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Almost everyone enjoys a flutter on the horses every now and then. Even my church going grand mother will take a bet on the Gold Cup and the Grand National at Aintree. It is a fact of life. Some people enjoy a bet down their local bookmakers everyday while others will stay online and use betfairs in play trading to do their betting. Which ever way you do bet on horse racing you will find this article of use. In this article I am going to be identifying four great tips that you can use to increase the number of winners you pick and therefore the profits you see as a result!

1) If you see a horse in a handicap race carring more than one stone then you should think about betting on it. You will find that you will get some good odds on them because most backers will steer clear of them due to the large amount of extra weight they are carrying. However what you should think about is the fact that they would not have that much weight if they were not a good runner.

2) Back jockeys when they are in form. You will often find a jockey will win 3 or 4 times on the day. Especially if he is a big name like A P McCoy. When you see a big jockey like him winning a race in a day’s meeting then you should seriously consider backing him in the races that are coming later in the day. If you remember back when Frankie Dettori won a total of 7 races at the Royal Ascot. Imagine if you had backed him once he won the first horse, that would have been 6 races and 6 bets that you would have won, not bad.

3) The majority of races are won by horses that go off at 5/1 or less so remember this if you are going to be doing any multiples. 6/1 and 7/1 horses and higher will not be good selections for multiple bets.

4) Do not be put off by the price in the morning papers they are sometimes way off what the horse will go off on. I have actually seen a horses once that was evens in the paper that went off and won at 12/1. So keep this in mind when placing your bets.

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Football is without a doubt the most popular sport around to have a spread bet on. The reason behind this is mainly the popularity of football and also the added excitement that is brought to a game when you have a spread bet on it.

Spread betting effectively rewards you for being right and the more right you are the more you will see rewarded to you in terms of profit. Take for example you think the game between Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers (Hypothetical example) will be high scoring. In this circumstance you will buy the total number of goals spread say at 2.5 for say ten pound. Now say the final whistle goes and the final score is 4-2 to Manchester United. Here you will have won £35 as each goal over 2.5 is worth £10 to you. Now say that the score was an astonishing 7-5 to Manchester United. You will have won £95. So your prediction of it being a high scoring game is worth more the more correct you were about that statement.

So as you can see from the previous example the more correct your feelings about a particular game turn out to be the more money goes into your profit. Now that is all well and good but how can you use this to make a killing from spread betting on football? The real key to achieving this is to realise the psychology of spread bettors.

The majority of spread bettors are thrill seekers; they love the feeling of a spread bet and like to play it out to the end. This is good we can use this. Now because most spread bettors are like this they are more likely to buy a spread than sell it. Why? Because what is more entertaining/exciting? Wanting a goal to go in or not wanting a goal to go in? Exactly.

So because of the psychology of the thrill seeking gambler we can deduce that most spread bettors will prefer to buy. Now how is this helpful? Well if more people are buying the spread than selling it what would you do as a spread betting company? You would raise the spread wouldn’t you! Now what we are seeing is an artificially raised spread because of thrill seeking gamblers, not high spreads because of real sporting circumstances.

And it is through these artificially raised spreads that you can make a killing from spread betting. If you want to learn more about Spread Betting and profiting from spread betting I recommend you read the Spread Professional. It really helped me a lot when I was getting to grips with all the jargon associated with this form of betting and it will really help you to.

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As you are most likely aware the invention of the betting exchanges around a decade ago swept in a new era of betting, especially when it came to horse races. Betting on a race became so much easier as all you needed to do was get online and get betting. But that wasn’t the only thing the exchanges brought to the gambling world, they also brought the ability to lay or as some call it the ability to be the bookmaker.

Also for those of us currently residing in the UK it meant that we had to get our heads around decimal odds. However being able to lay horses was the real big thing to come from the exchanges. It meant that we, the betting public, could now make a decision as to whether a horse will win or not and if we did not think it would win instead of backing another horse as we would normally do we could lay it off. This was a totally radical new way of betting and one that has only gotten more and more popular since it’s invention.

