Proven Betting Systems

Proven BettingSystems

24 Ways To Boost Your Horse And Sports Betting Profits

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Proven BettingSystems:

24 Ways To Boost Your HorseAnd Sports Betting Profits

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CONTENTS PAGE

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................i

EXPLANATION OF ODDS.............................................................................iii

HOW TO PLACE BETS ...................................................................................v

GLOSSARY OF TERMS...................................................................................ix

#1: THE EINSTEIN ........................................................................................1

Find big-priced horse-racing winners in under 5 minutes using just your morning newspaper…

#2: THE SCOREMASTER ...............................................................................9

Turn your football knowledge into easy money…

#3: THE WIN-WIN STRATEGY ..................................................................15

Professional system to “hedge your bets” for guaranteed winnings…

#4: THE CARDMASTER ..............................................................................19

How you can turn £10 into £32.50 every Saturday between February and May…

#5: LAST MAN STANDING .......................................................................23

These five simple questions return 30% profit…or even TRIPLE YOUR MONEY…

#6: THE SURE THING ................................................................................27

Use one easy-to-understand stat to make some tasty profits this season

#7: THE DEAD CERT ...................................................................................31

Three little-known facts reveal why backing two-year-old horses can help turn £20 into£312.50 next summer

#8: THE DOODLE DANDY ..........................................................................35

This simple betting slip trick turns a Yankee loser into a solid DIY profit…and can return up to£1,296 for an £85 stake

#9: THE ROUND ROBIN .............................................................................37

Turn a tenner into £68 or even £390…with the help of a Round Robin

#10: THE GIANT KILLER ...........................................................................39

These safe ‘value’ bets on snooker can give you a 36% return-on-investment

#11: THE SPEEDY DOG-GALEZ .................................................................41

This straightforward greyhound system can deliver £5,000 profit in one night

#12: THE RUGBY RATER ...........................................................................45

A simple statistical system for betting profitably using just your daily paper. No knowledge ofrugby league required!

#13: THE CORNER-COPIA .........................................................................49In Euro 2000, one football fan made £26,000 predicting how many corners would be won inselected games

#14: THE DOUBLE DUTCH ........................................................................53How to select the two strongest horses in a race…and back them both to enjoy a profitwhichever horse wins…

#15: THE SLAP SHOT .................................................................................57Want to make easy money at the bookies’ expense? Detailed NHL statistics are free – andyet UK bookmakers regularly mess up their prices…”

#16: THE TOTAL-ISER ................................................................................61With the right information at your fingertips, it can prove more profitable to bet on howmany goals will be scored in a game, than on which team is going to win…

#17: THE LUCKY ONE-FIVE .......................................................................65“…Turn £1 into £21, £728 or even £7,216 using this clever ‘big money’ system…”

#18: THE TIGHT & CURLY ........................................................................67“…Five simple steps to cracking the Tote Trifecta’s £30,000 pay-out…”

#19: THE GRASSHOPPER ............................................................................69“…Master the secret art of Asian Handicap betting today…and make a profit even ifyour team loses…”

#20: THE KOALA KICKER ..........................................................................73“…Keep backing away wins in Australian soccer and you could turn £20 into £1,280 nextsummer…”

#21: THE MONEYBALL FORMULA ...........................................................75“…This simple system can defeat the clueless British bookies to net you £580 profit forjust £11 risk…”

#22: THE DREAM MACHINE .....................................................................79“…How the Rainmen could make you 350% profit in this year’s Superbike WorldChampionship…”

#23: THE DOLLY SHOT ...............................................................................81“…How to find and use the three key factors deciding EVERY tennis match you can name…”

#24: THEBURNING STUMP .......................................................................83“…How to win money whenever England take to the field…”

#25: THE DEAD BEAT .................................................................................85“…Thanks to the ‘bet exchange’ revolution, you can win big money by backing Britain’sworst horse tipsters…”

WEBSITE DIRECTORY ................................................................................89

SPREAD BETTING ACCOUNTS ................................................................91

INFORMATION SITES .................................................................................93

BETTING ODDS GRID .................................................................................97

FRACTION-DECIMAL CONVERTER ..........................................................99

“In 40 minutes you’ll have mastered thefirst of 24 ultimate systems to boost

your betting profits…

…And be ready to pick a winner in under 5minutes using your daily paper!”

Dear Friend,

Welcome to my guide to strategic betting. You’re about to discover 24 undergroundbetting secrets that can dramatically improve your bank balance and make high risk‘gambling’ a thing of the past.

You see, successful betting isn’t about hitting it big on a lucky win. The people yousee collecting winnings week in, week out aren’t betting on hunches or even tips.They’re playing a strategic game with the bookies that minimises their chances oflosing – and opens them up to massive winnings.

And right now you’re holding the key to their moneymaking strategies. After just afew days spent studying techniques like The Einstein or The Rugby Rater detailed in thisbook, you’ll be the envy of the average punter. You’ll have mastered the skills youneed to keep your losses to an absolute minimum – and let you watch the winningsroll in.

You can kiss goodbye to that horrible feeling of remorse you experience when a bigloss comes your way. Because you’re never going to place yourself at risk like thatagain – and round the corner there’s always likely to be another big win on the way.

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In fact, these secrets are so consistently successful most bookmakers would ratherthis book had never been published. They don’t want ordinary punters getting theirhands on information that could take thousands off them every year. But the simplefact is, my profits aren’t affected one little bit by letting you in on these secrets – sofrankly, I don’t give a damn.

And the best thing about my strategies is you don’t need to be a sports buff to makethem work. I’ve outlined everything you need to know to make them pay. If youfollow my techniques with any discipline you’ll maximize your chances of winning.There’s no need to study form for months on end – you can work most of thetechniques out using a recent copy of The Racing Post or the sports pages from anational newspaper…

Naturally, all these techniques work at your high street bookies. But thanks to therecent development of internet betting, you don’t even have to leave your own hometo enjoy successful betting. Just imagine the luxury of winning money without evenstepping out of your front door.

Unlike many betting books, I haven’t limited the strategies to horse racing. Thisbook covers 11 different sports from snooker to ice hockey – highlighting areas wherethe bookies are often caught napping.

So start reading today, this could be one of the most revealing and profitable readsof your life. Soon, you could become an expert on how to beat the bookie at his owngame…so start enjoying that feeling of satisfaction as soon as possible!

Happy betting!

Mr. X

PS: I’ve also included a bonus strategy that could take the success of your betting toeven higher levels. Try them out once you’ve mastered the first 24 proven strategies toenjoy advanced betting profits…

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Explanation of OddsThe odds that a bookmaker offers are simply his opinion of how likely, or unlikely,

a team, player, or horse is to win any given event, expressed in figures.

Odds can be represented in various ways, but they are all easy to understand onceyou know the format. Here are the main kinds you are likely to encounter.

The Fractions

Many bookmakers work in 'fractional' odds, i.e. 7/4, 15/8, 3/1 etc.

This format has been used in the UK since betting began. To understand how itworks, we'll take it to pieces and put it back together again.

The rule with every fractional odd is that the top figure is your profit, and thebottom figure is the stake required to win that profit.

Therefore…

An odd of 15/8 gives a profit of £15 for every £8 staked.

Or

An odd of 2/1 gives a profit of £2 for every £1 staked.

‘You win what’s on the top if you stake what’s on the bottom’

Odds are flexible things and you can stake whatever you want on whateveroutcome you choose, and working out your return is just as simple…

Pages 99 and 100 contain a comprehensive list of nearly all the odds used.

To work out how much your return is on any bet requires one quick calculation.Just multiply your stake by the ‘Euro Decimal’ odd that corresponds to the ‘UKFractional Odd’ in question.


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If you have £25 on an 11/8 chance…simply look up that odd in the table on page99/100 under the column headed ‘UK fractional’.

Move across to the column adjacent, and there you will see the decimalequivalent…2.37.

Multiply your stake, £25, by 2.37 to give your return, £59.25

To calculate your profit on the bet, deduct the £25 stake from the return of £59.25,which gives you £34.25.

Decimals

Many bookmakers, particularly on the Internet, use the Decimal or Euro Decimalformat. (It's the same thing, just called two different names.)

Non UK European bookmakers have always shown their odds in this way, andthere is a lot to be said for it. Once you know the drill, it's very easy to use, and itallows bookmakers to offer tiny gradations of odds not always possible with thefractional system.

Prices will be chalked up in the following way…

2.50, 2.37, 34.00 etc

The first thing to remember is that when a bookie betting in decimals offers 2.50on an outcome, he has included your returned stake in this figure.

So if you have a pound on a team at 2.50 and they win, £2.50 is the total amountthat you will pick up. Since your bet was a pound, you have made one pound fiftyprofit, which in fractional terms, means you have backed a 6/4 winner.

The quick way of converting a decimal price into a fractional odd, is to simplydeduct '1,' from the decimal figure.

So a decimal price shown as 4.00 isn't 4/1, it's 3/1. The decimal price 8.00 isactually 7/1. Remember, 4.00 and 8.00 and every other decimal odd contain yourreturned stake.

To work out your return on a decimal bet, use the same process we used forfractions, multiply the Euro Decimal by your stake.

So, ten pounds on a 3.00 shot will return you 30 pounds. To find your profit,deduct your original stake of ten pounds, and you have a profit figure of twentypounds.

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HOW TO PLACE YOUR BETS

Telephone Accounts: Quick to Set Up, and Easy to Use

Opening a telephone account with a bookmaker is simple. More than that, they’llbe happy to hear from you...until you start winning, of course!

The telephonist you speak to will be sitting in front of a screen, and they’ll be ableto call up every single price on every single event their company currently offers atthe press of a button.

There are three different types of telephone account you can set up. Choosewhichever best suits your overall investment needs and strategy.

Credit Accounts: Great for betting on events in the distant future, when you don’twant to tie up any of your money while waiting for them to happen.

Write or telephone and ask the bookmaker to send you an application form.They’ll want to know:

• your name• address• bank details

and it will take them a week or ten days to process it. Then your account card, anice new sports diary, and an ecstatic letter of welcome from one of the Directors willarrive through your letter box.

If you have a credit account, the bookmaker will send you a bill for any losingweeks you may have, and trust you to pay it. Gambling debts are not recoverable atlaw, so if you refuse to pay, there is nothing that he can legally do about it.

But be aware that any debts you fail to honour will soon gain you a reputationwithin the industry... and placing any sports investment again in the future may well


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become impossible.

Deposit Accounts: Great flexibility, with no need to prove your identity or credit-worthiness.

With a deposit account, you send the company a sum of money ‘up front’. Youchoose how much, and limits differ from firm to firm.

• Your profits will be paid into this account.

• You can withdraw any sum in excess of your initial deposit.

• The bookmaker will deduct any losses from it too of course, and you just top it upagain to the original amount.

• If you want to close your account at any time, you’ll receive the outstandingbalance in full.

NOTE: Many serious investors start off by opening a deposit account, and – after awhile, when the bookmaker’s got to know them – they ask for it to become a creditaccount. In which case, your initial deposit will be returned.

The bookmaker won’t need to check with your bank for a deposit account. It willbe open as soon as your deposit cheque has cleared.

Debit Card Accounts: The quickest and simplest way to open an account. Neithera credit nor a deposit account - all transactions conducted through your bank.

If you have a debit card, simply ring up your chosen bookmakers and ask for a debitaccount to be opened for you. They’ll do it there and then over the telephone.

You’ll need to tell the telephonist:

• your name, address and debit card number.

• He or she will enter in your details.

• They’ll give you an account number straight away.

Whichever form of telephone account best suits you – credit or deposit – feel freeto ring the bookmakers and enquire about as many prices as you like once you have anaccount set up.

And placing a bet is simple. You merely need to ring the telephone number you aregiven on signing up, and you’ll be answered by one of the company’s telephonists. Heor she will first ask you for your account number, then for your surname, and then forthe bet you’d like to place.


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When you telephone for a bet, the amount you stake will be deducted from yourbank account right away. Your winnings will also be paid directly into your bankaccount, usually within three working days.

• Your money couldn’t be safer

If you haven’t dealt with bookmakers on a credit, deposit or Switch card basisbefore, rest assured. Each is every bit as honest as any other international householdname. William Hill, for instance, has an average turnover of £2 billion. Your accountcouldn’t be safer.

• Don’t worry about mistakes or cheating

Forget about your bet being written down or settled incorrectly. The telephonistwill always read your bet back to you before it is accepted, and all calls are recorded.In the event of a dispute, your instructions can be properly checked.

Internet Accounts: Instant Access to Global Prices

Betting over the internet offers you access to the very best prices available – allover the world – instantly. And because of the intense competition between internetbookmakers, you’ll also find dozens of exciting and lucrative ‘novelty’ markets... andsome great introductory offers too.

When you arrive at a bookmaker’s site, have a wander around and explore what’son offer by pressing the ‘Guest’ button. If you like what you see, go back to thehomepage and click the button to ‘Open an Account’.

You will be asked all the same questions on the screen that you’re asked whenopening a telephone account. But to get your internet account active, you will needto deposit a sum of money straight away from your credit card, or Switch/debit card.How much you put in is up to you.

• The website will ask you to provide a ‘username’ as a security measure.

• You will need to quote this username to gain access to your account.

• Make sure you keep your username 100% secret. Just like your bank card pinnumber, your username should be private.

But don’t worry about internet security scare stories. They don’t apply with theonline bookmakers. We’re talking bookmakers here – they’ve got ‘firewalls’ in placethat make Fort Knox look like a corner Post Office! To my knowledge, no one hasattempted and succeeded in hacking and robbing money from an internet bookmaker.


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Once you’re online, placing a bet is very straightforward. Different bookmakers maypresent it in slightly different ways, but basically, they all use the same system.

• On every page of quoted prices you will find a ‘bet here’ button.

• Click on this, and you will be given instructions on how to back the player, teamor runner of your choice.

• Your stake will then be taken from the amount you have on deposit, andreturned with your winnings as soon as the event is decided.

• You can take money out of your account whenever you want to, the bookmakerwill pay it directly back on to the card account it came from.


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List of terms and their definitions

Accumulator: An accumulator bet consists of just 1 bet but overseveral events. All must be successful to get a return. As each bet is successful themoney rolls over to the next advert.

Ante post: Betting now on an event that may not take place for several months. Antepost only happens on the big sporting events. For example, in football the FA Cupfinal doesn’t happen until May but you can start betting on the possible winner asearly as the previous August. Obviously this can be risky because much can happen inthe months up to the final... but the returns can be great if you strike a value bet backin August.

Arbitrage: To buy and sell for profit, taking advantage of varying prices in differentmarkets. You can give yourself a no-lose situation if you find an ‘arb’, by backing everyoutcome in an event so that you return a profit, no matter what. This opportunityhappens a lot with sports because bookies often have strong opinions that vary fromtheir peers.

Back: This is the traditional way of placing a bet. You back an outcome you want tohave happen. You would back Leeds, say, if you want them to win a match.

Bet exchange: A person-to-person betting site, which rules out the bookie and meansyou’re betting against other members of the public. You’ll almost always find betterodds here than you will at a traditional bookmaker.

