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The Nap is the best bet of the day from a given tipster.
And the Next Best (NB) is the second best bet of the day.
So if you follow a newspaper tipster they are likely to indicate which is their Nap and NB. Sometimes this may just be with a star or asterisk*
Or maybe they will bold the Nap.
The reason it is called a Nap stems from a card game called Napoleon, where a player calls “Napoleon” when they think they have won the game.
Next Best is self explanatory!
Betting all my adult life, firstly at the greyhound track where my dad was a trainer more recently horses.
A fan of systems based betting which I've been practicing and writing about since 2004 which was the last time I had a real job.
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