What kind of punter are you??

My weaknesses are hungry and sleepy.

Same as Lori.

Lost 100+ yesterday when I went to make a cup of tea.

what kind of punter am i ? prob like 99% of people on here MUG PUNTER

I once went to make a cup of tea and was £500 richer when I came back. That's a lot more fun than losing money

I should say they can get 10x as much money matched as me, the actual number of bets is pretty much irrelevant.

Investor, how come you don't automate more then? Your first and third weaknesses are the same aren't they?

Talking about the Swedish MM, I've often wondered how they can monopolise the markets to such a profitable extent. I mean why don't other bot specialists undercut them with a slightly tighter less profitable spread?

ALthough they are getting squeezed, definately.

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My biggest weaknesses are :



Still using about 500 standard Betfair screens [;)]

Most punters have no discipline, have no brains or initiative, as a result they will continue to lose, they might back a 3-1 winner every 5-6 races, but they'll then heap money on a trifecta or a pick the score and before you know it, what you won is lost already.

betting is like drinking, you go to the bar and order your same drink every time so why not bet the same way, find a winning percentage keep to it increase your bets in line with your bank, easy.

Like laying dog 4 in greyhound races if it is between 4-1 and 8-1. Dog 4 wins less than 12% of races and of that 12% 75% of the time it is the favourite?? Did you know that. Or what about tracks where the 1 box wins 80% of its races if it is under 4-1.

Knowledge is power and punters by nature haven't the brains to take the time to gain knowledge and educate themselves. They have a quick look at a form guide pick out something carrying not much weight drawn OK about 6-1ish and hope the jockey gets a good ride????

hardly a recipe for success???

What about laying the top weight in all class 1 races??? what % of those get beat?? 90% get rolled did you know that?? why not?? your looking for an edge aren't you?? something that churns out winning bets bet after bet after bet????

What about laying horses drawn 10 and wider in maidens over 1300m or more with 14 starters or more paying under 6-1, how many of those win?? Fk all.

There are dozens of edges to find, but how many will do the research to find the results on an idea???


Most ppls weakness is they are just bone lazy.

Most punters are just poor judges,it's as simple as that and 90% who bet probably do very little form if any, more the merrier doesn't really effect me as i only mainly bet through accounts anyway.
I've worked from 9am till early hours most days for eight years and has left me financially secure for life,if you're a good judge and put the hours in there are no limits.

What say you Investor?

Even with Chrome which hardly ever crashes, I can't manage more than 10 or 12 markets at one time on a single physical screen.

Don't feel obliged to reveal any secrets, but I can't see how you can manage 500 concurrent markets. And I know rather more about computers than most.

I didn't literally mean   500 markets. I was exaggerating slightly.


It's only 400.

biggest weakness: laziness.

^ Good point.

You always have to ask why the great bet you've just backed/layed was offered in the first place

I reckon I could turn the average punter into a winning punter in less than 1 week??

would involve them paying a large sum of money upfront in exchange for you teaching them?

I prefer to lay a horse that statistically proven over 12 months+ will not win the race or has a very low chance of winning, one system I use shows this type of horse wins less than 10% of its races.

Now today I said I'd lay dog 4 at Angle park, 11 races dog 4 didn't win a race, but you could have only laid number 4 five times due to its very long SP in some races IE 30-1+,

but we still got 5 out of 5.

My horse racing system showed 4 out of 4 today.

Think of something random, like horse number 6 drawn wider than 8 carrying 57Kgs see how ofetn it loses?? just keep searching till you find a combination.

Say soccer for example, go through the Hyundai a league results, you'll see that there is almost always a goal scored after the 75 minute mark.

So at 75 minute mark lay the current score, you'll get $1.60 about it every day, or back it at 70 minute mark $1.70 then at the 75 minute mark lay out at $1.60

plenty of ways to win.

But don't the odds reflect the times that things do or don't occur as per the past.
That why in fact there are odds, as nothing is certain.
You still have to find the odds that reflect good value.
Nothing you're saying seems to indicate you are doing this.
For example if goals "--are almost always scored in the last 15 minutes of full time", why are odds on the current score being put up at 1.60 ?.
Why are the mkt. makers so unaware of this apparent ( to you at least) obvious fact of virtually guaranteed late scoring ? Are they lazy or what are they exactly ?.
And if they are lazy, surely they won't continue to offer up such
" free money ". Are they also profoundly stupid ? Is that whay you're saying ?

Not that I'm in any way suggesting our poster on here is a banrupt, but rather that his choice of chatname does not inspire confidence.
Not like the fineness of frog hair does of course.

I would say say that his name is because he lives on the Gold Coast (Surfers Paradise area)

I have mentioned this before, which is another anomaly. Female only races which include 2yo fillies, 3yo fillies and
Mares only races there is a distinct trait that these females are pack animals ~ they like to run in the pack not on the rails or
on the extreme outside. Using this logic and restricting your lays to barrier 1 and prepost less than 10.00 last year city meets
in Melbourne there was 100 races with 52 selections and only 5 won. Average price BSP 4.59 average strike rate 10.4.

If you run a few of these sorts of anomalies at the same time, you can do very well from it.