What’s better – The number of winners you back or how much you win?
In this fascinating article, Matthew Walton delves into the battle between strike-rate and profit and the real-life mental challenges that occur when using tipsters, especially those that select bets at big odds and to low strike-rates.
Like Matthew, I have seen far too many punters quit a good tipster all too early because they suffered more losers then they could handle. Despite the fact that when a bet did win, it won big.
There is no shame in falling foul of this especially when you consider the pain of a losing bet is twice the joy we get from backing a winner.
It’s a psychological test – all of which makes it vitally important that as punters we absorb as much information as possible from experts like Matthew. After all, he knows what it takes to win long-term, which is of course what matters most.