Author: Malcolm Boyle
Category: Horse-Racing
ISBN: 9781843440086
Year Published: 2002
Extent: 256pp
Status: Available
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Malcolm Boyle is the acknowledged expert on all things Placepot. This book expands on his previous best-selling title, Win at the Tote Placepot and gives a detailed, five year, in depth analysis of all races run at all UK horseracing tracks and shows all levels of punters how to bet successfully and find those six placed "winners"

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Art of Bookmaking Review
Putting your cards on the table may not seem like the kind of strategy you’d expect to be employed in a sophisticated gambling website such as www.ProGambler.co.uk but in this instance, it’s something I feel I ought to do. The fact is, I’m a long-term fan of Malcolm Boyle’s work dating back to his seminal 1992 work Win at Fixed Odds Football Betting and, as such, I can’t recommend The Art of Bookmaking highly enough. Certainly a lot has changed since 1992 – not least the abolition of betting tax and the minimum trebles rule for backing football matches. The competition explosion brought about by exchanges such as Betfair and the trailblazing of niche internet bookmaking firms has been tantamount to a revolution that now offers opportunities to the clued-in punter that were unimaginable 14 years ago. But in many ways, the fundamentals of successful backing and laying remain much the same as they ever were. The high street bookies chalkboards may have been superseded by flashing plasma screens and odds checker software but the successful pursuit of punting profits on both sides of the counter still comes down to three key things: a mastery of probalities, some basic arithmetic and an intrepid eye for value. Malcolm Boyle has worked as bookmaker, odds compiler and betting consultant for the likes of Channel 4, Talk Sport, The Sporting Life and The Tote and this book subtitled ‘How to compile odds for an sporting event’ is best viewed as wonderful primer rammed with enough real life examples to allow even the most tentative or inexperienced of bettors to get a handle on how we can all apply better practice once we’ve mastered the theory that is second nature to professional bookmakers and compilers. For punters a little longer in the tooth perhaps it might also serve as a timely refresher course or perhaps a belated wake up call to ditch those bad betting habits. With specific chapters on racing, football, snooker, golf and cricket, a crash course in odds compiling theory and a good stab at pinning down strategies appropriate to the exchanges, The Art of Bookmaking is undoubtedly as ambitious as its title suggests. In fact, it’s best viewed as four books in one – a book of betting theory, a book of betting practice, a guide to betting on specific sports and a collection of sparkling anecdotes and insights gleaned from a lifetime immersed in the bookmaking and betting game. My only criticism is that given Malcolm Boyle’s accessible writing style and mastery of his subject, each of these four sub-categories would easily justify a volume each in their own right but as a starting point, The Art of Bookmaking should be an invaluable addition to every punters library. Greg www.ProGambler.co.uk

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