Now we know that discipline is a pre-requisite to success, let's run through the tools needed to make this happen.

The most important thing, bar none, to a successful punter is a Betting Bankroll

Feel free to re-read that!

If you think that winning is about picking winners and then buying Champagne to celebrate, then think again.

Like any other successful business, betting profesionally requires solid financial foundations in order to function.

Profits are accounted for just as much as losses in the balance sheet in order to turn a profit. If you blow all of your winnings when successful, then the inevitable losers will kill you.

This will be easier to comprehend for the poker players amongst you, but quite simply, this is how it has to be.If you blow your entire bankroll on one bet with a bad result, there can be no more bets.

If a bookie decides to offer 100/1 that Man Utd will beat Hartlepool one day after you lost your bankroll, then you will have no money to stake at the very attractive 100/1.
If you haven't lost your bankroll and this bet comes along, then you HAVE to be disciplined and place a MAXIMUM bet on this selection.

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