I've been betting for seven years and working with sports books for three of them.

I've made a lot of mistakes during this time. Here are eight things that I wish I could tell my

20 year old self to help you avoid them. And the first mistake is no tracking equals no money.

And what I mean by this is tracking the amount that you're betting potentially could win,

just tracking your bankroll. It's as simple as what gets measured, gets managed. That's why a lot of people have budgets for their personal expenses.

You know how much you're spending.

And the example on the screen is a simple one, but this is as simple as it has to be.

You can throw the date that you're betting on there if you want to, but the things that you really just need are the risk amount,

how much you are betting, how much you could potentially win.

You're risking 100, 100 for example here to win

90 what type of bet you're doing so you can see at the end of the day where your best bets are and for

this example we're prop betting we're betting in the sport of the NFL so you can see which sport you

are the best at over time did you win or lose you won so you add these two things together your bank

goes from $100 to $190. Another example, very simple.

Now you're risking $50 to win $40. You're betting on an NBA spread here, you lose. So your bankroll was

190, you bet 50? It's now down to 140. And that may seem very simple in theory, just addition

and subtraction, but that's all it has to be. Now you can add in percentages to see which

percentage you're best on for sports and props and what your overall win percentage is, but this right here

will get you going and really it's the basics that you'll need. The second mistake is that you are

relying on trends. And the trends I am talking about are the New England Patriots are 14 and 2 in

their last 16 October games. Patrick Mahomes is 10 and 2 in his last 12 games

when facing a losing team on the road. These trends are fun to hear, but they lack any sort of

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