Results for tag: White Christmas
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 19, 2010 at 05:05:16 PM
[b]Get on the value sled, giddy up the huskies and pile into Betfair's White Christmas market while the price is still ripe. After that, hot toddies all round![/b]
With race meetings and football fixtures obliterated by the torrid conditions, Betfair punters might be wondering where to put their money this week.
While there's plenty of exciting sport going on in warmer climes - and at the PDC Championships at Alexandra Palace - if you fancy punting on something closer to home, this might be the year that the [b]White Christmas[/b] market yields value.
When I look out of my window, see the pond frozen and the ground caked in snow, I can't believe that [b]Yes[/b] is as long as 3.0 in Betfair's White Christmas market. The odds, which have been steadily coming in for weeks, touched...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01:25 AM
The snow is falling. More importantly, we've just moved into the 30 day bandwidth for Met Office advance weather forecasts. It's time to consider our 2010 White Christmas bets!
In preparation, I went to a seminar on cyclical recurrence and how to apply this advantageously to betting markets. In the bar afterwards I was in conversation with a [b]Worzel Gummidge[/b] lookalike (how do I always attract these characters in the bar after seminars?) who was convinced the current cold snap (and last winter in the UK) was pre-cursor to a 200 year cyclical return to the mini ice age of the 1500 to 1800s in Britain.
" 1813 was the occasion of the last frost fair on the Thames in London and my thinking is that they'll be back as a regular feature of British life by [b]2013[/b]. Winters are going...