Winning. That's what it's all about. You want to place bets and rake in your winnings. You recognize that there is some risk involved but you embrace that risk and thrive on it! Otherwise, what's the point of betting, right?
Betting really isn't that different than investing in the stock market or driving a car: You have a goal (to make money or to go somewhere) and you have a way to do it (through a bet, an investment, or your car). Now, anyone in the world can invest or drive a car but to do so successfully - in a way that helps you arrive at your destination - takes skill.
So to bet or invest or drive a car, you need skill. What kind of skill? It's not a secret, but not a lot of people know what that skill is. Betting is not about knowing who will win. Investing is not about knowing which stock will do well. Driving is not about knowing how the car is made. The secret is...
Information.
You need information to accurately tell you which stock is likely to go up or down and you need information to help you drive the car properly (such as where to do, how to avoid accidents, etc.) In the same way, betting is about information management: taking in information, interpreting that information, and acting on it for a purpose… and that purpose is profit. In this book you'll learn about how you can do those three things - take in information, interpret it, and act on it - although we will specialize in just one area: interpreting the information.
You already know how to take in a lot of the information: you can read the odds, you can gather histories of the athletes and their wins and losses, you can look at the weather or the environment. All of that information will help you only if you take the next step: interpreting it.
