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Played it a bit safer, on under 4.5.
Also went on 1 goal or more ha Just gone on 1-0 now, with a lay @3.85 - hopefully in and out quick ish. |
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And we're there! Phew.
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Easy with hindsight, went to 1.7 ish
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Right, i'm all done. And so are you Rob :)
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soz mate jumped in bath glad to see a nice win there i did manage to get 23 quid on 1.65 0-2 correct score so another 14 off tht
u on anything else mate |
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Football / Leeds v Millwall : Over/Under 2.5 goals 22-Mar-10 19:45 22-Mar-10 21:44 2.68
Another day down.... |
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well done sparky keeep it goin :)
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AsI said yesterday I know a disaster is round the corner....
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Doesnt look like it pal rememeber if no bets are on for tht day dont just go onto anything
theryll be days when u just cannnit get enough bets and there all winning :) ( like a saturday ) lol |
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Cheers Rob just taking it slow and steady. Seriuosly what do you think is a realistic target long term?
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sparky depending on what market u operate in will determine whether u can make it
if its a low liquidity market then ur not gonig to be able to get the sized bets on when required in the later stages but as for overs / unders match odds correct score markets u shud be fine if u can make the first 20 days then whos to say you can make the next 20 and so one ull need to keeep the stakes in line with ur progresssion and get over psychological aspects such as losing 2% of a 10000 bank as opposed to a 100 bank I tried this last year and end up withdrawing at 3k but that was for holiday purposed etc as i onl bet in spare time (wouldnt like the pressure of full time ). also my betting is rewarding when it pulls off but not guarenteed weeek in weeek out etc :) hoppe this helps |
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shud read whos to say u cant make the next 20 days *****
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Rob, how many days are you up to at moment? (Apologies, if it's mentioned earlier....I'm too lazy to read through the thread!)
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ALRIGHT PJ
i didnt reallly start this like last year but im up to 4500 from two month ago starting from 100 using the under/overs trading and also tennis :) |
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so roughly day 155 :)
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Cheers Rob yeah at the moment I'm optimistic, up to day 24 and only one day with a loss and that was minimal. If I get to day 100 will regard it as a real achievement and then move on from there.
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Soccer / Leeds v Millwall : Over/Under 3.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 19:45 22-Mar-10 21:44 50.27
Soccer / Leeds v Millwall : Correct Score 22-Mar-10 19:45 22-Mar-10 21:42 14.20 Soccer / Leeds v Millwall : Match Odds 22-Mar-10 19:45 22-Mar-10 21:40 -2.04 Soccer / Elfsborg v Halmstads : Total Goals 22-Mar-10 18:00 22-Mar-10 19:49 14.55 Soccer / Elfsborg v Halmstads : Over/Under 4.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 18:00 22-Mar-10 19:42 -0.06 Soccer / Slovacko v Slavia Prague : Over/Under 5.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 16:30 22-Mar-10 18:22 0.19 Soccer / Pierikos v Ethnikos Asteras : Over/Under 4.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 16:00 22-Mar-10 17:55 9.50 Soccer / Pierikos v Ethnikos Asteras : Over/Under 3.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 16:00 22-Mar-10 17:55 12.29 Soccer / Astra Ploiesti v FC Timisoara : Over/Under 4.5 Goals 22-Mar-10 15:00 22-Mar-10 16:54 15.20 |
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Great stuff, Rob! Shows what can be done if you stay disciplined and stick to a couple of specialised areas. Nice start for you too, Sparky, keep it up! The bad day will come, unavoidable...law of averages etc, just don't let a bad day become a disastrous one and it'll be much easier to keep moving forward!
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Cheeers PJ hope u can keeep on the great run uve beeen on lately aswelll always watchin the corrrect scores thread to see how u's r getttin on how many in a row now is it :)
i got stung yDAY with both tennis finalists i backed losing (roddick and woz) and i wasnt trading (even if i wanted to trade id have lost anyways with the way it went ) ...... but still came out £47 up on the day |
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Good sign if after a bad day you're still up!
Yep, last week was pretty good....went 8 days and about 75 lays without a hit till yesterday lunchtime...and after a stamina-sapping rest of the day I still managed to be comfortably up...but still knackered after the time and effort put in! Making regular withdrawals but bank still creeping up nicely...the idea is to gradually be able to reduce % liability but also gradually increase potential profits too. Hopefully keep going whilst lucks in and also bearing in mind that in a couple of months most of the leagues will be into close season |
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PJ sounds like its all going great for u hope u can keeep it up
75 lays in a row is quality if only ud compounded ur attempt with small stakes ud be showing a lovely sum , but like u say u never know when tht hit will come!! r you looking forward to the world cup there should be some good money making opportunites out there :) thats a bonus this year !! mind thats providing ur not laying over the odds as what will be the case with the strong favs :) |
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Yep, was thinking about the World Cup today and wonderng how many 1/2 day annual leaves I'll be having for all these 3.00 kick offs! I think all the leagues that play during the summer are having a month's break so it'll have my full attention! Will be lots of markets wth plenty of liquidity (I'll even branch out from just CS laying!) so hope to do well.
