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From: "winder" <winder21@yahoo.com>
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Subject: what is the true winning percentage of a proffesional soccer punter
Date: 22 Jun 2005 10:00:17 -0700
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Many people believe professional-level sports bettors win at least 60%
of their bets. It's understandable that people think that, but it's
just not true. The fact is, the difference between the percentage of
bets won by successful sports bettors and the percentage of bets won by
losers is relatively very small.
Anyone can expect to win 50 percent. After all, the only thing required
is to flip a coin and pick a side. The bookmakers' profit comes from
the difference between what a bettor must risk and what a bettor
expects to win. Every time a player wins, the bookmaker withholds
slightly more than 9 percent of the winnings ($1 for every $11 risked).
Consequently, a bettor winning only half his bets will ultimately go
broke.
Professional sports bettors, by comparison, rarely sustain a long term
winning percentage higher than 57 or 58 percent, and it's often as low
as 54 or 55 percent. People find that hard to believe, and they
understandably get even more skeptical when told that, for a genuine
professional-level sports bettor, a long term winning expectation of
60% or more is actually too high.
The measure of success of a sports handicapper is not his percentage of
winning bets, but the relative amount of profit he made over any given
period of time.
Best regards
Winder,Windersports
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