BETTING STRATEGIES

USER GUIDE

[Compound MagicPRO]
 INTRODUCTION

In this document you will also find listed some strategies for different sports to kick-
start your profits.

You will also find overleaf The Cascade approach to using Compound Magic PRO.

This betting strategy is not intended to be prescriptive. It is simply one way of

leveraging the power of CMPro’s compounding potential.

The Cascade strategy fully exploits the ability to save and load any of up to 21, on-
going Betting Plans offered by the PRO version.

Creative and thoughtful punters will develop their own strategies but until then, they
might find The Cascade approach of interest.

Time now to look at The Cascade…

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 THE CASCADE
The example below is intended to explain the principle involved in running The
Cascade.

In such a case, running a Cascade enables you to apply considerable leverage to

quickly build your profits.

CMPro has been made small enough to allow several Plans to be open at the same
time.

A Single Selection per event

This example, based on finding one strong selection per event you are interested in, is
the best way to simplify the explanation.

For our convenience in this example we’ll treat each event as being a horse race.

Here we go:

Our initial selection is horse A in, say, the second race at Ascot.

We set up Plan 1. And A is our first bet in Plan 1

PLAN 1: A

Our next selection in, say, the 4th race at Thirsk, is B

But as A has already been bet, B goes into the next column in the Plan, as you can
see:

PLAN 1: A B [We’re betting B as our second bet in Plan 1]

But we also set up a second Plan we’ll number as 2.

And Plan 2 now has B as its first bet:

PLAN 2: B

Starting to get the idea?

Our next selection is C, at Fontwell race 5.

We bet it into Plan1 and into Plan 2:

PLAN 1: A B C
PLAN 2: B C

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What next?

Yep, we also set up a new Plan 3 to take C as our first bet:

PLAN 3: C

Hopefully you’re definitely getting the idea now. If not, keep reading.

The Cascade (of Plans) continues with our next selection at Ascot race 7, horse D

PLAN 1: ABCD
PLAN 2: BCD
PLAN 3: CD
PLAN 4: D

Our next selection is E:

PLAN 1: ABCDE
PLAN 2: BCDE
PLAN 3: CDE
PLAN 4: DE
PLAN 5: E

…
If E wins, then PLAN 1 is completed with a nice, fat total profit.

But if E loses you have still pocketed good profits during the Plan, so no wailing and
gnashing of teeth is needed!

Selection F is used to start a new Plan 1 AND selection F goes into remaining plans 2
3 4 and 5.

But what about if there’s a loss that “breaks” a plan?

Simply start another Plan with the next selection as its 1st bet and continue the
pattern.

Rinse and repeat.

Remember: A Plan is always profitable once the 3rd bet has succeeded.

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Two Selections Per Event
For the 1st Event A and B are both our selections
Set up 4 plans and place first bet in each plan as shown:

PLAN 1: A
PLAN 2: A
PLAN 3: B
PLAN 4: B

For the 2nd Event Two Selections are C & D

They are bet in the 2nd column in each plan as shown:

PLAN 1: A C
PLAN 2: A D
PLAN 3: B C
PLAN 4: B D

3rd Event Two Selections are E & F

PLAN 1: A C E
PLAN 2: A D F
PLAN 3: B C E
PLAN 4: B D F

Selections K and L will eventually start a new Plan 1. Selections G and H followed
by I and J go into remaining plans 2 3 4 and 5.

Obviously, for easy explanation, this illustration assumes all selections succeed!

But again, if loss “breaks” a plan then simply start another Plan with the next
selection and continue the basic principle behind the patterns above.

Obviously the Events can not only be horse races but also head-to-head events such as
tennis, snooker, fencing, or individual team events (football, cricket and so on)

Let your imagination run riot!

Again, another example follows, to illustrate a Head-to-Head Cascade.

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 HEAD-TO-HEAD CASCADE
Ideal for:
 Tennis
 Snooker
 Basketball
 Baseball
 Darts
 …and so on

The idea is to first set up 4 Plans – 2 for the favourite, 2 for the other.

You decide to bet on a tennis match: Greene (1.20) v Taylor(3.20)

PLAN 1 1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice 4th choice 5th choice
Initial Bet is on the
FAVOURITE:
Greene

PLAN 2 1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice 4th choice 5th choice
Initial Bet is on the
OTHER
Taylor

PLAN 3 1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice 4th choice 5th choice
Initial Bet is on the
FAVOURITE
Greenel

PLAN 4 1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice 4th choice 5th choice
Initial Bet is on the
OTHER
Taylor

Greene wins.

