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Originally Posted by jpops757
Or like me indepentantly stupid. I sometimes catch myself ,after a loosing bet, looking at the various moniters to determine where the next race is going off so I can throw my small bet away.
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i know that i used to do that when i was maybe 18 when i was first going to the track on a regular basis. needless to say i lost a lot of money in that year or so before i really refined my handicapping -- or at least as much as you can have refined it by 23. Spot playing has been the saving grace of my wagering bankroll. It was hard for me to get used to it, sometimes sitting at a simulcast hall all day and playing three, maybe four bets. Picking my spots on circuits I am familiar with is all I do now -- mostly Chicago and Kentucky.
Same time, I couldn't hit a bet in California to save my life, save one pick-4 I hit this past Spring worth $1600. Which probably just evened me out in California for my life
And New York makes no sense to me either. I am used to Midwest racing so I stick to it, following all the races at Arlington, Hawthorne, Keeneland and Churchill way too methodically and it's done wonders.
That was a long way of saying that refining it and picking spots has helped me a ton, with biases and trends as well like you had originally asked about