Discipline Selection 04/22/12 (more...)

You can be the most skilled handicapper in the world. However if you do not have DISCIPLINE you will NEVER be successful. Discipline relates to money management and selection. Money management is covered on my website in depth on the fundamentals page. Today we will deal with selection.
When you are doing you’re handicapping every morning and setting YOUR lines on the games to compare with the sports book and nothing turns up having value; guess what DO NOT BET! Odds makers are good at what they do as well. Do not be afraid of passing on a game and then you would have won after the fact. There will be just as much if not more that you pass on that you would have lost.
Remember your units what make up your bankroll are your inventory in this business. If you have no inventory you are out of business. Just as big an impact on your inventory as your wins are the bets you do not lose. For you poker players the comparison is you cannot lose what you do not push into the pot. You always try and win a pot with exposing as little of your money as possible.
Next week we will deal with another common discipline fault and that is chasing.