THE BETTING THREAD

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Never knew this thread existed! Here I am though.

My bets for today were:

£50 on Chelsea, Man United, Peterborough, Darlington, and Birmingham on Monday.

Returns: £333.47.

Covered it with £50 on Villareal, who had beautiful odds of 6/5 away at Bilbao. They ran out 4-1 winners so I'm a tenner up for the weekend, with a nice chance of being a good few hundred up if Birmingham beat Coventry.

Chelsea, Man Utd, Birmingham, Arsenal, Inter, AC, Barca, Valencia, Real, Leverkusen, Bayern, Lyon, Marseille - £1 returns £98.33

I've never understood why people go for these bets. I know it's "only a quid", but realistically are you ever going to win? I did them a few times when I was at Uni and put a fiver on every time but never won. Sure, there's a massive return, but that's for a good reason.

Next weekend, why don't you put your quid on a tidy little fourfold, at say, odds of 6/1? Following week, put the £7 you've won on a straight-forward treble worth, say, 4/1. That'll give you £35 to play with next week that you could put on a single game and double your money to around £70.

I know it's long-winded but it'll pay-out far better than these incredible long-shots everyone seems to go for.

[RG30]

Ante post, things are looking ok (touchwood). Simon Cox hits another hat-trick to keep himself ticking over in the League 1 top scorer charts. I also backed Burnley on the handicap for the Championship at +22 points IIRC (slip is back in Reading) and I expect they'll be up there with the rest in the Championship on that market.

[chilipepper91]

Next weekend, why don't you put your quid on a tidy little fourfold, at say, odds of 6/1? Following week, put the £7 you've won on a straight-forward treble worth, say, 4/1. That'll give you £35 to play with next week that you could put on a single game and double your money to around £70.

Barca, Valencia, Real, Leverkusen, AC and Inter - £1 returns £13.20
Man Utd, Chelsea, Rangers, Birmingham, Everton, Leicester - £1 returns £8.43 + bonus

Ok so Valencia fcked it up last night, but I'm on for Birmingham which I got on "Home Sweet Home" (not quite sure of the bonus). I'm also thinking of covering my bets with 5-folds as well as an all-out acca, as most of the time, one team seems to fck it up

But thanks

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Next weekend, why don't you put your quid on a tidy little fourfold, at say, odds of 6/1? Following week, put the £7 you've won on a straight-forward treble worth, say, 4/1. That'll give you £35 to play with next week that you could put on a single game and double your money to around £70.

Barca, Valencia, Real, Leverkusen, AC and Inter - £1 returns £13.20
Man Utd, Chelsea, Rangers, Birmingham, Everton, Leicester - £1 returns £8.43 + bonus

Ok so Valencia fcked it up last night, but I'm on for Birmingham which I got on "Home Sweet Home" (not quite sure of the bonus). I'm also thinking of covering my bets with 5-folds as well as an all-out acca, as most of the time, one team seems to fck it up

But thanks

I don't know what's happened to Valencia, they seem to have gone back to their form of last season after what was a good start. I had them in a little multiple last week, but they drew, and they go and lose 4-2 at home to Racing Santander last night. To be fair, that accumulator is a bit unlucky, so fingers crossed for Birmingham eh? (Which I'm sure we both wouldn't normally be saying).

[cmonurz]

Derby at 1.93 to beat Forest at home today. Can't see why the odds are so big, Derby have lost 1 in 10, Forest just 1 win and 6 defeats from their 7 away games this season. Odds skewed by that win being midweek at Palace maybe. No new injury concerns for Derby, Moussi out for Forest.

Home win, shirley?

[chilipepper91]

Suppose that in derbys, you never know. Agreed, it looks good though. I'm waiting till outcome of Brum on Monday before I place any more though

[chilipepper91]

Suppose that in derbys, you never know.

Derby 1-1 Notts Forest. And Forest had a last minute pen saved.

[cmonurz]

Not quite cp. A crazy last couple of minutes that might see our beloved Stuart Atwell demoted.

First he gave Derby a penalty in injury time, apparently for handball, although the defender couldn't have moved out of the way. Then Derby miss the penalty, from the resulting corner Lee Camp makes a Gordon Banks-esque save, and from that next corner, Derby have the ball in the net. Atwell then disallows that goal for an apparent push, but I can't find it having watched four replays.

Insane.