Commissions: When using a bet exchange you’ll have to pay a commission to the siteif you win (normally 5% or less). Don’t worry about commission; they won’t eat intoyour profits because by using bet exchange sites you’ll get better prices than you wouldelsewhere and you’ll still be ahead.

Double: Backing two outcomes. Both must be successful to get a return.

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Equity: A fancy word for profits. Throughout this report I refer to equity - justconsider it the possible income coming your way.

Forecast Starting Price: Expected starting odds of a horse.

Form: How well a horse/player team has performed recently.

Handicap bet: Bookies create a handicap to make a one-sided event a more attractivebetting proposition. They handicap the teams or people involved, giving a player orteam a head-start over the opposition. In a football match, one team might have agoal lead. Handicap bets are also called Asian handicap bets.

Lay: Take a bet on something, like a bookmaker does.

Line bet: An even-money paid bet where you take a position either side of twopossible outcomes of the event. For example, let’s imagine a line bet over the numberof runs a team will make: England vs. Australia may quote 225-230 - that spread iscalled the line. If you think the final results will be lower than the price you sell theline and if you think the final results will be higher than the price you buy the line.Selling the line means you win if England score less than 225 and buying the linemeans winning if they score more than 230.

Match in the middle: An option available with some bet exchanges. If your bet hasnot been matched at the start of an event, you can request your bet be matched at arate midway between the one you requested and one just one ‘spot’ away from yourrequest.

Match bet: A bet between two teams or people, not necessarily in competition witheach other. For example, two golfers who will be trying to win their tournament, notbeat each other or be aware that the bet exists.

Odds: The chance offered for a selection to win. What you’ll be offered on thelikelihood of a certain event happening. For example, on the flip of a coin, heads hasthe same chance of appearing as tails does so the odds are even; on the role of dice,number 1 has a 1/6 chance of being rolled.

Odds bet: The straightforward, common way to bet, in which you simply lay or back abet on an outcome, against which odds have been determined in advance.

Odds against: If in a betting opportunity the odds aren’t even, there will be a teamfavoured to win and a team expected to lose. The underdog will have the odds againstit winning, so you place an ‘odds against’ bet on it. With such bets, you have thechance of winning a lot more than what you staked - a £10 bet could give you £100(at odds of 10-1), if the underdog beats the odds and wins.


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Odds on: The favoured outcome is called the odds-on favourite. If you place an oddson bet, you won’t be able to double your money, but since there’s a good chance theodds-on favourite will win, you might wish to place the bet anyway - you may stake £5and win £4 (plus, of course, get your stake back).

Punt: Just another word for bet. If you place a bet you become a punter.

Range bets: Like line bets, only there are a range of possibilities, not just two. Rangebetting, as with line betting, is most common when betting whether an outcome willbe over or under, higher or lower than the available quote.

Rule 4: Sometimes, is a player withdraw from an even, your stakes will be returned toyou, subject to a small deduction. ‘Rule 4’ refers to Tattersalls’ Rule 4(c), a horseracingrule.

72-hole match bets: Used in golf, this is a special wager where the bookmaker willmatch up two golfers of similar ability, with the winner being the player who shootsthe lowest score over the tournament’s 4 rounds.

Stake: The amount you are betting. You get your stake back if your bet is successful.

Trade: Often, once you have struck a bet with a bookie or bet exchange at a valueprice, you may want to then trade your bet by offsetting some of your potentialwinnings; that way, you move into a no-lose situation.

Treble: Like a double but involves 3 players/teams/events. All have to be successful.

2-ball and 3-ball betting: Used in golf, these are wagers that involves predictingwhich player from either a group of two or three will shoot the lowest score over 18holes.

Value bets: A value bet that is one that offers better odds than the true likelihood ofthe outcome happening.

Yankee: A Yankee consists of 11 bets involving 4 selections in different events. Thebet includes 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and an accumulator. A minimum of 2 of yourselections must be successful to get a return.


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System #1: Horse Racing

The EINSTEIN

“…Find big-priced winners in under 5 minutes using just your morning newspaper…”

Most horse racing systems fall down because they don’t take every winner-findingfactor into account. But the Einstein is different.

In the Einstein, each and every factor is given a points value. By adding up allthese points, an accurate Master Rating can be produced for any horse, whether itruns on turf, all-weather or over the jumps. To weigh up a race, all you have to do isto compare the runners’ Master Ratings. The horse with the highest rating is thepredicted winner.

Five simple factors… astonishing results

For instance, at Lingfield recently there were 107 runners. One horse, Paragon ofVirtue, rated head and shoulders better than the rest under the Einstein system.Paragon won its race in a canter by 21/2 lengths at 8/1.

Now, using just your usual morning newspaper, it takes only 5 minutes to find big-priced winners, and banker bet winners like Paragon of Virtue. No other publication isrequired. You do not need access to the internet. You do not need to check on oddsbefore the race goes off.

The Einstein system is based on the five most important elements in predictinghorse racing performance. The secret of its success is in the weighted number of pointsit assigns to each of the different factors. Together, they produce a Master Rating that


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balances form, odds, course and distance preferences, and the horse’s racing pattern.

Picking winners is a science…so get Einstein on your side!

Read the following instructions carefully, practise working out the ratings, then putthe Einstein system to work for you.

Factor One: Previous Racing

Horses who have run well in their previous race, and then re-appear on theracecourse quickly, do so for a reason. Usually it is because they have struck form, orthe trainer wants to win with them before the Jockey Club Handicapper increases theweight they must carry. In either case, their speedy re-appearance is an importantfactor, and earns Einstein points.

• A horse that won its last race and runs again within seven days is awarded30 points.

• A horse that finished second and runs again within seven days is awarded15 points.

• A horse that finished third and runs again within seven days is awarded10 points.

Factor Two: Weight

The weight that a horse carries is also very important. A poor Selling-Plater couldbeat a Derby winner – if the Derby winner were made to carry enough weight.

• If a horse is carrying less weight than in its previous race, add 15 points.


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Form of the horse, numbers on the right is the most recent

Expectedstarting price

Shows number of days sice last race

Shows age (4),the weight (8) stone (8) lbs

(D) Shows has won at thisdistance previously

(C) Shows has won at thiscourse previously

• If a horse is carrying the same weight as in its previous race, add 5 points.

Factor Three: Distance

Every horse has a “best” racing distance. There are many horses that only win overone distance. Factor Three rewards those horses running at their favoured trip.

• If a horse has won at the distance of the race you are rating, add 20 points.

Factor Four: The Racecourse

The layout and gradients of Britain’s racecourses vary considerably. For instance,some are “tight” with sharp turns, like Chester, others are flat and virtually straight,like Newmarket. Some long-striding horses can’t handle the turns, and other, more“nippy” types may not like the long straights. When a horse has shown a liking for acourse, it becomes a factor in the Einstein ratings.

• If a horse has won at the course, add 10 points.

Factor Five: The “SP”

A horse’s forecast Starting Price tells you a great deal about its chance of winningthe race. If a horse is fit and fancied it is likely to be reflected in the forecast SP. Oddsare a significant factor in the ratings.

Add these points to your ratings, according to the horse’s forecast Starting Price:

• Odds on 70 points

• Even money to 6/4 40 points

• 13/8 to 3/1 25 points

• 100/30 to 6/1 15 points

• 7/1 to 12/1 10 points

• 13/1 to 16/1 5 points

• Over 16/1 no points

Now you’re ready to use the Einstein

All you need to do now is to add up the ratings figures for each of the five factors,and you have produced a Master Rating. Then compare the Master Ratings of eachhorse in any race. The horse with the highest rating is the Einstein selected.

Let’s work through a real example, and see just how Einstein predicted that 8/1winner Paragon of Virtue was the best bet of the day at Lingfield.


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Factor One: Last race finishing positionParagon of Virtue had scored a victory at Lingfield just 6 days previously, and

earned 30 points.

Factor Two: Weight carriedThe Paragon was carrying 9lbs less than when recording that success, which earns

another 15 points.

Factor Three: DistanceParagon of Virtue had won over the distance previously. Another 20 points.

Factor Four: CourseThe horse definitely likes Lingfield, and had won there twice before. A further 10

points is added to his total.

Factor Five: OddsParagon of Virtue was forecast to be 9/2 chance in the morning papers, so a further

15 points goes into his Master Rating figure.

The Master Rating:

Adding the factor points together gives us a Master Rating of 90.

Won last race within 7 days ........................................................................................30Carrying less weight than in previous race .................................................................15Winner at the distance ...............................................................................................20Winner at the course ...................................................................................................10Forecast SP 9/2 = ...................................................................................................15Total ...................................................................................................90

Paragon of Virtue was the best rated horse in his race by a clear 15 points. He wasalso the highest rated horse running at Lingfield on that day. He was clearly anoutstanding bet.

Einstein’s 8/1 prediction romps home

Paragon did indeed open in the betting at 9/2, but Lingfield backers, bettingwithout the aid of the Einstein system, allowed him to drift right out to 8/1.

Then, in the race itself, Jimmy Quinn held Paragon up just behind the leaders.After “taking a look” over his shoulder at the furlong pole, just to make sure that nochallenger was coming out of the pack, he eased him into the lead, and allowed himto come home a comfortable 21/2 length winner.

“Favourite” punters and most other backers lost money at Lingfield that day, but


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anyone using the Einstein would have cleaned up.

Take Note! Special conditions apply

• If two horses are joint top rated, split your stake between them.

• If three horses are co-top rated, no bet.

The Einstein system works because it recognises that there are five essential factors insuccessfully predicting a winner, and gives exactly the right importance to each of them.

!FREE BONUS!

Max your Einstein and hit a four-horse jackpot

The Einstein racing system will find you winners. Now here’s the way to get themaximum profit from them…

…back them in a Max Einstein Accumulator bet.

The Max Einstein is no ordinary accumulator. It’s a mathematical marvel that putsthe odds in your favour. The Max system backs Einstein’s top eight selections in aseries of cunning bets. This smart formula gives you the best ever chance of stringingfour winners together for a huge accumulator payout. And nothing pays better than anaccumulator.

The cash from your first winner rolls onto the second, the big money from the firstand second winners rolls onto the third, and then the sackful of the stuff from thefirst, second and third winners rolls onto the fourth.

And that’s where you could land a monster payout. Four winners at 5/1 pays1,295/1. That’s over TWELVE GRAND for a £10 stake.

Here’s how the Max Einstein works

In an ordinary accumulator bet, you have just one shot in the gun. If one horseloses, the whole bet is lost. But the Max Einstein uses a brilliant permutation thattakes Einstein’s top 8 selections on any day, and gives you up to 15 bullets to hit thefour-horse accumulator target.

The Max Einstein can be used on any racing day. But Saturdays, with so manyraces to choose from, are ideal.

First, take the eight highest rated horses of the day, and list them in order. Thehighest first, lowest last, then number them 1 to 8.

Second, Max’s formula arranges these selections into the patterns that are most


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likely to win. In the grid below, the numbers correspond to those of Einstein’s ‘Top 8’selections. Where Number 1 appears, substitute the name of your ‘Top Rated’selection. Similarly, where Number 8 appears, write in Einstein’s ‘Lowest rated’selection and so on.

Third, the Max makes eleven separate, but closely related bets. You will see thatEinstein’s top four selections appear seven times each, and his lowest four appear fourtimes each. This biases your bets in favour of the best-rated horses.

When you see ‘Leg 1’ in the table below, it simply means this is the first horse thatyou write on your slip. ‘Leg 2’ is the second horse you write on your slip.

Leg 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 5 5 5Leg 2 2 2 2 6 2 2 6 6 2 2 6Leg 3 3 3 7 3 3 7 3 7 3 7 3Leg 4 4 8 4 4 4 8 8 4 8 4 4

So your first accumulator bet would be:

Leg 1 1st rated selectionLeg 2 2nd rated selectionLeg 3 3rd rated selectionLeg 4 4th rated selection

And your second would be:

Leg 1 1st rated selectionLeg 2 2nd rated selectionLeg 3 3rd rated selectionLeg 4 8th rated selection

That makes eight horses picked by Einstein, cleverly arranged by Max into elevenfour-horse accumulators.

Use the “Max Bonus” to boost your payout

You can greatly increase your chances of landing the four-horse jackpot by addingthe Max Bonus to your bets. Simply add the following five bets to those you havealready made. They give you deep coverage on Einstein’s lower rated horses.

Leg 1 5 5 5 1 5Leg 2 6 6 2 6 6Leg 3 7 3 7 7 7Leg 4 4 8 8 8 8

There will be days when there are only a couple of race meetings, and there maynot be eight highly rated horses. Or you may want to concentrate on only the cream


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of Einstein’s top rated in just a few races. Here’s a fantastic way to do it.

Having the two highest rated Einstein selections running for you in a racedramatically increases your chances of landing the winner. This is how you can get aMax return, and a big-money accumulator, from just four races.

First, pick the best four races of the day, where the top two Einstein horses bothhave a ratings figure over 70.

Second, number the top rated horse in each of the four races ‘1’, and the secondrated horse in each of the four races ‘2’.

Then, arrange them in the following sequences:

Race 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2Race 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2Race 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1Race 4 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1

So your first accumulator would be:

Race 1 Top rated selectionRace 2 Top rated selectionRace 3 Top rated selectionRace 4 Top rated selection

And your second would be:

Race 1 Top rated selectionRace 2 Top rated selectionRace 3 Top rated selectionRace 4 Second rated selection

As long as no more than two of your second top rated win, you are guaranteed toland a four-horse accumulator. If your winners were only 3/1 shots, it would pay you255/1.

And once again, you can increase your chances by adding the following Max Bonusto the above.

Race 1 2 2 2 1 2Race 2 2 2 1 2 2Race 3 2 1 2 2 2Race 4 1 2 2 2 2

This bonus gives you powerful extra cover on Einstein’s second top rated horses,which are often returned at very big prices indeed.

Einstein and Max. A win double at the races.


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System #2: Football

The SCOREMASTER

“…Turn your football knowledge into easy money by backing correct-score winnersaccurately…”

Picking correct full-time football scores isn’t difficult with the Scoremaster to helpyou. And turning those winners into huge profits is simple if you use the

Scoremaster Betting Plan.

Firstly, you need to pick your teams, and spot the correct scores. Being selective iskey. Don’t try to forecast the score of any and every match. Some teams have apattern in their scoring, but others are unpredictable. You are looking for a solidscoring trend.

It doesn’t matter whether that trend is to high scores or low, as long as you canidentify it.

Two simple steps to spotting your “Scoremaster” opportunity

1. Do not make a bet until teams have played a minimum of 10 matches.

2. Check the scores of those matches, and identify the sides that have a definitescoring pattern.

For instance, a season or two ago, Everton had proved themselves to be typical low-scoring winners.

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to mid-January of the relevant season. You only need to discover a handful of teamswith trends as definite as this in order to make your correct score betting pay very bigdividends.

In the examples we’ll look at in a moment, we’re going to keep all our forecasts tolow-scoring teams. Take note: If you identify a high scorer and include them in yourbet, your returns will be appreciably higher.

