Following Your Own Rules

Following Your Own Rules

Warning: unpopular topic below!

Betting rules / handicapping guidelines / bankroll management organization / race passing stipulations / goal setting – etc. etc. 

Do you have them?  If you do – good for you, and if you don’t . . . why not?

If you are one of the few that have them, do you follow them to the letter?

I think the real truth is:  Most players don’t have them, and of those that do, most of those don’t follow them strictly enough.

Why is that?

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Is Your Opinion Valuable?

Is Your Opinion Valuable?

How valuable are our opinions in horse racing?

That is – what level of profits are shown from a long series of betting decisions – and when the ‘opinion’ light bulb goes on – is it as bright as it should be?

If a player isn’t netting much in the way of profit – the key problem could just be that his judgment of the value of his “picks” is too high – he thinks them more capable of winning (and more importantly of making profits) than they truly are.  When this is the case, opinions become less valuable than they should be.

Most folks (in almost all aspects of their lives) award an inflated worth to their own opinions. It’s only natural – our own opinions are the only ones we have!

But in horse racing, we really need to be sharper as to the relative value of the horses on whom we’ve drawn those opinions.

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