The Horizontal Permulator

[Sgt.Sunshine]

Singles-bettors - want to more than double your yield? Doubles-bettors - want to bet doubles, but still make use of the best odds available for each match? Betfair-bettors – want to bet doubles? All bettors – get two singles correct and get a large double absolutely FREE! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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Well, it’s not quite as good as it sounds :lol. This isn’t a system as such, more of a betting and staking strategy that can be applied to some systems. I’m sure that either (1) this has been done before and comes under a different name, or (2) I’ve miscalculated and am about to look a total arse :spank.

This season I’m betting mainly doubles in an attempt to double the yield compared to betting singles. While it’s going OK at the moment I’m sometimes frustrated at missing out on the best prices available for individual matches, which are often on Betfair. Betdaq are doing some doubles, but they appear late for lower leagues and since they started their prices have become sh1te compared to normal bookies for some reason.

One solution is to bet horizontally. The simplest example is one double. Instead of staking 1 unit on a double as normal, stake one unit as a single one week, and place the winnings (if there are any) on another match the following week. This would only suit systems where you are not bothered which particular matches are doubled up together.

Week 1	Week 2
Pick A	Pick C
Pick B	Pick D

Normal doubles would be A/B and C/D. Horizontal doubles would be A/C and B/D. This allows you to take the best odds available as you are essentially betting singles, and maybe increase your absolute yield by a few percent, reducing that risk. The important point is that you are still only staking 2 units from your pot as you use the “winnings†from week1 as the stake in week 2.

Now this is fine, and there is nothing new in this idea (do any of you do this?). It probably seems like too much effort for a few little percent anyway. But, things get interesting (and a bit confusing) when we try and perm doubles from three picks horizontally.

What I do at the moment is split my list of weekly picks into groups of three, and do three doubles from each of these

Pick A Pick B Pick C

Results in doubles A/B A/C B/C

If we did this horizontally as before

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3
Pick A	Pick B	Pick C

you would start by staking 2 units on A in week 1 as it is used in 2 bets. BUT if we only stake 1 unit on A then the returns (along with the required 1 unit stake on B in week 2) will cover the two bets involving pick C in week 3 (A/C and B/C) and so we only need an overall stake of 2 units, but get three 1 unit bets! However, this only works if picks A and B were correct …. we need some rules to take advantage of this free bet. More to follow ….

[PAULM03]

Re: The Horizontal Permulator

you would start by staking 2 units on A in week 1 as it is used in 2 bets. BUT if we only stake 1 unit on A then the returns (along with the required 1 unit stake on B in week 2) will cover the two bets involving pick C in week 3 (A/C and B/C) and so we only need an overall stake of 2 units, but get three 1 unit bets! However, this only works if picks A and B were correct …. we need some rules to take advantage of this free bet. More to follow …

Isn't this only true if the price of your first bet is evens or greater?