Advanced Betting Concepts 
Betfair Betting Advice: Reverse Dutching
Editor / 09 February 2012 / Leave a comment
Because Betfair is an exchange, customers can Lay multiple selections. This is often referred to as 'reverse dutching'. The benefit of laying multiple selections is that Betfair only takes the worst case scenario into account for your liability....Read more »
Betfair Betting Advice: Dutching
Editor / 08 February 2012 / Leave a comment
Dutching is all about sharing the risk across a number of selections. This type of betting can pay dividends providing you can reduce the number of potential winners in a race and still give yourself favourable odds....Read more »
Betfair Betting Advice: How to get your green book on track
Editor / 26 January 2012 / Leave a comment
With careful planning and a strong strategy, the rewards of the green book could be yours for the taking....Read more »
The psychology of gambling
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
It's very easy to get caught up in the joy of winning, but as any experienced punter or trader will tell you, a loss is just around the corner if you drop your guard. Extend your betting education with a...Read more »
How to Frame Your Own Prices
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
As punters, one of the most useful skills we can develop is how to assess the price we should obtain before stepping in to back a selection(s). Punters that give no consideration to price in their betting decisions stand little...Read more »
Head to Head Markets
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
Introduction The beauty of Betfair is that there is such a wide variety of markets. Horse races can have more than 20 runners, whereas sports like basketball or tennis come down to just two options in the match odds or...Read more »
Betting Maxims
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
Slipperytoad's Maxims Another perspective of gambling wisdom from the excellent Slipperytoad blog. Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce - Irish author (1882 - 1941) When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong. Losers think of selecting...Read more »
The Art of Bookmaking
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
When a football team goes into battle with the opposition, their coach has usually done hours of research in an attempt to gain a winning advantage. The coach will look at how the opposition plays, the systems they have in...Read more »
Profit from Someone Else's Research
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
Bookmakers There are thousands of licensed bookmakers around the world - how many of them do you honestly think do all the hard work themselves? Realistically, very few. Most bookies have an area of expertise, as there simply aren't enough...Read more »
What is Value?
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
Value is a very subjective thing - the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure" correlates very well. What one person perceives as good value could be regarded as poor value by another. It is your opinion which counts...Read more »
Deadly Mistakes to Avoid
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
This series of articles has been written by Jonathan Burgess, a Betfair Accredited Trainer and author of www.false-favourites.co.uk. As an experienced punter, he has some wide advice to share, however his advice and opinions represent his personal views and...Read more »
Price Leveraging
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
A few years ago, we had a column called Strategy of the Month. This is one of the more advanced and most popular concepts covered. Enhance your betting education with a lesson in price leveraging. The key point to note...Read more »
Jumping on Board the Winners
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
In a previous article we talked about regression to the mean as a way of looking at gambling in the long term. Here we will use the theory to talk about a significant and interesting point of gambling within a...Read more »
Reverse Dutching
BF Education / 22 March 2011 / Leave a comment
Dutching is a common betting strategy with punters, backing two or more selections to win a set profit. And there are variations on that with partial winners, savers and hedges. Reverse dutching is as it sounds, the same strategy in...Read more »
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