MLB Betting Bankroll Management

November 30th, 2010 Betting on MLB Baseball

MLB betting is sometimes thought of as all about pitching but in reality it can be all about bankroll management.

The baseball betting season is a long grind and money management and discipline are critical to your long term success. MLB betting will have at least 90 baseball games on the schedule each week. If you include over/under totals possibilities, that gives a baseball betting gambler at least 180 possibilities per week, not even including the run line. This gives the baseball bettor strong advantages and disadvantages that are possible in MLB betting, depending on how he handles himself. 

For the disciplined baseball bettor, such a side variety of MLB betting options means that he can pick and choose the very best values/selections on the board throughout the week. Since there are going to be those 180 potential side and total selections, there are undeniably going to be the occasional weak lines posted on the baseball betting boards along with a lot of games overloaded with “ignorant money” on public teams such as the Red Sox, Yankees, and Cubs. The patient and disciplined gambler simply will wait for these inevitable opportunities to come his way, never forcing the issue in MLB betting.

On the opposite side is the gambler that lacks self control and discipline in MLB betting. He is like a kid at a candy store during baseball season with so many potential ways to wager each day/week in baseball betting. What typically happens with these types is that they keep banging away with several bets each day in MLB betting, loading up on the evening games if they lost during afternoon play or the day before. Before long, these players blow themselves and their bankrolls up with their insatiable appetite for MLB betting action. 

Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint, and a MLB betting gambler’s bankroll must be managed with that in mind. No single game/wager is worth blowing your bankroll over and no “bad beat” is worth chasing in MLB betting. The smart baseball bettor knows that the possibilities are endless for high percentage bets during each week if he simply allows the cream of the crop to come to him. Baseball bettors that try and force the issue are usually done in a couple of weeks as there are simply too many games and bets that a loser cannot cover with his MLB betting bankroll.

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