Tips, betting stories, etc

[Uncle Leo]

This is the place to declare the bets you're about to place, post tips, etc. After timers ("I had a 37,843/1 15-fold the other day") will not be welcomed.

Looking ahead to this weekend, given that the game is at Anfield and Man Utd's defence has looked anything but watertight of late, surely 21/10 isn't a bad price on Liverpool this Saturday?

[Uncle Leo]

Even better - you can get 11/5 on Liverpool at Hills and BetFred.

[shrimper loz]

Am tempted to stick a Fiver on Tottenham, Southampton, Huddersfield and Shrewsbury. 4 Away wins and it pays 43.30/1 @ Coral.

Also going to do my usual weekend longshot £3 on the both teams to score bet, just undecided which games to go for!

[Uncle Leo]

A friend of mine who prices up the Spanish second division reckons Cordoba could be a good bet away to Cartagena....

[BrettieAngell]

£5 on Liverpool to win 2-1.

[Pubey]

I've got a quid on Gerrard to score first 11/1
High roller

[Pubey]

Maldives here I come!

[Uncle Leo]

I've got a quid on Gerrard to score first 11/1
High roller

Move along people, Pubey needs to get to the payout counter!

Played sir.

[Pubey]

Bet £1 that united will come back to win (12/1)

[Pubey]

Argh nearly. Good second half, made up for an awful first half

[southend4ever]

Score Draw - Southampton v West Ham tomorrow night.

[Pubey]

Nani first goal (6/1)

Also got an accumulator on united, city, real, Leeds, blackpool (5ish/1)

[Funky Kong]

Nani first goal (6/1)

Also got an accumulator on united, city, real, Leeds, blackpool (5ish/1)

Coventry not your favourite team today.....??

[Pubey]

Southend, wednesday, Cardiff, Leicester and Newcastle. 14/1

[Uncle Leo]

Southend, wednesday, Cardiff, Leicester and Newcastle. 14/1

I had Leicester today too. Shocking :'(

[SupaBlues]

Huddersfield Preston Cheltenham Southend 13/1 acca

[Beefy]

Heard a few rumours that Harry Redknapp is resigning today from Spurs on medical reasons. Probably ******** but just placed a tenner on him as next Prem Manager to leave at 9/1 at Paddy Power.

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

I had 10 quid on England to win at half time against spain think it was 11/2 (or something like that) not too bad.

Mark Phillips to score first is winning loads by a few people I know at the moment.

I'm actually winning money this season which makes a bloody change!

[Beefy]

Yeah I had a tenner on England @ 4/1 on Saturday.

I'm doing alright this year. I've been up the last two seasons thanks to a couple of big wins (including the best part of a grand on that Mohsni bet at the start of 2011) but this is the first time I've actually kept a record. It was depressing the first couple of months of the season but a couple of accumulators come in and it's all change.

[Uncle Leo]

Yeah I had a tenner on England @ 4/1 on Saturday.

I'm doing alright this year. I've been up the last two seasons thanks to a couple of big wins (including the best part of a grand on that Mohsni bet at the start of 2011) but this is the first time I've actually kept a record. It was depressing the first couple of months of the season but a couple of accumulators come in and it's all change.

I've been keeping tabs since 2006. Not going to go in to too much detail, but having staked a five figure sum, I'm down 0.01%. Which isn't bad for five years of fun.

If Southend win L2 this season I'll be well back in the black. Got a tidy little 9/2 on PSG for Ligue 1 keeping me warm through the winter as well.

[Beefy]

Is it just for your records only to track money in and out or have you found that keeping a record has changed your gambling habits and the type of bets you put on?

[Uncle Leo]

Is it just for your records only to track money in and out or have you found that keeping a record has changed your gambling habits and the type of bets you put on?

Bit of both. Keeping a record should instil a bit of discipline - filing red number or red number on a Monday morning after a bad weekend is pretty sobering - but I'm still not as disciplined as I ought to be. I really fancied the Man City / Everton double at a shade better than evens last weekend, but still got greedy and threw 5/6 Stoke in there!

[Uncle Leo]

Apologies for bigging up my own form here, but if another company were doing this, I'd be lumping on....

If Robin van Persie scores at any time against Fulham on Saturday, Ladbrokes will refund all losing first goalscorer bets.

