The Portugese Open

@Ski.....  let me know your idea of the winner if you have time.

A few covers but

Luiten
Donaldson got 48s :)
Cabrera bello
Jacquelin
Noren

Outsiders

Craig Lee 260
Lara 1000
Derksen
Rock

Dear Betfair

Simon Khan is out, Chris Paisley is in.

Please adjust your monitors

Lovely 75k last week for the injured Khant.Not worth the ex's for two days in Portugal.

Added Tommy gun. 55s drifting is a great price if he is fit

had a guess at garth mulroy at 150 with books, played well in links but st andrews rather let him down
no idea how he'll get on in portugal but with nice weather forecast its a decent price

I bet Shane Lowry at the Dunhill and followed him the final round, he went birdie, eagle, birdie to lead and then he got a bit nervy, he got too quick and threw in a couple of bogeys.
No doubt he's a good player but he looks too short this week. Kaymer's in good form, he's a class above most of these guys, 14/1 could look excellent value come Sunday

I had an awful lot of names written down for this weeks Portuguese Masters and have had to leave a few out although I have had small savers on Quiros, Webster and Pepperell (who won the Portuguese amateur and should have psoitive vibes this week) I have gone for five outright bets
Tom Lewis - avid readers will have noted I have seen his game coming around for a while and got on at stupid prices on Betfair in the Alfred Dunhill Links when he was 3rd. Obviously as a past winner here his price has been slashed accordingly but even at the early 66/1 he was worth a decent wager 0.5 ew
I tipped Gregory Havret for this two years ago at 175/1 when 3rd having spotted his affinity for Arnold Palmer courses. This time round his odds are a lot lower as he has had some really good finishes of late 0.3 ew 66/1
Talking of Arnold Palmer courses Hennie Otto also has a fine record on them including winning at Tolcinasco and he has been very consistent here in the past. He has been in fine form most of the summer and when he hasn't missed the cut he has been hanging around the top of the leaderboard without really seeing things through. At a three figure price he is worth having onside this week 0.25 ew 100/1
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Felipe Aguilar as whenever I pick him he plays pretty poorly but one day I will catch him right! He has a great top five strike rate including two starts ago when 4th in Italy and considering he was 3rd here two years ago he has to go in the staking plan 0.2 ew 90/1
Ricardo Santos knows this course like the back of his hand but it wasn't until last year he showed he could play it in competition when 16th. He had a similar level of performance in Madeira which he won last year. Looking at his results he seems to learn from experience and needs certain courses to bring out the best in him hence he was a pick in China earlier this year when 5th @ 100/1. I really was rather surprised to see a 150/1 price tag this week despite his poor recent form 0.25 ew

My current book looks like this. Please note that my system here is based on market fluctuations only. Does not mean I think the player will win. Just hoping for a few days with one interesting runner among my team. One exception is Shane. I am holding out for a little drift before play. Anybody got his tee time for tomorrow.

Christian Cevaer    ... got ye with that one ..  lol   + €5,640.14

Joost Luiten   + €346.44

Manasserro     + €642.14      messed up here ... took an early low price

Alvaro Quiros  + €44.14    free bet

The Field      - €47.86                                  GOOD LUCK ALL.

C'mon Quincy.... show your hand.

And Pokeron. There is a man that knows his golf. It has been a fantastic year for Australian Golf and it was a disgrace that Adam Scott did not get player of the year award in the States.

Have added Stephen Gallacher to join my main man Jamie and done both for 1st round leader saying that they play together early tommorow morning. Be lucky peeps.

Just gone for the 2 in this...

Steve Webster - After a good start to this season,totally lost his way but good stats in his last couple of events and a second place finish in his penultimate start suggests to me that he could bookend his season with a strong finish to it.Has also won round this course and just plays well in Portugal in general.Taken the 20 for a top 5 finish on here along with what I consider a generous 110 win only.

Scott Jamieson - Another guy that considering his hot start to the season,including a first tour win down in South Africa,really hasn't kicked on as expected.Has shown some decent form his last couple of starts though and a 12th place finish here last year is encouraging.Taken the 27 on here for a top 5 finish along with a more than fair 150 win only.

Good luck

Tobe why should Adam have got POTY?

Tigers wins 5, including The Players and 2 WGC events, and is not POTY with no one else winning more than twice?

My own personal player of the year is Phil, unbiased too

Oct 7, 2013 -- 10:37PM, toberaheena wrote:

@Ski.....

FFS......@tobe....just these for now....busy till the weekend so won't be adding any more.....GL with yours.

Nicolas Colsaerts
Shane Lowry    
Francesco Molinari    
Gregory Havret    
Steve Webster    
Fredrik Andersson Hed
Ricardo Santos    
Eddie Pepperell

toberaheena, I am on the crest of the greatest slump ever.  Microsoft updated my computers overnight, lost 14 days work on various spreadsheets.  Very unhappy bunny.  Six small bets, Noren, Fisher, Rock, Pepperell (Backed at 200. laid at 80), Lowry, and Fleetwood.  Haven't even looked at the US golf yet.  Good luck with yours.