And although the Scoremaster system often identifies teams playing at home, thereis no reason at all why you can’t include an away side in your planning – if they havethe right credentials, of course.

Everton’s Scoremaster Record

at Goodison Park

Total home games: 11

Failed to score: only once

Scored 1 goal: on 4 occasions

Scored 2 goals: on 6 occasions

Defending at home:

Clean sheets: 4

Conceded 1 goal: 4 times

Conceded 2 goals: 2 times

Conceded 3 goals: once

Everton at home: Correct Scores

2-1: 3 matches

1-1: 1 match

0-0: 1 match

1-0: 2 matches

1-3: 1 match

2-0: 1 match

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The Scoremaster “2 x 2” Betting Plan

Here’s how you could back two teams with a high ratio of 1-0 and 2-0 home winsin a correct score double…plus your potential winnings. You would write out your betlike this on the bookmaker’s slip, or on their website:

Match 1: 1-0, 2-0Match 2: 1-0, 2-0

Any 2 correct results, 4 bets @ £1 each = £4

Your approximate returns would be:

Both games end 1-0: ..............................................................................................£50They end 1-0 and 2-0: ...........................................................................................£58If 2-0 and 1-0: .................................................................................................£58Both end 2-0: .................................................................................................£67

The Scoremaster “2 x 3” Plan

After comparing your Home teams with their Away visitors, you may think that a1-1 draw is a very possible option in one of your games. This plan puts that draw intoyour bet. Write your betting slip like this:

Match 1: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1Match 2: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1

Any 2 correct scores, 9 bets @ £1 each = £9

This will give you returns of between £48 and £65, depending on the bookmakers’prices on the day.

The Scoremaster “3 x 3” Plan

Here’s a real moneymaker. This is ideal if you are confident you have found threeteams who will produce a low scoring win.


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Write your slip out like this:

Match 1: 1-0, 2-1, 2-0Match 2: 1-0, 2-1, 2-0Match 3: 1-0, 2-1, 2-0

Perm all 3 results from each match,27 trebles @ £1 each = £27

If you don’t know what “perm” means, don’t worry about the jargon. This wordsimply means “pay out on all possible combinations of final scores”. At the odds oftenavailable for these scores, your return for this “winning treble” could be:

1-0, 1-0, 1-0 = 7/1 x 7/1 x 7/1 = ................................................................£5121-0, 1-0, 2-1 = 7/1 x 7/1 x 9/1 = ................................................................£6401-0, 1-0, 2-0 = 7/1 x 7/1 x 10/1 = ..............................................................£7041-0, 2-1, 2-1 = 7/1 x 9/1 x 9/1 = ................................................................£8001-0, 2-1, 2-0 = 7/1 x 9/1 x 10/1 = ..............................................................£8801-0, 2-0, 2-0 = 7/1 x 10/1 x 10/1 = ............................................................£9682-1, 2-1, 2-1 = 9/1 x 9/1 x 9/1 = ..............................................................£10002-1, 2-1, 2-0 = 9/1 x 9/1 x 10/1 = ............................................................£11002-1, 2-0, 2-0 = 9/1 x 10/1 x 10/1 = ..........................................................£12102-0, 2-0, 2-0 = 10/1 x 10/1 x 10/1 = ........................................................£1331

You don’t have to stake as much as £27 of course. If you bet just 20 pence per line,your total outlay would be £5.40. But your minimum pick-up for a treble would be£102.40.

The Scoremaster ‘3 x 4’ Plan

In this plan, you select three teams you believe will land a close low-scoringvictory, as in the Scoremaster 3x3 Plan. But you increase your chances of a big win byincluding the 1-1 draw in the scoring options. This is a 64-bet Plan, so let’s assumeyou are staking in 10 pence units.


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Write out your slip as follows:

Match 1: 1-0, 1-1, 2-0, 2-1Match 2: 1-0, 1-1, 2-0, 2-1Match 3: 1-0, 1-1, 2-0, 2-1

Any three correct results, 64 trebles @ 10p each = £6.40

The return for one successful 10 pence treble will be around £31, a return-on-investment of 484% profit.

As long as you are prepared to stick ONLY to those teams you have identified aslow or high scoring winners, the Scoremaster Betting Plans will ensure that you getthe maximum return for your successful selections.


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System #3: Any sport

The WIN-WIN STRATEGY

“…Learn how to “hedge your bets” for guaranteed winnings using the bookies’ secretstrategy…”

Bookies always aim to make a sure profit from an event, whoever wins. It’s not abad idea to take a leaf out of their book.

Okay, it might mean sacrificing a couple of bigger “jackpot” wins. But there’s a lotto be said for making smaller, more frequent profits. Especially when your profits areguaranteed!

They build up your bank balance and betting confidence, and they make your lifeas a backer more enjoyable. A regular flow of cash into the wallet also helps you togradually increase the size of your stakes, and in the end, win you even more money.

Use common sense to cash in…no matter what happens

There’s nothing difficult in making guaranteed “win-win” profits. It’s just commonsense, as you will see in a moment. And all you usually need is just one bet at a decentprice in your pocket.

Here’s a typical example of how you could take a bet, which might or might notwin, and turn it into sure-fire cash. You don’t have to be on an impossible-to-pick66/1 shot to make the idea work. It’s very straightforward.

Imagine it was semi-finals time in a big, live-on-TV snooker tournament. Only fourplayers are left, all well-known names. The guy you think will win the tournament is


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the bookies’ short-priced favourite. Worth a bet? Here’s how you can make guaranteedprofits from exactly that situation…

Back the favourite and lock in your profits

Cast your mind back to the semis of a recent UK Snooker Championships. KenDoherty is playing Drew Henry in one match, and Mark Williams is playing PeterEbdon in the other. You fancy Williams to beat Ebdon, and to then go on and win thetitle. So you bet £20 on him to win the Championships outright at 11/10.

Williams wins his semi-final, and Ken Doherty wins his. The bookies makeDoherty 2/1 to win the Final.

The way things stand, you win £22 if Williams is the winner, but lose £20 if it’sDoherty. So why not back Doherty too, and make money whoever lands theChampionship?

By putting £13 on Doherty at 2/1 you can guarantee yourself a certain profit on thistournament. The figures work out like this:

• You’ll have risked £33 in all: £20 on Williams and £13 on Doherty. If Dohertywins you will pick up £39 (£26 winnings, plus your £13 stake returned). That willgive you an overall profit of £6 on your bets.

• If Williams wins you will pick up £42 (£22 pounds winnings, plus your £20stake). An overall profit of £9. Not bad at all. You’d have to leave your £33 inthe Building Society for about five years to make that sort of guaranteed profit.

Incidentally, Williams nicked the championship on the very last frame, 9-8.

Bet at 11/10…but collect 66% profit

Now, you can’t say that’s hard. Simply back the 11/10 favourite of four players.Then back his opponent in the Final. And you can get even more spectacular resultsif you step in with your first bet a little earlier. If you’d fancied Williams at theQuarter-Final stage, for instance, you’d have got 2/1 for him.

How would you have known to back Williams? You couldn’t be sure he wouldreach the final – and then win it. But if you decide to engineer a win-win situationlike that, you don’t necessarily have to study the player’s form in depth or follow thesport religiously.

Opportunities are plentiful. You can do this a dozen times a week if you are alert,and make a profit every time. Plus, these situations occur in any and every sport wheretournaments are regularly held.


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Simply watch the bookies’ prices…

The trick is simply to get on the guy or the team that is popular with the public,and is being supported in the market. Watch the bookies’ prices closely – either onthe internet, or by making a nuisance of yourself in your local betting shop and askingfor updated prices every morning. As soon as you see a particular player’s price beginto ‘go’, take it. This puts a “decent price in your pocket” – a very valuable commodity.

Once you’ve got, say 6/1, about a player who is backed to 4/1, and who winsthrough to the next round and is cut to 5/2, then you are virtually guaranteed to beable to back the other guys and make a profit whoever wins. This is exactly whathappened in the Williams and Doherty example we looked at above.

Two quick tips to work out profitable stakes

Firstly, the stake on your second bet must never be more than the amount of profityou stand to make on your first bet.

Secondly, as a rule of thumb, try treating half of the profit on your first bet as thestake for the second bet. Then work out how much both bets would win versus yourtotal outlay. You can move the stake on the second bet up and down until you arehappy that you have a nice equal balance ‘both ways’.

Using the simple techniques revealed here, engineering a win-win bet just once aweek to enjoy £20 each time, you would guarantee yourself over £1,000 profit a year.


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Strategy #4: Football

The CARDMASTER

“…How you can make the bookies see red…and turn £10 into £32.50 every Saturdaybetween February and May…”

Towards the end of each soccer season, the Premiership fixture list contains lots of“dead matches” – games that don’t mean much to either team. But these boring

kickabouts could mean easy money in the bank to you.

Sides that have no chance of qualifying for Europe, but are well clear of therelegation zone, often just go through the motions when they meet. Many footballpunters hate betting on these matches. “Form” can go out of the window. But forshrewd investors, these games are a goldmine.

Don’t waste your time trying to pick the “home, away or draw” result. Clean up bybetting on the number of red and yellow cards the referee will show instead. Historyproves that – year after year – the last weeks of the season produce far fewer red andyellow cards in the Premiership than any other period. The “dead” matches areresponsible.

Here’s how betting on cards works

The bookmakers price up this market for ALL Premiership football matches shownlive on TV. They use this scoring system:

Yellow Card shown:......................................................................................10-pointsRed Card Shown: ........................................................................................25-points


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Any player shown ........................................................................................2 Yellows(followed by an automatic Red):..................................................................35-points

So when Liverpool battled Everton on Saturday 25 March 2006, Liverpool endedwith 55 points and Everton got 95 points.

The total match Card Score (sometimes called the “Make Up”) was a massive 150points.

How to spot “low card” goldmines

From February until the end of the season in May, many games are sure to end withmuch lower Card Scores than that. You can make an excellent profit, simply bypicking the right games.

So what are those “right” games? “Low Cards” looks almost certain when:

First, both teams are safe from the drop.

Second, neither team has any hope of qualifying for Europe.

Plus! You must check another important factor too – the Referee.

Some refs go for their top pocket far more than others. Any excuse to make abooking! But others bend over backwards to avoid formal “discipline”. You need tolook for low-carding referees.

Here are this season’s stats for Premiership referees. It shows the average number ofcard points they’ve dished out per game in the 2005/06 season.

Philip Dowd 49.09 per matchSteve Bennett 48.2 per matchGraham Poll 38.75 per matchMike Dean 38.42 per matchMike Riley 46 per matchAndre Marriner 34.17 per matchRob Styles 35.4 per matchMartin Atkinson 32.5 per matchMark Clattenburg 34.38 per matchHoward Webb 33.48 per matchAlan Wiley 33.52 per matchBarry Knight 35 per matchChristopher Foy 35.94 per matchPeter Walton 33.5 per matchR Beeby 15 per matchDermot Gallagher 26.76 per matchUriah Rennie 22.05 per match


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Mark Halsey 26.56 per matchLee Mason 20 per matchAndy D’urso 40 per match

To find out which referee will be in charge of your chosen game, go towww.4thegame.com or www.sportinglife.com. You can get the latest referee stats fromwww.soccerbase.com.You can also pick up the name of the official on the morning ofthe game in The Racing Post from your newsagent.

Now you are ready to bet…

You want the best odds for your “low card” bet, of course. So check with as manybookies as possible before putting down your cash. All the High Street and internetfirms offer odds, and there’s plenty of choice.

Take Note: Different bookmakers price their ‘Card’ bets in slightly different ways.But none of them require you to pick the exact number of “card points”. You simplyneed to select the lowest “band” they offer.

For example, Hills often quote prices like this:Under 25 9/425-45 9/4Over 45 Evens

Ladbrokes quote differently:Under 30 2/1Exactly 30 9/2Over 30 8/13

Bet365 use this system:Under 40 5/640 and Over 5/6

But don’t worry about these different systems. Simply look for the bands “Under25” and “Under 30”. You will generally get odds of 9/4 or 2/1 for these. Never acceptless than 6/4.

And if a bookmaker tries to be clever, do NOT back “Under 20” points a game.Even though the two teams may seem well-behaved, and they have little to play for,it’s better to be safe than sorry. “Under 20” may seem to offer better odds. But thechances of it happening are very slim compared with “Under 25” and “Under 30”.

Then, once you’ve made your wager, sit back and enjoy those yawn-making gamesthat bore everyone else rigid!


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Look out for these 5 deadly dull teams

CharltonWiganPortsmouthWest HamMiddlesbrough

Visit these bookmakers for “Card Bookings” prices

www.willhill.com tel: 0800 882266www.ladbrokes.com tel: 0800 524524www.paddypower.com tel: 08000 565265www.bluesq.com tel: 0800 587 0200www.sportingodds.comwww.eurobet.co.uk (Corals) tel: 0800 126725www.bet365.com tel: 0800 458 8888


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System #5: Cricket

LAST MAN STANDING

“…Five simple questions return 30% profit…or even TRIPLE YOUR MONEY…whenyou bet live on cricket’s tail-end batsmen…”

What’s the most fun way you can make money… without robbing a bank?Incredibly, it might just be betting “live” on cricket matches.

As soon as the game starts, bookies put up odds for what is going to happen next.One of these “live betting” markets has the words “Used Banknotes – Please StealMe” written all over it. The market for “Next Batsman Out” will reward a littlepatience with big cash profits.

The bookies get it wrong! wrong! wrong!

No matter who is at the wicket, bookmakers offer odds on who will be the “NextBatsman Out”. In many batting partnerships, it’s impossible to find a solid bettingopportunity. But sometimes the odds swing right in your favour.

The ideal betting situation? When a recognised batsman is partnering one of theteam’s “tail-enders”.

Tail-enders are those batsmen who come in at Number 7 or later. Most tail-endersjust try to protect the wicket. They play safety strokes, and aim to give the “strike” totheir more skilled partner.

Some of these “weakest links” are actually very good at stonewalling. JasonGillespie, the Aussie bowler, is probably the best in the world. And because the


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bookmakers are very predictable when faced with this situation, you can beat themtime and again.

When you’ve got this partnership, you can bet BIG

Imagine the tail-ender walks up to the wicket. Up go the bookies’ prices for the“Next Batsman Out”. Those prices will be:

Tail-ender: 1/3Other batsman: 2/1

That 2/1 can often be a huge price and a great bet. But before you can think ofputting your money down, give the tail-ender between 6 and 8 balls to settle in. Thenask yourself these five questions:

1. Does the more talented batsman need to score a high number of runs to win orsave the innings/match?

2. Is the more talented batsman skilful enough to take most of the strike from hispartner? In other words…

3. Can he hit 2s and 4s with a quick single at the end of the over?4. Is he taking risks?5. Does the tail-ender look secure?

Answer “Yes” to 3 or more, and the “more talented” batsman is no sure thing tooutlive his “tail-ender” partner.

Sure, the difference in class means the tail-ender will be favourite to go first. But ifthe recognised batsmen is seeing plenty of the ball – and taking risks – there’s no waythe bookmakers should offer you 2/1 for your money.