Given his record this calendar year, a few punts on Walcott, Gervinho, Ramsey etc have to be worth a look.

[steveo]

Southend, Southampton, Brighton, Acrrington.

[BrettieAngell]

I had Spurs, Cardiff, Brighton, Sheff Utd and Accrington £5 returned £131! :smile:

[Uncle Leo]

For those of you on Twitter, @aftertimersanon is worth a follow

[steveo]

I had Spurs, Cardiff, Brighton, Sheff Utd and Accrington £5 returned £131! :smile:

Nice one .

[BrettieAngell]

Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds, Charlton, Sheff Wed £5 returned £109, 2 in a row get in!!

[steveo]

Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds, Charlton, Sheff Wed £5 returned £109, 2 in a row get in!!

On a roll mate, good work.

My missus has picked Sheff Wed, Sheff Utd, MK Dons treble for two weeks running. Only a fiver pays about 20 but winners none the less.

[BrettieAngell]

Cheers, a hat-trick would be nice!

[steveo]

Cheers, a hat-trick would be nice!

What happened then?

Incidentally, the Sheff Wed, Sheff Utd, MK Dons treble came in again. 3 quid paid 30.
3 weeks running now.

[BrettieAngell]

Good stuff.

Didn't get the hat-trick unfortunately!

[BrettieAngell]

Todays acca,

Millwall, Southampton, Blackpool, Newcastle, Hull, Tottenham

[Uncle Leo]

No football bets today, but Meryl Streep at even money for the Best Actress Oscar seems like cracking value to me.

[steveo]

Southend & Stevenage double. 30 quid pays 144

[Uncle Leo]

Derby/Brighton/West Brom/Forest/Orient/Cheltenham in a series of trebles

[Uncle Leo]

Derby/Brighton/West Brom/Forest/Orient/Cheltenham in a series of trebles

Ahem. Oh well, we move on....

Cinders And Ashes at 16/1 for the Supreme Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham.

[Richard T]

Even allowing for the wage he was probably on at the time time losing £288,400.00 in one bet was very painful for Didi Hamann.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2012/01/20/liverpool-fc-hero-didi-hamann-reveals-his-alcohol-and-gambling-hell-100252-30163960/

[steveo]

Even allowing for the wage he was probably on at the time time losing £288,400.00 in one bet was very painful for Didi Hamann.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2012/01/20/liverpool-fc-hero-didi-hamann-reveals-his-alcohol-and-gambling-hell-100252-30163960/

Makes the 300 quid I lost on the last World Cup seem pretty paltry.
Spread betting can be great fun but it ruins your enjoyment of watching a tournament. Bring on the Euros.

[Its Only A Game]

Forest v Burnley tonight

Forests Last 6 home games
Lost 3-0 v southampton
Drew 0-0 v Leicester
Lost 1-0 v Cardiff
Lost 1-0 v Peterborough
Lost 1-0 v Palace
Lost 4-0 v Leeds

Lost 5 Drawn 1 Scored 0 Conceded 10

Burnleys last 6 aways

W 2-0 at Middlesboro
L 1-4 at Norwich
L 1-2 at Leeds
W 1-0 at Brighton
W 2-1 at West Ham
W 3-2 at Hull

Won 4 Lost 2 Scored 10 conceded 9

Burnley are available at between 7/4-2/1 to win or 10/3-4/1 to win to nil

[Its Only A Game]

Hope some of you got on to ease the pain of the Swindon defeat

[jimmyshrimp]

Cheltenham 4/1 to win away @ Crawley looks value to me.

[Beefy]

Yeah I'm going to have a bit of that. Crawley have one win in six in the league and have obviously lost their best player.

[jimmyshrimp]

Off to a good start Beefy:thumbsup:

[Uncle Leo]

In an attempt to help our promotion push (thinking being my betting luck will see all three lose), I've had a treble on Crawley, Swindon and Cheltenham this week. Pays a little over 3/1.

[Beefy]

I was told earlier that it's been a year since Cheltenham won a home midweek game.

[Uncle Leo]

I was told earlier that it's been a year since Cheltenham won a home midweek game.

Strange old stat. May it long continue.