So Plans 1 and 3 are still ‘live’

Next tournament we’ll bet Smith (1.15) v Brown (4.50)

Smith and Brown will go onto the existing live Plans 1 and 3 as the 2nd bets..

And Smith and Brown will also become our 1st bets in two new Plans (You could
reset Plans 2 and 4 and use them if you want to avoid confusing yourself.)

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Follow Just One Strategy
You might decide to follow one particular horse, greyhound, basketball or football
team.

Perhaps bet only

 when it’s a favourite
 when it’s at home
 when it’s under particular odds
 when it’s within a particular odds range
 when it’s within N points from the nearest competitor

Or…

Follow just one nation in, say, an international cricket or football competition

Follow just one team in a national cricket or football competition, for example

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 HORSE BETTING STRATEGIES

Preamble
These strategies are for place betting Plans, using Compound Magic PRO.

Common sense can help you in your decision making: so avoid competitive
handicaps, heavy and soft ground and extreme distance jumps events.

Also avoid certain race types such as maiden hurdles, maidens, and handicaps.

Stick to small fields (ideally 8-runners to take advantage of the payout for 3 places)

Focus on the place-only market (or low win prices) which is what CMPro was
particularly designed for.

Different Plans
 Run one for each Track on the day

 Run one for a winning trainer/jockey combination …and so on.

You could use Plans for:

• The most tipped horses

• The highest rated horses
• The horses with best recent form
• The fastest horses
• Horses trained by an in form trainer
…plus whatever else you can think of

Let’s now consider the details of The 2-Horse Race.

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The 2-Horse Race
Run a Plan for the first two in the betting forecast. It works well most of the time.

 Consider races between 8 and 12 runners.

 Avoid competitive races
 Avoid handicaps

What To Look for

A strong favourite
A reasonably priced 2nd favourite
A big gap between the 2nd favourite and the rest of the field.

Example:
Favourite: 1.60
F2: 4.20
F3: 13.75
The rest are from, say, 21.50 upwards

We will bet the 2nd Favourite for a PLACE, as long as it is 1.50 minimum.

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The 3-Horse Race
 We’re looking for races between 8 and 12 runners.
 Avoid competitive races
 Avoid handicaps

What To Look for

We want the first three favourites to be quite close together in price.
We want a big gap between the 3rd favourite and the rest of the field.

Example:
Favourite: 3.10
F2: 3.90
F3: 4.75
The rest are from, say, 17.00 upwards

We will bet the 2nd Favourite and/or 3rd Favourite for a PLACE, if the place dividend
is 1.50 minimum.

Standout Selections From The Forecast

Open www.racingpost.co.uk

Go through the cards race by race and make a note of all forecast favourites who are
priced at 3/1 or lower in the betting forecast found at the bottom of the card.

NB: Discard maiden/claimer/seller/ banded stakes/novices hurdle

Pay special attention to those races where there is a noticeable price gap between the
1st and 2nd favourites in the betting forecast.

Example:
Betme is the favourite in the betting forecast at 4/6.
The second horse, Maybe, is priced at 5/1
We have a noticeable gap between the pair.

If Betme was priced at 6/4 and the second-named horse in the betting forecast was
priced at 5/2, the prices are quite close.
Give Betme+1 point and give Maybe zero.

Also consider allocating these points to help differentiation:

C = course winner +1
D = distance winner +1
DSL <31 +1
Highest RPR +1
LR = 1 or 2 +1
< 13 runners +1

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 FOOTBALL RESEARCH
Past statistics and trends can be good pointers to future performance in the goal
scoring/goals conceded markets.

Top Three To Visit

 www.soccerstats.com
 www.betdevil.com
 The teams’ actual websites
Looking at each…

Soccerstats: A superb resource site for all major world leagues, covering all goal
specific statistics imaginable

NB: at the time of writing this (Nov 2013) the site is NOT FireFox-friendly. Use
either Chrome or IE.

Betdevil: For independent ratings this free site is unbeatable. It offers a ratings tool
for every just about every match in Europe.

As the site says: “…match analysis on 110 leagues, 85 cups in 55 countries, plus all
international matches and cup competitions. That’s 33,000+ matches annually.”

Their ratings are broken down into:

 home team versus away team performance ratings
 league goal analysis
 ratings analysis (based around rate form, recent form, league form, combo
form), sequences and streaks
 probability
 recent league form
 head to heads

Teams’ actual websites: Ideal for determining any injuries or absences or changes in
team news which can affect potential goal-scoring.