And I was on Derby and over 2.5 goals, so that c*nt Atwell just cost me the price of a medium-priced dinner out.

[chilipepper91]

Ah soz, thought Lee Camp still played for Derby

[Tails]

LOL @ Cmonurz....




Im just bitter about the collapse of Preston against Soton yesterday

[cmonurz]

He did, moved to QPR last season, and is now on loan at Forest. He's Derby born and bred and a massive fan, apparently.

[cmonurz]

LOL @ Cmonurz....




Im just bitter about the collopse of Preston against Soton yesterday

Sod off.




PROFLeston NoROFLth End.

[Victor Meldrew]

Not quite cp. A crazy last couple of minutes that might see our beloved Stuart Atwell demoted.

First he gave Derby a penalty in injury time, apparently for handball, although the defender couldn't have moved out of the way. Then Derby miss the penalty, from the resulting corner Lee Camp makes a Gordon Banks-esque save, and from that next corner, Derby have the ball in the net. Atwell then disallows that goal for an apparent push, but I can't find it having watched four replays.

Insane.

And I was on Derby and over 2.5 goals, so that c*nt Atwell just cost me the price of a medium-priced dinner out.

Also did the goals over 2.5 which would have capped a brilliant weekend on the goals over market following Reading,Liverpool,Chelsea and Scunthorpe games.
BTW do you know of any bookies that offer multiple bet options for the goals over market as Bet 365 and Betfair will only do singles which isn't so exciting especially when some are odds-on?

[TFF]

Not quite cp. A crazy last couple of minutes that might see our beloved Stuart Atwell demoted.

First he gave Derby a penalty in injury time, apparently for handball, although the defender couldn't have moved out of the way. Then Derby miss the penalty, from the resulting corner Lee Camp makes a Gordon Banks-esque save, and from that next corner, Derby have the ball in the net. Atwell then disallows that goal for an apparent push, but I can't find it having watched four replays.

Insane.

And I was on Derby and over 2.5 goals, so that c*nt Atwell just cost me the price of a medium-priced dinner out.

Also did the goals over 2.5 which would have capped a brilliant weekend on the goals over market following Reading,Liverpool,Chelsea and Scunthorpe games.
BTW do you know of any bookies that offer multiple bet options for the goals over market as Bet 365 and Betfair will only do singles which isn't so exciting especially when some are odds-on?

Blue Square - but the slip could be easier to compile - each line just says over/under 2.5 goals (unless you expand the info icon) and you have to go into the markets for each match to locate the goals bets.

[cmonurz]

VM - you can bet multiples on overs on Betfair. From the football menu, select multiples (I think its the left-hand most option), then iirc you choose the league, date of game etc, but these menus are fluid, so you can add matches you want from acorss the divisions.

I think the multiples market is one whole, so (although I haven't tried it) you can have a multiple on, say, Liverpool to win, United +2.5 goals and Arsenal HT/FT.

Only difference with multiples on Betfair (as oppose to the accies on other menus) is that Betfair themselves lay the odds.

[Victor Meldrew]

Thanks you two I'll have a good look at both.
Sensible betting really is about doing singles , e.g you back 4 teams or events,3 of them win but you still lose money having backed an acca whereas if you back all 4 as singles there is a profit.
The shame is that we punters are generally an impoverished lot and are forever looking at big returns from small stakes whereas the real winners are those that are only looking for a small profit.
Here endeth the lesson.

[Thomas L'Heureux]

BTW do you know of any bookies that offer multiple bet options for the goals over market as Bet 365 and Betfair will only do singles which isn't so exciting especially when some are odds-on?

I'm pretty sure Paddy Power do. Don't hold me to that though but I'm fairly sure I've done a multiple that includes a total goals under/over line in the past.

Happy with my betting for this week. I don't usually touch the Champions League at this stage because it's hard to judge what teams will be fielded with some so close to qualifying.

I fancied Juventus away at Madrid though, and they won 2-0 tonight. My £20 on them returns a cool £130 in total. Fantastic odds on 365 at 11/2.

[RG30]

£0.20 Lucky 63 (all to be winning HT/FT);

Man City
AC Milan
Ajax
Aston Villa
Spurs
Valencia

[Tredder]

Notts County 4/5
Southend 4/6
Swindon 11/10

FA Cup Special

[RG30]

Swindon EVS
Forest Green Rovers 7/4

£50 Double stakes about