Coming to a close is the 2012 AFL betting season. Would be nice to drag another +50 units or so on top of the 50 or so units we already have in the kitty.
We stay focussed, and the wins will come. Would be nice in MLB betting would turn around as well.
MLB players are mailing it in at this time of the year - not all the time, but enough to cause some dramas with our sports investment positions. Follow our progress at the www.professionalgambler.com.au website and join in if you'd like.
All too often, the sports investment player wants to win, instead of focusing on long term profit opportunities awarded through sports markets.
Losses on an investment can ause players to want to immediately win back the lost money. The pain of a loss often hurts too much for people to bear. That brings their undoing.
Slow and steady is the only way to win the sports gambling race.
Another average week of AFL betting. Better than a terrible week though.
The Red Hots said it best.
How long will I slide? Well, we have been diligent for a while now, and are just not getting the rewards for our sports betting study.
Only thing to do is to keep going.
Sports investment for 2012 has been trickling along. Things have been going well, with a few results that didn't fall our way making all the difference.
2012 is still only half way, and we are so very due for a good run approaching. Looking forward to closing out baseball strongly and heading into a strong NFL season.
The biggest upset of the week from a gambling perspective, with the Lions really doing a number on the Crows up at the GABBA. Would have not liked to be in the Adelaide rooms after that one. A poor show by the crows and Sanderson appeared to be ropeable - and rightly so.
Sometimes (read often !) in sports betting you can be happy with your selections, but still lose due to a combination of terrible luck. Such as Tom Hawkins going off last Friday night. You'd have to think that with him in the team we take the win there.
Likewise with Sydney on Saturday. We had the right sit there, and couldn't get it done.
Have a copy of a good betting movie - or so I hear - "The Hustler". I'll probably throw it into the DVD player tonight after I finish work on the blog. It rates fairly high at Rotten Tomatoes. Especially seeing it is from the 1960s
a rough week sees us drop a whopping -172 units. The worst week of the year by far. Sports investment comes in fits and starts, and we grade the year. Important to not get too upset by the ups and downs that are part and parcel of a year of investment
This weekend has a couple of games that are best not betting into. We see them as "cursed" - the "no matter which way you choose you are going to be wrong" type of games!
Richmond vs Western Bulldogs, GC vs GWS, Essendon vs North Melbourne.
We shall stay away from them at www.professionalgambler.com.au !
Sydney? Hawthorn? Collingwood... even Geelong? All could stake a case.
This years AFL premiership season is going to be a ripping finish. So many teams so close and keen to extend their stranglehold over various sections of the ladder.
Olympics as opposed to professional sport - is there any difference? You can still bet on it so for us there is little difference.
There can be some good value in the games actually, if you know where and what to look for. Our sports results continue on regardless.
Live betting is a long slow education in sports investment - and takes a long long time to truly master - like anything that contains a lot of profit through its mastery.
Stick with your live betting, learn as much as you can and continue to take notes. Not many do and you will be far ahead.
Tom Hawkins slots one after the siren and kills the Hawks dream of breaking the hoodoo AKA the curse of Kennet, in their round 19 clash at the MCG. Great betting was to be had in this one, with $4.20 on offer about the Cats leading up to the bounce.
Week 25 may be the turning point. It just feels like it. We had a winning end to the week and we are well and truly due for a bit of a comeback in our sports punting. We will have to see how things carry on from here.
