Deliberately
Losing On Horse Racing
Believe
it or not, there are people who set out to lose deliberately
- perhaps not consciously but certainly subconsciously.
Why
do they do that? A good question that deserves far a more
qualified response than I can offer here. It's almost
like that disease Munchausen By Proxy where people deliberately
make their kids sick or hurt them in order that THEY may
get attention.
The
same is true of some gamblers - and I emphasise, SOME
gamblers. They lose deliberately so they can tell their
friends how much they lost and make a big deal of it -
as if it is nothing to them. Some do it to get sympathy.
Some so they have someone else to blame for their own
misfortune.
How often have you heard this: "oh, that jockey slaughtered
it"?What
it's doing is palming off responsibility for their own
shortcomings on to others - it's always someone else's
fault - never their own for showing poor judgement.
We all know that jockeys sometimes ride poor judgement
races but they are human. We all make poor judgement calls
from time to time in work or play. I certainly do - probably
every day, so don't get upset when a jockey makes a bad
call at some stage of a race. It happens! It will continue
to happen.
Here
are some ideas to help you not make the same mistakes
over and over again.
Protect
Your Punting Bank At All Costs.
I'm sure the best way to make consistent profit
is to build a good, power foundation and grow slowly but
steadily from it.
Your bank account is just like an army base and your ammunition.
How are you supposed to fight back to reclaim the losses
with no ammunition and a wiped out base? Thus, the first
golden rule is: Protect your bank account at all costs
and never bet with money you can't afford to lose.
Control
your emotion
I've seen enough people getting emotionally wrecked
after a losing bet, and lose on their next, and the next,
and the next. They then bet with more and more money to
regain their losses with devastating effect.
Don't
ever let losses get on your nerves. No one (me
certainly included) backs nothing but winners. Take
every loss as a temporary setback - or "paying it
forward".
To
the other extreme, don't be like the thousands and thousands
of punters who are punished every week for their greed
and plunge big time on their "certainty".
Let me tell you, there is no such thing as "certainty"
in the world of racing. I used to back lots of them -
and guess what - they didn't all win! And by betting big
money, which you probably can't afford to lose, on something
no matter how certain it is, you are violating the first
rule: "Protecting your bank account at all cost"
Choose a Selection System and Be Disciplined
It is essential to have some system of selection
to identify which horses to place your bet on. Once you've
decided on one, try to be disciplined and stick with it
through thick and thin. I have to say that all systems
have their good and bad times. Don't just judge a system
just after a few bets and switch and swap from one system
to another trying to find that "golden run".
Any good system will have its golden run - it's a matter
of whether you are there to reap the benefits when it
does.
Keeping
a records of past bets
It's IMPERITAVE to keep records of your past
bets. Preferably on on Excel spreadsheet. In that way,
you can easily analyse how good or bad a system is and
to make certain adjustments to improve a bad system, or
even make a good one better. I do it ALL the time.
Proper
Staking Plan
A staking plan is as important as a good selection
system - probably more so. On the flip side, why are HOME
loans structured in the way they are? Simple - so there
is a STRUCTURED method to end up at a desired financial
result e.g. owning your HOME.
A
staking plan will help you make a consistent (even if
boringly slow) stream of profit helping you to safeguard
your bank and also to build it. A proper staking plan
will help you to do just that, and sometimes it can even
help to make up for the shortcomings of a poor selection
system but don't rely on it to do that.
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