Especially if his partner is just leaning on his bat at the other end…

The true odds outweigh the bookies’ prices

The true odds of the “better batsman” going out are nearer 5/4. Sports fans like youare staring a gift horse in the mouth.

Over the course of the cricket season, you’ll see many opportunities offer you thisopportunity. Statistics prove you’ll win an average of 4 out of every 9 of these bets. Atodds of 2/1, that means a profit of more than 30% on your stakes overall…provided,of course, you could answer “Yes” to 3 or more of the 5 crucial questions above.

One other critical factor to watch: Is the “batsman” grabbing most of the strike,while the “tail-ender” plays it safe and sensible? It’s also worth watching for thesestrong “tail-enders” too.


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Five tail-enders to watch for…

Australia’s Jason Gillespie and India’s Anil KumbleEngland’s Ashley GilesZimbabwe’s Heath StreakNew Zealand’s Daniel VettoriSouth Africa’s Shaun Pollock

It was bowler Ashley Giles’ stand with batsman Kevin Pietersen that sank Australiain the last test of the 2005 Ashes. Now, with the Next Man Out system, you canmake serious money from that situation.


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System #6: American football

THE SURE THING

On the face of it, it’s a sport played by 18-stone psychopaths of unpredictabletemper, and anything could happen. But, in fact, American football is one of the

most precise instruments for extracting money from bookmakers that I know.

There really is a master plan behind all those hurtling bodies and bonecrunchingtackles, and we can harness it to a little plan of our own, to make betting profits rightthrough to the Super Bowl in January.

The whole star-spangled rumble starts up again in September, and will be shownlive on Sky TV every Sunday night. British bookies bet on American Football (theNFL) extensively, and happily for us, inadvertently provide all manner ofmoneymaking opportunities.

How to make money from this elaborate and aggressive game ofchess...

The first thing to note is that the men who control all the on-field mayhem, thefurious-faced team coaches who prowl the sidelines snarling into their headsets, aren’ttrying to start the next Civil War. They’re playing chess.

Every player on the field is actually a specialist at some aspect of the game, andcoaches utilise them just like a chess player might use a castle or a knight for differentmoves on the chessboard.

And just as in a chess game, every onfield move is annotated and may be studiedlater. That’s the factor that will give you your winning edge, because this is one sportwhere the statistics successfully forecast winner after winner.


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You couldn’t produce figures for a soccer game that were anywhere near asmeaningful. In soccer the clever thing is often to pass the ball sideways or evenbackward, but in American football there is only one way to go. Straight down thefield, with no deviation.

The stats tell you exactly how successful teams are at doing just that, and also howgood they are in stopping opposing sides from doing it to them.

The one key stat you need to know above all others

All the calculations are made for you; the only thing you have to do is to notethem. The NFL produces acres of figures on every game, and you can find them onthe official site, www.nfl.com, under ‘game statistics’. They are also published everyweek in the American football newspaper First Down, which any newsagent can orderfor you.

But, as we’ve noted, this is a very direct game, where the only idea is to move theball down the field. What you need to know is how efficient a side is at doing it.

That word ‘efficient’ is important. Knowing a team’s efficiency is different fromknowing how many points they scored in a particular game, or the total number ofyards they gained. Because more often than not, teams who play efficiently will beatteams that don’t. And you can find out just how efficiently a team is playing bylooking at their ‘Average Yards Gained’ per play figure.

Suppose a team have 50 attacking, or ‘offensive plays’ as they are called, and gain atotal of 200 yards, then their average gain is 4 yards per play. This figure encompassesjust about everything you need to know about them. It covers the astuteness of thecoach in selecting the best ‘plays’ to run, the ability of the players to carry out hisplans, and also takes account of the plays that didn’t work.

Here’s how to use ‘Average Gain’ to find a winning bet.

In a recent game between Denver and Kansas, Denver’s Average Gain was 6.5yards per play, and Kansas’s average was just 4.5 yards. So Denver were a full 2 yardsper play more efficient at moving the ball than Kansas, a big margin in this sport.

On the same day that Denver were racking up those excellent figures, NewEngland met Green Bay, and recorded a much less impressive Average Gain of 4.3yards, while their opponents Green Bay achieved 4.7 yards.

The punch line came the following week: Denver was scheduled to play NewEngland, and there was a clear betting opportunity. When you looked at Denver andNew England’s average gain figures from the previous week, it was obvious thatDenver held a very strong advantage.


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They had recorded a much higher efficiency figure, 6.5 compared to New England’s4.7, and they had conceded less ground per play than New England, 4.5 yards, against4.7.

Based on these figures, Denver looked a strong bet to beat New England, and so itproved when they met on the field. Denver won the game 24-16, and confirmed thereliability of the stats by recording an Average Yards per play figure of 5.4, while NewEngland could only manage 3.4.

And yet, in this two-horse race, you could have backed Denver at almost evenmoney to win. You can find bets just as good as this almost every week on the NFL, allyou need to do is to check the stats. Although for the sake of simplicity I have lookedat only one game’s figures for each team, ideally you should look at two, three, ormore, to find a reliable efficiency yardstick.

Bottom line: It’s rare to find such a ‘sure thing’ in the betting industry, but with aquick look at the NFL stats, you could be on your way to some tasty profits thisseason.


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System #7: Horseracing

The DEAD CERT

“…Three little-known facts reveal why backing two-year-old horses can help turn £20 into£312.50 next summer…”

In betting, as in many other walks of life, it pays to be selective. And with horseracing, the best way to apply this principle is by betting on two-year-olds. Theseyoung horses can provide your passport to a summer of profitable betting.

Two is the youngest age at which horses can race competitively in Britain. Thereare three very good reasons why you should take an interest in these ‘youngsters’.

• Two-year-olds mainly race against each other, making their form easier to assessand compare.

• Most races are over short distances of five to seven furlongs. Tactics play littlepart in these races and in most instances the fastest horse wins.

• These young horses are full of zest, and try their hardest to win – so findingwinners in these races is easier.

When to follow the two-year-olds

The best time of year to bet on two-year-olds is during the flat racing season. Itstarts in March and runs through to November. However, the early season is notrecommended for betting, as few two-year-olds in a race will have run before, makingform almost impossible to assess.


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The summer months, from June to early September, are the peak time for betting.Horses will have some previous form, plus the going will usually be good, meaning thetop horses can perform at their best. From mid-September onwards though, forget it –the weather deteriorates and the young horses begin to tire at the end of their firstseason.

Simple three-step strategy reveals your winner

See the racing card on page 2 for an example of where to find the informationbelow in your newspaper.

Step 1: Take a look in any daily newspaper with racing coverage and identifyhorses that were first or second in their last run. Sixty-six per cent of all two-year-oldraces are won by a horse that won or was placed last time out. Look for a ‘1’ or ‘2’written at the end of the numbers and letters on the race card directly before thehorse’s name.

Step 2: Next, narrow it down to any horses that are first or second in yournewspaper’s betting forecast.

Step 3: Finally, eliminate any horses that last ran more than 30 days ago (thenumber of days since a horse’s last run is shown by the figure after the horse’s name).A horse with a long break is rarely at its peak.

Plus, using this system, you can protect yourself from losing streaks. Use this simplestaking plan…

Simple ‘bank’ strategy keeps you in profit

Set aside a ‘bank’ of money you can afford to lose – say £200 or £400. Divide thisinto 20 ‘points’ and bet one point on each of your selections. So if your starting bankis £400, your initial bet would be £20.

If your first horse wins at 2/1, your bank will rise to £440. So your next bet wouldbe £22 – one-twentieth of your total bank, remember. If that bet wins, your total banknow stands at £506, and one point will be worth £25.30. If the following bet loses,your bank goes down to £480.70. One point for your next bet is now worth £24.04.

Applying this strategy should ensure that your bank grows at a steadily increasingrate, while helping protect you from any losing streaks.

Now boost your profits with a winning treble

If your two-year-old system reveals two or three good selections in one day, why notalso back them in a double or treble? At the peak time of year – between June andSeptember – results follow form reliably. A winning double or treble can give your


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betting bank a massive boost.

For example, if you had £20 on a treble in which all three horses were returned at6/4, you would collect £312.50 for a net profit of almost £300…!!


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The DOODLE DANDY

“…This simple betting slip trick turns a Yankee loser into a solid DIY profit…and can returnup to £1,296 for an £85 stake…”

Many casual bettors like to put their money on a Yankee – a speciality betcovering four horses in four different races. However, a standard Yankee offers

poor value for punters. That’s why they’re so popular with the bookmakers. It’s easytaking money off unsuspecting horse fans this way.

But you can create your own Doodle Dandy instead. It’s a ‘Do-It-Yourself Yankee’that greatly improves your chances of success. Here’s how…

What is a Yankee?

As you know, a ‘double’ involves two horses. If your first horse wins, all theproceeds are automatically staked on the second – making your final payout thatmuch bigger if you win both bets. A treble covers three horses, with all winnings fromthe first two being invested on the third, and so on.

Multiple bets like these can produce big returns when successful, but with adrawback; unless ALL selections in the bet win, you get nothing. This is why thestandard Yankee offers such poor value.

A Yankee is really 11 bets in one. It includes four horses in six double-bets, fourtrebles and one four-fold. Most people enter their bets on the special Yankee formsavailable from betting shops. These require you to stake the same amount on thedoubles, the trebles and the four-fold. With a unit stake of £1, this bet will thereforecost £11.


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Rip-off alert! Yankees are terrible value

Unless you find at least three winning horses, you are likely to end up making anoverall loss. Mathematically, it would be far better if you could bet most of your cashon the doubles, the bets most likely to succeed. By the same token, if you put less ofyour cash on the very unlikely four-fold – which only pays out if all your horses win –you have a greater chance of winning good money.

Here’s how to make your poor-value Yankees into much more profitable DoodleDandies:

1.Write down your four selections (horse name plus time/venue of race)

2. Follow the names with these instructions “6 x £1 win doubles, 4 x 50p treblesand 1 x 25p each-way four-fold”.

3. This costs £8.50 (a 25p each-way bet costs 50p), £2.50 less than a standardYankee.

This method ensures that most of your money is staked on the most likelyoutcomes – the doubles. If you have a losing horse, you lose only the small 25p stakefrom the four-fold first. And if you find just two winning horses at any decent odds,you should make more than your £8.50 total stake back, and be in profit.

Plus, by backing the four-fold each way, you give your chances an added boost. Aneach-way bet pays out if runners achieve a place – so even if none of your horses win,you may still get a return if all four make the frame.

Just compare the returns from standard and DIY Yankees…

Let’s say you back four horses at 2/1 each with a £1 unit stake. The standardYankee will cost you £1 x 11 = £11. The DIY version costs just £8.50.

If two horses win (by far the most likely successful outcome), you will have onewinning double returning £9 (£1 on horse A at 2/1 returns £3; £3 on horse B at 2/1returns £9). With a standard Yankee you will therefore make a £2 loss…but with aDoodle Dandy a small – but welcome! – 50p profit.

You can see for yourself what would happen if you increased your unit stake to £10.Instead of a £20 loss with the standard Yankee, the Doodle Dandy version puts you £5ahead with just one win. From there, you’re in the money…

• With 3 winners, you will have two winning doubles and one winning treble.Backing to £10 per line, your total returns on the Doodle Dandy will be a tasty£315.

• If you get all 4 horses you will be looking at a bumper £1,295.16 payday.


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The ROUND ROBIN

“…Turn a tenner into £68 or even £390…with the help of a Round Robin…”

Here’s a little-known goldmine for horse-racing fans. The Round Robin is a way ofbacking three horses in ten profit-packed multiple bets. It can give you a big

return for a small investment, and – properly applied – will still give you your moneyback, or even a small profit, if you find only one winner!

Even better, no specialist knowledge is required when making your selections orplacing the bet.

Here’s how the Round Robin works

All bookies know about Round Robins…but not surprisingly they don’t advertisethem. A Round Robin is a bet covering just three horses running in different races. Ifyou place £10 on the Round Robin, each separate bet within it has a £1 stake asfollows:

Horses A and B: Double = 1 betHorses A and C: Double = 1 betHorses B and C: Double = 1 betHorses A, B and C: Treble = 1 betHorses A&B: Single Stakes About = 2 betsHorses A&C: Single Stakes About = 2 betsHorses B&C: Single Stakes About = 2 bets

What’s that “single stakes about”? It’s a special kind of bet. In fact, it gives you twobets covering two horses. If one horse wins, the original stake is taken from the


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winnings and invested on the other horse. So if you have an SSA bet of £10 on horsesA and B – and Horse A wins – then £10 of the winnings is added to the original stakeon Horse B. This doubles the stake on Horse B to £20.

The net effect is that, if both horses in an SSA bet win, the proceeds of the bet aregreatly boosted. But if only one horse wins you still collect something (unlike adouble).

Now pick strong horses at 5/1 or better

Now you’re ready to choose the 3 horses in 3 different races you need. Look forhigh performers at 5/1. Round Robin is best used with horses priced at between 4/1and 6/1.

If all three horses in the bet are returned at 5/1, your winnings will then be asfollows:

if just one horse wins, you get your £10 back;if two horses win, you get £68;if all three win, you collect £390.

Use the racing pages of any newspaper, the daily Racing Post, orwww.racingpost.co.uk to help pick your runners. Look for the betting forecast for eachrace (printed under the list of runners and riders) and note horses whose predictedstarting prices are between 4/1 and 6/1.

Give preference to horses which are quoted as first, second or third favourite andwhich have the best recent form. Form information for each horse is shown by thestring of numbers in front of its name, e.g. 02011, with the most recent form beingshown by the number on the right.

Now fill out your betting slip

Simply take a plain betting slip and write the names of your three horses, notforgetting to include the meeting and race time in each case. Under this put: “RoundRobin = 10 bets at £1 each = £10”. Just hand the slip in with your stake – and lookforward to a good profit.


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System #10: Snooker

The GIANT KILLER

“…These safe ‘value’ bets on snooker can give you a 36% return-on-investment…”

Snooker is less well known as a betting sport; but for profitable punting it’s in thePremier League. This year-round sport is easy to follow on TV. But best of all, most

punters lump their money on a few ‘star’ players – creating valuable opportunities foryou to take advantage of.

First though, a word of warning: avoid betting on the ‘frame score’. Trying topredict how many frames, say, Hendry will beat Ebdon by, is a mug’s game. The oddsavailable can be enticing, but it involves too much guesswork. Instead, look at theother two markets:

• Tournament winner• Match winner

Before we look at exactly how to bet these markets, here’s a fact the TV punditswon’t tell you…

Giant-killing is common…and it can prove profitable

In boxing, if one man has beaten the other in six of their last seven fights, you canassume he has the measure of him. But in snooker the players don’t really play againsteach other – they compete against the balls on the table. While one player is pottinga series of balls, the other can do nothing. This means an up-and-coming player ingood form will frequently beat a star who is a little below par.

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seasons. The most important factor is each man’s current confidence and performancelevel – and this can be assessed by studying their most recent match results.

