December
14 2010
Someone rang up this afternoon to talk about our Whole
Box & Dice Package. During the course of the conversation
they made the comment "your web site is too good
to be true".
Well, that got my attention straight away and I suppose
in some ways he is quite correct.
For
him the whole thing had to be a scam because we don't
put on the site the dozens and dozens of systems and
methods we've trialled over the last 12 to 24 months
that have lost - and lost big time in some circumstances.
During 2010 we trialled, with real money in real time,
at least 15 "fool proof' methods that either
failed or proved that we are fools - not too sure
which!
The ones
that we ended up putting on the site during 2010 were
the only ones we could be confident that we had the
best chance to make a little extra money out of based
on the betting trials in the time we devoted to them.
Will they continue to turn tricks in the medium to
long term? Hope so.
What
we try not to do is become part of the scam that a
lot of sites get in to trying to flog off "betting's
best kept secret" of the "bookmakers' private
system" or the "mathematical professor's
secret discovery".
So
before New Year's Eve rocks around, let's make a new
year's resolution: in 2011 we'll publish all the losing
methods we will trial during the year as well as the
ones we have a modicum of success with and you can
see for yourself what obviously doesn't work. Some
are already scattered on this site - systems we've
tried over the years that didn't quite make it but
with a bit of tweaking and adding in extra filtering
rules could end up in positive territory.
YOU
may be able to make them work where we couldn't.
We
do not claim perfection. We are very human and make
very human mistakes like everyone else. Maybe there
were some methods in 2010 that we didn't trial for
long enough to get in to a positive cash flow situation
- who knows?
So is
this site too good to be true? We'd like to think
we provide a balanced outlook on this frustrating
game called punting and we try always to tell it like
it is. Life is too short to do otherwise and you'd
be a fool to try.
In
2011, we'll publish ALL the methods we will test -
win, lose or draw. In that way, hopefully I won't
have anyone else ring up and say "it's too good
to be true" in one year's time or thinking the
whole site is a scam. Actually, by writing and publishing
this sort of page, it may be making it a better scam.
And
by writing that last sentence, it may be making the
scam about it not being a scam, a really great scam!!
Enjoy
racing for what it is and if you can make a few bob
out of it in the long term, you've done very well
- especially with the outrageous "takes"
from the TAB. As I have said elsewhere on the site,
Betfair is your best chance to profit if you are doing
it seriously.
And
if you think everything is "a scam" in racing,
do something else. Poker. Blackjack. Roulette (o.m.g.!)
Or get involved in professional wrestling. The world
is your oyster.
