SBC News Bet Advisor Profile – James Tucker – Riding High

Bet Advisor Profile – James Tucker – Riding High

 

jamestuckerDuring racing most important month, keen enthusiast James Tucker has maintained a winning yield of +12% with Bet Advisor, making him one of most consistent tipsters in the Bet Advisor stable. This week team Bet Advisor and SBC catch up with James to discuss his tipping tactics and his passion for horse racing.

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SBC:  How did you first get into sports betting?

JT: I started very young; I was around 9 or 10 years old and worked as a paperboy for a local newsagent, jointly owned by national hunt jockey Stan Hayhurst.  The first horse I had a bet on was one ridden by Stan Hayhurst called Mr Toad, the horse won and from then on I was hooked.

SBC: At what point did you realize that you can make some real money from sports betting?

 JT: Around 2007 I got back into horse racing full time with a more statistical approach to betting.  With the internet’s ever expanding wealth of information, it became easier (although at a cost) to find more information on Trainers and Jockeys course statistics , plus a whole lot more.
Having managed a business which required a lot of work around profit and loss sheets and budgets, it was clear to see that when we had our monthly meetings the figures on the P & L’s, shown by some colleagues were at times misinterpreted or misunderstood.
This led me to applying the same conclusions to all the statistical figures available for horse racing, in that there will be a lot of misreading of the stats available.

SBC: How did you come to select horse racing as your chosen sport?

JT: Having followed horse racing from an early age, all I ever wanted to do when I left school was to work within the horse racing industry.
Having been fortunate enough to have worked for a number of trainers and ridden a few times over hurdles, horse racing was the only real sport I knew anything about and also had a real passion for.

SBC: Are there any particular events that you look forward to throughout the year?

The main event in the racing calendar for me is Royal Ascot in June.  I prefer the flat to the national hunt when it comes to following or watching racing and Royal Ascot sums up the Sport of Kings better than any other, with all the pomp and ceremony surrounding the Queens procession up the course in the horse drawn carriages and then the fashion but more importantly the cream of the crop when it comes to the racing side of things, there is nothing better, with so many Group races on offer and a number of top handicaps, including the Hunt Cup and the Wokingham.

SBC:  What was your best ever bet?

JT:  My best ever bet was when I worked for small yard permit holder, he only had a few horses bought from the sales, mostly from bigger New market yards, horses that had failed on the flat but had potential over hurdles.

One horse which came from John Winter’s yard and had shown a bit of form on the flat but proved a real handful for a jumps trainer as this particular horse, only had one thing on its mind and that was a flat out gallop from start to finish.

Getting him to settle was crucial and although we never truly got him to settle down, he did become almost manageable on the gallops.
Having proved a handful to train and suffering a bad bout of colic he finally got to the track, still not 100% fit but ready enough for the money to be put down and he duly obliged with an all the way success and a week later followed up with another win in the same fashion.

SBC: What kind of factors do you evaluate before making a selection?

JT: I have a set criteria for each race, which virtually covers almost every angle but the main factors are, in no particular order, Trainer-Jockey-Sire-Owner-Dam & Dams Sire-Going-Class-Distance range-Course-Age.

SBC: What has been the biggest influence on your betting career?

JT: Seeing the results coming from the work put in, they don’t always come off but when you find one that wouldn’t look the most obvious selection but you know that conditions are right for it on the day and then seeing it win.

SBC: Do you have any future plans in regards to your service?

 JT: I am currently building up a set of systems, based on past criteria and results, once I get to the stage where I am happy with one’s I finally keep for the portfolio, I would like to use these as an added extra for subscribers.
So on top of the daily tips sent out, if there were any alerts coming from the system bets, I would send these out using the private messaging service.
SBC:  What has been the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your betting career?

JT: I can’t recall any major challenges as yet, I firmly believe in long term planning, so although it can get frustrating when you are on a losing run, I know that in time this will correct itself.The biggest challenge so far has been keeping accounts open with the bookmakers, having had a couple of closures, I now spread my bets around far more than before.

SBC: How do you balance your betting time and family life?

JT: I spend around 8 to 10 hours a day looking through the racing pages and treat it as a job as well as a pastime or hobby.  I usually work early mornings and late evenings going through the various data checks and leave the rest of the day and evening for home life.  I often record the racing, so I can fast forward to the things I want to see which frees up more time for family life.

SBC: Do you have a horse or horses that you follow regularly?

JT:I rarely follow one horse regularly, I often put one’s I’ve backed into a tracker to follow them for their next 2 or 3 runs, especially if they have looked like they were a little unlucky or had won easily.  I don’t tend to get attached to any favourite horses but if I did I would be following them without backing them, as I wouldn’t want to be swayed by any loyalty towards the horse.

SBC:  How do you keep calm when you hit a run of losing bets?

JT:I’m generally a calm person by nature, so not easily upset and I also learned a long time ago, to take the positive view of things.
In the past I have had horses beaten in photo finishes at big prices but rather than curse my bad luck I take the view that I was right in my assessment, the horse in question was unfancied by most, hence the big price, yet still managed to finish a close 2nd or 3rd.

SBC: How do you organize your bank management?

JT:I have money set aside for betting purposes and spread out between 6 bookmakers and a Betfair account, this allows me to spread the betting around, so I could put half my stake on with one bookie and the other half on with another, I may not get the exact same odds from each of the bookies but in the long run, this approach is more beneficial to me, as so far it hasn’t resulted in any further account closures.

SBC:   What is the best reason you could give to anyone who was thinking about following your service?

JT: My service isn’t for anyone looking to back short priced favorites and you could say it’s more risk orientated but with those risks comes the potential for more reward.

More often than not the selections I choose are in my opinion over priced and a fair number of those selections do shorten up quite a bit in the betting market.
I’m slightly old fashioned with my approach to betting and not one to layoff a horse I’ve bet on, even when the price has dropped.
This could however be a good angle for those clients who don’t wanting to be taking bigger risks, as there have been plenty of occasions where by a free bet could have been obtained by laying off the selections when the price drops.

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