15th November 2005, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Port Macquarie
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Originally Posted by BJ
Rule 2 is just a joke I think.
You only will gain an edge if the $1.2 for the place is a certainty. If it is a certainty, then why bother with backing anything else. Just mortgage the house and plonk it all on at $1.2, how can it lose?
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Talking of place betting, I dont see any real need to take odds on... I have been playing around with a place betting idea, on Betfair, where I don't take any less than evens for my selection.. A couple of weeks ago I got Deveraja Daan in adelaide at better than 9 bucks.. I think It paid about 5 on the NSW TAB. That is just one, but I think if your selections are reasonably sound, you WILL make money betting the place, be patient and dont take odds on.. you don't need to. If no one wants to match what you are asking... so what?.. move on... I think where place betting falls in a heap is when people take the 1.2, thats 5's ON, and the horse fails to run a hole.. It takes a lot of odds on runners to recoup the loss...
And to make any decent money at 5's ON u need to invest a heap... Try sticking to place betting in the black, particularly on Betfair... U may be surprised.. THO last saturday I got 21.6 on a place getter in the last in Melbourne ( was my 2nd rater in the race) with the NSW TAB... The best price matched on betfair was only about 14 bucks.. so it does still pay to keep a tab account going at times... particularly if you like longshots... quite often the TABS pay more.. Just something to consider... |