How Do You Figure Your Units Won

[TGoat]

Have I been figuring my net units wrong?

Let's say your unit size is $100 and you bet 100 games winninng 60 and losing 40. Here in Vegas if you bet $100 and win you get back $191 for $91 profit. So you multiply 60 *.91 and then subtract the 40 for +14.60 Units, or a net profit of $1460.00. $1460 profit divided by $10,000 wagered equals a 14.6% ROI.

But let's say you bet with a bookie. Now when you bet $100 and win you get back $100, but if you lose you pay $110. So the calculation would
be, (60 *1) - (40 *1.1) for +16 Units, or a net profit of $1600. $1600/$11,000 (110*100) =14.54%, or basically the same ROI.

So in actuality, isn't the the unit size for the second way really $110?

Maybe I'm just playing semantics, but how does everyone else do it? (I've been doing it the first way.)

The reason I ask is because the second way makes your results look better.

[Domestic]

I do it the first way.

[schenker88]

by bookies
it depends on you bet on 'to risk' or 'to win'
if to risk: u r risking 100 to win 90,91
if to win: u r risking 110 to win 100 in this case

[doublec]

Yeah, I think your "unit" would then be $110. The easier way to make your units look better is just to make everything a 5 unit play.

[ngates815]

You bet 110 to win 100. You also bet 220 to win 200.

You lose the 1st bet, then you are -1.1 Units. but then you win the second bet(so +2 units that bet) now for a total you are +1.1 units.


If you lose you take your Risk amount as a negative unit, and if you win you take your win amount as a positive.