To quote an old cliché, you can cut the tension on Merseyside with a knife this week. After the High Court soap opera, Liverpool’s ownership looks like it has been resolved and with attention diverting back to the pitch just what Liverpool didn’t want, a trip to Goodison is on the cards for this afternoon. Preparation will have been affected and Liverpool travel without Dirk Kuyt, who has played well against Everton in recent seasons. Fernando Torres is still a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hand cards: 10 of spades, jack of spades Flop cards: 4 of clubs, 10 of hearts, jack of diamonds The flop delivers you two pairs jacks and tens. What are the odds of making a full house on the turn? The answer will be published as a comment tomorrow: Why don’t you use the free sign up bonus of up to $800 available with PKR to test out some of Gambling Man’s tips and strategies. Simply click on the PKR [...]
Man Utd at 5-2 to win the title
When Stan James offered you cash back if you had a bet on the Premier league winner and Man City won it, Gambling Man ran an article explaining how to take advantage of this bet but it did need some number crunching and even mentioned punters running a spreadsheet. Gambling Man promised that he would explain the maths behind the calculations in one of his insider articles and here it is. The trick to understanding a betting market is to [...]
The trick to making money as a punter is knowing when not to bet, it’s the times that you keep your money in your pocket that makes the biggest difference. Not just because of the obvious reason that you avoid a lot of losing bets, but also because it has a positive impact on your logic when you actually do decide to make a bet. At the weekend Gambling Man stayed away from the Charity shield, a televised Wembley show [...]
