jason_x
21st February 2012, 04:12 PM
After losing a bunch of money on horse racing I tried Greyhounds place market. To hard to hit the win market consistently but the place market is surprisingly easy to beat. I just go to William Hill site and look through all the various aids they have available in the "dogs running form" applet linked just above the main page for each race. It's a relatively easy matter to determine from all available information on there one dog which is not ranked a top 2 favourite but actually has a very good chance of placing 1st or 2nd. Since they are non-favs you can get pretty good odds on them. This morning I made $66 betting $6 per race. I had a 50% strike rate from 18 games and the prices were always between 2 and 4. Once I made a mistake and accidentally backed a different dog than I intended to. It lost but the one I had intended to back actually came in 1st. Would have made a couple more units on that one.
It's very tricky trying to trade on the dogs but simply doing this place market backing of undervalued dogs is working very nicely so far. Could be a one day lucky streak but it looks very promising so far. If the prices happen to go down I could lay it off but this rarely happens. Just going with the bets seems more profitable anyway. The William Hill site is very good for getting all required info quickly and freely. Interestingly, their computer generated "Predictor" is nowhere near as accurate as simply doing it manually by viewing all available data. You can easily pick out the relevant stats and mentally judge the outcome a lot better than any computer. They are locked into a set methodology while a human can make a more realistic judgment in a few minutes of comparisons just before the race starts.
I usually start going through the info about 10 minutes prior to off time and have a selection nailed down with plenty of betting time left. Then I place the bets seconds before the race starts, getting the best prices. Sometimes they start later than indicated but after you see one or two late starts at the same tracks you know the real projected start time. This can often be about 2 minutes late but it stays the same lateness on that track for the rest of the day. I don't know why. Maybe their clocks are running slow, who knows.
It's very tricky trying to trade on the dogs but simply doing this place market backing of undervalued dogs is working very nicely so far. Could be a one day lucky streak but it looks very promising so far. If the prices happen to go down I could lay it off but this rarely happens. Just going with the bets seems more profitable anyway. The William Hill site is very good for getting all required info quickly and freely. Interestingly, their computer generated "Predictor" is nowhere near as accurate as simply doing it manually by viewing all available data. You can easily pick out the relevant stats and mentally judge the outcome a lot better than any computer. They are locked into a set methodology while a human can make a more realistic judgment in a few minutes of comparisons just before the race starts.
I usually start going through the info about 10 minutes prior to off time and have a selection nailed down with plenty of betting time left. Then I place the bets seconds before the race starts, getting the best prices. Sometimes they start later than indicated but after you see one or two late starts at the same tracks you know the real projected start time. This can often be about 2 minutes late but it stays the same lateness on that track for the rest of the day. I don't know why. Maybe their clocks are running slow, who knows.