tobermory     13 Jun 10 16:54 
The USA game was hardly as important as Euro 2008 .

£2 Serbia @190

France bet matched.


What you saying? They weren't trying? They had their best players on the field.. You think they wanted to get humiliated by the USA. Even England managed a draw with the USA. So that makes England better than Spain taken at face value. And they won have won if it wasn't for that nob head Green.

I don't see why you've bothered to back teams that haven't got any chance of winning.

As has been said you should've just had £40 on Spain instead of all these sh1te bets, at least if Brazil win it you'd be £40 down instead of £200. It doesn't make a difference if you have 800/1 on some useless team.

Backed and layed way to many for my liking, But its not my liking so it makes no difference

But he / She (Probably he) has put a lot of time into this thread for people that might want to take an interest in it

It's he's thread, And he's done nothing to be critisized for

It's paid for and the bets are on

All the best with em

Cheers All Over, Sleepwalker and Joe

Sure Brazil won in 2002.  But with a similar strategy , even laying Brazil (and Germany) from the start , by the Quarter Finals, if you were on Senegal,USA,Korea + Turkey at 100-250 , then very easy to go green on the favourites too.

No Spain did not want to lose to USA, but they hardly 'choked' , more like they were complacent and didn't have the edge  in what was a bit of a mickey mouse competion ,than they would have had in the real thing .USA played well , Spain badly , but there have been far more bad displays from Brazil and other contenders in the last 2 years than their have been by  Spain.

As for  'why not just have £40 on Spain so you don't lose £200 if Brazil win'  . This is less than a quarter of the way through , i don't plan on being £200 or more red on Brazil all the way . I am prepared to risk that, but although Brazil might win they might be 0-1 down on 80 minutes of the quarter final along the way , so there will be chances to cut the losses by using large greens on the others.

Rockmonkey , your book looks good , Serbia need a result v Germany but i think they have a better chance of that than the odds suggest.

£2.50 Lay of S Korea @190
£2.50 Back of Brazil @6.2

i layed Brazil for 3 euros @6
My book
Brazil -15 e
Rest  3 e
done a lot of analysis
so i am pretty confident
wish me luck

Lays

£2 Uraguay@65
£2 Japan@560

Think there are 3 or 4 better teams with a better chance of going through than Ivory Coast.

£2 Lay of them @55 (unmatched)

get in pen Mexico

Think Argentina have difficult L16 Game so £2 Lay @6 submitted but unmatched.

£2.50 Lay of S Korea @230
£2 back of Chile@65

Also don't think Spain have drifted enough so (unmatched) £7 Lay @6.8

Ans £2 Lay of Algeria @1000 which no one is rushing to take.

£11 Back of Germany@12.5 (Unamatched)
£3 Lay of Mexico@42 (Unmatched)
£8.50 Lay of Serbia@80
£2.50 Lay of Slovenia@330
£4 Lay of Spain@6.4

Germany/Mexico bets were matched

Brazil bet was matched

Lay

Paraguay £2 @42

Backs (unmatched)

£15 Holland@11
£3.50 England@14

£2 Chile @90 (unmatched)

£2 Lay of Chile@55

can you update the spreadsheet mate? also how much are you looking to achieve by the end?

Of course actually wrong there , Spain were 5.1 or thereabouts before they played , but now only 5.6 after  that shocker and having a tough opponent in final match and maybe tougher in Last 16. Makes no sense to me.

£2 Portugal@26 (unmatched)

Decided.

£17.50 Lay of Spain@5.8

Can't believe i won't get the chance to back them a fair bit higher , so don't see a downside to it.

Still no one wanting to back Argentina so trying another £3 on them @6.6 while this drift continues.