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..Well, I spent the first 2 hours yesterday accumulating a £400 profit......and it was then that I saw my golden opportunity to add another very easy £135.
A Hunter Chase in Ireland..with only 4 runners, 2 of which were no-hopers....and of the other two, one rated around 140 most of its life ,and the other one rated around 100 most of it's life.....yep, you guessed it .........goodbye £400 !
Well, to punish my stupidity, I hurriedly withdrew a couple of Grand from my "very sacred" Betfair profit account, and transferred it to my bank a/c.....to pay for boring bloody items like food and gas ,...... desparate stuff !
Anyone else done a similar act of insanity ??......................regards, David.
A Hunter Chase in Ireland..with only 4 runners, 2 of which were no-hopers....and of the other two, one rated around 140 most of its life ,and the other one rated around 100 most of it's life.....yep, you guessed it .........goodbye £400 !
Well, to punish my stupidity, I hurriedly withdrew a couple of Grand from my "very sacred" Betfair profit account, and transferred it to my bank a/c.....to pay for boring bloody items like food and gas ,...... desparate stuff !
Anyone else done a similar act of insanity ??......................regards, David.
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..Hey Gaze, now you bladdy well tell me....I'll listen and learn Sir.
Same horse got well beaten when very short odds on, only previous visit to Fairyhouse last spring.
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if losing really mattered , i wouldn't get involved. when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
Anyone who says in their entire betting career that they haven't made silly mistakes are not to be believed in anything they say.
We've all done stupid things gambling
If you'd spent 2 hours accumulating 400 profit then I would have been inclined to carry on with the same method/staking
And certainly not put the lot on an odds on hunter chaser
But you seem to be otherwise successful, just put it down to a lesson learnt
Oh, and follow Gaze's numerous grails, of course... Surprised you didn't know the one about not backing 2/7 shots that pulled up lto
If you'd spent 2 hours accumulating 400 profit then I would have been inclined to carry on with the same method/staking
And certainly not put the lot on an odds on hunter chaser
But you seem to be otherwise successful, just put it down to a lesson learnt
Oh, and follow Gaze's numerous grails, of course... Surprised you didn't know the one about not backing 2/7 shots that pulled up lto
I think there are many here ie morons. I'm guilty too eg Shishkin at Cheltenham (2m). Some odds-on shots do not win regularly
like a rolling stone
it's not about revenge , more about how lucky you are
whether you make it yourself or not
it's not about revenge , more about how lucky you are
whether you make it yourself or not
I've played a few Hunter chases in running over the years. The vast majority ended in tears. Too unpredictable for me. Lesson learnt
....Thanks for the comforting words friends.....I actually feel better now I've confessed my sins .
Also had a crack at a few cross country races FFs! Best to stick the kettle on while unfathomable events are taking place 
More pearls of wisdom
If all odds on shots won, there wouldn't be any bookies.
If all odds on shots won, there wouldn't be any bookies.
..Slick..I chose my despicable user name when I was rockin and rollin in my Business interests,loaded with spare dosh, .....and started out on here thinking I was the "big I am" .
I soon learned that I wasn't !
I hate my nickname now, but can't apparently change it to another option.
My actual name is David ....75 years young
I soon learned that I wasn't !
I hate my nickname now, but can't apparently change it to another option.
My actual name is David ....75 years young
I'm guessing here, but I take it that what really hurts about that bet of £400 at 2/7 in an Irish Hunters Chase was that some aspect of it was completely out of sync with how you'd won the £400 in the first place. Either the stake, the price, the type of race or the country where it took place (or all four).
We all do these things. The trick is to find a way of drawing a line under it while still acknowledging that you did it. Which is why I keep a running tally in a Stupid Bets account, which goes right back to October 1986. Basically whenever I have a bet outside of whatever method(s) or system(s) I'm following at the time, the p/l gets recorded there.
