ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER CAVEAT...Firstly please allow me to offer Compliments of the Season and I hope you can look forward to a prosperous 2011.I received an email this morning that is well worth everyone's time.The lady concerned was, to put it mildly, frustrated after her activities on the punt yesterday (Boxing Day).She's a keen punter, bets mainly online, and because of other commitments and also because she believed that the early odds were not likely to be matched on the day, she took some
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER CAVEAT...
Firstly please allow me to offer Compliments of the Season and I hope you can look forward to a prosperous 2011.
I received an email this morning that is well worth everyone's time.
The lady concerned was, to put it mildly, frustrated after her activities on the punt yesterday (Boxing Day).
She's a keen punter, bets mainly online, and because of other commitments and also because she believed that the early odds were not likely to be matched on the day, she took some of Friday's bookie offerings.
This involved each way bets on Benfica at $5 and Triple Elegance at $6. Also she backed Havatryst at top fluctuation, believing that this one would be better than the $4 offered early. As it turned out, the late scratching of the short-priced favourite took care of the 3/1, but the top fluc was $3.20 and the starting price was $2.30. The TAB paid $2.50 so she was on top of it all.
On the morning of the races she had a handful of quadrellas, as she always does, she calls them her "Lotto" tickets, and she had a (losing) daily double.
Her outlay in all was matched to within a dollar by the returns. She lost 90 cents. She didn't go within a bull's roar of the quaddie.
Her gripe was compounded by final bet, Triple Elegance, throwing in the towel when in an apparently certain winning position. It appears that the horse resented the whip (which seemed to me to be very sparingly applied; but then I suppose I wouldn't enjoy it either, especially if I was doing my best to start with).
So she missed collecting the fives about the heavily supported $3.50 favourite Triple Elegance, which got going again and ran second.
LONG TERM is the only term that matters.
The only game in town, I've called it for ages.
Her bets were sound. A decent behaviour pattern by Triple (In)Elegance and she's home for a big profit on the day.
There will be days when that happens. And days when you get it wrong.
And days like the one she describes, when you get it RIGHT and still can't win.
Unless you're a horse psychologist.
She made intelligent, careful, thought-planned bets. And she added her "what if" lotto tickets. No harm there, so long as they remain the smallest part of it all.
The good days will happen in 2011.
So long as their returns more than outweigh the bad days (which WILL also happen), then 2011 will be a good year.
Patience, careful planning and professional assistance when you feel it's necessary...
I suggest a handful of good systems, some top advice, a proven winner-finding service (PPD remains the best, and the most reasonably priced, but don't take my word... look around and see for yourself), and a determination to WIN, long term.
That's what the game's all about.
And, as I say, for us punters...
It's the ONLY game in town.