Every day on Gambling Twitter you will see people posting about how great of a day they had. That is assuming they had a good day. OK, OCCASIONALLY on Gambling Twitter you will see a rare post about a productive day of sports betting. Some people will humbly mention that they had a productive day while others will boastfully yell from the mountain top about their productivity. And yes, by boastfully shout, I mean posting emojis with extra smiley faces.
What seems to be deceiving to plenty of novice Twitter gamblers is the perception of what a good day in sports betting is. Some Sports Betting Handicappers post 100 unit bombs while other more modest and handsome gentlemen like myself post a straightforward single 1* unit. What if I told you that the boastful capper who won 100 units on his single play won the same amount of units as the regular one unit guy? What if I told you that the shamed capper who lost 100 units on his single play only lost the same amount of units as the regular one unit guy?
This is where I’m here to tell you that when it comes to Sports Betting Units: Size Doesn’t Matter. Stop being a perv, we are here to help! What the innocent bystander of Gambling Twitter needs to know is that is isn’t the magical number that someone throws in front of a unit. It’s what that magical number represents. If my base unit is 5 units and I lose 3 bets, though it looks like I lost 15 units, I’m really only down 3 bets. If I had won, I would only be up three bets. This is what we call in the country, “polishing a turd”. It is what many touts and free cappers use to gather attention towards their product, turd polish.
Where it gets really dangerous is that if one gets deceived by the glossy turd polish, they don’t relate units to their bank roll. I’ve had people tail my single unit plays and upgrade to my two or three unit plays appropriately. Then they see some hotshot betting 5, 10, 15 units a game and they tail that capper. That’s innocent and acceptable. However, if they actually multiply their single unit from my structure by 15 to the other structure, then it’s a very dangerous game and terrible bankroll management.
How Should I Gauge My Units?
The simple is that your unit is whatever you are comfortable betting regularly. If you are comfortable betting $20 per play, that is your unit. It doesn’t matter if you’re tailing someone betting 5 unit plays or 50 unit bombs. You bet $20 on their regular bets. I like to use a progressive scale of bankroll management. I bet 2% of my bankroll for every unit I risk. I do not increase that number until my bankroll has increased by 25%.
So Hypothetically: If I had a $1000 bankroll, I would bet $20/* and I would stay at that rate until my Bankroll has increased to $1250. Then my new unit would be $25. It keeps me from increasing my bets after a hot streak and provides a little objective stability in my Bankroll Management.
The reality is that most sports bettors do not use a bankroll. Many think that a unit is universal and equals $100. That’s false. Your sports betting unit is unique to you. Simply, do not bet more than you can afford to lose, be disciplined, structured, and responsible. All qualities that normal sports bettor enthusiasts lack.
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