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10-12 fully funded betting accounts is about right to keep the admin sensible and prices competitive. It is worth opening accounts with small amounts at a handful of others to be prepared to react to outstanding prices. To make it easier for you we have listed all the top betting companies here.
2. Careful Analysis
It is absolutely essential to analyse results and put them into a useful context. The most important factors in building ratings for any sport is to judge the strength of the opposition and adjust performance for prevailing conditions. League tables, batting and bowling averages in cricket, good finishes in golf etc are meaningless unless we can grade the strength of the opposition and have a benchmark for what constitutes a good or poor performance.
3. Sensible Application
Although we want to use as much as data as possible it is clearly sensible to weight the data to favour the most recent results. The aim of our weighted and adjusted ratings is to identify teams and individuals who we rate significantly better or worse than the bookmaker.
4. Be selective
Our big advantage is that we can choose when and how much we bet. The bookmaker has to offer a huge range of bets each day and accept the stakes we choose. You can�t hope to make a good profit by betting in every event, but careful preparation for a handful of events and selecting the best opportunities from that short list when the prices are favourable will yield a good profit.
5. Sensible staking strategy
Keep stakes sensible and don�t be too quick to increase stakes aggressively after a winning run. We're neither for or against staking plans, but its important to understand how much you stand to lose in a poor run and to stake accordingly. Set aside a betting bank of at least 100 points and increase your stakes moderately only when you have made profits of 50 points plus.
The size of stake should be the amount that allows you to enjoy the wins and to stay in the game after a losing run (they do happen!). If you�re not sure about the amount you�re staking its almost certainly too high. The single reason why most people fail in sports betting or any kind of speculation, is overstaking. A statistically acceptable run of losses can be difficult to stomach when stakes are too high. Stay in the game for the long term and stake sensibly.
6. Enjoy it!
Intelligent Betting is not about ego. If you're betting regularly there will be many times when results leave you scraping egg from your face. Being wrong on occasions isn't important. All that matters is the bottom line profit figure!
