You’ll never win if you can’t lose

The biggest problem any of us have to get over in order to be successful with our betting is the problem of losing runs.

If you can’t cope with losing runs at all then you have no business betting, because betting is about winning and losing. Even if you’re betting at big odds on shots you can still lose and I’m sure we’ve all heard about the horses that go 1.01 in running and still manage to lose. It happens.

And coincidentally just yesterday one of our selections at the Betting Insiders traded at 999/1 in running and then went on to win. That’s great for the punter that backed it and won nearly £2,000, but of course on the flip side somebody layed that bet and lost nearly £2,000 trying to win £2.

The point is that however sure about an outcome you are you will not be right all the time.

And because most of us are betting odds against we can expect to have more losers than winners.

Sometimes a lot of those losers will come at the same time.

When you learn to lose you will get better at winning.
The first step to improving any ability is self knowledge and knowing where you are at now.

For most of us, when we’re new to the game we can cope with a small losing run and still keep the faith and like an exercised muscle our ability to endure a losing run improves the more we use it.

If you know that you are prone to abandoning your betting plan after a couple of losers then maybe following a value tipster like our own Nick Hardman who makes his profits from betting big priced selections is not for you.

When you regularly bet selections in the 16/1 to 33/1 range you can expect to have long losing runs and if you haven’t yet built up your losing run tolerance then you are likely to quit before you bank the big profits.

You might get lucky and start just at the beginning of a big winning run, but with many more losers than winners you probably won’t.

Winning is not all about finding the right selections, as mentioned above Nick’s selections make big profits and have been proven over the past 4 years, but if you follow them only to give up half way through the first losing run you will lose money.

So if you know you can’t tolerate losing runs or you want to build up your tolerance to losing runs then start with a selection method that bets at shorter prices.  Betting at the head of the market will have shorter losing runs!

A quick look at favourites in HorseRaceBase shows that they won 35% of races in 2018 and the long term trend has always been in the low 30's.

So why not build up your losing run muscles at the head of the market before you aim for the big value, big priced selections.

If you like to follow tipsters and want to avoid long losing runs our own John Burke has a relatively new service which bets mostly towards the head of the market and has a strike rate in the 30's

https://www.oncourseprofits.com/consistentprofits
Both are cheap and both are great for making profits with shorter losing runs.