Download or read book Handicapping for Bettor Or Worse written by John Lindley and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bettor's guide to handicapping racehorses teaches horse players how to use all the available information to form their own system. Explains the advantages and drawbacks in current popular handicapping methods.
Download or read book A Bettor Way written by Dean C. Arnold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handicapper's wallet keeps score very well. What remains in it when you leave the track is the final say in whether or not you won. Dean C. Arnold has tested his wits against fellow handicappers since the day he was old enough to approach a parimutuel window. His approach to building a sensible methodology will help you tackle the sometimes overwhelming task of winning money betting on thoroughbred races. Find out how to better manage money, time and data, and develop your own strategy that will lead to consistent profit.
Download or read book A Bettor Way written by Dean C. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handicapper's wallet keeps score very well. What remains in it when you leave the track is the final say in whether or not you won. Dean C. Arnold has tested his wits against fellow handicappers since the day he was old enough to approach a parimutuel window. His approach to building a sensible methodology will help you tackle the sometimes overwhelming task of winning money betting on thoroughbred races. Find out how to better manage money, time and data, and develop your own strategy that will lead to consistent profit.
Download or read book The Everything Guide to Sports Betting written by Josh Appelbaum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to bet on sports safely, smartly, and responsibly—and profit big—with this easy-to-use guide, perfect for beginners! Betting money on sports can be great fun and is a sure way to turn any sports game into an exciting must-watch event. However, it can be dangerous to the uninitiated—new gamblers can risk too much, bet randomly, or even lose it all. The Everything Guide to Sports Betting won’t let that happen. Filled with tips, tricks, and tactics, this handy guide shows you how to place bets strategically. You’ll learn all of the different types of bets you can make, how to spot a potentially profitable bet, and when to walk away. Covering all of the major sports leagues, The Everything Guide to Sports Betting will introduce you to the sports betting world and show you how to beat the casinos at their own games. In no time, you’ll be a gambling pro—and cash in on some major wins!
Download or read book The Blood Horse Authoritative Guide to Betting Thoroughbreds written by and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This step-by-step guide takes the intimidation out of betting at the racetrack. Readers learn about types of wagers from straight to exotic, how odds are set, and how to place a bet and cash a ticket. In addition, the guide explains how to read past performances. Workouts, medication, and equipment as they relate to wagering are also discussed.
Download or read book Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Markets written by Donald B. Hausch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of one of the classic volumes on racetrack efficiency, this book is the only one in its field that deals with the racetrack betting market in-depth, containing all the important historical papers on racetrack efficiency. As evidenced by the collection of articles, the understanding of racetrack betting is clearly drawn from, and has correspondingly returned something to, all the fields of psychology, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics and management science.
Download or read book Picking Winners written by Andrew Beyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic guide to handicap strategies in the field of thoroughbred racing Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures--and it all started with Andrew Beyer. With a foreword discussing the changes that have swept horse racing since the book's original publication in 1975, Picking Winners is essential reading both for serious horseplayers and curious amateurs.
Download or read book Exotic Betting At The Racetrack written by William T Ziemba and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic Betting at the Racetrack is unique as it covers the efficient-inefficient strategy to price and find profitable racetrack bets, along with handicapping that provides actual bets made by the author on essentially all of the major wagers offered at US racetracks. The book starts with efficiency, accuracy of the win odds, arbitrage, and optimal betting strategies. Examples and actual bets are shown for various wagers including win, place and show, exacta, quinella, double, trifecta, superfecta, Pick 3, 4 and 6 and rainbow pick 5 and 6. There are discussions of major races including the Breeders' Cup, Pegasus, Dubai World Cup and the US Triple Crown from 2012-2018. Dosage analysis is also described and used. An additional feature concerns great horses such as the great mares Rachel Alexandra, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Treve, Beholder and Song Bird. There is a discussion of horse ownership and a tour through arguably the world's top trainer Frederico Tesio and his stables and horses in Italy.Related Link(s)
Download or read book The Winning Horseplayer written by Andrew Beyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced guide to handicapping, which includes a new Foreword by the author, is chock-full of the wit and wisdom that have made Beyer a legend in the sport. The Winning Horseplayeroffers the sophisticated bettor invaluable advice on handicapping and betting. "(Beyer) is the grand guru . . . of handicapping".--Boston Globe
Download or read book Winning Sports Betting written by Masaru Kanemoto and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports betting is the ultimate gambling game, combining the intellectual challenge of handicapping with the excitement of sports that we would all pay to watch anyway. But beating the bookmakers is tough, and after paying the vigorish, almost all bettors lose. To become one of the select few who make money betting sports, you need a plan.Winning Sports Betting lays out everything you need to build your own winning sports betting plan. The tools of the trade employed by all winning sports bettors are discussed in detail, including: -Arbitrage and steam betting-Betting derivatives-Bankroll management-Handicapping-Finding winning trends-Timing your bets-Paying for picks-Bearding / multi-accounting-Syndicates-Turning proThere is no sure-fire path to riches in sports betting, but by following the roadmap provided in Winning Sports Betting you will greatly improve your chances of success
Download or read book Trading Bases written by Joe Peta and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true. Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious—and incredibly risky—dream. He would apply his risk-analysis skills to Major League Baseball, and treat the sport like the S&P 500. In Trading Bases, Peta takes us on his journey from the ballpark in San Francisco to the trading floors and baseball bars of New York and the sportsbooks of Las Vegas, telling the story of how he created a baseball “hedge fund” with an astounding 41 percent return in his first year. And he explains the unique methods he developed. Along the way, Peta provides insight into the Wall Street crisis he managed to escape: the fragility of the midnineties investment model; the disgraced former CEO of Lehman Brothers, who recruited Peta; and the high-adrenaline atmosphere where million-dollar sports-betting pools were common.
