IF statement within Amount field when settiing user variable

Can someone please clear this up...

I'm trying to set a user variable to count number of bets placed called 'BetsPlaced' and if a bet has been placed check for it in value field using following formula and add to the 'BetsPlaced' variable...

IF(bm_backa>0, BetsPlaced+1, BetsPlaced+0)

Why wont the variable be to set to 1,or add to it, when a bet has been placed and when I display User variables, the bm_backa is greater than 0 so that is OK.

Can anybody help please.
Regards
Harry

Hi,
You can see in the picture I've attached that a £2 bet has been placed on 'Outrage' and bm_backa is showing £2 but my variable(BetsPlaced) had not been updated to count number of bets placed!
Regards
Harry

Hi
Your formula contains circular references, after 1 bet the result looks like this:
IF(4.00>0,IF(4.00>0,BetsPlaced+1,BetsPlaced+0)+1,IF(4.00>0,BetsPlaced+1,BetsPlaced+0)+0)

It would be better to simply update a counter: Value: BetsPlaced+1
and use conditions to fire the trigger, e.g. selections back matched is greater than 0

however, there are bet counter variables built in to the program you might find easier:
General variables, allbets_....loads of them
Market variables, market_mbnum etc...
Selections variables, bm_number, bm_backnum, bm_laynum etc...
 

ok thank you