2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
Have increased in value as follows:
Duke 12 to 1 (same)
UCLA 30 to 1 (now doubled in value to 15 to 1)
Illinois 35 to 1 (gone)
Houston 40 to 1 (now quadrupled in value to 10 to 1)
Arkansas 50 to 1 (same)
UNC 100 to 1 (now quintupled in value to 20 to 1)
If you can sell the tickets (as you can in some markets), now is a good time to cash in on those up in profit.
Betting Psychology and Risk Management
This post is partially motivated by the incoming surge in official picks we are going to have as well as the dismay here some have experienced with the downturn we've had over the past few weeks. Risk-based moneymaking is not an easy pursuit and the vast majority of people who try their hand at it fail. It is important that you arm yourselves with as may tools as possible so that you will be in the profitable minority. Most people find it difficult enough to look at their investment portfolios during a relatively mild downturn, and that's with professional hedge fund managers doing insulating them from the very real challenges of risking our money and making a profit from it. Anyone who is active here is choosing to take that risk into their own hands. There are big rewards for this but also very big risks. This post is about preventing you from being taken out by those risk.
The primary way that we mount our offence us through our edge. A statistical...