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In this series of articles, Denton Jardine and
The Optimist chat about ideas for successful trifecta betting. As the
series continues, we will also be bringing you the ideas of various
experts from around the world.
The Optimist (TO): We were talking
in the last issue of PPM about creative multiples. My view is that if
you cannot get the field down below seven likely winners it’s too hard.
True, you may miss a good payout, but, assuming you have a favourite and
another favoured horse in your seven, you risk receiving a very
moderate return even if you win.
The late Don Scott once wrote that the
best form of exotic betting is the trifecta. I think he was right. Don
said picking a trifecta winning bet was a test of skill rather than a
game of chance. Punters who seek value, he wrote in his book Winning
More, will find it more frequently in trifectas than anywhere else.
There IS value to be found but it will be found in a creative approach.
In
this series of articles, I’ll pass on my own views about the trifecta,
and also those of my colleague The Optimist, who has much of enormous
interest to share in regard to this particular betting form.
Manage your money and you'll manage to
win. Good advice, I can assure you. A professional punter handed it on
to me many moons ago.
He was extraordinarily insistent that
without proper money management a punter couldn't win-no matter how
sharp his selections might be.
Multiple combinations lie at the heart of
successful betting on trifectas, first 4s, trebles and parlays. Even
quinellas and exactas need a multiple bet push.
The problem we
face as punters is to decide how much to spend on these multiple
combinations because each additional horse inserted into the bet calls
for extra money to be staked.
So the “safer” the bet the more it
will cost you, and the less your ultimate profit will be.
Well, you really have to ask yourself where it's all heading. What we have now with TAB Ltd has to be one of the most amazingly misguided new gimmicks that I have come across in all my years of racing.
It is called spinner, and it is simply betting on odds and evens. There is a little bit of roulette associated with it, so long as you stress the words "little bit". Perhaps "boring bit" would be a better description.
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