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What To Lay operates on a very simple easy to understand basis. There are no delusions of grandeur here, no claims of huge profits achieved only by placing large bets.

Our results are reported to Level Stakes using a £10 stake.

If you have a larger betting bank and want to see the profits you could make using a larger stake, its simply a matter of applying some maths. So for example in May 2008 we made a Level Stakes profit of £304.40 to a £10 stake. If we had used a £50 Level Stake the profits would simply be 5 times greater i.e. £1,522.00

After many hours of research, we have found that greater profits can be achieved should you wish to adopt an approach other than Level Stakes Betting.

To find this staking plan we have input our data into many different staking plans and whilst the following plan does not produce the biggest returns, it produces excellent results without the need for high stakes and more risk which is why we have selected it.

The staking plan is not unique to What To Lay and has bee borrowed from specialist betting software.

How It Works:

There are 2 stages to the plan.

STAGE 1

If a loss occurs, this is recovered in the following way:

The loss is divided by 4 plus one unit.

As we use £10 stakes in our results, our unit is £10, the following is an example:

A loss of £30 occurs so our next 4 bets are 30 divided by 4 = 7.5 plus one unit of 10, making our next 4 bets 17.50 each. This is now our stake for the next 4 races and after a successful run of 4 wins we return to our normal stake of one unit £10.

If a further loss occurs in the 4 bets in stage 1 then we go to stage 2.

STAGE 2

There is one very important point to note before we apply stage 2. If a loss occurs in bet 5 i.e. the last bet of the 4 in stage 1 we simply go back to our normal stake of £10. To illustrate this further see the table below:

Bet 1   Win   £10

Bet 2   Loss  £30

Bet 3  Stake  £17.50  Win

Bet 4 Stake  £17.50  Win

Bet 5 Stake  £17.50  Win

Bet 6 Stake £17.50 Loss

If stage 1 is in operation and a further loss occurs as above at Bet 6 then stage 2 does not apply and we revert back to £10 stakes.

Stage 2 applies should there be a loss in Bet's 3, 4 or 5.

So for this example we will assume a further loss occurred during stage 1 this time at Bet 4. Stage 2 now applies.

The same principal applies in stage 2. We will assume the loss occurred at Bet 4 was £50, so as in stage 1, we divide the loss by 4 and add one unit of £10. So, 50 divided by 4 = 12.50 plus one unit 10 = £22.50

Our next four bets are now £22.50.

Again after a straight win of 4 bets we then revert to our normal stakes of £10.

If a further loss occurs during stage 2 then we have to accept our losses at that point and revert to stage 1.

By adopting this strategy we are applying a form of loss recovery, but a loss recovery plan which does not get out of hand and require large stakes as many loss recovery plans do.

This staking plan has been selected as stated before because it has been tested with our data and our strike rate is such that we do not see long losing runs and therefore it works extremely well and produces bigger profits than level stakes the majority of the time. Please refer to our results tables to see the difference in profits between level stakes and The What To Lay Staking Plan.

Most people prefer to operate a straight forward level stakes system which is absolutely fine, we offer this alternative staking plan purely as information and it is entirely up to you how you bet and to what level you stake.