Pro Bet Podcast

Stephen Little was a bookmaking anomaly. He laid huge bets, and never closed a winning account. He famously laid a bet to JP McManus to lose £460,000, in today's terms, on a horse called Gimme Five at the Cheltenham Festival. Steve talks about starting out laying tiny bets in 1970 and gradually building his reputation. The biggest single stake bet he ever took was equivalent to over a quarter of a million pounds on Double Trigger at Royal Ascot in 1996 at 1/2 (it lost!). Steve explains the difference between on and off course bookmaking, and why they are different models and the three principles he had when he first started bookmaking. He talks about the one race that he felt was "fixed" and that despite it not being anywhere near one of his worse results, he spoke to the Jockey Club about the race. In 1999 Steve sold to Coral, & he describes how they wanted him to take a completely different approach, despite his decades of previous success. He tells us how the CEO of Ladbrokes, for whom he'd worked as a teenager, had to be pestered to pay his losing account, and didn't take kindly when asked to pay his gambling debts! Hugely successful pro-punter, Patrick Veitch, enjoyed success when betting with Little, although he does refute one episode described in his book, Enemy Number One. There will never be another Stephen Little. He was not a bookmaking conglomerate; he was an individual risking his own money. A man who started out at Eastville greyhounds in Bristol laying bets of under a pound, who ended up taking on the wealthiest and most famous people in the sport. This episode of Pro Bet has something for everyone.

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Andrew and Mark explain how they set about pricing up a race & the massive edge this gives you. The reasons why "advisors" should have more accountability. Two horses from the past week that may be worth following and avoiding. One horse ran far better than even the "experts" may think.

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Should we concern ourselves with what trainers think of their horses? Should we spend time looking at handicap ratings? Andrew and Mark say what they do. They also add a further four horses that could pay to follow or should be avoided; and they clear up a rule that some don't seem to understand.

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Andrew and Mark have utilised sectional times in their betting for over 20 years. Mark talks of one of the UK's most successful pro-punters, who he met and learnt from in the 1990's. In this podcast they explain the unique information that sectionals provide them. They also explain how the listener can use exactly the same methods. They also take a close look at some likely over-rated (and under-rated) horses from the previous week's jump racing. This is the one podcast that any aspiring punter shouldn't miss.

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Pro Bet Podcast. Full-time punter Gearoid Norris gives us his amusing take on betting and the bookmaking industry from his inside experience of both sides of the betting "jungle"; how he could see the big bets coming into the trading rooms of Ladbrokes and Paddy Power, and if it was of any use to him; how, after leaving the bookmaking industry, he did the "betting shop grind" placing shrewd bets with a built-in advantage. He talks about winning 50k in a single bet and how things panned out for him in the months after.

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