Re kamel17 Jan 2014 20:41
My late grandfather was an on course bookie for 34 years and sold up in the 80s
I left school at 15 and worked with him as his boy quite a lot at weekends, always been a fan of the sport way ahead of a punter and a means of making money( or trying too lol). A big percentage of my bets are placed first show on the exchange and laid off before the race big handicaps like the Lincoln / wokingham / royal hunt cup etc are backed antepost, as many as 10/12 horses. You can make a good living if you have 5 hours per day and 3 hours per evening( I'm pretty much retired now ) and have small connections to stables. Like I say you can earn a living from it. At times you get a little cocky and greedy at times and take on favourites, some you win some you lose.
Boxing Day lost 10k on paper by not laying cue card off. Convinced he'd win and had the down pours not come he would have. But that's the risk you take. Rarely do that now always stick to the rules..
Top handicaps are spring/summer so I bet on football in the winter. Have 10-11 teams with 100 on each. If they score first it's lay and bank profit. I do sometimes back races in meydan but the draw bias is a bit of putting and their is barely 4lbs between top and bottom weight so it's more spectator than punter for me except World Cup night. Enjoy that. Usually the winners of the million pound plus races come here for our summer and get slaughtered. Shows you that GB and Eire is the worlds best. Sorry Ot guys
Lad. Will wait for now only by virtue of BET recent pull back after a very good trading update it's down 10% in the last month . I know some think 1.50 is on the cards so will sit on me hands for now.
Gl
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