no, that's pre match and/or in play bets including trading, therefor I can't give single odds on every match, and as said in an earlier post yesterday I greened out on Kuzzy after set 1.

Do you decide to trade out when you realize that things dont go your way? Do you set yourself  limits when the odds reach a certain point?

For example: You backed Federer against Seppi at 1.05 odds climb to 1.15. Do you let the bet run or decide to trade out with a small loss?

@ bighuf

In most cases I top up to improve my average odds, when my fav loses the 1st or 2nd set, but in this case often do it with continuous trading (game by game or even pt by pt). In the 3rd set if my fav goes into the lead I will trade out at least partially, so that if the fav get broken again and loses in the end, my loss (if any) should be less than my initial stake, butr the profit to gain would be higher. On the Fed vs Seppi match I started with 2000 @1.05, backed another 2000 between 1.08 and 1.17 and additional 2000 up to 1.4. When the match finished I had 1500 or 2000 red on Seppi, but a big green on Fed. Esp the big guns are able to turn the match around even from facing double MPs! This clearly goes wrong if the fav loses in 2 sets, and that is when very rarely big losses occur. But my initial stake is always max 50% of the amount I'm willing to risk on the match.

Very rarely (on average 2 or 3 times in a complete season), I'll switch, depending on how I read the match, either redding out equally or try to go at least 0 on the opponent of my initial fav, if I still get decent odds.

I'm not German, but my bank is rather big, yet I'm still satisfied even with small profits.

first loss of the year on Isner, wins on DelPotro and Gasquet, Ferrer to follow. Fell asleep and didn't trade the first 2 matches which may has avoided a bigger loss. P/L will be posted when today's action has finished.

if you omit the 2 matches where I only had an arb, it is now 38:1 over all with 2071€ profit.

Markt Startzeit Letztes Abrechnungsdatum Gewinn/Verlust (€)

Tennis / Ferrer - Rosol : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 03:30  11-Jan-12 07:43  80,65
Tennis / Safarova - Li : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 03:30  11-Jan-12 06:23  1,19 (arb only)
Tennis / Giraldo - Almagro : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 02:15  11-Jan-12 06:01  4,19 (arb only)
Tennis / Fognini - Gasquet : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 02:15  11-Jan-12 04:17  14,61
Tennis / Del Potro - Kubot : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 02:00  11-Jan-12 03:49  99,36
Tennis / Reynolds - Isner : Wettquoten 11-Jan-12 01:00  11-Jan-12 03:06  -555,00

Its just waiting when you lose al youre monezzz

Haters gonna Hate

it's a mediocre loss, no big harm done, I can't expect to retain the 100% record, 95% should be enough to break even.

Probably gonna be burned on this reaction as well. I bet only on the favourites during a 500,masters or grand slam. Because the 250 toerneys they seem uninterested. Thats just my 2 cents.

have just got back involved again in the last few days. Was v.successful on this 3years ago at small stakes then tried to increase stakes but lacked the discipline to work with bigger sums and ended up losing abt 2/3 of what I had spent months making. Gave myself £50 two days ago, all small bets and all trading in&out of tennis for 3-10% at a time and have already increased bank by 50%. want to raise stakes again but find it so hard to do it without gettn greedy & taking chances.

Why do you complain about matches you are saying you didn't bet on ?

do you bet on NBA?

nba is good for your strategy.

I'm not interested in basketball, therefor I don't know enough to bet on it. Betting for me is a combination of watching the sports I like and making some money with this hobby.

Theres obviously no one correct way to make money, but considering that 95% of bettors fail in the long run (I assume), there are definitely MANY incorrect ways to make money. I dont doubt that youve been successful in the past, but through my experience, I know that PERSONAL JUDGEMENT, PERSONAL OBSERVATION, and BETTING ON EMOTION will not get you very far in the betting game. If you want to win on a consistent basis you need to have real data to back up all your bets. I dont know what your strategy is bb66, but to those people looking for a solution, let me tell you that patterns and trends DO exist (an obvious example is certain players doing better on different court surfaces, but that data is already known to the public). Im not trying to spam, but check out this tennis betting system that I recently joined: http://superduper-tennis.blogspot.com/
you need to become a member to sell the rest of the stats such as who will win the first set, 2nd set, 3rd set, tie break, etc..

have had a look and the system seems to have value. I would generally look into the background info on both players/head to heads/recent results,injuries etc/ win/loss record on the surface etc all but it does take a bit of digging around. Will get an idea of who i fancy and have a look at prices before deciding where the value is. Often i wont back the one i expect to win and will instead just be looking for movement in the market to trade in&out. Currently bank is 165% of what it was when i started back on tuesday after a few years out. All small money but will be looking at approx 20-40 bets per singles match and have locked out green in every single match in the last 6 days. I just seem to get greedy/slip up when i started to increase stakes in the past. How much is this site to register with & how have you found it hkk?

You will never make money backing low odds faves. Short term perhaps, long term - no chance. How can you possibly sustain a system where your losers are over £500 on average and your winners are under £100 on average? It's ludicrous.

The amount of consistent wins you need is ridiculous and only a matter of time before you hit a few bad losses in a short space of time that will ruin you.

This is a mug's strategy and if anything, you'd probably make more money with FAR, FAR less risk by doing the exact opposite and laying. There is no value at all in what you are doing and without value, you are doomed.

of course you can make money backing low odds, provided they are value.  Value can come in any odd ranges.  Its more the staking plan that will kill him

how can you judge the value when you don't know the odds I've taken? Many of the markets I bet on where in an all green position, eg Wickmayer yesterday, though this is not an example for backing low odds, I went in in play after set 1 laying Bathel.