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Professional Gambling Part 4

The following chapter is taken from mathematician-betting.com

7) Emotion

Betting is a lonely game. Its also a highly skilled game. Emotion
undermines success in many ways . There is comfort in knowing that as a sheep when
you are wrong it is not your fault as you were simply doing what everyone else was
doing. With betting, the laws of market supply and demand, dictate that long term, the
sheep will get fleeced. Emotion neutralises discipline and long proven successful
practices. The result of any isolated race has little or no relation to races just before
that or just after that . Races should be viewed in isolation from each other. We are all

emotional in betting but the players at the top of the tree have this down to a fine art
and can control those emotions. Other punters have long since been conditioned by
bookmakers to EXPECT to lose rather than win.
They have an in built psychological factor that makes them feel like
losers and they have been conditioned to losing by years of doing so.
Over 95% of punters are flawed emotionally. Examples of emotive gambling include
punters following a horse ,trainer or a jockey blind . The "Hype" horses are cannon
fodder for emotional punters. They may also follow tipsters blind as they "hate" the
thought of missing out on a winner.

They pay no attention to the changing conditions of a race that may follow non
runners or the ground changing. They misunderstand confidence and can't cope with a
lack of confidence. Emotion also prevents people from advanced betting subjects such
laying , hedging and arbitrages. Emotion forces some punters to bet horses with
certain names that remind them of loved ones. Names such as "Long Tall Sally " and
"Susan's Pride " attract many to them just for a name that's relevant to them .
Most punters have a grudge against their own money and winning and being
successful is alien to them. Emotional punters lose their heads in barren times and fail
to capitalise on winning runs. They mess about with systems and staking plans that
make no sense. The more emotion you can rule out of your betting , the more
successful you will become . You have to view everyone in the game as your enemy
and as people trying to take your hard earned money away from you in the same way
as you would a pickpocket . Once you can master your emotions you have made the
first big step to betting profitably .



8) The Grass is Greener

The grass is rarely Greener on the Other Side. The truth is that the grass that isn't
working for you has not been grown, cultivated or looked after properly. Many
punters change approaches and methods so quickly that they don't give any method a
true test . If they find a system that works they don't continue after a few bad results .
It is the same as gamblers who write down every bet they have . Once they have a few
losers they often lose the heart to do this and stop doing so and move on to another
area .
They are like children with new toys at Christmas . They never stay with any method
long enough to prosper . They always feel the" Grass is Greener" , when in truth the
"Grass" they are using has been abused and left to deteriorate.

They want the next Big "new idea " or "method " and that doesn't work either as the
fault lies not in the Grass, but the Gardener .
They have no long term consistency in their betting and are constantly tinkering with
what wasn't broke or moving on in search of the holy grail before a full evaluation of
what they are currently examining has been completed.
A competition to win best garden will be won by the person who
can spend most time in the garden and master its challenges, the
gardener who is prepared to care about his garden and invest in the tools that will help
his garden grow and keep the weeds at bay.

It's the same with betting. You will do far better long term if you can make a
concentrated effort of learning and research in one key area rather than flitting from
this to that.

9) Laziness

Most punters are LAZY! They have religiously followed a doctrine of poor planning
and lack of research. They refuse to study and spend hours looking at how they can
win at betting. They refuse to invest in the game and invest in their own learning .
You cant refuse to spend money, just look at the racing for 30 minutes and expect to
win long term. You simply can't get away with that in the hardest trade of all ,
Winning Money at Betting. If it was that easy , then millions would do it .You must
either invest in your betting , or pay someone to do just that .
Natural human tendency is to try and get away with the least amount of effort. Lazy
punters are cannon fodder for the bookmakers. They make little or no effort in their
selection process nor make an effort to extract maximum returns from their bets.
Those who put the most work in are the more likely to succeed.
My philosophy is simple. I believe that if a bookmaker, journalist or odds compiler
spends 3 hours on a race then I'll spend 6 hours on that race to gain the edge.
The famous golfer Gary Player once said "The Harder I Work the Luckier I Get".
That is true about both golf and betting .Most people can't spend 12 hours a day
studying betting as they have families, jobs, commitments and lead their own lives.
That is what you pay us for. We do that study for you and re-invest money in our
betting so that we can find every edge possible to Help You Win.



10) Stupidity!

Amazingly most punters fail to learn from their mistakes. They continue for years
making the same basic errors time and time again. Pure stupidity.
Strive to improve your betting performance by continually learning from the mistakes
and weakness is your game.
Your bookmaker may have been laughing at you for years. You have it in your power
however to improve your betting and hopefully wipe that smile from his face for
good.

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