How to make solid profits playing the underdog

The system is simple: look for in-form players in a tournament; then back themagainst other players who may be better known but are now struggling.

For example, in a recent World Snooker Championship, the well-known JohnParrott was playing the lesser-known Joe Swail. Their previous head-to-head recordwas 5-2 in Parrott’s favour. He was quoted as the 10/11 favourite, with Swail at 11/10against.

A fair price? No! The head-to-head record went back to a time when Swail wasstruggling to establish himself. Parrott had been under-performing in his most recentmatches, and anyone backing Swail would have had first-class value. Swail won easily!

Applying this system during the last 12-month season, backing the supposedunderdog when he was in fact the more in-form player – and available at evens orbetter – produced 33 winners from 48 bets. Staking £100 a time on these selectionswould have generated a total return of £ 6,520 for a net profit of £1,720 tax-freeThat’s a 36% return.

How to find your in-form underdogs

First, buy a copy of the Racing Post newspaper, available in most newsagents, price£1. It covers all the major snooker tournaments.

Second, study the details of all the main contenders’ recent performances.

Third, check the best prices for each player and where you can get them. TheRacing Post also gives you this information.

Back in-form players at odds of evens or better whenever they meet older playerswhose form is failing.


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System #11: Greyhound racing

The SPEEDY DOG-GALEZ

“…This straightforward greyhound system can deliver £5,000 profit in one night…”

Greyhound racing provides first-rate entertainment – not to mention someworthwhile betting opportunities. To enjoy a profitable night, follow this simple

system for selecting the fastest dog in each race.

Most greyhound racing takes place at one of 33 tracks licensed by the NationalGreyhound Racing Club. Every race has six runners, each dog starting from a numberedstall or ‘trap’. Every course in the country uses the same colours for each trap.

Trap 1: redTrap 2: blueTrap 3: whiteTrap 4: blackTrap 5: orangeTrap 6: black-and-white stripes

Once all dogs are in their traps, a mechanical ‘hare’ is started and the dogs arereleased to chase it. Most races run over one full circuit (just under 500 metres).

All the information you need to select the winning dog in each race is containedin the meeting programme, available from the racetrack on the night. But as the betyou want to make can’t be made trackside, buy a copy of the Racing Post.

Class: Dogs are assigned to a particular class of race according to their ability. Thehighest is grade 1, the lowest grade 9. Be wary of dogs that previously ran in better


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grade races. They may have passed their prime or be carrying an injury.

Current form: Look for dogs whose performance has dipped but may now becoming back to their best.

Speed: All things being equal, the fastest dog should win so look for their last racetime.

Trap draw: Runners in traps 1 and 6 regularly outperform the others – they’re lesslikely to be hampered by other runners.

The main bets on course are win only, place (first or second) and forecast. Aforecast involves picking two dogs to finish first and second. A popular bet is thereversed forecast, where your choices can be first and second in either order. There’salso the Tricast, where you have to find the first, second and third dog in the correctorder – for hopeless optimists only!

Why smarter punters use the Placepot…

But you can generate steady profits and enjoy an entire night’s racing…using thePlacepot. The Placepot bet requires you to find a placed runner in the first (or last) sixraces of a meeting. The system requires the use of speed figures (race times) availablefrom the meeting programme or the Racing Post.

First, ask the cashier for a special entry form.

Next, calculate the fastest dog easily and quickly. Simply work out the difference inseconds between the fastest dog in the race and the next-fastest, based on the lastrecorded time for each dog.

Third, bear in mind that the greater the difference in speed between the fastest dogand the rest, the less need there is for an alternative selection for that race.

Fourth, identify the three races in which these differences are the greatest. YourPlacepot selections here will be the dogs which achieved the fastest times.

Fifth, for the remaining three races, make two Placepot selections – the two dogsthat held the fastest and second-fastest last time out. Only use two selections in thethree races where the difference between best and second-best is smallest.

Now win up to £5,000 with the Placepot system, simply by entering your selectionsin race order on your special betting slip.

• Ask the bookmaker if you need help.

• Use the dogs’ trap numbers rather than their names.

• The system involves making 2 x 2 x 2 x 1 x 1 x 1 bets = eight bets in total. Thus,


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a unit stake of £1 will cost you £8.

Half an hour’s research into previous race results can give you the insider edge.Using these expert tips, you can now enjoy a money-making evening at the dogs.


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System #12: Rugby league

The RUGBY RATER

“…A simple statistical system for betting profitably using just your daily paper. Noknowledge of rugby league required!…”

Less than 1% of sports fans ever bet on rugby league. Yet this traditional wintersport, recently reinvented as a summer sports-fest on Sky TV, offers some gilt-

edged opportunities for you to make money at the bookies’ expense. This simple buteffective system has been tested over the last two seasons, incorporating results fromover 1,000 Super League, Premiership and Challenge Cup matches.

All the information you need for profitable betting is in your daily paper. You don’teven have to understand the rules. The main betting action revolves around the SuperLeague (the top echelon) and the Northern Ford Premiership League (very much thesecond division). There is also the Silk Cut Challenge Cup, a knockout competitionfor teams from both leagues.

Betting on rugby made simple

For individual matches, bookies do not simply offer fixed odds on either teamwinning, as in the case of football. Rather, they set a ‘handicap’, giving one side ahead start according to the bookies’ assessment of their relative chances. If the leagueleaders are up against a team of strugglers, the latter may be given a ‘headstart’ of 20points.

Common practice is for both teams to be quoted at 5/6 on the handicap (i.e. justunder even money). In the above example, if you backed the underdogs, and they lost


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by a margin of less than 20 points, you would win your bet. By contrast, if you backedthe favourites, they would need to win by more than 20 points.

This type of betting can take some getting used to. But even blatant mismatchescan provide some excellent betting opportunities…because the bookies are oftenclueless about what they’re doing!

Four simple steps to beating the bookies’ handicap

Turn to the league tables in the sports section of the main national dailies onSaturdays and Sundays. Or consult them at any time on the Rugby Football Leaguewebsite at www.rfl.uk.com. Then follow this simple procedure to calculate your bet:

First, find the Total Points Won and Total Points Lost columns.

Second, for each team, deduct the points lost from the points won so far thisseason. This will give you a plus or minus figure.

Third, divide this number by the number of games played. This gives you a rating,which again may be plus or minus.

Finally, assess the outcome of any upcoming game by comparing the two teams’ratings. Simply calculate the difference between them!

Take note! Add two points to the rating of the team playing at home to allow for‘home advantage’. For example, if a team has a rating of +8, this will become +10when they are playing at home.

Now identify your best potential bet…

For each match being played, simply compare each team’s rating and work out thedifference between. Look at the bookies’ handicap betting figures, and if there is adifference of more than three points between the two figures, a bet is indicated. Thebigger the difference, the more confident you should be.

For example, imagine a match where the bookies’ quote requires the home team towin by 10 points. But your calculations indicate the home team actually has anadvantage of 15 points. You would want to bet on the home team.

If, on the other hand, the bookies set the handicap at 20, your figures indicate thatthe home team has been given too much to do. By your reckoning, the home teamwill win by only 15 points…so a bet on the visitors would be favourite.

Use ‘collateral’ to improve your profits still further

To boost your prospects of success still further, keep your own record of all matchresults as the season unfolds or check on the RFL website. Then, before betting, check


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the results of any other recent league and cup matches between the two teamsconcerned. If it ended with the result your ‘ratings’ for each team would predict, youcan be all the more confident about betting – and betting big if you want to.

But if that previous match resulted very differently, special factors may be involved.Perhaps one team finds the other team’s style of play especially to their liking. Youshould be wary of placing too large a bet.

This simple statistical method does not mean you will win every time. Freak resultscan always happen in sport. But the law of averages should ensure you enjoy a healthyoverall profit, without even having to understand the game!


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System #13: Football

The CORNER-COPIA

Betting on how many corners there will be in a football match might strike you ascrazy. Surely the aim is to score?

But with the right statistics to guide you, you can make big profits from thismarket. Simply by keeping a note of how many corners a team wins and concedes –both Home and Away – you can pick off easy winnings in the back-half of thedomestic season, and as Europe hots up too.

Simple system…devastating results

The system is simple. For each match, simply look at the notes you’ve made of eachteam’s average corners won and average corners conceded. If both are low-cornerteams, a clear bet on “low total corners” is indicated. If both teams have high cornersrecords, then that’s the way to bet. But if the number suggest a mid-range outcome,you could be in for the tasty reward of 6/4 or even 7/1.

The reason this system is so successful? Few punters bother to keep and recordthese stats. You won’t find them on the internet easily either. And incredibly, manyleading bookmakers don’t bother looking at these stats…even if they have them tohand. This leaves the field wide open for you and your notebook to clean up.

Few football fans collect this vital information

Imagine you want to bet on Premiership corners. For each team, make a note –every time they play – of how many corners they win, and how many they give away.You can get these numbers from the national newspapers’ match reports. TV


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highlights often flash the corners stats up for each game shown too.

As the season progresses, you will build a comprehensive record of every team’scorner-winning abilities...together with their corner-conceding weakness too. For eachmatch for each team, record:

• Corners earned• Corners conceded• Also take into account the team’s style, weather and pitch factors.

Why style, weather and pitch factors too? Because these details will help you refineyour system to increase your profits still further.

These 5 factors determine ‘total corners’

Attacking natureHigh corner counts often go hand in hand with teams who attack with ‘width’ –

sides who like to run the ball to the touchline, and then cross into the Penalty area.

Defensive tacticsSome teams will risk running the ball out of the box, or heading a cross from the

wings into the danger area, rather than risk conceding a corner.

Clearing linesSome sides clear their lines regardless of whether they give up a corner or not. The

Italians are a good example of this style of ‘percentage’ defending. Despite theiroutstanding winning record, they often concede more corners than they win.

Size of the pitchThe larger the pitch, the greater the width of the touchline...and the higher the

average corner count.

WeatherThe weather has its effect on corner numbers too. Windy weather tends to increase

the count, as does rain. But very heavy rain can waterlog the wings and reduce thecount.

With this information to hand as the mid-point of the domestic season approaches,you’re ready to start betting with confidence.

Corners betting made simple

Bookmakers have two distinct ways of presenting their ‘corners’ odds. Both of themoffer a choice of three bets on the number of corners in the game. The structure youwill see most often offers the best opportunities too:

Under 11 corners: usually offered at ‘even money’


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Exactly 11 corners: often priced at 7/1Over 11 corners: usually offered at ‘even money’

If your statistics indicate that the game has paired two teams with a record of lowcorner counts, this is the structure to look for from the bookmakers. You will enjoy thechance of winning on every total of corners up to and including ‘ten’.

The other method of offering bets on corners looks like this:

0-7 Corners8-10 Corners11 Corners and over

The big difference is that this market has a middle band of three differentoutcomes. This can be very useful when your statistics point to the total number ofcorners being in this middle band. Expect it to pay out at 6/4.

How to ‘hedge’ your bet for safety

You are in an ideal situation if the figures for two ‘low corners’ teams indicate amatch total somewhere in the bookmakers’ middle band. It gives you the opportunityto have a strong bet... and hedge your position too.

Put a strong bet on your favoured, middle band option at 6/4. Then put a smallerbet on the 0-7 band. Expect this ‘low corners’ band to be offered at 10/3.

Your staking plan might be £10 on 0-7 corners, and £15 on 8-10 corners. You’llrecoup £12.50 of your £20 outlay if there are fewer than 7 corners. But you will make£50 tax-free profit – plus your winning £15 stake back – if there are between 8-10.

Enjoy big ‘corners’ winnings on international games too!

In a recent European Championship, one football fan betting via the internet made£26,000 predicting how many corners would be won in selected games. His analysisproduced twelve consecutive winners.

The trick? Noting results from the first couple of matches, and carefully applyingthe extra data revealed by playing style, weather and pitch conditions.

But Beware! Two games is not a large sample, and you should start by bettingcautiously. However, the statistics could still highlight profit opportunities. By thetime the second round of the next World Cup or Euro Championships is reached, youwill be able to draw more confident conclusions.

Insider’s Tip! Make a note of corners data from qualification matches ininternational competitions. You’ll be streets ahead of the bookies when the first roundbegins. They don’t bother to collect this data at all!


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The DOUBLE DUTCH

“…How to select the two strongest horses in a race…and back them both to enjoy a profitwhichever horse wins…”

Why do more professional gamblers operate in horse racing than any other sport?Because around 90% of punters’ money is returned as winnings. Here’s a simple

but powerful system that takes advantage of that fact. Serious gamblers use it toproduce steadily accumulating profits.

‘Dutching’ is a system of backing two horses in a single race to guarantee a settarget profit if either horse wins. Because, in any race, you will have two good horseson your side, a high success rate is assured and long losing runs are all but unheard of.

Grow your money slowly…but securely

Of course, if you are backing two horses to win, one will always lose. But if youfollow the clever staking plan revealed here, you’ll always make a profit overall. Sothis system is ideal if you don’t like taking risks with your betting, and are happy towatch your profits mount steadily.

Follow this 7-step system to go ‘Dutch’ on the best opportunity in today’s race card.

First, buy a daily paper with racing coverage. The Daily Mail is good for thissystem.

Second, eliminate all amateur races, ladies’ races, apprentice races, selling races andany race with ‘novice’ in the title. Such races are frequently something of a lottery.


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Third, eliminate all races where the forecast favourite is 10/11 or shorter odds. Youwill find the betting forecast under the list of runners in each race. Below 10/11, thereis not enough profit in such short-priced runners to make this system viable.

Fourth, for all the races you haven’t eliminated, find the highest-rated horse. Theratings figures are at the far right of the race card. The highest-rated horse in eachrace is highlighted in the Daily Mail by a black circle.

Fifth, select the race in which the highest-rated horse ran most recently. Thenumber of days since a horse last ran is shown by a number directly after the horse’sname (e.g. Red Marauder 16). You’re therefore comparing all the highest-rated horsesand seeking the one with the lowest figure for days since last run. This horse is themost likely to be in peak condition.

Sixth, if two or more races tie because the top-rated horses previously ran on thesame day, give preference to the race with the highest-priced forecast favourite. Thiswill boost your potential winnings.

Finally, once you have selected the best race to ‘Dutch’, back the highest rated andthe forecast favourite. If these are one and the same, the horses to bet on are thehighest rated and the horse named second in the betting forecast.

Now set your stakes to ensure a profit

To make sure your betting is profitable whichever of the two horses wins, convertthe odds for both selections to percentages. To do this, divide the right-hand figure inthe odds by the sum of both figures and then multiply by 100.

For example, say the system above has selected Can’t Lose at 3/1 and GreatChance at 4/1. The percentage odds for Can’t Lose are:

1 ÷ (3 + 1) = 0.250.25 x 100 = 25%

The percentage odds for Great Chance are:

1 ÷ (4 + 1) = 0.200.20 multiplied by 100 = 20%

To set your staking, add these percentages up and subtract from 100. In ourexample, this gives the figure of 55%.

