Much also depends on whether you have already placed the lay bet when the non-runners are declared. If you have not made a bet, then it might be sensible to miss out the race. But if you have placed the lay, then the odds may drop so that you could not cancel the lay without losing money. In that situation you might as well let the bet stand.

I have already placed a lay in this evening’s race and will not be altering it.

Chris

How many people have you heard complain “Oh I wish I could change my life – I really hate my 9-to-5 job” (Or words to that effect). But when you give them a list of things they could do to radically improve their life (eg do part-time study; train for a new career; become self-employed), they then start moaning “Oh I couldn’t do that because…..” (what invariably follows is a list of feeble excuses). What they really mean is that their humdrum life is actually quite comfortable and they are sh**-scared about taking a risk.

But all successful people in life know that it was going outside their comfort-zone that gives them the greatest challenges – and the greatest rewards- in life.

Chris

That is an important point that many gamblers / investors do not appreciate. Comfort levels / personal risk appetites. I’m sure I could right an eBook about this topic……

For example, if you had a 95% strike-rate (even with selections occurring only once every 10 days), would you really not lay selections of 7.0?

Chris

Personally, I never lay anything higher than evens. The risk is not worth it, and there are more than enough beaten favourites on evens or less to make it worthwhile.

Kane.

For example, if you have found a lay system and it really is better to use the selections as back bets rather than lay bets to make a consistent long-term profit, then use the system like that. You might also find with some systems that by applying one or more additional filters that you can make a poor system into a very good one.

This will take patience, time and effort – but that is precisely how new profitable techniques are discovered. And if you have found it yourself, then you’ll know that no-one else is using it.

I much prefer placing bets manually than using a bot, because bots have a couple of major drawbacks when it comes to placing bets. The biggest problem you will encounter with a bot is getting your bet matched. It is easy to manually alter a bet to get it matched if the odds drift against the price that you had originally tried to get matched at. A bot will place a bet into the market at a specified time but cannot react if the odds move so that the bet does not get matched. This is especially true with greyhound laying where the price drifts in the few minutes before race time can be very substantial.

Chris

Welcome to this blog where you will get honest advice and none of the over-hyped claptrap that just about all of the system sellers seem to consider essential.

A good system is certainly one that works consistently over long periods of time (years). Such systems are few and far between because anyone who has such a system would be absolutely mad to share it with anyone else. This is always the great enigma as to why system sellers actually need to sell their systems. If a system really is making thousands of pounds per week, then why would you want to sell it?

The other key problem with most systems currently on the market is that there is no real independent evidence to back up the performance claims of the system, let alone the profit claims. Screenshots are not enough (as you’ll see in my video about Betfair Horse Power which clearly shows that some “fiddling” of figures had been taking place).

The aim of this blog and my services are to show honestly how you can make money from betting – backed up with video proof showing real bets being placed with a real Betfair account. No-one else – as far as I am aware – provides the degree of proof that I do.

I hope that you’ll take the time to go through some of the posts and videos on this blog and my other websites – hopefully, it will open your eyes to how profitable betting can be with the right amount of patience, determination and sticking with a good system.

Chris