You should have an idea of a betting bank that you would like to follow.  This could be an annual amount of the maximum losses you would be prepared to tolerate (say $1,000 a month or $12,000 a year). It could also be a genuine bank if you want to set that aside. Individual bets should never be more than 5% of your bank and generally should be 1, 2 or 3%.  This would be equivalent to 1, 2 or 3 unit bets. Safer bettors will put more into safer bets such as our silver bets but riskier bettors would put more into our more aggressive bets such as platinum. We intend to introduce a unit system with our picks shortly, which will be based on a middle ground ‘value’ basis-i.e. the better value we perceive the bet (i.e. weak lines), the more units