This figure is profit margin

To win, say, £50 from the race, divide your target profit amount by the profitmargin. Then multiply this by the percentage odds for each horse. This will give youthe stakes required.


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For example, the margin is 55% and your target profit is £50. So the figure to use is:

50 ÷ 55 = 0.91

To ensure £50 net profit from this bet, you’ll need to stake:

Can’t Lose:25 x 0.91 = £22.75

Great Chance:20 x 0.91 = £18.20

That’s a total stake of near enough £41 (the slight difference is due to the roundingup or down of decimals). If either horse wins your total returns will be £91, giving youa guaranteed net profit of £50.

Your staking plan made simple

1. Convert each horse’s odds into percentages: Divide the right hand figure by thesum of both.

2. Work out the profit margin on the race: Add the two horses’ percentages, andthen take the answer away from 100.

3. Calculate each horse’s stake: Multiply each horse’s percentage by the profitmargin.

And take note: Sometimes horses start at prices different from those forecast inyour newspaper. So on occasion you’ll win a bit more or less than your target profit.Over time these differences will average out, providing you with a steadily growingbank balance with very little risk.


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System #15: American Ice Hockey

The SLAP SHOT

“…Want to make easy money at the bookies’ expense? Detailed NHL statistics are free –and yet UK bookmakers regularly mess up their prices…”

Ice hockey is a little-known sport in Britain. But in Europe – and especially inAmerica – it’s big business. So British bookies all offer betting on ice hockey…eventhough they don’t bother to follow even the simple rating revealed here!

The National Hockey League (NHL) is the top professional league in NorthAmerica, with 30 teams in cities across the US and Canada. In a season, they all playeach other several times, meaning each team plays over 80 games. Six or more gamesare played most days during the season.

Games are contested between two teams of six, with substitutions occurringregularly. Rules are kept to a minimum. Each team aims to score by hitting the puckinto the opponents’ goal. Games are played in three 20-minute segments, and themain betting opportunity is predicting the winner. Typical prices from UK bookiesmight be Pittsburgh 1/3, Anaheim 2/1. If there’s a draw, your bet is simply refunded.

Use this simple rating system to predict winners

The simple rating system described here will enable you to quickly assess the likelyoutcome of any match. You will need some statistics to compile your ratings, but thesecan be easily obtained from the website www.espn.com. Alternatively, buy USAToday, an American daily newspaper with a European edition.


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First, start by compiling ‘Offensive Ratings’. These show how effective a team is inattack.

• Click on Team Statistics from the ESPN website’s main NHL page and find thecolumn headed SOG. This shows each teams average number of Shots On Goalper match.

• To the left of this, find the column headed GFA. This stands for Goals ForAverage and shows the average number of goals a team scores per game.

• To produce your ‘Offensive Rating’, divide the team’s SOG figure by their GFAfigure.

• This will show you how many shots a team makes on average before they score agoal and provides an effective measure of their attacking prowess.

Second, compile your ‘Defensive Ratings’ to discover how good a team is atshutting out opponents.

• Click on Team Statistics as before, and this time find the column headed SOGA– this stands for Shots On Goal Against and shows the average number of shotsmade by a team’s opponents during a match.

• Divide the SOGA by the figure in the column headed GAA (short for GoalsAgainst Average).

• The resulting figure indicates the number of shots an opposing team has to makebefore they score a goal and provides a good guide to the team’s overall defensiveabilities.

Now, you can weigh up any match in a couple of minutes. Simply calculate andcompare their ‘Offensive and Defensive Ratings’.

Here’s a recent example…

In a game between Boston and Vancouver, this system worked very well.

Boston’s SOG figure was 32.00 and their GFA 1.50.Their ‘Offensive Rating’ was therefore 32.00/1.50 = 21.33.Boston’s SOGA was 22.50 and their GAA 3.00.This gave them a ‘Defensive Rating’ of 22.50/3.00 = 7.50.

The statistics for Vancouver were SOG 27.00, GFA 3.33, SOGA 25.30, GAA 2.00.

This gives an ‘Offensive Rating’ for Vancouver of 8.10 and a ‘Defensive Rating’ of12.65.

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before they conceded one. Vancouver were therefore highly likely to win this game,and in the event ended 6-3 winners.

Multiply your NHL betting profits with UK bookie blunders

UK bookmakers largely take their lead from the US bookies when setting prices.However, if a team’s star player is injured – which occurs regularly due to the physicalnature of the sport – they may be slow to update their odds.

So look for stories on the internet or in USA Today about injuries to a team’s topplayers. If your ratings show that the two teams are at least evenly matched, back thatteam’s next opponents before the UK bookies catch up and shorten their odds.


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The TOTAL-ISER

“…With the right information at your fingertips, it can prove more profitable to bet on howmany goals will be scored in a game, than on which team is going to win…”

To calculate the likely total number of goals that will be scored in a match, simplyadd together the ‘Average Goals Scored’ so far this season for the two teams

playing. Simple!

As with all profitable football bets, this system starts with compiling your own setof statistics. But the data you need is easily available from the internet and in nationalnewspapers. (se the directory listing at the back of this guide for the best sites to visit)

First, look at the latest league table for the division you want to bet on.

Second, look at the ‘Goal’s For’ column.

For each team, simply divide this number by the number of matches played so far.This gives you the average number of goals they score per game.

Finally, add together the averages for the two teams playing each other next.

Got that? Simply add together the ‘Average Goals Scored’ for the two teamsplaying.

Now it’s time to find the best betting price…

Once you have referred to the statistics and made up your mind on a bettingopportunity, you will want to check the bookmakers to see who is offering the best


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odds. Competition in the Total Goals market between UK bookies is fierce. A goodplace to start looking for the best odds is with the ‘big four’.

William Hill, Ladbrokes, Corals and the Tote have shops in High Streets all overthe country, as well as telephone betting services and internet operations. They allhave a full range of “Total Goals” betting for the Premiership, Champions League andinternational matches too. You will often find their offers advertised in thenewspapers, in their shops, and on the internet.

Use their prices as a standard, and then check out the smaller firms, who may beoffering a little more in an effort to win you away from the ‘big boys’.

Here’s how ‘total goals’ betting works

Though bookmakers may present their odds differently, there aren’t too many fancytwists you can give to the Total Goals market. Most football games end with between0 to 6 goals scored. So bookies invariably offer three different ‘bands’ of Total Goals.

Here are the two most popular ways of presenting the odds.

Bookmaker A0-1 Goal2-3 Goals4 or more Goals

Bookmaker B0-1 Goals2 Goals3 or more Goals

The first difference between these two systems is in the middle bandings.Bookmaker A offers you a bet on “either two or three goals” being scored. WithBookmaker B, you would be betting on “exactly two goals” being scored.

Because Bookmaker A is giving you two goals in his middle band, you actually gettwo chances of winning. So the odds won’t be as attractive as Bookmaker B, whooffers you only one chance of winning. There’s only one score in his middle band.

The other difference is that Bookmaker A’s final band is “4 or more goals”, andBookmaker B is for “3 or more”. Although neither of these markets is better than theother, the difference between them means that sometimes you will win if you use onebookie, and lose if you use the other.


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It all depends on what the statistics tell you

Here’s how you can get the best out of both Total Goals systems.

Bookmaker A0-1 Goal2-3 Goals4 or more Goals

Especially profitable IF...

• Your statistics throw up a solid bet on 2 or 3 goals. The middle banding coversthem both with just one bet, and will normally be priced at around 11/10.

• The statistics predict a high scoring game of 4 or more. The highest banding hereallows you to focus your bet on a big total, starting at 4 goals rather than the 3goals band quoted by Bookmaker B. This can make a big difference to the oddsyou get. If you bet on Bookmaker B’s 3 or more, you may be offered around 8/11.But a bet on 4 or more is likely to be priced at about 2/1.

Bookmaker B0-1 Goal2 Goals3 or more Goals

Especially profitable IF...

• Your analysis points to a low scoring match, for example, 1.4 goals. With thisoption you have the opportunity to back the 0 or 1 banding, and also 2 goalsexactly too. This will make you an overall profit whatever the total, so long as itis 2 or less. The banding 0-1 would normally be priced at around 3/1, withexactly 2 offered at about 11/4.

• Your statistics predict a goal tally of just over 3 goals. The final banding here willpay you for 3 exactly, and for every total above 3. This selection would normallybe priced at around 8/11.


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System #17: All sports

The LUCKY one-five

“…Turn £1 into £21, £728 or even £7,216 using this clever ‘big money’ system…”

Are you looking for a quick and easy ‘fun bet’ that also offers you the chance tomake big money? If so, ‘Lucky 15’ is the bet for you. Transform small stakes into

the biggest winnings with these insider’s tricks…

• To place a bet, take a ‘Lucky 15’ slip from the bookies’ cashier – and make fourselections on horses, dogs, football teams, whatever. For example, you mightchoose four horses to win four different races.

• Your selections will be automatically ‘permed’ for you into fifteen bets by thebookmakers. He will give you four singles, six doubles, four trebles, and one four-fold.

• Write your unit stake at the bottom of the slip. Start with £1, for example, andthe bet will cost you £15 (£1 x 15 bets).

If you only get one winner, most bookies will pay out double the odds. For example,if a horse you’ve selected comes in at 5/1, the bookie pays out on 10/1. But someindependent bookies will pay out treble the odds.

You get 10% extra, too!

Plus, there is a 10% extra bonus if all four selections win. If the returns from awinning bet are £500, the bookie will pay out £550. So go for four short-price bets onhorses and dogs. Betting odds-on is recommended rarely, but the multiplication factor


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in the Lucky 15 means it can be highly profitable.

Imagine you back four horses at even money in a Lucky 15 with a £1 stake. It willcost you £15.

• If one horse wins, you receive £4 (£3 for trebled odds, £1 stake).

• Two winners nets you £8 (two winning singles return £2 each, plus £4 for thewinning double).

• Three winners nets £26 (three singles return £6, three doubles £12, and onetreble £8).

• Four winners, and your winnings will be £88 (four singles £8, six doubles £24,four trebles £32, one four-fold £16, total £80 plus 10% bonus = £88).

So with 4 winners, you enjoy a net profit of £73. By comparison, if you’d backed allfour horses as singles worth £3.75 each (to make a total outlay of £15), you wouldhave won just £14.56 and effectively thrown away £57.09!

How to make long-priced bets on football pay

Using the Lucky 15, you can cash in on that treble-plus bonus. Here’s how:

First, seek four matches that you expect to result in narrow home wins.

Next, back them to end 1-0.

You’ll usually get odds of at least 7-1 for this outcome. The return on your ‘perm’will be spectacular…

Four narrow home wins backed in a Lucky 15 with a £1 stake costs £15.

With one correct score, you receive £21 (7-1 at treble odds). That Lucky 15 bonusmeans that you can get treble the odds on the one selection – and at 7-1, you’ll getyour stake back.

Two correct scores generates £80 (£16 on the two singles, £64 on the double).

Three correct scores produces £728 (£24 on three singles, £192 on three doubles,£512 on one treble).

Four correct scores generates £7,216, because you have four singles £32, sixdoubles £384, four trebles £2,048, one four-fold £4,096, total £6,560 plus 10% bonus =£7,216).

Take Note: some betting shop rules exclude football bets from this bonus – so shoparound, and find one who does; and you could make big money.


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The TIGHT & CURLY

“…Five simple steps to cracking the Tote Trifecta’s £30,000 pay-out…”

All horseracing fans dream of winning big money from small stakes. And theTrifecta – a betting opportunity offered by state bookmakers, the Tote – enables

you to do just that.

You can have a single £1 bet on three horses to finish first, second and third in thatorder. Like all Tote betting, the Trifecta is a pool bet. All the money staked goes tothe winning punters, less a deduction for the Tote’s profit. And if a Trifecta is notwon, the pool is rolled over to the following race, and so on…until a win is achieved.You could bag £30,000 or more with your £1 bet!

But your chances of success are far too remote to be worthwhile. Better to try a‘perm’ bet…using clever maths – that doesn’t require a university degree.

How to perm a Tote Trifecta bet

First, save wasted time by bearing in mind the Tote’s rules for using the Trifecta.

• Un-named selections, e.g just writing ‘Favourite’, are not accepted in Trifectabets.

• If the field is reduced to less than 5 runners before coming under Starter’s Orders,your bet will be declared void.

• Trifecta bets that include a non-runner will be void.

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worry about getting the order right.

Third, get a Trifecta betting slip from one of Tote Direct’s 4,500 betting shopterminals…via the Tote itself at every racecourse…by phone through the Tote CreditClub (0800 269188)…and on the internet at http://www.tote-betting.net/tote-trifecta-betting.php.

Fourth, to cover these three horses in any possible order, you will place a total of24 bets.

Fifth, fill out your slip with this system:

First Second ThirdHorse A Horse B Horse CHorse A Horse C Horse BHorse B Horse A Horse CHorse B Horse C Horse AHorse C Horse B Horse AHorse C Horse A Horse BBetting 10p per line, this will cost you £2.40.

Extra Tip: This can be a good bet to use at tracks where there is frequently a drawbias. The tracks at Ayr, Chester, Kempton, Leicester, Ripon and Yarmouth commonlyhave winners mainly from the top or bottom of the draw. To spot which way the drawbias is running, observe the early races without betting on any of them. Then pickthree well-drawn horses with decent form and back them in a three-horse perm.


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The GRASSHOPPER

“…Master the secret art of Asian Handicap betting today…and make a profit even if yourteam loses…”

Football betting is a firm favourite among serious betters. But predicting whether amatch will result in a home win, draw or away win can be tricky. Asian handicap

betting makes life much easier by reducing the number of possible outcomes for anygame from three to just two.

Here’s all you need to know…

For any match the bookmaker quotes a ‘handicap line’ for both teams. Punters canthen back the team of their choice to win after the handicap has been taken intoaccount. This means you can still win your bet even if your team loses.

For example, say Liverpool are playing Aston Villa in the Premiership. Asianhandicap odds may be offered as follows:

Team Handicap Line Money LineLiverpool –1.5 2.00Aston Villa +1.5 1.80

The money line represents the odds on offer about each team. The decimal oddsshow the total return (including the original stake money) to a successful £1 bet.

If you bet £1 at odds of 1.80, and your bet wins, your total return would be £1.80.


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Want to back Liverpool? In this Asian handicap, they will need to beat theirhandicap of -1.5…but of course, 1 and a half goals doesn’t exist in football. So theywill need to win by two or more goals. In this case, your winnings will be paid at oddsof 2.00, i.e. you will get back twice your stake money.

If Liverpool wins by one goal, the handicap match is a draw and your money isreturned.

If Aston Villa wins, the bet is lost.

In contrast, if you want to back Aston Villa, the handicap gives them a 1.5 goalheadstart, which means that as long as they win, draw or lose by no more than asingle goal, you win the bet.

No matter what the Asian Handicap says, you can assess the handicap linesquickly:

• The favourite always has a minus handicap, the underdog a plus. A minus figureshows the ‘head start’ a team gives its opponents, while a plus figure is theadvantage a team begins with.

• To calculate the outcome of an Asian handicap bet, you need to add (in the caseof the underdog) or subtract (if backing the favourite) the handicap figure fromyour team’s goal total.

