Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Win at the Dog Track Over the Long Haul


Greyhound Dog Racing Tips.

After every race at the dog track, there are happy winners and discouraged losers. The winners go cash their tickets and the losers grouse to their friends or themselves about how lousy their luck is or how lousy the races are today. They feel like real losers, because they picked the wrong dogs in that race.

It would be a lot more constructive if the losers went back over their bets and analyzed whether they had made good choices, based on good handicapping practices. If they did, the sensible thing to do is to go on. Just chalk the race up to the law of averages, which says that not all your bets are going to come in.

It's the long haul that you have to look at in handicapping or anything else you try to accomplish in life. It's not whether you won on a race. It's whether you win, overall, on enough races to make a profit, no matter how small.

The reason for that is because, if you can make a profit, even a tiny one, you can apply that method to bigger bets and make a bigger profit. The main thing is to keep good records of every single bet you make on every program, so that you know whether you're winning or losing overall.

Most people live moment to moment. They get caught up in the excitement of betting and don't pay attention to how they're doing in the big picture. If you do that, you're giving control of your betting to fate, and fate isn't kind to people who don't pay attention when they're risking money.

Keep records. Write down every bet you make. Go back over your records day by day, week by week, month by month. Be honest with yourself and you might find that you're doing better than you thought your were. If not, maybe you could use some help with your handicapping.

Greyhound Dog Racing.