Other Resources
More Statistics:
http://www.365stats.com/
http://www.soccerstats.com/

The Racing and Football Outlook is an offline equivalent and a real must for football
punters.

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The Racing Post’s football coverage is always excellent. Available online at
www.racingpost.co.uk and offline via the newspaper.
For the very latest information on injuries and transfers: www.sportinglife.com

For up to the minute scores: www.livescore.com

Fixtures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/fixtures

Betfair offers close to 50 national leagues

Click Fixtures to see what’s playing on any given day

UEFA Europa League has matches most days of the week

Check In-Play Coupons

Check English FA League

English Premier League: http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/premierleague

Teams’ Standings Schedules, results, statistics, leaders

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 FOOTBALL SELECTIONS
Preamble
Football (and in-running football) can offer some good opportunities for bets with
highly likely outcomes.

These could include:

 1 goal or more in the total goals market
 backing a team when they are 2-0 up in the match odds market
 backing ultra short home teams in a double (e.g. 1.18 and 1.26).

To help guide your selections, you could do a lot worse than to take note of Mr
Keeling’s almost daily, extensive Football Research notes:
http://www.whatreallywinsmoney.co.uk/category/football/

Choosing The Match

The key to success here is with the correct choice of football match.

Look for the following.

 A short-priced team playing at home

 Quick check regarding recent form and the team must be in good recent league
form
 The opposition must be in poor recent form or lower league opposition

Back and Lay

Back teams (for the place or win or both) who are :

 very strongly fancied to win their matches

 playing at home. [Home advantage and short prices normally result in the
home team not losing.]

As an optional extra, LAY their opponents.

A High Strike Rate

Certain teams in a country’s premier league equivalents tend to dominate their leagues
year in and year out.

Examples:
 The Big 4 in England
 Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in Greece

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  Fenerbahcae and Galatasaray in Turkey
 Lyon in France
 Bayern Munich in Germany
 Barcelona in Spain

Look for a dominant team:

 priced at 2/5 or shorter
 playing at home

They tend to win well and often.

Performance Checks
www.soccerstats.com is but one of many sites which can show you a team’s
performance over a season.

Look at the HOME FIXTURE tables for, say, England

Teams heading the HOME WINS tables at www.soccerstats.com tend to win the
majority of their matches, especially if priced at 2/5 or lower.

Barcelona are not always 2/5 or shorter at home, especially when Real Madrid are in
town.

Dominant home teams could include:

Manchester United, Celtic, Olympiacos, Ajax, Barcelona and AC Milan.

Between them you’ll find plenty of home fixtures, plenty of short prices (ideally less
than 1 / 2 or 4/9 at home) and a high strike rate of wins at home.

This is a viable alternative to horse racing.

Optional Extras To Consider

Only bet the favourite if the favourite’s odds are within a certain range

Only bet the favourite if the favourite’s odds are X points below the competing team

BACK the team as per usual (in an in-running football match on Betfair) and look to
trade out after the team score the first goal (which is usually the case).

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 GREYHOUNDS

Improvers Strategy: A Simple Selection Method

Applicable to both UK and Australian greyhounds.

The principle is based on identifying possible improvers, and then using the market as
a guide to the dogs identified by the strategy.

Method

Consider the last 3 placings.

Placed Points
1 1 point
2 2 points
3 3 points
4+ 10 points

We add in pairs from left to right.

In the example below, look at the first dog listed: Kanga Whiz. The extreme right is
where the last 3 places are shown.

Kanga Whiz achieved for the last three races: 778.

We add the points for the places77 = 10+10 = 20, then add points for 78 = 10+10 =
20
The 20-20 is interpreted as: poor performance without improvement.

Peno Boy: 52 = 12 28 = 12 (So 12-12 is interpreted as no improvement)

Boxes and Traps

In Australia, we bear in mind boxes 1, 2 and 8 are statistically the best ones. This site
is excellent for state and box breakdowns: http://www.hotdogs.com.au/statistics

In the UK This site is excellent for trap stats: http://www.greyhound-data.com/

 Click on Stadia
 Then choose a dog track (stadium) from the list on the left
 Then click the Trap Statistics tab at the top.

Remember to use the market as your final guide.

Let’s now look at a four examples.