The best thing people say about laying horses is that it is much easier to select a loser than it is to select a winner. That is to say if there were a 10 horse race it would be much easier for you to pick a horse that will not win the race than for you to pick a horse that will win the race. As we can see here you will undoubtedly have a much higher strike rate than ever before and you have the chance to start making the big profits like the bookmakers have been doing all along.

The drawback with laying horses to lose is that you have to put up with the liability involved if the horse does win. Take for example you lay a horse at 5.5 on the exchange to make a profit of £100 and it wins you will have to pay out £450 to the person who took you up on the bet. It is probably important to point out now is the reason why betfair is so popular is because it boasts higher odds than most traditional bookmakers.

On betfair the prices are said to be standardly 20% higher than at a traditional bookmaker. This means that you are still not in the same boat as the bookmakers as they are laying things off at considerably lower odds than you are. All of this is still not including the commission charged by betfair also!

Even after all of the disadvantages I have just mentioned I still love lay betting and I will tell you why; you do not have to do it for every race! Sure the bookmaker is compelled to offer odds for every horse on every race but you don’t have to, you can pick and choose and it is this reason and this reason alone why there is money to be made in laying horses

Just ask the boys over at Lay the Best what I am talking about, in the past 3 years lay betting has given them the chance to make over £80,000. Don’t believe me? Check out their results page for yourself by clicking here

When people begin to bet on horses they will often make the selections themselves based entirely on the limited knowledge they have about horse racing. This very often leads to losses which then cause a lack of interest in the betting game, which is sad. Other times the newcomer will have some perserverance and decide that the problem lies within himself and not with the races themselves, which is correct. The question now for the newcomer is whether to start using a system or using a tipster while he gains knowledge about this illustrious sport.

There are literally thousands of horse racing systems available while only a few are actually of any value, so any newcomer should make sure to find some positive reviews of any system he tries out before shelling out any money on them. A good system will not only outline some rules and staking plan that the reader must adhere to but must also teach the user why he is doing this, otherwise a newcomer will just be blindly following along without learning anything whatsoever. Imagine in school if they had just told you the answers without the working out, you would never be able to move on to more advanced learnings would you!

Finding such a system that provides you with winners at the same time as it is giving you some foundationary knowledge on the sport will be hard, it will become a sort of trial and error with numerous systems which could be very expensive. The more astute punter will realise that genuine and up to date information is required to find a regular supply of winners. With this comes even greater obstacles, gaining such credible information can take years of research and networking within the social tiers of racing before you come to have the knowledge that some of the more die hard race enthusiasts have.

It is at this point where most punters decide to turn away from horse racing systems and start to look at horse racing tipsters to find themselves a healthy stream of winners. However even here you will find obstacles blocking your path. What service should you choose? You will need a service that is showing winners and has been showing winners for quite some time, preferably at least one year. The reason why you should look at how long they have been around is that most services that are showing losses for more than 2-3 months will lost near enough all of the members, so any service that has been around for over a year must be showing some form of profits to still have members on the books.

As shown already using horse racing systems and horse racing tipsters to provide a steady stream of winners will require a hit or miss approach when determining which particular system or tipster to use. So how then do we decide whether to use the tipster or the system in order to get winners coming up as a regular occurence?

My answer to you is to use both. Why both? Because using both will help you master horse racing much faster. If you have a professional tipster feeding you information on horses you will be gaining up to date knowledge of particular horses and how they are faring. If you have a system where you are finding horses yourself you will be learning the mechanics of handicapping races and hopefully making profits.

Hopefully when you combine the two you will be able to spot winners based on knowledge of the particular horse and based on more scientific reasoning as taught to you by your system.

The service I am using at the moment is called Martin’s Better Betting. It has shown profit for the past year and is still going strong. Take a look at the review I made of it last November by clicking here or clicking Martin’s Better Betting on the sidebar under ‘Approved Systems/Picks’.