Hi Panna,
I know you said you are trying to work out which creates the stronger POT over time.
The answer is... the Fav , if it wins all the time, based on your example.

But we know that is not the Ying & Yang reality of punting.
One has to try & work within the balance of The Book.
That's why betting to price is the more balanced & mathematical option.

Betting to fractional odds is what the Bookmaker wants you to do , that's why they invented odds in the first place, before switching over to decimal odds & that was not exactly their choice either, it was made for them , so why play into their hands.
No one wants to be an old school fool, so don't start now.

Example. Betting to $1000 ,Bank 10,000
$1.40 shot (cant possible lose) bet to Fract Odds = O/L $2500 = 40% POT
$1.40 shot bet to price = O/L $714 = 40% POT
So why give yourself a heart attack to make the same POT?

The $2500 to 10,000 bank = 25% of you whole bank on 1 'cant lose' horse.
Or
$714 to $10,00 bank = 7.14% of whole bank.

Which 2 options would one feel more comfortable with to gain the same 40% POT?

The dollars take care of themselves but first the percentages have to be in suitable to bank size.

The general idea in punting is to try & bet within proportion to ones bank.
That's exactly what Professional punters & Bookies do all the time, that's why they refuse certain bets, because it is outside the percentage of perceived risk to their known book value threshold , they have currently created.

As clearly stated in our original posting , betting to price is what the Bookies do to set their book percentage & to make a profit .
So,
That's exactly what we should do except we don't have to bet the field.

That's of course one feels they are smarter than a barrage of Professional bookmakers & numbers men, betting every race for a living, who know their way around a set of figures faster than we can blink.

Here is another example for you to play around with.
Target 3 horses per race betting to fract odds.
Then.
The the same 3 horses betting to price.

Apply this over say 4 races where the Fav wins only one of these.

There will be a massive difference in the results once converted to percentage.

Cheers.

backing to a specific target
 

hi panna
i'm like you and vary from many thoughts here, have my own system and have the same question as you.... do i back a horse to win $1000, or do i put $100 on every one of my selections, whether they be 2-1 or 6-1 what would work out better. If you get an answer can you pass it onto me please..
My thinking would be that it would work out the same but am not sure and am worried that when i pick a hi priced winner i'm not maximising the profits
Cheers lb

I've run a few different plans over my results and find Level Stakes and % of bank as the safest option.

Must admit though the % of bank after a few years would see me betting some big amounts - which scared me no end. The answer was to rest the bank at certain profit targets....after all it's not a profit until it's out of your account and spent elsewhere!

This is just the way i do things and i find it not to bad.

1) I bet percentage of bank 2% to its highest point and i re-calculate daily.

2) If my bank falls below 65% of the current highest point i will then re-calculate the percentage to bet at that point and reset to 65% of that amount.

3) Every monday i balance the books and take a weekly wage that equals 1 bet amount for that week regardless of profit.

4) If i have made a profit for that week i take out half, the other half stays to build the bank.

5) Half of the profit i have taken is then placed in another bank account as savings.

6) My weekly wage plus any profit that remains is what we have to live on.

On the weeks when i winn a good amount some times i split the last profit in 4 so there is a bit extra for the weeks to come in case we only have the wage to live on.

Thanks shaun and stix,

Couple of things to help me clear it up in my head shaun in point 1 are you saying each bet equals 2% of your total capital for that day?
wouldn't you have to have 17 losing bets to get to 65% of your high point due to evaluating every day?
You take out a wage = to 2% of capital as well as half profits ( if any) for the week to put into savings account?
Are you actually staying in front like this, possibly even living of it?
Very curious...
And stix by level stakes does that mean all bets are the same stake or aim for a certain level with each stake bet
Ty guys

Say i started the day with a bank of $100 my bets would be $2 and at the end of the day my bank is $110 my next days bets would be $2.20.

If my bank now dropped to $90 i would still bet $2.20 untill my bank reached $71.50 as this is 65% of the highest point of $110.

When the bank is higher than $110 i will then set a new bet amount and a new 65% point.

The 65% reset level is more of a safety break.

As for the wage i introduced this a few years back because while i was testing new ideas and ratings i some times went a month or so with nothing to show for all the hard work i was doing.

It was a choice between this and backing horses for the place to keep cash flow, i felt my ideas were better suited to the win market and atleast i have money each week.

Earning a living on the punt, we would all like to say we do this but some are more skilled and have a larger finacial stake to do it.

My wage each week is nothing like a real wage but it is when i have good weeks that realy count, a few weeks back i was able to withdraw 1 weeks wage plus 6 weeks wages in profit.

It is not the amount you bet it is the way you bet that nakes the difference between the average punter and a pro.

Level Stakes = same amount bet on every runner, regardless of Bank or Price.