Not a professional? Don’t blame yourself.

You can still make money at betting without ever becoming good at it.
 
I listen to a lot of music. Have done for years.

I go to concerts regularly, own a fair amount vinyl LP’s (remember those?), and I even attempt to play the drums in my spare time.

But despite the love and appreciation that I have for music… I’ll be the first to admit I’m no professional musician.

Likewise…

If you’re reading this article, the chances are you’re not a professional gambler.

And by that I mean someone who derives 100% of their income from betting.

Which is fine, by the way…

Much like my efforts to emulate Buddy Rich… there’s no shame in being just a “keen amateur” or “semi-pro” punter.

Someone who doesn’t earn every last penny with horseracing bets, or shrewd investments on the football or golf…

… but still likes to study the form, or go to the races, and have the occasional flutter.

Because in all reality…

That description covers most of the members I deal with.

And I’ve always got time for anyone who takes an active interest in trying to win a little extra tax-free money by way of easy winner.

It’s better than earning it after all!!

What makes for a professional backer

Let me explain…

Full-time bettors, or “pro backers”, earn that title because of what they do, and how they operate.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks of the year.

They’re prepared to bet every day of the week. At every hour of the day. If the opportunity presents itself.

Likewise, they’re prepared to wait, days-on-end if needs be, for the right option to become available.

What’s more…

They have sufficient funds, spread across more than enough accounts, to enable them to take the best (or as near as dammit, the best) prices the market has to offer.

These full-time operators also have, in most cases, bags of discipline and mental fortitude which will enable them to avoid the bad bets, but also to stick in there so as to back the good ones.

They will not be blown off course by the short-term ebb-and-flow of results, variance in the form, or what us mere mortals would consider nothing more or less than “sheer bad luck”.

Luck does not exist in their world.

There are good value bets which win, and good value bets which lose. Nothing else.

More to the point…

After having their very best day, or conversely their very worst week, a professional backer treats the next opportunity no differently to the one which started that previous sequence.

Each bet is judged on its merits. There is no hangover from what went before.

The 6 bets all lost… so what? Far more important is the outcome of the next bet.

And so the cycle goes.

This is their daily 9-to-5.

This is the life of a professional gambler.

This is why so many of us are keen amateurs and why, in my particular case, I’m not touring the world with the Stones.

Because I don’t have the time, commitment  – actually, lets face it, the talent – to do it like Charlie Watts, or whoever is currently keeping time for the Strolling Bones!

So how to have the best of both worlds…

This is the Catch-22…

You want to operate like a professional, but you haven’t the time or expertise to emulate those who do it full-time.

But you can’t blame yourself for this.

My drum teacher (my long-suffering drum teacher!) would always tell me the guys who play in bands do so because that’s what they do, it’s all they do, all day every day.

I can’t simply turn up for half an hour a week and expect to play like John Bonham.  More’s the pity.

Same goes with betting.

Unless you’re prepared, or able, to put in the hours, you’re simply not going to get the same results as those who’ve been doing it for years.

So it’s not your fault if you’re not an expert at half a dozen different things.

You’re most likely very good (far better than average) at whatever you do for a day-job, and that’s to be expected. But everything else, you have to accept, will only be done up to a certain standard.

And this is where the likes of professionally-operated betting syndicates come in.

Because there’s no point in a professional drummer physically doing the drumming for me… it kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise.

However…

You can get a professional backer to bet for you…

Or in this case, let you follow whatever they’re backing themselves.

This is why betting is such a good example.

So many things which we want to be good at, are things we want to, or have to, do ourself.

But if we haven’t the ability to get better at them (held back by time constraints for the most part, or, yes, a lack of natural talent) then we’re never going to get to the standard we want to reach.

So things like playing an instrument to a concert-ready standard, or becoming an elite-level sportsman. It’s never going to happen for most people.

You can operate like a professional gambler though…

Or at least achieve similar results…

By simply following the advice of someone who has already attained that level… a level which you will never be able to reach under your own steam (and you’ll be winning money whilst you’re doing it).

It’s almost like getting paid to go to school!

So I’m not a great drummer.

I accept that fact, and I know the reason why.

I don’t play enough, and I’m not blessed with enough God-given talent, to be the next Ringo Starr (who wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles, so the story goes!).

Likewise, you don’t have to be the next Patrick Veitch or Tony Bloom.

But you can share some of the success guys like this have by latching onto professional gamblers who do share their information.

That’s what I do through services like The Racing Buddha and Golf Insider.

Give them a try and start betting like a pro yourself.

 

OPINION: There’s an impatience among most people when learning something, or trying to improve at something, to get to the finish line almost before they’ve started. They look at other people who can do whatever it is they’re trying to achieve and think “they can do it, so why can’t I?”. And of course the truth is in most cases, the expert in question has been doing whatever they’re doing expertly for years. So whilst you were being a taxi driver, or school teacher, or bank worker, or regional sales co-ordinator, or whatever it is you do to pay the bills… they were out hitting golf balls all day, or learning to play the drums. Or just maybe perfecting the art of being a professional gambler!