I like reading about different people's betting strategies, find it very interesting. I like to have a bet pretty much every day but when I was trying to win accumulators for years, I was just throwing money away. I was putting a tenner in on a Saturday morning then by teatime, I was putting another one in for the evening fixtures then again on Sunday morning. If I won sixty quid, I'd withdraw fifty then just start losing over again.
Now I keep it simple - typically try and put together doubles and trebles at around 3 and 4/1. Usually stake around £3 at those odds, and on a Saturday afternoon for example, I'll put about six or seven on. I only need two of them to win to break even and I'm typically turning a consistent profit. Singles with a larger stake occasionally but usually if I really like a single, I'll just bump it up to my usual odds using particular teams to score that I'm very confident on. Nearly always bet on team goals, match goals and BTTS, rarely on WDW. Concentrate on leagues that I follow closely, and teams that I know are reliable for goals, for and against.
I have no discipline so this works for me. If I put a £10/£20 bet on and it loses, I can't help myself going searching for evens shots to try and win it back, which rarely works. This way I can put plenty of bets on but minimise my losses and it's easy to make gains quite quickly. Rarely withdraw now because I like having a sizable pot to use freely without depositing, just keep building the bank up and withdraw if I want the money for something. I also sometimes withdraw a chunk if I hit a bad run, to remove the temptation to chase my losses.
My mate does all his betting based on the bookies' odds and it does my head in, he can't understand why he keeps losing. The point of betting is to look for glitches in the prices, not to do the opposite and trust the ones they give you. He doesn't do even basic research, he'll just put some Czech team to win because they're 1/5 without noticing that the opposition might be bottom but have won their last three games, scoring two in each, and are 10/11 just to score. Every other week he seems to text me that Roma have cost him cash by not winning, whilst I've won nearly every week on Roma conceding at better prices because they're not particularly good and are consistently overpriced.
If you've got the time, there's great prices to be found by doing a decent amount of research and not looking solely at the usual leagues/teams.
