4. The fewer selections, the better
This is something that, even though it seems like common sense, punters forget all the time. The fewer selections you include in your bet, the more chance you stand of winning.
If you’re betting to make money think small, not big. One team or selection if you can stake enough. Three or four maximum. Once you find yourself putting that 20-fold accumulator on, you really are on cloud cuckoo land.
Bookies lose most of their money from singles. An extreme example would be some high-roller coming into a shop and putting N100,000 on a 4/6 shot.
Just one single at an odds-on price but the shop would have to turnover N70,000 to cover that payout alone.
If you do enough research, you should feel relatively safe putting N1oo or N200 on one selection. But trebles usually offer a decent return if you really do want a higher payout.
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