subject: This Weeks Winners - Becoming A Sports Handicapper [print this page] Author: Chris Fenton Author: Chris Fenton
Betting on sports is something which requires attention to detail and study. Thus, becoming a sports handicapper entails a lot of hard work and determination.
Here is a brief narrative of how the life of a sports handicapper can be:
A sports handicapper strives to accumulate information by reading books and doing some research. The novice handicapper begins to bet games with his new knowledge. He accumulates information and different handicapping angles, and develops a responsible money management program with his perceived probability of winning in mind. Even after consistently losing, he still tries to pick every game on the board. He keeps betting and continues to lose. This leads him to search for more information. His hard work pays of as he gets a winning streak. He becomes overconfident. He then becomes humbled with a losing streak. He begins to understand that successful handicapping will entail more time and knowledge that he ever thought. Upon realizing that work is involved, he considers giving up. He continues to bet and becomes more proficient with his rules and methodology.
However, something inspires him to get serious and start to concentrate on learning the real handicapping methodology. He settles on a unique angle for handicapping that fits his style and personality. He specializes in a particular sport. He realizes that it is not productive to bet on every game, and so he chooses only a few games where has a considerable edge. He also realizes the need for rules to apply the methodology. He adds, subtracts, and modifies rules as he feels necessary for them to be more proficient. He masters the methodology and the rules for successful sports betting, and he begins to consistently make money.
In a nutshell, we can say that a sports handicapper has to understand the methodology that professional gamblers use to ensure that their odds of winning outweigh their odds of losing. Becoming a sports handicapper involves focusing on a solid betting strategy.
