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Sports betting futures wagers can be an entertaining and profitable investment, but there are a number of pitfalls. These are some things to avoid:

There’s a strange dichotomy between the complexity of high level sports handicapping and the amount of theoretical literature on the subject. While successful sports betting is a complex and difficult pursuit, there’s very little that’s been written on the subject from a serious theoretical angle. For that reason, it can be helpful to delve into the wealth of books available to the serious poker player for insights that can be applied to sports betting.

In the United States, summertime is when teams get prepared to play football. NFL teams start training camp, and college teams start practice. North of the border in Canada, however, summertime is when their professional football season begins in the form of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

In February 2006, at Calder in Florida, Irish vet Demi O’Byrne, bidding for a syndicate from Coolmore Stud, paid $16.1 million for a two-year-old colt by Forestry, shattering the record price for a thoroughbred set more than 20 years earlier. The colt, who was never to win a race, was named The Green Monkey and, as with Seattle Dancer, who set the previous benchmark of $13.1 million, the Maktoum family of Dubai were underbidders to John Magnier’s team. Not much had changed, it seemed, during the intervening period.

Horse racing is a sport that has survived for centuries. It arised back throughout the Roman era during their training of chariot racing. But horse racing has consistently evolved throughout the years.

In February 2006, at Calder in Florida, Irish vet Demi O’Byrne, bidding for a syndicate from Coolmore Stud, paid $16.1 million for a two-year-old colt by Forestry, shattering the record price for a thoroughbred set more than 20 years earlier. The colt, who was never to win a race, was named The Green Monkey and, as with Seattle Dancer, who set the previous benchmark of $13.1 million, the Maktoum family of Dubai were underbidders to John Magnier’s team. Not much had changed, it seemed, during the intervening period.

Ratings-Based racing is something relatively new to most Australian punters but is here to stay so we need to get a handle on it. The major difference between ratings-based racing and the old Class 1, Class 2 (etc.) racing can be simplified by an example: In say, a 62RB (Ratings Based) race you can have a Class 1 horse (a horse with only one win), a Class 2 horse (horse with two wins) etc. racing against each-other provided their “rating” doesn’t exceed the level of the race, in this example, 62.

There are a wide variety of Omaha Hi/Lo hands so it can be hard to figure out which hands should be played and which should be folded. It may surprise some to know that there are more hands that should be folded than played.