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Example 1

Prices shown are from this totalizer: http://tatts.com/

1 20-20
2 12-12
3 12-13
42 improver, poor trap
5 3-4 good performer despite a poor trap
6 20-20
7 20-20
8 11-13

Numbers 4 and 5 stand out as confirmed by the market. And…

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Example 2

1 13-11 slight improver, good box/trap

2 12-4 improver, good box/trap
3 13-13
4 14-14
5 14-9 improver in a poor box/trap, and the market says No
6 3-4 performer in a poor box/trap, and the market says No
7 20-11 improver in a poor box/trap, and the market says No
8 12-20

With the market as our guide 1 and 2 are our selections and…

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Example 3

1 12-11 improver, good box

2 6-4 improver, good box
3 14-14
4 20-12
5 5-12
6 20-12
7 11 possible but a poor box
8 20-11 improver, good box

With the market as a guide, number 2 is our selection and…

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Example 4

1 13-13
2 scr
3 20-12 improver, poor box
4 20-13 improver, poor box
5 13-20
6 4-12
7 20-20
8 20-13 improver, good box
9 6-13

3 4 and 8. We’ll go with 8 – improver, in a good box and the market says Yes.

A good decision

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 TENNIS STRATEGIES

Fixtures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/calendar/default.stm

Research
To help guide your selections, you could do a lot worse than to take note of Mr
Keeling’s extensive Tennis research notes:

http://www.whatreallywinsmoney.co.uk/category/tennis/

Selection Strategies
There are, of course, dozens of methods to bet on tennis.

But here is a quick, easy and effective strategy, based on the price-gaps between the
Favourite and the opponent.

Strategy 1
Step 1: Consider matches where the favourite is paying a minimum of 1.50

Step 2: And the difference between the favourite and the outsider should be 0.50 or
over.

Bet the Favourite for the WIN

Strategy 2
We’re looking for a close gap between the two players.

Consider matches where the gap is no more than 1.50

Bet the higher-priced player for the WIN.

Example: A = $2.30 B = 2.70 So we will bet player B.

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 SPORTS BETTING: WHAT’S ON?

Your First Two Visits

1 This excellent site shows event scheduled for the next 24 hours:

http://www.sportspunter.com/betting?function=next24hours

2 International All Sports Bookmaker

http://www.iasbet.com/sports-home = UPCOMING SPORTS TODAY

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 AMERICAN FOOTBALL
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/standings

Look at the W and L columns to help you sort through the teams.

Obviously the highest and consistent winners could be the ones to consider in
conjunction with their opposition for a given match.

The STRK column offers information on winning and losing streaks.

Last5 gives clues as to the teams’ current performance, fitness and even morale.

BASKETBALL
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/standings

Look at the W and L columns to help you sort through the teams.

Obviously the highest and consistent winners could be the ones to consider in
conjunction with their opposition for a given match.

BASEBALL STRATEGIES
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/standings/Overall

Look at the W and L columns to help you sort through the teams.

Obviously the highest and consistent winners could be the ones to consider in
conjunction with their opposition for a given match.

A Simple Selection Method

Rule 1
Eliminate the game where:

 the underdog has lost 3 or more games in a row

 or the favourite has won 3 or more games in a row

Remember that every baseball team face some long losing streaks as well as long
winning streaks.

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Rule 2
Eliminate games where the price for the underdog is over 2.50

In such a case there’s a reason. Avoid such a game!

Rule 3
Eliminate games where the underdog is facing a very good pitcher.

If they’re facing a pitcher in the top 20 of the MLB, move on to another selection.

Resources
You can use any newspaper as well as a lot of web sites to have access to this
information.
A good site is www.tsn.com

The pitcher’s standing must be according to Earned-Run Average (ERA).

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 US SPORTS SELECTION SERVICES
Offering: NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL selection services. [The order of listing is not
significant. ]
# Sports Services # Sports Services
1. NSA(The Legend) 16. John Morrison
2. Ray "The Playmaker" Bowden 17. Tony Campone
3. VegasSI.com 18. Chicago Sports Group
4. SportsAction365.com 19. Hollywood Sportsline
5. Gameday Network 20. VIP Action
6. William E. Stockton 21. South Beach Sports
7. Gerry "Big Cat" Andino 22. Michigan Sports
8. Lou Panelli 23. NY Players Club
9. Steve "Scoop" Kendall 24. Charlies Sports
10. Vincent Pioli 25. Fred Callahan
11. PointSpreadReport.com 26. Vegas Line Crushers
12. Las Vegas Sports Commission 27. Handicappster
13. International Sports Syndicate 28. Hammer The Book
14. SCORE 29. LPW Forecast
15. East Coast Line Movers

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