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How to Manage Your Horse-Betting Money

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Managing your bankroll is the most difficult and important part of being a winner. Bet your money only when you have an advantage.

Difficulty: Challenging
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Total up your entire bankroll.

  2. Step 2

    Find your advantage by multiplying all the possible outcomes by its probability of occurring.

  3. Step 3

    Verify that you have the advantage on what you would like to bet on by making pretend bets. Don't just think you have an advantage and start betting.

  4. Step 4

    Determine your advantage.

  5. Step 5

    Bet a proportionate amount of your bankroll (see the Related eHow: "Learn the Kelly Method of Betting").

Tips & Warnings
  • Kelly betting requires that you maintain a linear relationship between your advantage and your bankroll. If you have a 5 percent edge on a particular horse race, you bet 5 percent of your bankroll.
  • Gambling can be addictive. If you think you have a problem, get help immediately.

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on 11/22/2005 Betting is dangerous and not a a guarantee to gain money. Watch what you spend, and don't lose control.

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