Par should be here shortly.

Quincy.....you seem to have many computer problems....

updates shouldnt really be making you lose work.....this isnt the first time you have had the same issues. Very strange

also i thought the default setting in most spreadsheets were to update auto at regular intervals, if not i suggest you turn on autosaves.

Yep, sounds like bad pc management Quincy. Backup everyday at least onto a seperate disc and as meng says, turn on your autosave also.

yep worth the effort, my pc backs up a complete image every 24 hours, keeps peace of mind

Thank you for those few kind words, Ski.  One reason is because I have so many computers running at the same time, and another reason is that I'm trying to do too much.  Tried all morning to get on Thomas Bell in the 4.00 Worcester.  Got a bit at 8.2, some at 7.8. Now 7.00 to lay.  A whole 13k matched on the race, (6.5k in real terms).  Betfair is fast becoming a waste of time.

Mengmeng, have autosave on Word, (which I rarely use), as I prefer Pagemaker.  Never managed to turn on autosave on Excel.

To activate the AutoSave feature, follow these steps:

    On the Tools menu, click Add-Ins.
    In the Add-Ins dialog box, select the AutoSave Add-in check box, and then click OK.

Stakes out of Rock, feeling happier now.

Thanks, mengmeng, all I need to do now is find the CD for my Excel programme.

Sorted, mengmeng, thanks.

no worries, and remember to save things to external hdd or usb just to be safe lol. i once deleted 2 terabytes of tv shows by accident...... thats why its know backed up nightly

Is it not good to see people helping out others here on the golf forum and not bickering like the soccer mob. Fair play to all concerned. Just waiting for 3pm and golf from Portugal. I tried to back Shane Lowry in a 3 ball bet overnight and to my surprise it was never matched. Will wait now and see what is actually happening on course. -6 seems to be leading if we can believe the espn scoreboard. I would put a red flag over this service and indeed advise anybody having a bet to ignore that particular scoreboard altogether while golf is in play.

One reason is because I have so many computers running at the same time,

What the hell are you operating at your 'secret base'? 1 good modern computer is enough. Unless i'm missing a trick.

Excel autosave should be on automatically when you install the software. If you go into preference/option and look for autosave/backup, it will show you where the saved file are placed on your hard drive. Then open that folder......you might get all your 'lost' files back.

toberaheena • October 10, 2013 2:32 PM BST
Is it not good to see people helping out others here on the golf forum

Why not good?.......i think it is jolly good that we can help each other like civilised people.

The Thomas Bell show at Worcester is OK now, traded out for a free bet.

I'm a beginner, Ski.  My friend has 4 laptops, 1 tablet, 12 TVs, 3 recorders all on at the same time.  One laptop on B**daq for watching the racing which is free and 2-3 seconds in front of Sky on most races, and about 5 seconds in front of ATR.  Recorders for photo-finishes.

he was saying it is a good thing ski. Just didnt use contractions so can sound different when said

Oct 10, 2013 -- 4:10PM, Quincy wrote:

I'm a beginner, Ski.

FFS...........Jesus wept.....1 PC and 1 TV is all i need....no weakly laptop,   no recorders.......all done using my PC.

Why 12 TVs....your mate's house must look like a bookie

i used to have 3 screens but that was for trading forex ect, not just got my laptop and a tv, not a weakly laptop tho heh

Noticed my computer was doing  updates (microsoft) this morning --in the background .  Took a long time , wonder what that was about . They screwed up my PC some years ago with some dopey update which they were never able to explain ( Indian phone calls , spent most of time talking cricket ) .  A friend cleared everything out , re loaded everything , and it has worked well since .  But no explanation  , just 3 weeks slow frustration till it was fixed properly .

Kelly can't you view the update history to see what yesterdays updates were. mine had a lot of Microsoft security updates yesterday.

Oct 10, 2013 -- 7:27PM, sandsave wrote:

Kelly can't you view the update history to see what yesterdays updates were. mine had a lot of Microsoft security updates yesterday.

Correct.....you can view the updates history and had mine updated except for explorer as i don't use it. Maybe that be the issue if anyone updated explorer.

Oct 10, 2013 -- 6:20PM, mengmeng wrote:

i used to have 3 screens but that was for trading forex ect, not just got my laptop and a tv, not a weakly laptop tho heh

ALL laptops are weakly compare to to a proper PC......it's like having a boxing match between Ian Beale (laptop) and Mike Tyson (PC)

Thank you for the back up earlier mengmeng. Now we might have a go at ridding everybody from the 'f's. I have seen no golf yet. Time for a bar of Fry's Chocolate cream.

@Quincy... you have a few live ones in your group. Could this be the week? Still trying to find out if pokeron is all right. He was enjoyable and we had something in commom of which I never told him. Both hitched to Asian Nationals. A big price double.