[Uncle Leo]

In an attempt to help our promotion push (thinking being my betting luck will see all three lose), I've had a treble on Crawley, Swindon and Cheltenham this week. Pays a little over 3/1.

Uncle Leo's curse strikes again! I did this a fair bit towards the tail end of the 2005/06 season too. Will be betting on some other key games as the season goes on with the hope that my crap luck does Southend a favour.

[Museshrimper]

BetVictor have 2/1 on there being over 3 corners on the Athletic Bilbao-Lokomotiv Moscow game this evening. The home side average over 8 corners per game in home matches by themselves.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/europa-league/athl-bilbao-v-lok-moscow/total-corners

How likely is my bet to stand? Or will they void it claiming clear pricing error etc even though it's been up all morning?

[Uncle Leo]

BetVictor have 2/1 on there being over 3 corners on the Athletic Bilbao-Lokomotiv Moscow game this evening. The home side average over 8 corners per game in home matches by themselves.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/europa-league/athl-bilbao-v-lok-moscow/total-corners

How likely is my bet to stand? Or will they void it claiming clear pricing error etc even though it's been up all morning?

I suspect they will void it, claiming palpable error. I see the line is eight now, so they've spotted their rick.

[Museshrimper]

Yep and my bet has been voided. I assume I have no right to dispute their decision to void. Bloody T&Cs.

[C C Csiders]

Licence to print money: Buckie Boy 3.00 Exeter. On offer at 7/1 with Corals - can't kick it out of the first 3 (Fifth the odds each way). In the same race Osgood is overpriced at 20/1 (Corals)

[Its Only A Game]

Licence to print money: Buckie Boy 3.00 Exeter. On offer at 7/1 with Corals - can't kick it out of the first 3 (Fifth the odds each way). In the same race Osgood is overpriced at 20/1 (Corals)

Buckie Boy was the only non finisher. Osgood second at 16/1 though

[C C Csiders]

Buckie Boy was the only non finisher. Osgood second at 16/1 though

Clearly something amiss with Buckie Boy. Drifted out to 9/1 and lost touch after the first hurdle before being pulled up.

[BLUEBLOOD]

Licence to print money

This'll be the Monopoly money emblazoned with that fat c unit from Gatwick that appeared on SZ recently i presume :raspberry:

[southend4ever]

With minds wandering elsewhere perhaps on tonight's game Tottenham v Stoke I am wondering if we will see a lacklustre Spurs and under 2.5 goals is worth a bet? Although Spurs are a team I would never normally use to go for this option I am thinking there might be some serious value but then again it's a strange old game and they might come out the blocks raring to put personal matters behind them and show fans they mean business.

[BrettieAngell]

With minds wandering elsewhere perhaps on tonight's game Tottenham v Stoke I am wondering if we will see a lacklustre Spurs and under 2.5 goals is worth a bet? Although Spurs are a team I would never normally use to go for this option I am thinking there might be some serious value but then again it's a strange old game and they might come out the blocks raring to put personal matters behind them and show fans they mean business.

Did you do it?

[Blue_Wes]

Had my first couple of wins in a while, got boosted odds on Jelavic last night, 7's, and had Everton 2-0 at 14's.

[southend4ever]

Did you do it?

No! :thumbdown:

Rubbish! It would have been 4-4 if i did.... :raspberry:

[Davros]

England Cricket matches must be a good place to cover all bases these days? There are so many points it seems over the first couple of days where the odds end up being long for each of the three results that you should be able to cover all bases and still make some decent ££

[BrettieAngell]

Put £2.50 e/w on Broken Promise in the 4.20 @ Lingfield yesterday, tip from Irate Ian! I got 14/1 on bet365, he came in and they paid at 33/1 because of their "best odds guaranteed" offer! £5 returns £104! :smile:

[Uncle Leo]

Hit the bar yesterday; Real Betis were 8/1 at home against Barcelona, a price that just felt a little too big. 2-1 up going in to injury time when Keita gets an equaliser :sad:

Moving to the turf, I was speaking to one of our horse racing odds compilers the other day and in The Oaks, Kailani has "been backed by all the right people". Those 'right people' may all be wrong of course but she has to be worth a punt at 10/1 with Paddy Power (we're only 7/1, clearly trying to steer clear).