Help placing bets

[AndrewKent]

Hi there, I know this sounds a bit of a silly question to ask but I wanted someone just to give me a few words to back up my thinking. I've set myself a weekly exposure of 5%. Up until now I've been betting on 2 games a weekend with mixed results. All my bets have been placed by reading through the Premier League thread and picking out bets that seem to come up a lot (or bets that I see several punters going for, with sound reasoning). I was thinking would it be safer to place my 5% over more games? The rationale I can think of is "not putting all my eggs in one basket" if that makes sense. If I expose less per bet, and use the same rationale over 6/7 bets instead of 2 am I being smarter or setting myself for a fall? Andy

[Datapunter]

Re: Help placing bets You will reduce your overall risk. You wil also reduce your potential profit. If you want a short answer then i would say put 1% of your bank as stake, as a general level of low risk. The 1% will dictate the risk, it doesn't actually matter much if you place 2 or 20 bets, it's still 1% per bet and therefore the same level of risk. If you find a good bet then you should bet on it, whether you find 2 or 20, and if there's a weekend without any good bets then don't bet.