GOT 6 quid on Jacquelin at 1000..only 6 off the pace

Thanks for advice lads , but mine is working OK as normal so I dont care what they do update and security wise . Just wondered why the updates took so long , normally they only last about 5 minutes even when you have been away for a month or so . Cheers .

Have 6 players with a handy green. Otherwise the filed costs me €75ish unless I get stuck in again. Have a nice free bet on Ishikawa in Frys. Backed at 69 and laid 2/3s of it at 60.

Sorry, for a second there I thought this was the Samaritans....

Anywhoo, with the plump Shane having bottled it again, the bold Bernd looks to be in complete command here, and I fully expect him to surge into an unassailable lead, circumstances permitting, as the case may be.

Victor DUBUISSON has taken 64 putts over the first 2 rounds

Amazing then that he has still got it to 8 under

Must be owed a few

59 alert.Yes another one.

Had a wee nibble at Jamieson earlier @ 273.3 I'm guessing the leaders will be knocking on the door of -20.

Shame he missed out at 12 ,still 3 in the last 5 is not out of the question.

Might as well post one up for Lara as well.

Moli - 8.....need colseart to go low otherwise it will be another zero weekend......leaders faltering would be great.

Par 5 next so it should be -5 soon.....

boooooooooommmmm 1.01 landed.......

Jamieson alert has ended.

Back on.12'14 and 15 three of the easiest holes and he could only par them.

Birdie down tough 18 required.

Hope he gets it ,will pi$$ Sky off to tell us about it rather than show it live.

15ft chip for 59.

Oct 12, 2013 -- 1:21PM, frames wrote:

Hope he gets it ,will pi$$ Sky off to tell us about it rather than show it live.

Dump wwe bottom line and sporting heroes and show the golf.....IMO

colsaerts to win, jamieson is an awful price,be at least 4 behind at the end of the day

Not so awful now.

i make u right

Doak bogey free for the week so far.


Surely not frames.

Good try.

What chance does Francesco Molinari have?

After Jamiesons 60 you can go to the -8's to win this.The lead has only gone from -12 to -14 so far today.Calm morning and windy afternoon again would be good.

That must be why he's bogey free.

Got him.Might do him a favour getting it out of the way.

Interesting.
Very, very interesting !

Going with the fiery duo of Otto and Pablo....

They will either bounce off each other and get hot or both plummet rapidly.

At the juicy prices ill take my chances.

Good luck all

Laid Jamieson and Waring for a top 5 finish and backed Kaymer for top 5 finish gl with ur bets.

Anyone think Weisberger could go very low, bit of a dry day yesterday or he would have been right in the mix, always seems to have a **** Saturday like Coetzee

Scoring slows right up.Christmas closing in for the lads.

2pm start from Sky.....jesus wept....

Oct 13, 2013 -- 1:01PM, Ski-Wiz wrote:

2pm start from Sky.....jesus wept....

It is what is is, old son.
I'd thank you to leave the name of 'holey Jebus' out of it !

On top of scoreboard not updating.....i think i can include 'Poley Tesus'

Oct 13, 2013 -- 1:04PM, Ski-Wiz wrote:

On top of scoreboard not updating.....i think i can include 'Poley Tesus'

Colseart or Quiros to win something or £0.....not much too look forwards to till 2pm as mightily bored at the moment.

7 on -15...gawd....

Very low key stuff from me. Donaldson   + €40.34     Quiros    + €14.74    Fisher   +€99.74 and Kaymer   + €25.44      a few other no hope greens I will not bother you with. The field is costing me €77 less the + €12 I have on the Field in the chocolate competition in the U.S. That leaves me a worst scenario of - €65.00.

The only player not to have made a birdie in the whole field today is...................

PAUL WARING

On the positive side he hasn't really scored that well early on in any of his rounds this week.

The man for the back 9 so far this week has been Simon THORNTON (-13)

Currently available @ 21 and 2 shots out of the lead.

Someones going to turn it on soon?

WHO?

The bots on purple are becoming quite annoying

money up, money disappears, money up, money disappears

Goodness me after that pathetic chip.Call the engraver.

How did that drop?

fancy Pablo from here.

flippin hope so aberdonia, must birdie this par 5

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Anyone think Weisberger could go very low, bit of a dry day yesterday or he would have been right in the mix, always seems to have a **** Saturday like Coetzee


YES 

I will have nightmares tonight over that bogey on 13 from Donaldson he was about to take control

Justin Walters. Well played my friend.
I know exactly what you are going through !

Lynn not even had to sweat over this poor finish from the rest great the way Lynn's career has went since he hit 40

Rescued most of my stakes on this.  Although I have some decent winners on the Frys.com, I need a minor miracle.  Good luck with yours.

Sky pointed out how the last 3 winners have come from 4 or more off the pace .Lynn makes it 4.

Weisberger played himself in and then blew it on the par 5, dear me this bloke has cost me this year.

Nett loss over 2 tournaments €30.77.