Horse betting can be very lucrative, but as with any sort of gambling it can also lose you a lot of money if you don’t know what you are doing. One of the best ways to consistently win big on the horses is by creating a system that you can depend on to give you profits race after race.

Now let me tell you something that I once used to believe. If you also think this way then it may be that you look back on reading this one day and you’ll either be glad you took my advice, or you’ll probably still struggle to make regular high profits with horse betting. The thing is I used to place all of my bets on a system that I tried to put together on my own. Although I made profit here and there I struggled to make a decent income overall. Only when I realised that I should listen to advice from people who made a lot of money, a lot of the time, did I begin to change my system to what is now.

During this one of the most effective changes I made to my system was undoubtedly using a horse racing calculator that I could depend on to make best use of my time, and the money I wanted to bet with.

Nowadays a horse racing betting system doesn’t have to mean using a notepad and hours looking through the racing newspapers. Computers and the internet have made it much easier to win big on the horses. I make more in some days than most people make in a month in their jobs. Now I’m certainly not saying this to brag. I’m purely showing how easy it is pick the winners once you have your system sorted.

A horse racing calculator will be part of your system that will allow you to work out which races, and more importantly which horses to place your bets on. Rather than spending a lot of time working this out manually, the horse betting calculator I use can do all of the hard work automatically. Not only is this good for those experienced with horse betting, but also for beginners as it takes a lot of the risk out of betting.

Let me warn you though that not all betting calculators necessarily work as well as they say they do. I’ve tried many, and you might have also. I’ve even bought one that simply added together how much I was placing on each race, and not much else. Needless to say I never use it. Rather than waste money on horse betting calculators like I did, take some advice from someone with experience in this sport for many years and buy one that delivers what you are after; and that of course is profits.

By: Justin Thomas

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It is possible. It took me a little over a year to get into horse betting and start to make money. A year ago I knew nothing about horse betting, I’ve learned a lot in a short time, which is the beauty about horse betting. It isn’t hard to learn enough about gambling on horse races to start making money. And when I say gambling I’m really just referring to small investments into my business…the business of improving my life. Don’t get confused and think betting on horse races is a bad thing. Yes, I do agree that lots of people have issues with gambling, that sucks and is unfortunate…But that doesn’t mean you and I can’t start to use horse betting as a serious way to earn some extra cash.

Other than learning the general facts about gambling, for example, you must understand how the whole betting and money thing works(like the odds and what the spread means, how much you will make or lose on your bet), learning about horse races is easy. I basically used the internet to learn about horse betting, gambling, racing. There are so many great sites dedicated to educating people properly on gambling on horse races.

The first tip is always be informed. You never want to spend your money on something you know nothing about. That doesn’t mean you learn about gambling and horse racing and your done with the learning part. Think about learning on a smaller scale. You want to learn about the horses themselves. It is always a good idea to know about the health of the horses. It really does make a huge difference whether or not the horse you want to bet on has just come off a 3 month recovery or has been racing consistently for the past three months(let me tell you from experience, bet on the horse that has been racing…they always are money makers). You also should find out how they race in certain conditions.

Weather can be a BIG opportunity to make some money. Let’s say the weather has taken a turn for the worse and the track is all wet from the rain. Let’s also say that the majority of the people that are betting on your particular race(the same people that are driving the profit margin) don’t really do their homework and don’t know that the original horse who was favored to win doesn’t perform well at all on wet and rainy tracks…And in fact it is the least favorite horse who performs the best in wet conditions. The beauty of it all is two part. Part one, you are so happy because your horse is going to win because you know which horse performs the best in wet conditions. Part two, you are so happy because you stayed one KEY step ahead of all the other betters and played the least favorite(called playing the odds) and won way more money.

Staying ahead of the other betters is almost as important to making money on horse racing as the outcome of the race is. Like mentioned above the other betters control the profit margin(that is unless you bet a huge amount of money). It can be hard, but if you manage to out study the majority of other betters you can profit so much more money. This bring me to the second tip, don’t forget to study up on the jockeys themselves. They are a key part to the outcome of a race. They are all well trained in the art of Racing…and don’t think that racing is just who gets to the finish line first. It involves theories that I’ve never heard of and since I don’t know anything about theories on racing, but I know the jockeys do and are well experienced I turn my attention to them. I study how they perform and their health and how weather affects them. These are all things you must learn if you want to make a steady income from horse race betting.

By: Eric Clemmer

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There are many betting strategies used by players try to win money from casinos. Among the most popular and simplest strategy is called Martingale technique. Although it is the simplest strategy use by most gamblers, it is one of the most dangerous methods that may causes you lose all you money fast if the game’s draw results are not the outcomes you projected. Let find look into the details of Martingale technique and see how it will help in your betting as well as risking your money.

Martingale technique is a betting strategy that asks you to double your bet every time you lose. The theory goes in this way: In any casino game, it is very common to have runs of 5, 6 or even 20 consecutive outcomes of high or low, even or odd, black or red; but it will finally result in the other side of outcome, so if you continue double your bet, you will eventually recoup your loses and win at least one chip extra when the outcome result in the field you bet on. For example, you are playing on Roulette and bet on Black with $10, it turns out to be Red, you lose, you continue to bet on Black but this time the betting amount is $20. It turns out to be Red again, you bet again on Black with $40. And, the games go on if you continue to lose, you double up with $80, $160, $320, $640…until the outcome turns to be Black, you win. Once you win you will cover you loses and win $10.

Theoretically Martingale technique is a perfect betting strategy that ensure you will win if you have sufficient money to double up the betting amount until you win. But, in true life this is the case because casinos have implemented a few game rules to protect themselves from rich players who have money to play using Martingale technique. One of the rules is maximum limit that you can bet on a field. If a player using Martingale technique to place his/her bet and if he/she continue lose and double up the betting amount, eventually maximum limit will be reached and the player can double his/her bet amount anymore. This is how casinos stopped players to continue winning with Martingale technique.

Playing with Martingale technique can be very dangerous because it was wipe you out very fast if the outcomes of the draw result always put you in the lose side and cause you hit the maximum limit where you can’t double up your betting anymore. For example you bet on Roulette table which has minimum limit of $1 and maximum limit of $300. You start bet on Red with $1 and double up to $2, $4, $8, $16, $32, $64, $128…today you have a very bad luck, the Black continue to come out consecutively for 8 times, but you believe this round (the 9th round) should be Red so you bet with $256 on Red. You are praying and hoping the outcome to be Red because you know that if this round still results in Black, you can’t double up your betting any more because of the table limit. Unless you are lucky this round else you will lose. Here is where the Martingale technique broken because you can’t bet with $512 on Red even you have money.

You will face a high risk of losing money using Martingale technique if you solely play with your luck. But it can work well if you use it with a few good betting strategies that you may learn from e-books or articles published by casino pros.

By: Chris Wiseman

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