For instance, at a time when I was operating to £150 level stakes with selections based on thorough form analysis, I went to Newbury one afternoon, and Martin Pipe had an ex-French horse running in a handicap hurdle in the last. French jumps form was a mystery at the time, and I was told (yes, yes, I know, I shouldn't listen to punters who know even less than I do, but there you go) I was told that the handicapper had ended up asking Pipe himself what mark he should give the horse. It was even money. I had a grand on. It got stuffed.
I can't describe the self-loathing as I walked to the station afterwards. You've got to remember that I do this for a living. I simply cannot do things like that. But I got home, painfully deducted £850 from the Stupid Bets account, and took a long walk in the dark with the dogs to pull myself together. The good news was that I could look at the Sensible Bets account, which was still ticking along nicely, and pull myself together to go through the form for the next day as usual.
Years later I backed four or five countries at 100/1-plus for Euro 2004. I remember my girlfriend at the time overhearing me phoning in the bets, and her commenting: "Do some of these countries actually even exist?" Well, one of them was Greece, and they won it, and the winnings went into the Stupid Bets account, where they deserved to be, because I know I got lucky, and I don't know the first thing about international football, and I needed to remind myself of that.
Hope this helps.
We all do these things. The trick is to find a way of drawing a line under it while still acknowledging that you did it. Which is why I keep a running tally in a Stupid Bets account, which goes right back to October 1986. Basically whenever I have a bet outside of whatever method(s) or system(s) I'm following at the time, the p/l gets recorded there.
For instance, at a time when I was operating to £150 level stakes with selections based on thorough form analysis, I went to Newbury one afternoon, and Martin Pipe had an ex-French horse running in a handicap hurdle in the last. French jumps form was a mystery at the time, and I was told (yes, yes, I know, I shouldn't listen to punters who know even less than I do, but there you go) I was told that the handicapper had ended up asking Pipe himself what mark he should give the horse. It was even money. I had a grand on. It got stuffed.
I can't describe the self-loathing as I walked to the station afterwards. You've got to remember that I do this for a living. I simply cannot do things like that. But I got home, painfully deducted £850 from the Stupid Bets account, and took a long walk in the dark with the dogs to pull myself together. The good news was that I could look at the Sensible Bets account, which was still ticking along nicely, and pull myself together to go through the form for the next day as usual.
Years later I backed four or five countries at 100/1-plus for Euro 2004. I remember my girlfriend at the time overhearing me phoning in the bets, and her commenting: "Do some of these countries actually even exist?" Well, one of them was Greece, and they won it, and the winnings went into the Stupid Bets account, where they deserved to be, because I know I got lucky, and I don't know the first thing about international football, and I needed to remind myself of that.
Hope this helps.
Nice post screaming. I was a mug punter for many a year until I met my mentor. It all became easy after that but the chasing continued.The amount of punters who cannot take it on the chin (like myself). Thanfully those days are less frequant now but my knowledge is far better.
That said, I deposit 1k and down say, 600. Do I risk the 400 and stick the remaining 400 on the last bumper in Eire? Tomorrow is another day where I might fancy one strongly to hopefully get off to a goo0d start.
Long story short it's called discipline and it's helluva hard to achieve.
That said, I deposit 1k and down say, 600. Do I risk the 400 and stick the remaining 400 on the last bumper in Eire? Tomorrow is another day where I might fancy one strongly to hopefully get off to a goo0d start.
Long story short it's called discipline and it's helluva hard to achieve.
Screaming is a proper ex professional punter,maybe still going maybe,I could learn plenty from him.
I also have a problem with discipline, I keep trying to oppose odds on favs but they never lose. I keep thinking "this fav is mega obvious, that's why the public backed it from 3 to 1.8" and then they always win because mega obvious favs never lose.
In fact I'm going to start making bets in the evening on these mega obvious favs and watch them steam by 30% by tomorrow.
If the bookies are such absolute imbeciles to open odds on favs at 2/1, they deserve to lose money to me.
Try backing B.Hughes runneres gaze. I'll camp out with you.
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