Inspired as I was by the Dead Cert Man and his ability to turn £8,500 into £161,000 and then blow £120,000 on Novak Djokovic to beat Roger Federer in the French Open, I decided to try and double a betting bank in 7 bets (to coincide with a 7 day week, although this need not be done on consecutive days).
How to double your betting bank with dead cert bets
The best way to double your betting bank in 7 days is to find 7 consecutive dead cert bets priced at 1.14 (or over, of course), the equivalent of a 1/7 shot.
As the Dead Cert Man found to his cost, it is difficult to keep up a sustained run of winning bets, and it hurts when a loser comes along, especially when you are staking on an accumulator basis: i.e. stake + winnings from previous bet all staked onto next bet. The mechanics of 7 1.14 shots
Let me just show you before we get to the practicalities of bet selection how an ideal 7-bet betting cycle will work to double your bank. In this case we are not using accumulated stakes (i.e. winnings and stake onto next bet), just one level stake. In this example, for ease of illustration, I use a £100 stake.
BET 1 £100 @ 1.14 odds –WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 2 £114 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 3 £100 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 4 £100 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 5 £100 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 6 £100 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
BET 7 £100 @ 1.14 odds – WINS – RETURNS £14
Total return after 7 bets: £14 multiplied by 7 = £98. The betting bank has been effectively doubled.
In an ideal world of course, there would be 1.14 shots on our doorsteps daily which always win. Yes, I guess you have found a flaw. That flaw is that if one bet loses, you lose your stake. The further on you go, the less of your stake you lose as you have winnings from previous bets.
Bet choice is key
The choice of bets is key therefore, and I offer here a few ideas which might help ensure that we can get to 7.
Start your own online diary
Go to www.blogger.com and set up a blog. You can use this blog personally without anyone else viewing it – simply do not Publish your blog. The idea here is to note down all possible bets for the day. As an example look at a blog which took me less than a minute to set up. It can be found here.
Here you will find 7 days where each day I note potential bets. These are then shortlisted, and shortlisted again until I decide on one as my selection. You will see that I focus on football first. I get my football selections from the In play coupon at . Why? Because I want to be as safe as possible with my bets, I like to have the option to trade, or sell the bet back when it is profitable using “CASH OUT” facility.
I then move on to tennis, if there are any pertinent bets, and then horse racing. With the horse racing, I look to the place-only betting market as this offers the greatest probability of success. In order to help your strike rate with the horse racing, perhaps consider only flat races. Horses over hurdles and chase fences have to firstly ensure they do not make any mistakes with their jumping, no falls, and secondly, have to complete.
One mistake at a fence can knock the momentum of a horse and ensure a potentially winning bet fails. So for the purposes of this exercise, consider just flat racing. Now, re-read the article on the ideal race. Why not wait for these to arrive and back one of the market leaders to place?
Look at the 7 days and see if you personally can spot one bet per day. These 7 days produced plentiful winners, by the way. Go to the base of the day’s messages to the SHORTLIST OF THE SHORTLIST and look at the strike rate of these vetted bets. It is usually very high indeed.
I hope you can see the mechanics of my selections (I go into greater detail in the accompanying video) and you will notice yet again that research is a key component to success. Just because a football team is priced at 1.14, does not give that team an automatic right to win. Do your research and make sure that team is as strong as the odds suggest and their opponents are thoroughly beatable.
A recent 1.14 shot, for instance, featuring Mexico and Guatemala saw the 1.14 shots (Mexico) go 1-0 down, before eventually winning 2-1. There will be an element of good luck along the way.
Alternatives?
Laying a horse/football team/outcome at odds of 8.00 is the equivalent of backing a 1.14 shot. Can you find just one outcome at odds of 8.00 that you can lay? Look, for instance, at laying a football team in the HALF TIME/FULL TIME betting market at odds of 8.00. In order for that bet to lose for you, said team would have to win the match at half-time and at full-time. If that team is drawing or losing at half-time, the bet is a winner!
Split the bet into 2. Why not look for 2 1.07 shots (or 2 lays at odds of 16) in one day. It must be even easier surely to find 2 outcomes at odds of 16.00 that will lose?
The bottom line
Why not have one betting account separate to act as your “doubling your bank in 7 bets account”, and wait for the strong bets to arrive (rather than forcing a bet on a day where there may not be super strong bets).
Read my blog for an idea on how you can focus purely on short odds bets in all arenas. Research football matches as thoroughly as you are able.
Be imaginative too. If you are a layer, look for odds of 8.00 to lay. Or split stakes. Look for 2 1.07 shots or 2 outcomes at odds of 16 to lay.
This is achievable with patience and if we do not accumulate, we do have some winnings to salvage should that anomalous result be forthcoming.
Also, click here to access my step-by-step videos to accompany this article.