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not me, I never fancied Harry's chances, so no back to lay from me, and I'm not playing big enough to lay Harry from a level position the series to afford anything that big
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hmmm.....
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It appeared again shortly after disappearing, but this time it was about £1k spread in non-round amounts of £150-£300 at several price levels up to 16.5. None of it matched and it's gone this morning.
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Just saw your post, Tim.
Yes I used to do specials - mainly BB, CBB and IMAC. But I was finding that getting caught out by a catastrophic surprise move in the market would often leave my book in such tatters that I'd spend the rest of the event just trying to scalp my way back to evens, so I stopped. Did my conkers on Brian vs the Twins, for example. Whoever I dislike or get irritated by seems to be who the public love - I couldn't get why Paddy won CBB at all, for example. I think Kerry Katona was my best result from IMAC. Even that was after a lot of frantic trading around Johnny Rotten and trying to body-read a feed with no sound at silly o'clock in the morning. Trading cricket seems so much easier and over a modest time-frame. Taking a contrarian position over weeks or months in specials has the added complication of polls that often seem to correlate with current prices, false favourites that go way shorter for way longer than my funds are comfortable with, so I end up greening up too soon when they drift and also find that other runners odds are pushed to artificial levels that I can't take advantage of without increasing my exposure, thin books that have no liquidity most of the time, forcing you to leave bets up overnight away from the market price hoping they will just get touched, but then finding the market has crashed through them and settled somewhere new for no obvious reason. This latest one I couldn't resist after PieFace went so low so early, but if I'd just done that one trade and left it alone until now I'd be way better off than I am now with miscellaneous unbalanced reds and greens with no liquidity to even them up quickly or without creating additional exposure. How do you reconcile a public that prefers Joel over Eileen? Or a guy like Showbiz hat once given the rare second chance completely self-sabotage by nomming his only buddy? Tiddles was my biggest green yet out of four new HMs I laid Marc too early and went red and I laid Harry for the first time only minutes before her price plunged to what would have been for me a good tradeable level. I'm just no good at this at all! One thing in BBs favour - I've found myself not bothering to go out on a Friday so I guess I'm saving some money by being screen-bound on eviction night. If I do manage to green up with a modest profit the hourly rate will be in pence. |
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Good answer, VV, hitting on all the perils and joys of RTV betting.
I suspect that, over three months of BB, most of us would have earned more, per hour, working in McDonalds. That wouldm`t be such fun, though. Welcome back, and good luck. |
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Cheers, Tim.
I love your "Mark P O'Neil" anagram observation - that's brilliant if he really was Christened that. "I'm a plonker", including the apostrophe - lol, lol and thrice lol. |
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Thought it was quite clever myself, VV, but it hasn`t been so well received on his thread.
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I thought it was very clever. Even if the P was made up.
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P could be another one of his many alter egos, one that we have not seen yet.
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It will be celebrated decades after your tragic gambling stress-induced death, Tim.
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That`ll do for me, VV.
Henry, are you suggesting I`m taking the p? |