Just a month left

24/07/2010 | By More

I don’t want to depress you, but in a months time the summer racing calendar will be shutting down. Most of the major sports events will be out the way and the evenings in the UK will start to pull in.

The days of ample opportunity and get out of jail cards will have been served and your approach will have to shift slightly to adapt to the prevailing winds. It doesn’t mean that opportunity has gone, just changed shape a bit.

A few years ago I recognised that the summer had a very different feel to the autumn and winter and if you are just on racing alone, the winter can descend you into a state of torpor at times. You also, unfairly, bias your results to the summer. So I adapted and increased my activity on other markets and this has the effect of spreading out my results month on month over the year.

While the summer schedule is busy, I often feel that this busier period often leads to under performance. If you look at two days this week. They show different totals but have the same underlying theme, the average per race is quite low. This is simply because I am picking off clear cut opportunities. If I don’t see one, I don’t go for it. In the winter you don’t have that choice so you tend to work harder and often pull in better results.

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The moral of this story is that a decline in opportunities isn’t such a bad thing as it could be made out to be. Also, there are so many markets out there, widen your remit to get a better all round performance. Till then, make hay while the sun shines.

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I left a good job in the consumer technology industry to go a trade on Betfair for a living way back in June 2000. I've been here ever since pushing very boundaries of what's possible on betting exchanges and loved every minute of it.

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