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sweetchildofmine When: 29 Jun 13 09:03

you and me will probably never know

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Lex When: 29 Jun 13 17:00

17:05 the fav is unlikely to win if it does then the next will lose. probably

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Lex When: 29 Jun 13 17:09

and 'inexplicably' it lost. lies, damn lies and statistics.

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sheppy123 When: 29 Jun 13 18:30

Haha does someone say to the favourite "Listen, the last 5 favourites have won, so this means that you have to lose!"

"Err... OK then I'll make it look as convincing as possible!"

Martindale is fit for the bin!!!

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sheppy123 When: 29 Jun 13 18:30

And Martingale!!!

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Lex When: 29 Jun 13 19:53

Pint of what your drinking please

actually it was the 7/10 stat I gave previously.
Also applied to the Ruler Of The World race as well.

Don't believe me? then count 'em for your self and then check results for the past 20 years.

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sheppy123 When: 29 Jun 13 22:12

Somebody once said to me that I don't need drink or drugs cos I'm already there!

I think we'd make a good friendship Lex cos I also haven't got a clue what you're on about!

Hope you stay away from Martin, he's bad news!

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Northbouy When: 30 Jun 13 08:21

martingale is just a staking system. the idea that a run of results wont happen i.e man u away losing, is a selection system. dont get the two mixed up. if you can find a selection system that returns a profit at level stakes, you are on the road to gold.

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top2rated When: 30 Jun 13 10:09

Just out of interest there has been a run of 10 consecutive winning UK clear favs albeit spread over two days which was preceeded by a run of 4 losing clear favs.

Date	Time	Course	Clear fav.	ISP	Placing	Runners
15/12/07	15:05	Lingfield	Noble Action	2.75	2	10
15/12/07	15:20	Southwell	Valley Observer (FR)	3.5	4	9
15/12/07	15:35	Lingfield	Osako DAiry (FR)	2	3	9
15/12/07	15:40	Cheltenham	Souffleur	2.25	3	8
15/12/07	19:00	Wolverhampton	Tiger Spice	1.75	1	6
15/12/07	19:30	Wolverhampton	Fenners (USA)	2.25	1	10
15/12/07	19:55	Wolverhampton	Teasing	2.25	1	9
15/12/07	20:25	Wolverhampton	Kirk Michael	0.67	1	9
15/12/07	20:55	Wolverhampton	Lobengula (IRE)	1.88	1	5
15/12/07	21:20	Wolverhampton	Realt Na Mara (IRE)	2	1	7
16/12/07	13:00	Kempton	Wibbadune (IRE)	1.88	1	6
16/12/07	13:30	Kempton	Evident Pride (USA)	1.5	1	8
16/12/07	14:00	Kempton	Smokin Joe	3.5	1	14
16/12/07	14:30	Kempton	Atlantic Story (USA)	2.5	1	13
16/12/07	15:00	Kempton	Perfect Practice	1.25	6	12
16/12/07	15:30	Kempton	Simpsons Gamble (IRE)	1.75	2	13
16/12/07	16:00	Kempton	Smokey The Bear	3.5	1	12

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OilyWragg When: 30 Jun 13 10:27

Has anyone ever won user the Martingale system? Looks like the road to bankruptcy to me.

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 11:27

For me, it's not just the winning, it's the worry and stress that goes with it?

How are you gonna feel after you've doubled up 10 times!

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 11:28

Good post top2rated. Thanks for sharing that with us.

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 15:44

High top

sorry no, consecutive one race folling another eg 2.0, 2.15,2.30,2.45.3.0 etc.

Heres another one. more than 8 conseq losing favs starting backing them. eg windsor 15.55 is short but should win.

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 15:53

mind you back a few years there was 2 days of no favs about 50 races, but the 3rd day was a bumper crop !

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 15:54

Good luck Lex!