• If the handicapped result is a draw, then your original stake is returned.

Now start using this easy method to find winning bets

To predict the likely outcome of a match, find the following figures:• goals scored by home team at home• goals conceded by home team at home• goals scored by away team away from home• goals conceded by away team away from home.

Then simply take the number of goals scored by the home team at home andsubtract the number of goals conceded at home. This will give you a goal differencefigure (GDF) for the home team.

Do the same for the away side, taking the number of goals scored away from home,and subtracting the number conceded. Comparing the teams’ GDFs will give a goodindication of the likely outcome.

For example, say Spurs are playing Newcastle at home. Spurs have scored 29 goalsat home and conceded 14, giving them a GDF of 15. Newcastle have scored 15 goalsaway but conceded 26, giving them a GDF of –11. The difference is 26 in Spurs’favour, clearly indicating a probable win for the home side. Look for Handicap Lines


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offering good returns for that outcome.

Grasshopper’s 3 secret tips…

• Where the difference in GDFs is less than 6, a draw is the likeliest result.

• If the difference is 6 to 12, bet on a single-goal victory for the team with thebetter GDF.

• With a difference of 13 or more, back the side with the higher GDF if they havea handicap of –1.5 or better.


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The KOALA KICKER

“…Keep backing away wins in Australian soccer and you could turn £20 into £1,280 nextsummer…”

The British summer can be a dull time for football fans – but the good news is theAustralian football season offers some great opportunities for you to clean up

while everyone else is waiting for August to arrive.

Australian football is just the same as soccer in the UK – except there are far moreleagues. To get involved, you simply need the Australian Football fixed odds couponfrom a betting shop. Ask the cashier. Most Australian matches on UK fixed oddscoupons come from the Victoria state leagues.

Make sure your bet gets placed in time…

Remember, the Australians are 12 hours ahead of us! So even though all Australianfootball matches take place on Saturday, bets must be handed in to your bookmakerby Friday evening UK time.

Your greatest advantage over the bookie is that in the Aussie leagues, almost asmany games end in victory for the visitors (38%) as they do for the home side (41%).Perhaps because the sport is mainly amateur and crowds are small, home advantagedoes not count for very much. Yet British bookmakers frequently price up Australiangames as though they were English league matches, with prices more generous thanthey should be for away wins!

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First, look at the fixed odds coupon from your bookmaker. Or visithttp://www.footballfedvic.com.au/ to access the stats this simple system requires.

Second, look at the Home team.• Note the total number of goals they’ve scored at home so far this season.• Note the total number of goals they’ve conceded in their home games so far.

For example, in a match between Lalor United and Fitzroy, you might find that thehome team, Lalor United, has had 10 goals for and 14 against in home matches. Thisgives them a net figure of -4.

Third, repeat this calculation for the Away team – this time though, using onlygoals scored and conceded in Away matches. For example, you might discover thatFitzroy have scored 12 and conceded 9 goals. This gives them a net score of +3.

Fourth, work out whether the Away team has a superiority of five goals or more. Ifso, they’re worth backing for a win. So if Lalor United have a home rating of -4 andFitzroy an away rating of +3, Fitzroy have a superiority of 7. They will be a clear pickto win this game.

Special Conditions!• Only place bets those weeks you have between 3-6 matches that offer an Awayteam with +5 superiority.

• If there are more than six, choose the six games offering the biggest superiority tothe visiting team.

• Use the ‘Long List’ of around 45 matches (on the left-hand side of the coupon).Against each chosen match, mark a ‘2’ in the first column, and place your bet.

• If you have four to six matches, mark them with ‘2’, and in the column headed‘Perms’ write ‘Perm any treble’. Your bet will then include every possiblecombination of three matches from the total shown.

Following this simple system, you will outwit the famously dim British bookies onAustralian soccer. And with that perm (above), betting a £20 stake could win you acool £1,280!

The average odds of an Away win are 3/1…so a winning treble will return amassive £640 to a £10 stake. But if the system finds 6 winning matches for you,perming them for every possible treble would require 20 bets. Stake £1 on each, and ifall six are aways you will win 20 x 64 = £1,280!


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System #21: Baseball

The MONEYBALL FORMULA

“…This simple system can defeat the clueless British bookies to net you £580 profit for just£11 risk…”

For a golden opportunity to relieve your bookie of some of his dosh, look no furtherthan baseball. The game is widely misunderstood by UK bookies and the betting

public – yet there is no need to be a baseball expert to cash in on the opportunities itoffers.

All you need to do is check and compare some simple statistics that are availableon the internet. And if you want to watch the games, they are shown on Sky Sportsand Channel Five.

Enjoy 6 months of steady summer betting

The game itself is similar to rounders. It is played by two teams of nine whoalternate as batters and fielders. They change places when three members of thebatting team are out.

As batters, players try to hit the ball out of reach of the fielding team and run acomplete circuit round the field to score a ‘run’. The team that scores most runs innine innings wins the game. Simple!

The American Major League Baseball (MLB) season runs from April to Octoberduring which each team plays 162 games at the rate of six or seven a week, andsometimes two a day. So, there are plenty of betting opportunities for you to enjoy


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throughout the summer. After the regular season, leading teams meet to decide thecontestants for baseball’s ultimate prize, The World Series.

How to spot your winning opportunity

Most high street and internet bookies now accept bets on the major competitionsas well as individual games. You can bet either on the winner of a match or on thetotal number of runs scored. Take note: between 7 and 8 runs is an average total in abaseball game.

The World Series gets most of the publicity and betting action, but you’ll get bettergambling opportunities with individual games. Hundreds of games are played duringthe season and with so many matches to keep track of, British bookies regularly makemistakes when they set the odds. It won’t take much to get the better of yourbookmaker and turn the tables.

By keeping track of readily available statistics’ you’ll be in a position to spot somegilt-edged betting opportunities!

First, get the statistics you need from http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/statistics

Second, study the most important player in any baseball team: the pitcher. His roleis to throw the ball at the batters as fast and accurately as possible, so they have nochance of hitting it well and getting a run.

Third, look at the pitcher’s ‘Earned Runs Average’ (ERA) on the website. Thisgives you the average number of runs he concedes through poor pitching during agame. It is an average for the season so far.

Fourth, compare pitchers’ abilities easily: If you are weighing up a game and teamA’s pitcher has an ERA of 2.5 and team B’s has an ERA of 5.6, for example, you willsee straight away that team A should have an enormous advantage.

Fifth, go one step further than the average punter, and calculate the pitcher’s TotalRuns Average (TRA). You see, the ERA statistic doesn’t give the full picture. To getthe edge, calculate the TRA to discover the total average number of runs a teamconcedes when a particular pitcher is playing for them.

• Use the ESPN website as before.

• Find the total number of runs scored against the pitcher (shown under theheading R).

• Multiply this by nine (the number of innings in a game).

• Then divide by the number of innings he has played throughout the season.

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him and played in 208 innings. His TRA is therefore (84 x 9) ÷ 208 = 3.63. Anyteam with a TRA advantage of 2 runs or more is well worth backing.

There are so many games played in a baseball season that the best approach is touse a long-term strategy for the summer, using the statistics given here. Typical oddsare 10/11, so if you bet £11 each time and get 20% wrong, over 100 matches youcould well be looking at a net profit of £580 for the season!


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System #22: Motorbikes

The DREAM MACHINE

“…How the Rainmen could make you 350% profit in this year’s Superbike WorldChampionship…”

Unless you’re already an enthusiast, you may not know much about Superbikeracing. But the good news is that you’re not alone. The sport is poorly

understood among bookmakers too…and there lies your route to turbo-chargedprofits.

Superbikes are the fastest, most powerful two-wheelers around. They can reachspeeds of more than 230 miles per hour. They’re noisy, dangerous and some people areactually mad enough to race them.

The ultimate challenge for professional riders is the World Championship series,which starts in March and finishes at the end of September. Prices are available fromall the major bookmakers for the separate races – but time and again, the bookies gettheir prices wrong, giving you the chance to fill your boots.

Avoid the bookies’ key mistake…

First, forget everything you know about Formula 1 racing. There’s no relationship.Not that the clueless British bookmaking industry knows this. The bookies price upthe sport in a similar way to Formula 1 motor racing. Mistake!

In F1, a good position on the starting grid is essential. But in Superbikes, it’snowhere near as significant. The big difference between grid positions in the twosports, which bookmakers have totally failed to grasp, is that in F1 the cars line up in

rows of two, so if you are in eighth position you are four rows from the leader. But inSuperbikes riders line up in rows of four, so if you’re eighth on the grid, you are rightbehind the leader on row two.

So bookmakers often price riders who are placed back on the grid more generouslythan they ought to! In one race last year for instance, victorious rider Ben Bostrom waspriced at 9/2 as he was further down the grid. More realistic odds would have been 9/4.

Turbocharge your winnings by 42%

The rider who qualifies for pole position (first on the starting grid) in Superbikesalmost inevitably becomes the short-priced favourite. But such favouritism is unlikelyto be justified. Of 14 Superbike races last year, only four were won by riders startingfrom pole.

Instead, back any of the top riders who – because of a ‘poor’ starting grid position –are being quoted at odds of 3/1 or better.

Plus, watch out for the rain

The weather has a tremendous impact on Superbike racing. Many riders canperform well when it’s dry, but only a very few have the skill and nerve to sustain anattacking drive in dangerous wet conditions. Yet the bookmakers take no account ofthe weather in their prices!

Keep up with the best riders by following the World Championship on TV – forfull details, including a list of all this year’s events, see the BBC’s website at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/default.stm


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System #23: Tennis

The DOLLY SHOT

“…How to find and use the three key factors deciding EVERY tennis match you canname…”

Tennis is not the bookies’ favourite sport; they frequently disagree on prices and getthem wrong. This gives you some ‘gilt-edged’ opportunities to clean up. Here’s

how to raid the bookies’ wallets...

The three secrets to successful tennis betting

First, find out which surface suits which players best. Outdoor tennis tournamentsare played on grass, clay or hardcourt surfaces, each demanding different skills andsuiting different individuals.

• Powerful players with big serves (like Lleyton Hewitt) do well on grass surfacessuch as Wimbledon.

• Athletic players with a wide range of shots (like Roger Federer) perform best onclay courts.

• Hardcourt surfaces also favour the big servers.

You can check which surface any professional player does best by using the OfficialGuide to Professional Tennis (available from The Tennis Gallery, tel. 020 8715 8866,price £22). Or look up their website on http://www.atptennis.com.

Second, form is a major factor, also found in the ATP book and on its website. Theworld rankings are crucial. But not as important as the third factor…


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Third, check the head-to-head results between the players about to meet eachother. For instance, if one player has beaten the other in their last three matches,there is every likelihood he will do so again – even if his opponent is higher ranked.

Now make sure-fire profits betting on both players

With just two possible results in every tennis match, you can sometimes guaranteeyourself a profit by backing both players by ‘shopping around’. For example, in arecent Wimbledon Ladies’ Final, the bookies couldn’t decide who was the favourite –Lindsay Davenport or Venus Williams. By betting with different bookies it waspossible to get odds of 5/4 on both.

If you had staked £200 on each player at these odds, you would have beenguaranteed a return of £450 and a ‘net’ profit of £50 whichever player won!

To spot opportunities like this, go to www.betbrain.com. You want to look foropposing players having the same odds at different bookies – and then bet on both.You can be sure to line your pockets with this strategy.

But Note! You must only bet when both players are at Even money or more. Don’tbet on two players at 10/11 for instance…you’ll end up out of pocket.


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System# 24: Cricket

The BURNING STUMP

“…How to win money whenever England take to the field…”

Cricket is a sport ideally suited to spread betting. You can make big profits and, bytaking sensible precautions, avoid any risk of losing your shirt.

Here’s how spread betting on cricket works.

• The bookies quote a ‘spread’ between two figures.

• The most popular spread in cricket is the number of runs in an innings. So if, forexample, a bookmaker quotes a spread of 220–240 for England’s first innings in amatch, you decide whether the final score will be higher or lower than the spread.

• Say you think England will score more than 240 runs, place a BUY bet. IfEngland score 300, your winnings are (300 – 240) x £5 = £300.

• On the other hand, if you think they’ll score less than 220 runs, place a SELLbet. If they score only 190, you win (240 – 190) x £5 = £250.

Limit your risk by betting ‘in running’

Your potential gains and losses from spread betting can be huge. The final cricketscores often differ significantly from the initial spreads quoted by the bookmaker. Butyou can get round this risk by betting ‘in running’ – that is, ‘live’ whilst the match isbeing played.

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scored or wicket taken affects the price they offer to potential punters. This means youdon’t have to wait until the match is ended to win (or lose) your bet. You can “close”your position at any time.

Use this fact to protect yourself:

• Set a stop loss of (say) £50 per bet. Stick to it.

• If the spread quoted by the bookies moves to within one point of where yourpotential losses exceed your stop loss, close your bet. Take the loss, and saveyourself for another day.

• This requires strong discipline. But think about it: even if you are right only halfthe time, closing all your losing bets when they are just £50 down means you canlet your winning bets ride to give you a tidy profit overall.

Now use this winning system…

First, don’t bet when the match starts! Wait and watch the first few overs instead.If the batsmen reach 20 or so without loss, the spread will normally rise by 20 or so –even though the batsmen have done nothing more than fulfil normal expectations.This is a good time to place a sell bet on total runs.

On the other hand, if a couple of wickets tumble at the start of a match, the spreadwill fall fast. If there are any decent batsmen left, a buy bet can offer value.

Third, always bet against the crowd. Popular bets – like, say, England to win theAshes – offer great opportunities for straight-thinking sports fans. If more people buythan sell a spread, then it gets pushed up. The selling becomes more attractive. Butless informed punters will keep buying…even though the spread has becomeunattractive. Don’t make their mistake – place a sell bet.

Add to your profits with this clever system

In Test match series, the bookmakers also quote spreads for individual players basedon the total runs they score or wickets they take during a series. There can be goodopportunities here.

• Well-known players in poor current form are often quoted at too high a figure.So ‘selling’ them can be highly profitable.

• Also look for players who are especially injury-prone. If they take part in onlyone or two matches, a sell bet on their series performance should generate a tastyprofit.


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FREE BONUS SYSTEM: Horse racing

The DEAD BEAT

“…Thanks to the ‘bet exchange’ revolution, you can win big money by backing Britain’sworst horse tipsters…”

Are you sick of bad tipsters? Well, here’s a new way you could make money fromtheir rotten tips. By using internet betting exchanges, you can make money

backing horses to lose.

This is not a new idea – bookmakers have been doing it for years! But now, for thefirst time, you can board the gravy train too. Read on to discover how you can jointhe select few who have learned how to turn a losing streak into gilt-edged profits...

At a bet exchange, you set the odds

These websites are not bookmakers; they don’t quote odds or take bets themselves.Instead, they allow individual punters to bet directly against each other – rather likean informal bet between friends on Grand National day.