Download or read book Sports Betting For Dummies written by Swain Scheps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sports gambling book you can bet on Sports betting combines America's national pastime (sports) with its national passion (gambling). In the U.S., more than a third of the population bets on at least one sporting event every year. With the recent lifting of the federal ban on sports gambling, states are pushing legislation to take advantage of the new potential source of revenue. The best sports betting books are data driven, statistically honest, and offer ways to take action. Sports Betting For Dummies will cover the basics, as well as delving into more nuanced topics. You’ll find all the need-to-know information on types of bets, statistics, handicapping fundamentals, and more. Betting on football, basketball, baseball, and other sports Betting on special events, such as the Superbowl or the Olympics Money management Betting on the internet With handy tips, tricks, and tools, Sports Betting For Dummies shows you how to place the right bet at the right time—to get the right payoff.
Download or read book Picking NFL Winners written by Masaru Kanemoto and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, sports bettors around the world wager billions of dollars on the NFL. But only a small fraction win. The decades of experience the sportsbooks have when creating the lines combined with the vigorish charged on each bet mean that without a battle-tested, mathematically sound handicapping approach, the typical recreational sports bettor has no chance.Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer introduces a powerful handicapping methodology grounded in predictive analytics to give the reader the upper hand over the sportsbooks. In this book, we will explore which statistics, ratings, and other information have had the biggest influence on the NFL point spread. Using this knowledge, we then introduce predictive models which the reader can use themselves, leveraging readily-available information, to beat the NFL.Written for intermediate to advanced sports bettors, or anyone else who wants to win, Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer addresses many key questions about NFL handicapping, including: -- How to account for injuries-- Which statistics have the most value in predicting the point spread-- How one should weigh recent results versus past results when handicapping-- Why early-season and late-season handicapping are very different-- How big of an influence do short-rest weeks, the bye week, and travel have on the point spread-- Whether time-zone effects / circadian advantage exists in the NFL-- How to use teasers, halftime lines, and line moves to improve your NFL betting resultsAnd much more. Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer is an invaluable resource to all serious NFL bettors, and anyone else looking to understand how to beat sports betting, regardless of what sport you wager
Download or read book How to Win at Sports Betting written by Edward Allen and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports betting generates hundreds of millions in bets on the Superbowl alone, to say nothing of pro and college football, prizefights, baseball, basketball, and hockey. In this book, players learn the techniques of beating the bookie at all these sports.
Download or read book Beyer on Speed written by Andrew Beyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Beyer's clean, rapid-fire prose, this book explains how to relate speed figures to such factors as pace, track bias, and track conditions. It discusses exotic wagers such as the pick six and reveals optimal uses of the figures based on computer analysis of more than 10,000 races. Blending colorful anecdotes, it presents a revolutionary way to play the horses.
Download or read book Sharper written by True Pokerjoe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any other game you can learn how the pros play by watching them. Not in sports betting. You can watch the "experts" on television forever and not learn a thing. This book fixes that, and I'll let this independent review from the sharpest guys in the world explain why: https: //tinyurl.com/ycwvewgu
Download or read book Six Secrets of Successful Bettors written by Frank R. Scatoni and published by Daily Racing Form. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After interviewing more than two dozen professional players, the authors have identified the six secrets that all of these successful individuals have in common. Whether you're a casual weekend player or a serious fan contemplating turning pro, all of the practical elements for success are candidly revealed in this truly fascinating journey into the gambling habits of the world's greatest players.
