Life as a professional gambler

The Slippery Toad has been looking for inspiration and has found it in a couple of books he managed to read on a recent holiday - one of which was about professional punter Dave Nevison.

The  Nevison book covers the ups and downs of the life of a pro punter. From the big wins and losses to the effect the gambling lifestyle can have on someone's personal life. Anyway, The Slippery Toad's blog entry is basically a mini review of the book that might be of interest. Seems like there's some sound betting advice mixed in with some interesting tales!

Talking of advice The Betfair Trader has offered up a trading tip that should help bulge your betting bank in the long term. As he admits it's hardly rocket science - even a bit "snidey" in his own words -  but the piece is well argued and illustrated with some recent examples of where you could have made money by implementing the idea.

Someone looking for advice - or at least comments - is the blogger behind Don't Give Up Your Day Job. He traded his way to a whopping 68% return from a £100 starting bank in last night's Manchester United v Sporting Lisbon match. Unfortunately it was all paper traded as he was using the Champions League game to show a friend how to trade! Anyway, he's posted up his paper trading history from the game and would welcome any comments on his approach.

Elsewhere Mark Iverson seems a little disappointed with an increase of 8% on his betting bank during November. We're sure many would settle for it! But it is down on Mark's recent monthly results and he takes a look at a his sports trading calendar and points out it was always going to be a quiet month. Importantly he's pleased that he kept his discipline and didn't turn to less familiar sports for the sake of some trading action. Sensible stuff.

Finally Brian Coplin over at Life of Brian has outlined some of the changes he will be making to one of his websites shortly. All sounds very interesting and we're sure a searchable database of racing results as well as stats on upcoming races will prove popular.