Thursday, December 13, 2007

Sports Betting: Why All The Winners Have A Well Laid Plan

This is the last of four strategies that all winning sports bettors use. They all set up plans and goals and do not ever deviate.

When I first started in sports betting my goals then were a lot different than they are today. Basically I didn't have any goals when I first started; I just made plays because it was fun. I also lost a lot of money because I chased losses. That wasn't very fun.

I think we have all been there were you start out Saturday morning with that good feeling of a long day of College Football and betting ahead of us. And by the 1:30 games we are already stressing about the losses and how can we get them back. Well we don't have to worry there is plenty of games left. By the end of the day we are loading up on the Hawaii game (which we would have NEVER bet) to get all of our losses back.

Over time that scenario will end up badly more times than it will be good. It is easy to get caught up in the emotion of sports betting. But we can't, we have to lay down a plan or goals and stick to them. Here's another scenario that I fell into when I first started as well. I would make my early bets on Saturday and most if not all came through. I would be riding high, felt untouchable. So I would up my bets and/or by the last game double down on that game. By the sports betting day's end I had nothing to show for my great start.

We can't fall into these scenarios and figure that we will be sports betting winners over time.

We need to set a goal and stick to it. If you want to make $50 or $5000 set up a plan to get there in a set time frame and stick to it. You don't plan to achieve you won't achieve.

Winning sports bettors use this strategy along with the other three because they work and it makes them money over and over!

By: Paige Pick

If you would like to find out more about these 4 winning strategies then click here for my free report Sports Betting: The Simple Truth.

Paige Pick is a sports bettor with seven years of betting experience and creates a full time income from betting on MLB, NFL, NCAAFB, NCAABB, and NBA.

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