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Gambling Books

  • 27-05-2010 3:05pm
    #1
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,086 ✭✭✭


    Ive been gambling for about 6 months now and have managed to turn a tidy profit on backing football and the odd horse. I would like to get a couple of books to help me use my money more wisely.

    So basically anyone got any "must read" books.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    ValueSeeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭ValueSeeker


    Derek McGovern "On Sports Betting And How To Make It Pay".

    It's a bit dated but you'll learn all about the concept of value betting.


  • #3
    catmelodian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭catmelodian


    ValueSeeker wrote: »
    Derek McGovern "On Sports Betting And How To Make It Pay".

    It's a bit dated but you'll learn all about the concept of value betting.

    Derek McGovern is an ape. How anyone published his warbling I'll never know.

    Racing Post website. Shop. Buy Kevin Pullein's book. Excellent. football focused by applicable across the board.


  • #4
    ValueSeeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭ValueSeeker


    I bought this book out of interest.

    I'm half way through and he's all about statistics and formulae which took him years to compile.

    He makes some valid points and I don't doubt his statistical knowledge yields him the profits he is said to make but unless you're some sort of statistical genius (which this guy is), you're unlikely to beat the compilers at their own game.

    McGoverns book, on the other hand, is all about logic and variables. The real way to beat the bookmaker.

    McGovern's book, I found intriguing even though it gave me little or no new knowledge.

    This book I am finding very boring. I'm firmly in the statistics are very much over rated camp.


  • #5
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,191 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    ValueSeeker wrote: »

    This book I am finding very boring. I'm firmly in the statistics are very much over rated camp.

    I know what you mean but statistics are how bookies make their money.


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