After 7 games the ratings table is starting to take shape. I always prefer to have a ratings system that reflects recent form and this can be seen with positive ratings compared with league position for Stoke, Blackburn and Everton. Gambling Man Rating league position value rating 1 Chelsea 1,588 1 0 2 Man Utd 1,359 3 1 3 Man City 1,291 2 -1 4 Stoke 1,124 7 3 5 Arsenal 1,095 4 -1 6 Blackburn 1,086 13 7 7 [...]
Gambling Man has been spending a lot of time looking at financial trading and trading sports on Betfair recently.
Trading is the skill of looking at the odds, making a judgment which way they will go and making money by correctly betting on this movement. Very often the trader plays the market and is following market patterns, in financial trading this is called technical analysis. It is often seen even at a crude level even in betting shops when all of the punters start to back a horse because there is a “gamble on it” and the price is [...]
As promised here is the first of Gambling Man’s ratings table. They are up to date after the 6th round of matches and were based on a starting position which reflected last year’s league position and move the rating by taking a percentage of the oppositions start of day rating for the result and the goal supremacy. I have run a rudimentary analysis of the ratings position against the teams current league table and displayed it as a “heat index” [...]
Gambling Man likes nothing more than a guaranteed profit and Betfair is his weapon of choice for locking in profits. There are several ways to do this a couple of my favourites are; lay a horse at a good price early on and watch its price drop and then back it closer to the off for a guaranteed profit or back a football team before kick off and lay them for a much shorter price shortly after they take the [...]
With 6 games now played in the Premier League most ratings systems will be starting to settle down and reflect the form for the new season and I have decided to publish the rankings and points in my ratings table after every weekend.
Gambling Man has been following the 6 year saga regarding the opening of the Fox Poker Club in London’s China Town. I have a few friends who are shareholders and the Chairman is an ex bookie who I know well. I had a great night and just wanted to say well done to Chris North and Ian Hogg who have stuck at this through thick and thin, but have now opened the best poker room in London and probably Europe [...]
Gambling Man’s tips for using Betfair as a trading platform: Part 1
Imagine the scenario, Man U are at home to home to Sunderland needing 3 points to go back to the top of the league, they haven’t played mid week, Fergie has a full squad to chose from and Wenger has been talking in the press about the current squad being too old to retain the championship. The Big 3 bookies are running scared and you can get 1-4 at best but probably only for a few hundred quid and [...]
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