Big and Little - Both Ways of Looking.You can bet a lot to win a little, or a little to win a lot. For the average punter there are merits in each approach.If you bet a lot to win a little, it is likely you are a careful and "safe" punter.If you bet a little to win a lot, you are in this:1. for the fun of it.2. because you regard betting as like lotto and the lottery.3. because you are a desperate.Given that the third one isn't you personally, there's no harm in the first two, but only
Big and Little - Both Ways of Looking.
You can bet a lot to win a little, or a little to win a lot. For the average punter there are merits in each approach.
If you bet a lot to win a little, it is likely you are a careful and "safe" punter.
If you bet a little to win a lot, you are in this:
1. for the fun of it.
2. because you regard betting as like lotto and the lottery.
3. because you are a desperate.
Given that the third one isn't you personally, there's no harm in the first two, but only so long as they remain a small part of your overall strategy. No matter what you do you won't win the big exotics every weekend.
You can back Roger Federer to reach the semi final of a major tournament and you'll probably win 95% of the time.
At $1.01, in all likelihood.
So you need to win more than 99 times in a hundred to cut even. Bookies are not in the habit of giving their profits away.
On the other hand, have a 4-horse boxed trifecta and (unless you only take the short ones) you'll be on a low return percentage.
If the successful trifecta pays $100, you'll need to win one in four to average 4%.
It's not so hot when you look at it like that, is it?
Outlay $2400 for 100 boxed trifectas of four horses, and you collect (if you manage to back 25 winning combinations, and that's generous) $2500.
That's $100 profit.
FOUR PER CENT.
There's a lot more to this topic, and we'll take it further, but that's enough for us to think about at Stage One.
DIgest that and I'll raise the bar in a few days' time.