After few years of occasional betting, this year was a more regular one, encouraged by Steemit and the SBC community but also scorum for few weeks. With tracking my results for one year now, and since the football and NBA seasons will start again soon, it's time to establish new rules for the 2018/2019 betting season !

Past results depends on the sport and competition :

The global results show a little loss with a ROI between 0 and -1%, but the difference between sports are obvious. A positive 4% ROI on tennis and a catastrophic Worldcup for example shows what I am better at. But I still am a sport lover, and I don't bet to earn my living so I don't want to stop betting on football. On top of that, I think betting encourage you to analyse the games and improve your knowledge in the sport you are betting on.

To continue betting on what I like but with a bit more wisdom, I will separate my bankroll in 6 different parts :

ATP

WTA

French Football

English Football

European Football

NBA

Each part will be filled with 200 units and have the same steps. When one part reach the first step, the amount on bets in this part will raise. So if a part remains with negative figures the amount on each bet will stay at first stage when it will raise for the positive parts.

Bankrolls organization

With being an occasional bettor it was often hard for me to bet on high odds. In fact when you place 5 units on a bets with an odd like 4, it feels like you have a lot of chance to loose 5 units. When you do the same with an odd like 1.2, you feel like you will win only 1 unit, but that loosing is really unlikely so you are more comfortable with it. In term of statistics and probability it is completely stupid, but that's the way everyone feels.

I was betting 5 units on each bet. Next year I will bet so that every winning bet will make me earn 5 units. So placing a bet with 5 as an odd will ask me 1 unit, when a 1.25 odd will ask me 20 units. I hope that this way placing high odd will not be a problem anymore.

So each bankroll will be filled with 200 units, and each bet will be stacked in order to win 5 units. With reaching 240 units, the bets will be placed in order to win 6 (320 - 8, and 400 -10). And if negative figures make me reach the lower stage, the bets will of course decrease again.

Type and number of bets

No lower odds than 1.25 will be placed

No accumulators will be placed

Regarding the amount of matches available in one category, a limited number of bets will be placed each day. For example, if 10 ATP matches are available today, only 4 bets on ATP will be authorized.

Every day, all sports combined, I will authorized one bet for which I find the odd very interesting with the double amount of units on it. I will track the results of those special bets, to see if betting fewer can be better.

To conclude, one of my friends and colleague is spending also a lot of time on betting. We will place together 3 bets max each day, bets on which we fully agree, to see with tracking them, if betting as a duo can help.

"Ever tried, ever failed, no matter, try again, fail again, fail better"