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:03

I thought I would add that true martingale doubling up refers to casino games @ evens.
You dont double up at all, you divide the total loss by the odds you bet at allowing for comms of course.
And you dont need to get it all back at once either, spread it over a few bets. As long as you return more than your stake you'll get there.

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 16:04

This site could be worth checking out. It gives you lots of random numbers so you can do tests to see if Martingale would work. I don't want anybody on here to go bankrupt!

http://www.random.org/integers/

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sweetchildofmine When: 30 Jun 13 16:15

1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024

only 11 bets there..i certainly wouldnt like to be placing £1024 to get my £1 back

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:16

I bet youre all wanting to see egg on my mush now. APMcCoy in the next on Emerald Glade. gulp

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:18

did you read my post or are you just doubling up irrespective of the price? and its only 3 bets one of which was 9/2 and much bigger on Betfair.

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sweetchildofmine When: 30 Jun 13 16:21

sorry lex wasnt referring to anything you wrote, just martingaling even money shots in general

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:24

never in doubt.

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:25

now that was 12 favs with no winner. a bit squeeky bum but I think you get the idea.

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:30

Another fav stat for you

favs that are more thna half their forecast price normally run well

guess what - it runs in the next 16.30 windsor.

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Lex When: 30 Jun 13 16:32

I think the phrase is ...... boooom

so you see, with the right info, martingale works just fine.

tarrah.

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3setpoints When: 30 Jun 13 18:56

now that was 12 favs with no winner

Emerald Glade won didn't it?

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 19:51

I hope that Lex didn't decide that enough was enough and didn't back it!

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CrowsEye When: 30 Jun 13 21:19

Longest ever losing streak for favs as far as I can see, since 2003, is 23 consecutive losses.

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sheppy123 When: 30 Jun 13 21:22

Phew! That's amazing! Not a good day for friends of Martin!

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top2rated When: 01 Jul 13 19:46

There was a run of 43 consecutive losing UK clear favs between Monday 07/03/2005 and Thursday 11/03/2005. I won't list them all; the table below should suffice.

Day/Date	Bets	Wins	SR%
Mon 7 March 2005	21	8	38.10%
Tue 8 March 2005	13	0	0.00%
Wed 9 March 2005	17	0	0.00%
Thu 10 March 2005	20	2	10.00%
Fri 11 March 2005	16	9	56.25%
Sat 12 March 2005	29	11	37.93%

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sheppy123 When: 01 Jul 13 20:59

WOW! 43!!! That's amazing!!!

And I bet that a lot of those were odds on!

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top2rated When: 02 Jul 13 04:50

Oddly enough only one of them was odds on, @ 4/6 ISP.

The average ISP was a tick under 11/5.

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sheppy123 When: 02 Jul 13 08:51

WOW! That's even more amazing! So much for Martingale and the laws of averages.

I've thought about it so many times over the years, I'm glad I always resisted it!

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sheppy123 When: 02 Jul 13 09:08

Sorry I'm getting totally mixed up!

43 consecutive losing favourites is really something. But, it's the complete opposite of what I said.

It's less amazing that only one of them was odds on regarding not winning.

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sheppy123 When: 03 Jul 13 14:42

There was a question about Martingale on "The Chase" last night.

I shouted at the top of my voice before the options came up "MARTINGALE!"

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3setpoints When: 03 Jul 13 14:56

what was the question?

and it was on "The Chase" - how apt

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sweetchildofmine When: 03 Jul 13 15:00

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Lex When: 05 Jul 13 14:56

thanks top2 for digging that out. I dimly remember it happening (as I said) and it caused a bit of fuss on here amongst some guys doing a bit of reckless staking.

Didn't realise how long I've been on here ! I really should get out more

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Lex When: 05 Jul 13 19:24

Start backing favs now - 11 losers.
19:25 knockcroghery
19:30 altharoos

probably

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Lex When: 05 Jul 13 19:31

knockcroghery wins. The next one may well win, but no need if martingaling.