Why are England only 1 pt higher than Brazil to win it?! Even with the weight of patriotic money, that seems crazy |
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certainly does funnny markets lol and i think theyll be alot of value in backing the draw during the group stages with very high priced underdogs etc
we'll seee ill certainly be taking sum time offf to get in on as much action as i can how do u fair englands chances PJ spain will be hard to stop and brazil as always in world cups !!! |
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My views on the outright market at the minute are as follows:
England and Brazil are too short Holland and Germany are too long Spain although deserved favourites are too short South Korea and Serbia and USA the outsiders with trading opportunity. Argentina prob too short, anything could happen if they gain momentum from their easy group. |
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i think hollland have potential but never seeem to show it a bit like england lol only now im believing tht with a bit of luck we cud get into final
u only have to look at the ways in which weve end up going out to know a bit of luck and we cud have beeen alot further eg beckham sent off rooney red card neville conceeding pen stuart pierce pen misss etc |
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The defence worries me, Rob. If Rooney can take his current form into the summer and they have someone to support him effectively then we can cause some damage at that end. However, I can't see us keeping top sides out easily. John Terry even at his best (and at the moment with one thing and another he clearly not at his best), he can look clumsy against top class forwards....need Ferdinand to stay fit to bail him out. If Ashley Cole doesn't make it then we'll be left with a very inexperienced full back at this level, whoever that may be. Then on the other side looks it'll be Johnson? An archetypal modern-day full back ie. a better attacker than defender! Then behind that lot then whoever's between the sticks probably wouldn't even be third choice if was born in one of the other top nations!
Having said that, we couldn't have asked for a much easier group and if we don't come top of that then we don't deserve anything. Assuming we come top and Germany top their group then I'd probably rather face Ghana than Serbia from what I've seen recently - maybe I shouldn't dismiss Australia so easily, but I don't think they're as good as 4 years ago....though there's a fair chance that one of the 4th favs will get through one of the groups |
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Spot on there PJ ...
Our goalkeeeping isssue is my main concern. Whoever seems to go inbetweeen the sticks seeems to let in a kalamity goAL and its going to cost us even against the likes of USA.. John terry is clearly lacking top form and at this moment of time i still wudnt consider swappin him with Upson !! Rio Needs to be fit and i know this may be unpopular but gary neville is quite a solid team player to have in he team and to be fair he looked quite dangerous going forward against Ac milan in the champions league hes got alot of experience aslo... Roooney will be key although i never like puttting it down to individual players :) |
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anyways im off to bed work at half 7
good luck :) |
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He'd never top any personality contest and after his 'performance' against Leeds in the FA Cup in January I'd wouldn't have backed him with free money to make the World Cup squad. However, since he's got a run of games under his belt he's actually put himself in with a good shout. Very solid and reliable player when at his best....if he wasn't such an odious little gob$hite then I'm sure he would have earned more respect for his playing ability than he has managed over the years!
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There`s some mad stakes going on in the forum :-)
WD ladies - keep it up |
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Mad stakes, Hugh?
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Read it wrong Wedged, was looking at ROBs bets from last night !! and got my figures mixed up , and remember you saying you had a 2k bankroll
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Layed Wolves here, to blow some Horses profit.
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hey hey wedged hows u
good lay imo west ham rnt a bad team at home plus this game is crucial im on the tennis at mo dire games though once this game fin with peng ill be loooking into some west ham positions ;) |
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what a rubbbish start eh im on under 4.5 now peng won :)
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Yeah, never get it right on the footy these days. I'm still fairly confident of 1-1 next tho.
I've only just started watch the actual match tho, so not sure if there's been many chances... |
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i still actuallly think theryll be one or two goals left in it......... west ham r capable on the day or putin a good performance in
teams like this r unpredictable and hard to judge the momentum of the game compared to 2 top four encounters u do well on the horses today wedged |
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Yes thanks Rob, went ok. Was blitzing it til half way through actually, then got some trades wrong and took a few hits in a short space of time. But came out well on top still. You been at work?
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Wolves lay down the pan? :|
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Yup :)
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