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    Time to Give up the Daily Grind.

    in At The Races - Racing Forum

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    On 11/18/2023 at 4:58 PM, MCLARKE said:

    I was on for my best year ever at the end of June but October and November have been a bit of a disaster. October has been my worst month ever and November is not far behind. I have always said that if I have a 12 month period where I lose money then I will probably call it a day.

    It is proving more difficult now that all my bets have to be placed on Betfair. Although the commission is less than the bookies overround I suspect I am up against the professionals, those with inside knowledge and the algorithms / bots.

    I am surprised that with the amount of profits  @Zilzalianhas made that he is still allowed to bet with the trad bookies. The max profit I've made with any individual bookie is £6, it would be interesting to know the maximum that members have managed to make before being closed.

    To be fair I don't expect to make a meaningful profit from betting, I enjoy trawling through my stats and watching the races, any profit is a bit of a bonus. The last 2 months I have been concentrating on my share investments with very little time spent on my stats. Perhaps it's no coincidence that  my returns have plummeted.

    This current year I have lost 365 twice used daughters lol  both times with 365 I’d profited around a thousand pounds and was closed ,sky closed me because I used to target there extra place races and do ew accas landed two or three this year in small stakes the last was up to a seven timer that all placed no winners but good prices that paid around 1200  also lost a Ladbrokes making around 600 and bet Fred were the worst by far ,Took me out after two bets on dogs 25 win one gambled from 7/2 to 10/11 , Betfair have just taken my bog away altogether so won’t be using them again I like others work hard but find it increasingly hard going through poor cards , the biggest problem I find is working out when they will try to win. I’m now running out of family and friends to get accounts after years of suffering restrictions maybe soon il have to back to the old way of going in the shop if there’s still one there,many years ago I got barred from my local as stupid youth attacking them with there money  , though they are never all winning days , I’d like to think I’m a bit cleverer now , I hope . I certainly don’t do 17000 though this year is about 4/5 I’d say and last year was about the same my stakes are normally 10/20 pounds rarely do accas but if they put 6/7 places up il have a pop good luck all 

    Time to give up after almost 20 years of gambling?

    in Betting Systems & Strategy

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    It’s very difficult nowadays to gain the upper hand with all bogs taken away . First of all I think you have to learn that singles are the way forward. Bookies hate them, do lots of research learn the the value of RPRs versus OR course distance going , jockeys who have won on the horse before and most of all patience and value is key if the above sounds like to much trouble stick with fun lucky fifteens 

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