New Year's Resolution for Bettors: Get a Strategy

Whether you are serious about betting for a living or not, you probably want to make as much money as you can betting on sports, right?  How have you been making your betting decisions?  Do you go with your gut?  Do you make a prediction based on your knowledge of a sport, but without doing a lot of concrete research before a match?  Do you pick the team you hope will win?  Do you use someone else’s betting strategy or picks?

These are all common approaches for casual punters—and even for some punters who hope to make a living betting.  But none of them will ever result in consistent returns, and that includes paying for someone else’s picks!  If it were that easy to make money using someone else’s hard work, everyone would be doing it, don’t you think?

That is why this year one of the best New Year’s resolutions you can make is to get a betting strategy of your own, one which allows you to make solid predictions match after match.  Doing this right involves several steps:

1. First you will need to find a strategy which will suit you.  You can find numerous techniques online for free, or you can develop one on your own.  You can even start with someone else’s method and change it so that it works better for you.

2. You need to test it.  No betting strategy is going to perform well if you do not know how to use it properly and have not proven to yourself that it will work before you wager real money.  Remember, you are actually wagering not just on the outcome of the match, but on the technique itself!  So give yourself some evidence that it will work.  Plus, this will ensure that you will know exactly what you are doing when it comes time to bet with real money.  Otherwise you could make avoidable mistakes.

3. You need to use it consistently.  Once you have a betting technique that actually works, use it!  Do not just use it some days when you feel like it and ignore it on other days when you don’t.  A betting strategy gives you consistently, but only if you are consistently using it in the first place.  Otherwise your decision-making process is still too random, and you will get fairly random results, most of them losses.

Picking a strategy to learn is hard work, and odds are that you will try a number of them before you find something that you like.  Building one yourself may be even harder, but if you think you already have some of the ingredients you need, by all means, give it a shot.  Don’t get discouraged.  Eventually you will find something out there that works for you and generates the results you are looking for.  Use it consistently and you might just be one of the sharps by this time next year.