The TAP Ten Commandments
- Only lay a bet when the odds are in your favor.
- Bad bets win and good bets lose. Never complain about a bad beat.
- Decide if you are betting on sports for entertainment or investing on sports to make a profit.
- Turnovers are unpredictable and they are the bane of solid handicapping.
- Oddsmakers don’t set the lines, the public does.
- If your handicapping service uses the term “Game of the Year” or “Lock” – run.
- Fewer than 100 people can sustain win rates of 55%+ over time.
- It is just as difficult to go 0-10, as it is to go 10-0.
- Line reading is voodoo. Don’t succumb to it.
- Find outs. When you are flagged an as advantaged player, you will be asked to take your business elsewhere.