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This is an interesting thread. I'm a small player; I play mostly weekends except the summer, and I started playing in 2010. I've had more losing years than winning ones. A couple of my losing years would have been winning ones if takeout was closer to 12% than 20+%. I play exactas and dime supers, with win bets if I'm using contenders on those tickets at a nice price.
I don't bet much per year. The most I pushed through the tote in a year was $7K, which I know some of you guys do in a day (or race) easily. I still take handicapping and ticket construction very seriously. My contender selection has gotten better with a couple of Dave Schwartz's seminars that I've bought, and I've been able to tighten up my game a bit after I could see how I was doing in that regard. I still revisit those tools.
Here's the thing: in the the years that I've been profitable, including this year so far ($1 ROI of +0.38) it has always been a handful of good scores that account for a fairly large percentage of my winnings. I've had long droughts playing superfectas, but I still play them because even though they are typically low-strike bets for me, they tend to be high ROI bets for me. I seldom think much about losing streaks.
I'll just throw this out: are any of you less concerned about losing streaks, because you tend to make most of your profits annually on a handful of good scores? Does anyone here grind daily, making small collective gains, and end up having a good year?
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