The exchange makes its money by charging a small commission (5% or less) oneach wager. Most exchanges are international operations, so they use decimal ratherthan UK fractional odds. However, you can easily convert decimals. Simply use theCash Converter at the back of this book.

Now get all the horses running for you….except the loser!

If you think a certain horse has no chance of winning his next race, you can betagainst him very easily using a bet exchange website. All you need to find is someoneelse who thinks the horse will win. You can then “lay” the horse to them for them to“back”.


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• Let’s say you accept £50 at a price of 2.00 (even money).

• If the horse loses as you expect, you get to keep the £50.

• If the horse wins, you will have to pay the other punter his winnings of £50, plushis £50 stake returned.

You can see that, because you are laying rather than backing, all the other horses inthe race will be running for you. In a ten-horse race, you would have nine horses onyour side and only one against you!

Why this system is so exciting

Most people use betting exchanges as substitute bookmakers. They use them toback horses rather than lay them. So as long as you are offering similar or slightlybetter odds to the bookies, you should have no problem getting takers. Here’s how totake money off these punters, week in…week out.

First, sign up at the world’s most popular betting exchange, Betfair, atwww.betfair.com. You’ll need to register before you can start ‘laying’, but this is a quickand simple procedure. Click on ‘New User’ at the top right of the homepage, thenfollow the on-screen instructions.

Second, deposit some funds in your account before you can start betting.

Third, identify the country’s worst tipsters…and offer to lay their selections. Here’show.

• Go to www.racingpost.co.uk• Click on ‘Tipsters’; you need to register for this service, but it’s free• Then go to ‘Naps Table’.• Take a good hard look at the table showing this season’s performance of over 60newspaper tipsters – best at the top, worst at the bottom.

• See which horses the three worst-performing tipsters are recommending today(also shown in the table).

Then go to Betfair and lay them!

First, at www.betfair.com, find the horse you expect to lose, and look across to thepink column headed ‘Available to Lay’.

Look at the upper figure in this box. It shows you the best (i.e. shortest) odds youcan offer currently to get a ‘lay’ bet accepted (e.g. 1.80); the lower figure shows themaximum amount backers are willing to stake at this price (e.g. £200).

If you are happy with these odds, click on the ‘Lay’ button and enter how muchyou want to bet in the ‘betting slip’ window.


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Click on ‘Place Bet’ – then all you have to do is wait for your horse to lose!

Five more ways to increase your betting profits

#1. If the best price available on Betfair seems stingy, advertise for a better one!Say the betting page shows that the shortest price backers are willing to accept foryour selection is evens (2.00). Offer 1.90 and wait for any takers.

#2. Try laying two horses in a race. At least one is bound to lose, giving you aguaranteed return!

#3. Don’t be tempted to offer long odds about horses you think have no chance ofwinning – one day that 100/1 shot will romp home, costing you a fortune. Stick tolaying relatively short-priced horses. These are the ones most people want to back.

#4. Once you’ve cut your teeth on Betfair, try other exchanges such aswww.gg.com. You can back a horse at one exchange and lay it at a shorter price atanother – giving you a guaranteed profit!

#5. Visit the ‘insiders’ website at www.theracingforum.co.uk and check out their‘Titanics’ section. The messages posted here concern horses experienced puntersexpect to lose – this could save you a lot of time and trouble on research.

Bottom line is, you can make good money laying at betting exchanges, as long asyou don’t get too greedy. If in a week you lay ten horses for £50 a time at evens andthree of them win, you would make £200. Less 5% for Betfair’s fees, that makes a veryhandy £190.

By contrast, if you back ten horses for £50 a time at evens with a bookie and findthree winners you would be looking at a net loss of £200…!


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Website Directorywww.ladbrokes.com

www.willhill.com

www.eurobet.co.uk

www.bluesq.com

www.sportingodds.com

www.paddypower.com

www.betonsports.co.uk

www.gamebookers.com

www.bet247.com

www.sportingbet.co.uk

www.stanleybet.com

www.surreysports.com

www.totalbet.com

www.victorchandler.com

www.ukbetting.com

www.sportodds.com.au

www.centrebet.com

www.canbet.com

www.betthe.net

www.interwetten.com

www.stanjames.com


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Spread Betting Accounts: How to ProtectYourself with a Stop Loss System

There are several dedicated spread betting bookmakers now vying for your customtoo. But watch out! While spread betting can prove very lucrative if you call thedirection of a cricket innings or financial index correctly, you can lose your shirt if youget it wrong.

So the spread betting bookmakers’ criteria for authorising new accounts is verystrict. They want to know that your credit is good.

• All references you give when applying for an account will be followed up.

• Note that spread bets are the one form of gambling debt recoverable under UK law.

• If you want to enjoy spread betting without risking too much money, applyinstead for a ‘budget account’. Some firms, like Sporting Index, offer accounts thatlimit any possible loss to a figure which you can pre-determine, and which suits yourpocket.

City Index at www.cityindex.co.uk

• Comprehensive range of Sporting & Financial Markets

• Flexible markets – bet after kick-off

• 24-hour Financial trading

• No commission, brokerage or stamp duty

• Instant executions


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Sporting Index at www.sportingindex.com

• Live pricing

• Innovative markets

• Offers 3 different types of account to suit budget

• Offers widest range of markets

• Minimum stake as small as 50p

IG Index at www.igindex.com

• Wide range of financial markets

• Average range of sporting markets

• Switch/delta facility, credit or deposit

• Live pricing

• Strong US Sports Markets

William Hill Index at [email protected]

• Switch/delta facility, credit or deposit

• Live pricing

• Excellent standard of operators

• Wide range of markets

• Free £100 superiority bet on account opening


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INFORMATION SITESHere is a selection of information websites that I use on a daily or weekly basis.

There are plenty of others, and maybe you will find sites that you like better, but thesewill get you off to a good start…

General News Sites

www.ananova.com

A very useful site for breaking news, updated surprisingly quickly. Good all-roundservice especially for sports such as football, motor sports and golf. Ananova offers afree email alert facility which can be tailored to suit clients’ particular needs. Forexample, instead of requesting ‘football’ you can specify a single area of that sport e.g.Scottish Division 3, and receive information on that division only. www.ananova.comprovides an at-a-glance update that is easy to use, with few of the time-consuminggraphics that slow other news sites down.

www.newsnow.co.uk

An excellent site which cleverly covers a wide range of sports. Newsnow uses ahuge network of specialist sites as providers for the news headlines, and this can resultin the information being virtually news-site “exclusive”. For example, the relationshipbetween Agusta, one of the worlds leading aeronautical designers and the FerrariMarenello Formula 1 team was first released by the official www.ferrari.com site, butappeared on www.newsnow.co.uk just seconds later. This information was of immenseworth to the professional investor.

Newsnow is a very sharp collector of information, and probably rates as the bestnews site I have seen.

www.sport365.com

Part of the ‘365’ network. Quick up with some of their stories, and uses Reuters as a

news provider. Covers a fair range of the more popular sports and they archive all oldheadlines for viewing.

www.espn.com

US-based site that provides a very useful sports news service for NFL, MLB, NHL,and NBA. Accurate and concise, and available to the reader ‘as it happens’. Alsovery good for Tennis and Golf information.

Soccer

I find the official sites can be of immense use at times, for injury and suspensioninformation as well as for draw and tournament detail.

www.uefa.com

Recently revamped to include an informative “Match Centre” zone for each oftheir competitions, as well as a fairly quick news service. “Media Information” can beof use at times.

www.fifa.com

Excellent site that has only one downfall – it is a nightmare to navigate. However,once you have mastered its unexpected twists and turns, www.fifa.com provides all theinformation that you will need on any fifa match.

www.scottishfootball.com

Can be handy for injury news although not released as quickly as I would like.

www.soccerage.com

Professional site dedicated to Soccer. News service is well laid out and archiveditems are easily found. Useful ‘team news’ pages allow you to pin-point yourresearches quickly

www.sportal.com

www.football365.com

www.soccerbase.com

Tennis

www.atptour.com

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www.tenniscorner.net

Good site for player info if you want to make tennis a sport you specialise in.

www.masters-series.com

Cricket

www.cricinfo.com

The first dedicated cricket site to go live on the net. Packed with stats andhistorical form, Cricinfo is the market leader when it comes to providing informationon leagues and tournaments worldwide.

Some useful tools on cricinfo.com:

• Run Rate comparison charts produced for international matches. Excellent, asthey give an accurate feel to how a game is going.

• Stats Guru: Enter whatever player, ground, or team you are interested in, andThe Stats Guru will supply you with all the information you are likely to need.Incredibly quick and easy to use.

• Live Index: Quick way to find out a monthly schedule of play with start timesand venues.

www.cricketline.com

Golf

www.pgatour.com

The only top-class US tour golf site on the net, but what a beauty. The jewel in thecrown is the live hole-by-hole coverage which at times gives you crucial leader boardchanges faster than the TV coverage! The important point to make here is that youshould not wait for the automatic page refresh, use the F5 key or the right clickfunction to manually refresh the page.

In general, an excellent service for tee-off times, leader board info, general golfnews and comprehensive tournament schedules. Information is quick and accurate.

www.europeantour.com

Offers the same service as pgatour.com for the European circuit.


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Snooker

www.worldsnooker.com

Good layout of draw information, updated quickly and easy to download. Goodlevel of news, and “live scoring” facility for selected tournaments.

www.110sport.com

Well-organised site that covers all of the season’s tournaments. Draw formatdisplayed quickly and in an easy-to-view fashion.

Darts

www.planetdarts.co.uk

A good site, that is well laid out, with some interesting areas to explore, includinga world ranking page.

Livescores

The majority of dedicated sports websites provide live scores for their particularsports, but here are two score specialists who might prove useful on occasions.

www.livescore.com

A longstanding website that provides a fair service for soccer live scores.Worldwide service with an easy-to-use index.

www.wetten-schwechat.at

Good, and in the main quick, live score site that covers a wide range of sports.Punctuality can be erratic, but they are often still first up, especially on obscuretournaments.


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Cash Converter Table #1

BETTING ODDS GRID

This table shows three different ways of writing odds. The first you know: UKfractions, like 2/1. But the others might look unfamiliar...

Euro Decimal: This gives the number your stake is multiplied by, plus your stakereturned. So 33/1, for instance, becomes 34. You will get 34 times your money back ifyou win.

US Lineage: Like Euro Decimals, only without the stake included. You still get it ifyou win, of course!

UK Euro US % UK Euro US %Fractional Decimal Lineage Take Out Fractional Decimal Lineage Take Out

33/1 34.00 +3300 2.9411 12/5 3.40 +240 29.411725/1 26.00 +2500 3.8461 9/4 3.25 +225 30.769220/1 21.00 +2000 4.7619 11/5 3.20 +220 31.250018/1 19.00 +1800 5.2631 85/40 3.12 +212 32.000016/1 17.00 +1600 5.8823 2/1 3.00 +200 33.330014/1 15.00 +1400 6.6666 15/8 2.87 +187 34.782612/1 13.00 +1200 7.6923 9/5 2.80 +180 35.714211/1 12.00 +1100 8.3333 7/4 2.75 +175 36.363610/1 11.00 +1000 9.0909 13/8 2.62 +162 38.09529/1 10.00 +900 10.0000 8/5 2.60 +160 38.461517/2 9.50 +850 10.5263 6/4 2.50 +150 40.00008/1 9.00 +800 11.1111 7/5 2.40 +140 41.666615/2 8.50 +750 11.7647 11/8 2.37 +137 42.10527/1 8.00 +700 12.5000 5/4 2.25 +125 44.444413/2 7.50 +650 13.3333 6/5 2.20 +120 45.45456/1 7.00 +600 14.2857 11/10 2.10 +110 47.619011/2 6.50 +550 15.3846 21/20 2.05 +105 48.78045/1 6.00 +500 16.6666 EVS 2.00 +100 50.00009/2 5.50 +450 18.1818 20/21 1.95 -105 51.28204/1 5.00 +400 20.0000 10/11 1.90 -110 52.38347/2 4.50 +350 22.2222 5/6 1.83 -120 54.546410/3 4.33 +333 23.0769 4/5 1.80 -125 55.55553/1 4.00 +300 25.0000 10/13 1.77 -130 56.521714/5 3.80 +280 26.3157 8/11 1.72 N/A 57.897111/4 3.75 +275 26.6666 10/14 1.71 -140 58.333313/5 3.60 +260 27.7777 4/6 1.67 -150 60.0000


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5/2 3.50 +250 28.5714 10/16 1.62 -160 61.53848/13 1.61 N/A 61.9080 1/6 1.16 -600 85.71426/10 1.60 N/A 62.5000 2/13 1.15 -650 86.670110/17 1.58 -170 62.9629 1/7 1.14 -700 87.50434/7 1.57 -175 63.6375 2/15 1.13 -750 88.235210/18 1.55 -180 64.2857 1/8 1.12 -800 88.88888/15 1.53 N/A 65.2173 2/17 1.11 -850 89.473610/19 1.52 -190 65.5100 1/9 1.11 -900 90.00001/2 1.50 -200 66.6666 1/10 1.10 -1000 90.90904/9 1.44 -225 69.2328 1/11 1.09 -1100 91.66662/5 1.40 -250 71.4285 1/12 1.08 -1200 92.30764/11 1.36 -275 73.3352 1/14 1.07 -1400 93.33331/3 1.33 -300 75.0018 1/16 1.06 -1600 94.11763/10 1.30 -333 76.9230 1/18 1.05 -1800 94.73682/7 1.28 -350 77.7786 1/20 1.05 -2000 95.23801/4 1.25 -400 80.0000 1/22 1.04 -2200 95.65212/9 1.22 -450 81.8181 1/25 1.04 -2500 96.15381/5 1.20 -500 83.3333 1/28 1.03 -2800 96.55172/11 1.18 -550 84.6166 1/33 1.03 -3300 97.0500


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Fraction Decimal33/1 34.0025/1 26.0020/1 21.0018/1 19.0016/1 17.0014/1 15.0012/1 13.0011/1 12.0010/1 11.009/1 10.0017/2 9.508/1 9.0015/2 8.507/1 8.0013/2 7.506/1 7.0011/2 6.505/1 6.00

5.905.805.705.60

9/2 5.505.405.305.205.10

4/1 5.004.904.804.704.60

7/2 4.504.404.35

10/3 4.334.304.254.204.154.104.05

Fraction Decimal3/1 4.00

3.953.903.85

14/5 3.8011/4 3.75

3.703.65

13/5 3.603.55

5/2 3.503.45

12/5 3.403.353.30

9/4 3.2511/5 3.20

3.1585/40 3.12

3.103.05

2/1 3.002.952.90

15/8 2.872.85

9/5 2.807/4 2.75

2.702.65

13/8 2.628/5 2.60

2.556/4 2.50

2.492.482.472.462.452.442.432.422.41

Fraction Decimal7/5 2.40

2.392.38

11/8 2.372.362.352.342.332.322.312.302.292.282.272.26

5/4 2.252.242.232.222.21

6/5 2.202.192.182.172.162.152.142.132.122.11

11/10 2.102.092.082.072.06

21/20 2.052.042.03

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