The most important question in racing -
The one you must
answer truthfully if you ever hope to make race betting an important source of
income . . .
Do you bet to win races -
or do you bet to win money?
There is a huge difference.
Really, most players bet to win races - the
more the better. They have a need to get lots of winners and that's
understandable; however, the skill that leads
to real betting profits is: The ability to
identify potentially lucrative betting situations and then bet them correctly
- even if it's likely that particular race may be lost.
This is what separates the professional
from the crowd.
At
Horse
Racing Gold
we believe betting success depends
on a multi-pronged approach.
You
must be in a position to cash in on the big payoffs while also getting the
"bread and butter" medium payoffs that carry and protect your
bankroll.
This is accomplished by
the implementation of "Portfolio Betting."
Portfolio betting requires setting up multiple and separate bankrolls for
different types of bets: Win, exacta, trifecta - etc..
Each bet type needs to have a positive expectancy. The banks will
fluctuate - sometimes wildly - but while one part of the portfolio in a losing streak -
another
will be in a winning streak. One bank might be hitting many relatively low
paying "bread and butter" winners while another hits only one winner
in three or four days of betting - but pays big.
That's the point of portfolio betting. It smoothes the highs and
lows. It commits neither to the highest ROI facet of your betting nor to
the highest win% facet of your betting.
Example: One trifecta method you use is getting you a
very high ROI of +43% - but hits at only a 1 in 11 race clip. An exacta
strategy you employ gets only a +12% ROI - but hits at a 4 in 9 race
clip. Both are positive and both serve a purpose in portfolio betting.
The tri method of course is an obvious play, but its low 9.1% win rate is
dangerous. The risk of a potentially long losing streak will always be
present. Employing the less profitable but much less risky exacta strategy
at the same time will help you weather the inevitable losing steak for the tri
bets.
You must put yourself in the position to win . . .
- If you are psychologically "down" because you're going through a
long losing streak - you might skip a day of racing that you otherwise
wouldn't have. That day might produce
what would have been a week's
profit in one good trifecta hit.
- If your bankroll is rapidly diminishing - you're likely to change your
betting and again miss
out on a big payoff.
- If you limit yourself to a strictly conservative betting approach -
you'll often watch your horses
come in - involved in big exotics payoffs -
without your money on them.
For most players, we
advocate maintaining multiple bankrolls, from among; Win, Exacta, Place and
Show parlays.