Betfair Official Blog

The Betfair Education team travel the UK and Ireland teaching Betfair customers how to use the site more effectively and sharpen up their betting strategies. Thousands of punters have attended our events - do you want to see what you've missed out on?

• Historic Data
• Horse Racing Lay the Field - Version II
• Price Leverage
• Punting on Competitions
• Finding Winners
• Types of Races
• Information sources
• Galway
• Fairyhouse
• Dundalk
• Downpatrick
• Down Royal
• Racing Glossary A to C
• The Curragh
• Colin Magee Interview
• Cork
• Clonmel
• Bellewstown
• Ballinrobe
• INPLAY November 2008
• Horse Racing - now with video clip
• Betfair Education events - new UK and Ireland dates
• Dundalk
• The Course
• Great Leighs
• INPLAY October 2008
• The Safety Net
• When it looks too good to be true...
• Cold Trading - how is it done?
• Reverse Dutching
• Racing Strategy
• Next Goal Market
• Australian Rules Football
• All money is created equal
• How to frame your own prices
• Bet faster with the keyboard
• 5. Discipline
• Feedback
• Unmatched Bets
• Directory of Accredited Trainers
• INPLAY September 2008
• Price Leveraging
• INPLAY August 2008
• Learn the Basics
• The Game
• Tactics
• Trading In-Play
• Summary Info
• What to Watch Out For
• Jumping on Board the Winners
• Regression to the mean
• The Art of Bookmaking
• Learn to read American form
• Gambling profit and loss, the numbers that matter.
• Slipperytoad's Maxims
• 1. Planning
• 2. Patience
• 3. You need to be consistent
• 4. Greed will lead to losses
• 6. Laziness
• 7. Learn from your mistakes
• 8. Betting banks
• 9a. Staking Plans and Betting Banks - backing
• 9b. Staking plans and betting banks - laying
• 10. Emotion
• 11. Take some time out
• INPLAY July 2008
• Broadcast Delays
• Trading with Discipline
• Big Brother
• INPLAY June 2008
• Next Goal Market
• INPLAY May 2008
• Players and punters can cash in by putting in the hard graft during the off-season
• Laying a book in a tennis tournament
• Trading Tips
• Generic betting
• Punting Maxims of the Form-Pro
• The Wisdom of Pittsburgh Phil
• Wise words from financial experts
• Cricket - a guide to trading on Betfair
• What to look for before you bet
• Trading
• Trading Examples
• Other Markets
• Introduction
• NASCAR
• Speedway
• Moto GP
• INPLAY April 2008
• Sports
• Getting Started
• Introduction
• Competitions/Markets
• What to look for
• The Game
• What can you bet on?
• In-Play Betting
• Other important points/tips
• Useful links
• General Politics Guide - Mike Robb
• Keep Bets
• Who are the big names to look out for?
• Tournaments
• Markets
• Golf Betting
• Factors to consider
• Information Sources
• Golf betting in-play
• Betting on Tradefair
• Introduction
• Look on both sides for value
• Those who look for more, get more
• Patience is a virtue
• The fastest game on Earth
• The history of Basque pelota
• Tournaments and Competitions
• 21st Century betting for an 800 year old sport
• Things to look out for when betting
• Key Websites
• The history and the basics
• Scoring
• Key Terms
• Things to look out for when betting
• Key Websites
• Introduction
• The Game
• What makes a good team?
• World Series
• Match Betting
• In Play Betting
• Baseball Resources
• Gaelic Games - The Championship on Betfair
• Do's and Dont's of GAA betting on Betfair
• Key Dates of the Championship Season
• Markets
• Information - Key Websites
• Getting Started
• The Draw
• IP Betting
• Keeping Score
• Reading the Players
• Snooker Resources
• Lingfield
• Kempton
• Southwell
• Wolverhampton
• Betting on Boxing
• Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather
• What are Asian Handicaps?
• Handicaps used
• How it works
• Split Handicaps (also known as a Double Handicap)
• Why use Asian Handicaps?
• INPLAY March 2008
• US racing
• South African racing
• American Football
• The basics of British racing
• UK Greyhounds
• Darts
• Basketball
• Australian Sports
• Australian Racing
• Australian Wallet
• Backing Short Prices
• Outsiders
• Value
• Bookmakers
• Laying a book
• Bookmakers are layers
• Laying - an example
• Laying Favourites
• False prices
• Favourites on Betfair
• Example 1 - Cricket
• Example 2 - Football
• Trading Timescales
• Not getting out instantly
• Not doing scratch trades
• Letting losing trades ride as bets
• Reading form and watching racing
• Wanting to enjoy the racing
• Over-thinking trades
• Not purchasing specialist trading software
• Getting distracted
• Trading for a profit of a pre-determined size
• Advantages of exchanges
• Traders
• Traders on Sports markets
• Important tips for live trading
• Trading an example
• Top traders
• Trading Programmes and the API
• Percentages and Probability
• What is Betfair?
• Market View Options
• What is Lay Betting?
• The Market View
• Market Percentages
• My account
• Betting Options
• Betfair gives better odds, why?
• How do the odds work for laying?
• Select a Market
• Green book
• Placing a lay bet
• The Betfair Matrix (or Full Market View)
• What is backing and laying?
• Multiples
• Liability
• Place a bet
• Betfair use decimal odds, what are these?
• Risk v Reward
• On Betfair you can bet in-play. What is this?
• Matched and Unmatched Bets
• Leveraging a Price
• The ability to trade
• Asking for a price
• Range of Markets

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