10 Betting Resolutions To Commit Yourself To In 2025
Published: 12th January 2025
How can you improve your betting returns in 2025? What are the keys to successful and profitable betting? As we head into the new year, today our racing editor Stephen Harris declares 10 resolutions all punters should commit to in 2025.
With the start of the new year all punters should take stock and bring together strategies and approaches to improve their profitability for the battles ahead. Here we suggest ten new year resolutions to sharpen minds and hone techniques.
#1 – Specialise
When someone turns up on Mastermind, they don’t list ten different spheres of expertise that they wish to answer questions on. It’s the same with successful punters. It is virtually impossible to cover all the bases properly, and the best and most long-standing backers find an area where they know far more than the market. Whether it is non-league football, Swindon dogs or politics, you need to immerse yourself in every possible angle of your particular subject.
One of the problems with say Premier League football, or even top class racing is that the subject is done to death in the mainstream media and everything is largely out in the open. You simply won’t be getting 2-1 about a 6-4 chance. Find a more obscure event, hone in on it, make detailed notes about it and you will find edges over the market become more apparent and value bets are easier to find.
#2 – Play For The Long Term. Don’t Chase Daily Losses
The major failing of all punters is to live in the short term. How they go on the day is the be all and end all. Stakes rise to chase earlier losses and to have a “won small” day. When I was a bookie at the dogs, if the results had gone against the punters, you would find that turnover on the last few races would be dramatically higher. They would accept very short prices for their fancy just in a bid to smash out of it by the end of the night.
This mindset has to change. Bet month to month, or even quarter to quarter. It slows things down and avoids the “going on tilt” mentality that can quickly ruin months of meticulous profit building.
#3 – It Has To Be The Price That Determines A Bet
Stop fancying teams or horses and start fancying prices. This can only done by forming a tissue of prices for the events you choose to bet on. Getting into the habit of doing this is a
