Discipline

Today i placed two bets on the all weather one of which i should never have placed. I am only a novice when it comes to the AW and i have tumbled across a system which works quite well, however today i broke the rules of the system and backed a horse who had all the right criteria but had never won at the course before in kempton. i reasoned that as only 2 other horses out of the 11 had won there before and they were outsiders then this horse had a great chance.. anyways result was 2nd at a skinny 5/2 beaten by one of those outsiders with a course win.

the second bet was again charles stuart who had every thing in his favour but failed to get home and finished 2nd as well.

I had 2 bankers for sedgefield or so i felt but AGAIN race meeting called off.. sickened as i spent 2 hours on 3 sedgefield races last night.

Lesson learned today, stick to my methods and rules on the AW.
I allow myself leeway on the national hunt races as i have way more profitable experience even though by reading this blog you would hardly think so..

I would be nicely in profit if i did not go and back 23 horses that one sat with a hastily made new backing method without any testing.. i must actually go over all my bets since i started this to see how much i am down or up.

EDIT: just checked and i am down 109 euro on horse racing. pretty brutal stuff but i think i have turned the corner. i have found a decent AW back and lay system and a NH back and lay method which i have only be using since 26thn of dec. looking at results since then i am up 108 euro which is 10 points. The lack of NH racing has been dissappointing to say the least

Poker update

I have gone back to 20nl to rebuild my confidence. here are my stats for 1438 hands over 3 sessions.

23/19/3.8
+18.14 BB/100
+$104.37

I have played near perfect poker and have shut down the tables when i feel my mind starts to wonder/lose momentum.

On the racing front, i had 3 losers over the past two days so down 30 euros. Im not too worried. However what is annoying is spending a few hours analysing races and finding the meetings called off due to bad weather the following day. I suppose theres nothing i can do about that.

new years update

I still havent played a game of poker since last post but i have put a few bets on. my bankroll is back over 1k.. its 1079 euros. this does include about 110 from rakeback. I had a 20/1 winner on the 26th and also a 7/1 winner. i did have a few losers as well, but i think i needed that win to boost my confidence. i havent been betting every day as i was out meeting friends, ring in the new year etc.

anyway, im going to play about an hour of poker later and see how i do..