Sports betting has always been something that I have
liked to play around with and often place bets on the football games throughout
the Premier League season but with the rise in sports betting revenues
increasing year on year and the fact that mobile sports betting is expected to
carry further growth, reports claiming it could be as high as $45 billion ayear by 2017, where is the attraction in betting on sports such as horse
racing?
I have always tried to be cautious when it comes to
gambling and tend to look for bets in which I think carry a low risk but these
often return low profits but a profit is a win however you look at it, but when
it comes to horse racing, especially in the races that carry a larger number of
runners, the betting odds seem to go firmly out of the window!
I recently took a trip to the races close to where I work
and although the night was great, the horse betting aspect seemed to leave me completely
baffled, there were odds on favourites coming in last place, the firm outsiders
rushing towards the finish line in first place and generally a complete miss
match of odds and tips that seemed to leave punters guessing rather than
betting in the know.
Now I guess that this is all part and parcel of the horse
race betting experience but for me even the lure of free betting offers and promotions online aren’t enough to make me even think about betting on the
horses at any other time than with friends at the racecourse, but there were
avid gamblers that were genuinely dropping thousands of pounds as races
finished.
Now it might be down to the relationship that I am in but
the thought of having to walk into my house and face the wife with the news
that I have just dropped £3k on the horses and have come home with little more
than a stinking hangover to show for it, scares the life out of me.
I think that I’ll stick to something a little less
unpredictable and keep winning in smaller chunks of profit rather than looking
to back that outsider at 120/1 and seeing them coming flying past the winners
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