can someone please explain what people betting on horses mean by points

a point is a set amount of money! a point for me could be 10p, and it could be 1 quid for you. its a way of saying how much your havin on without saying anything if u get me...

im sure he was ever so enlightened after your description mr hunt, wally

and if you have 1-10 point system is 1 point always 10% of that bank?

assuming your personal staking plan is 1 point = £10

a 4 point bet is £40 a 8 point bet is £80...

ps...tesco's looking for shelf stackers..

On The Poop Deck,after some criticism of our use of points we started betting in fruits ( the plant variety ).

yes, it just means your profit is 90 points. its nothing to do with %ages

It's just that the industry standard for tipsters is so show any profits to £100 level stakes but because they have no way of knowing how much money you have at your disposal or the kind of stakes you normally bet at, they can't suggest a specific amount like £100 because that's a big bet to some people and no big deal to others, so they use points instead.

Yep depending on what the backers use as a 1 point stake, if £1 then it's only +£4, for £10 it's +£10 and so on, which is why they tend to use the £100 a point because if they were only +4 up for the week which isn't terrible by most standards, then it sounds much better to say you would have made £400 from following them that week than to use £1 stakes as an example and only be up £4 for the same week.

Also if for example they were charging what averaged out to be say £10 a week for their info then again which looks better, the £4 profit or the £400?

It's kids stuff staking in x amount of points 99.9% of these tipsters will have a scale so they can go on the chase total nonsense.Look at the amount of points an average tipster would turn over to make the profits if any,roi is the only way of looking at profits realistically.And using a 1pt max stake so unable to chase at big prices.

paulme.

'Points' when taking about tipsters, is a way of indicating how strongly they fancy a horse/selection. So a 3 point recommendation is more fancied that a 1 point recommendation.
Punters also then use this as a way of staking their bets. so if for example you decide to follow Pricewise or Steve Palmer and bet on everything he tips then you need to decide on how much per point your willing to bet, for example $10 per point. so if he recommends a 3 point tip you'll be betting $30.

just to confuse matters though your question about "points" may actually refer to prices. if you hear punters in a bookies saying it's come in 2 points, they may be referring to the price coming in from 5/1 to 3/1. 1/2 points are referred to as well so 7/2 too 3/1 is 1/2 a point.
you often hear punters saying "i've missed out on 2 points" if they took a price (say 5/1) but their horse wins at 7/1. that means what ever they staked they could have won 2 more times their stake if they hadn't taken the price.

and what do points make ?

"Points mean prizes. Stay out of the red there's nothing in this game for two in a bed."