short one as I have been getting crazily busy recently with my own betting, ProRatings being imminently near re-launch (just waiting for the first batch of ratings to get up to date), working on a massive site design overhaul of the Race Advisor and a lot of new ...…
This is a multi-part article in which Egor, creator of the hottest poker bot on the web, explains what it takes to derive an income from playing online poker. In our last installment, we started building Fred, a successful online poker player. We envisioned what the final Fred will be like: A good, skilled poker ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli One of the biggest advantages a football side can have is playing on home turf. Some managers have made a living out of turning their home stadium into a fortress and in recent years, the likes of Jose Mourinho have taken this concept to a whole new level. The ...…
This time last week we looked at which races may provide the backer with a better opportunity for making a profit. This week we are going to do the same for the layer. We split all the races up by classification last week to see the best place to start for the backer or the ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Having established in part 1, part 2 and part 3 that the type of tournament, draw and previous form will all be vital components in selecting the outright winner from a particular competition, the next final factor that needs to be studied before laying a bet is that of ...…
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends This month I am looking at trainer performance in May on the flat. Trainers tend to be creatures of habit and tend to peak / trough at similar times each year. This article is based on Flat trainers in the month of May with data taken from 2004 ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Last week we started to look at a winning strategy for betting on tennis. The first part was an introduction into how we were going to find winners and the second part looked at the draw. The third part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy takes a look ...…
