Carl 'The Dean' Sampson
Carl "The Dean" Sampson is a 38 year old professional gambler and ex-professional Blackjack player. He played Professional poker online for three years but now mixes poker with writing/coaching and trading on the betting exchanges. He currently writes for top poker magazines Bluff and Poker Pro and also the official magazine of the World Poker Tour.
Carl is the author of "Secrets of Professional Limit Hold'em" which goes on sale in September and his second book "Princes of Darkness: The world of highstakes Blackjack" goes on sale shortly after and is the true story of the team of professional Blackjack players that he set up and ran from 1998-2002.
Carl also does consulting work on gambling topics for numerous companies and spent ten years working in the casino industry as a croupier and gaming supervisor.
Carl is the author of "Secrets of Professional Limit Hold'em" which goes on sale in September and his second book "Princes of Darkness: The world of highstakes Blackjack" goes on sale shortly after and is the true story of the team of professional Blackjack players that he set up and ran from 1998-2002.
Carl also does consulting work on gambling topics for numerous companies and spent ten years working in the casino industry as a croupier and gaming supervisor.
Articles by this Author
Back in the old days, most successful professional punters were in attendance on the actual racecourse itself. With the abolition of betting tax and the advent of the betting exchanges, this is no longer necessary. There are many roads that lead to Rome in the realm of successful professional punting and taking on the favourites is one of them.
One of the strategies that I often employ is to lay very short priced favourites with the sole intention of backing them later on in the event. Let me explain, let us say that you are looking at a tennis match between Roger Federer and a low ranked unseeded player in a first round match at Wimbledon.
Many punters go about attacking the betting exchanges in different ways. Some trade or attempt to trade in running, some trade price movements prior to the off. Others try and find value with the higher priced horses which are substantially higher on the exchanges while others look to lay horses that they think will lose.
If you want to trade on the betting exchanges in the football markets then knowledge can go an awful long way just like it can with any market. But the best knowledge of all is knowledge that few others possess. Knowing that a certain key team member is unfit to play for instance would fall into the category of valuable information or perhaps the tactics or formation that a team may be using for a particular match could prove more than useful to the punter.
