£25 on Arsenal to beat Newcastle, Villa to beat Burnley and Rangers to beat Kilmarnock.

Just going to do a few small bets this weekend as I'm not having much luck on the football:

Premiership - Chelsea, Fulham, Villa, Liverpool, West Brom (27.16/1)
Championship - Cardiff, Reading, Barnsley (6.08/1)
League One - Tranmere, Oldham, Dag & Red (12.26/1)
League Two - Bury, Port Vale, Rotherham, Wycombe, Shrewsbury (39.53/1)

>>2853

Denied a hundred quid by Clarke Carlisle in the 90th bastard minute. It's a cruel world sometimes.

I had a tenner on Inter, Benfica and Bayern tonight, however, which almost reclaimed the £25 I lost.

>>2860 here again.

Had another horsey tip - £10 E/W on Calgary Bay (10/1) at Wetherby 3:25.

>>2861
I've just lost out on my League One acca thanks to Dag & Red scoring an own goal in the 95th minute.

Now all I need is Barnsley to hold onto their lead and Liverpool & Villa to win tomorrow and I'll be up this weekend; first time I've had a bad tip on the horses, but can't complain.

Mixed bag today. £6 on Arsenal, Chelsea and Celtic was good. £5 on City, Rangers and Real less so.

After seeing the Yanky Football on the telly earlier, I decided to use the last £8 in my Billy Hill account despite knowing nothing about the sport.
Green Bay Packers to win
The something Jaguars to win
And Pittsburgh Steelers to win.
If these Steeler people win later, I'll be 50 notes better off. Fingers crossed.

Bollocks to it, at odds of 1,063/1 I don't see how I could not put a bet on this.

>>2869

Fucking Dolgopolov. What kind of tart retires when his opponent is a set and two breaks up and serving for the match? You couldn't have just taken your thrashing like a man?

FC United @ 8/1, get in.

>>2877

I went the other way on that one.

Sadface.

There were some great bets around on the rugby this weekend. NZ scoring more than 32.5 against Scotland was about as obvious as they come, and with the handicaps I chose on the accumulator, the winning margins of the four games were Wales by 9, Samoa by 17, New Zealand by 36 and England by 26. I wish I'd been less conservative now, but mustn't grumble.

Rounding off a nice weekend.

>>2565

Whats the best source for betting tips then?

>>2915
It depends what you're betting on, for most sports I go with my gut instinct.

>>2916

So do you only bet on sports that you know about? I only really follow football, and half-assedly follow rugby.

>>2917
Pretty much, I mainly bet on the Championship and Champions League.

Fancied betting on Chelsea to beat MSK Zilina now they're 1 - 0 down, but the odds are still below evens so I'm giving that a miss.

>>2919

I was waiting for it to hit 2/1 before I backed them to win. They scored at 7/4.

I had Braga to beat Arsenal at 9/2, though, so all is well enough.

>>2920
In the end I put a tenner on at evens, I managed to put £20 on Real at evens about 20 seconds before Benzema opened the scoring.

Today's betting:

£5 on Arsenal, Bolton and Spurs (5.3/1)
£5 on Newcastle to beat Chelsea (9/2)
£5 on Wigan to beat West Ham (3/1)
£5 on Coventry, Bristol City and Preston (15.9/1)
£5 on AFC Wimbledon to beat Stevenage (2/1)
£5 on Brighton, Carlisle, Colchester, Aldershot, Leyton Orient and Southampton (8.2/1)

Who's having a flutter on el clasico then?

>>2929

I'm pretty glad I didn't, since I was fancying the draw.

>>2932

I wish I'd have stuck a tenner on 5-0 barca.

>>2933
Any idea what the odds would have been for that?

>>2934

125/1 at William Hill.

>>2935

Christ.

£10 on Barca, Copenhagen, Spurs and Lyon (5.8/1)
£5 on Rangers to beat Bursaspor (3/1)
£2.50 on Real, Spartak, Chelsea, Roma, Bayern and Milan (58.2/1)

I'm not entirely confident on Lyon and Roma though.

I had a feeling late last night that Khan would win on points. Happy at 2/1.

Had a decent day betting on the Boxing Day matches - of the 8 bets I had that weren't called off because of the snow 5 of them were on the money. Biggest return was Cardiff and Burnley @ 4.4/1; it was meant to be a treble including Norwich beating Palace (9.9/1) but that was postponed.

Thank you Jimmy Bullard for deciding to score a 93rd minute winner after spending the last 30 minutes as a bystander.

>>2978
Don't credit Bullard with that one. Cameron Stewart ran the entire pitch and got unlucky, Bullard just kicked the ball in the net.

>>2985
I know, I hope Stewart is a City player next season, but I have the feeling if he keeps playing this well he'll end up at a Prem club.

I have the feeling we can sneak into the play-offs this season, since the Allam takeover everything seems to be nicely falling into place.

>>2986
Stewart will end up the next Fraser Campbell. There'll be rumours thrown around about top Premiership clubs, then we'll go to buy him and Sunderland will gazump us.

>>2987
I think our days of being gazumped have left with Phil Brown, I've heard it's between him and Allardyce for the Burnley job, Pearson seems to know the market well.

Back on topic, decided to bet on an acca with Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs and Bolton winning (18.5/1). Should have known better than to bet on a game involving Liverpool and stuck with the first three @ 3.9/1.

Stuck this on when Qatar were winning 2 - 1, wish I'd put on more than £1.50 now.

First bet in quite a while. Lumping it on Hull to beat Coventry; considering Hull's away form and Marlon King is suspended 13/8 is great odds.

Any winners amongst us lot on the National? The wife's dad had a fiver on Ballabriggs and got back £95 which he subsequently spent on vodka and is now pissed as a fart in the garden. My horse died :(

>>3216
My dad said it'd be either Ballabriggs or Oscar Time. I had a tenner on Oscar Time, but unfortunately not E/W

BAN THIS SICK FILTH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375210/Grand-National-2011-Ballabriggs-wins-day-drama-Aintree.html

Today's betting:

Fiver E/W on L Frank Baum (150/1) to finish in the top 5 at Newmarket 3.50

Fiver on Charlton, Colchester, Scunthorpe and Sheff Wed to win (7.5/1)

I'm sticking with 'sure things' at Cheltenham today:-

2.05 - Spinter Sacre (£20 on Evens)
3.20 - Hurricane Fly (£10 on Evens)

I may stick £5 e/w on Darlan in the 1.30 (6/1)

>>3776

I've gone with a tenner e/w on Bless the Wings in the 5.15.

I think I'm probably a mug for not just backing the ones everybody knows are going to win.

>>3776
>Darlan

Hopefully you waited and backed him when he drifted.

>>3777

>I'm probably a mug for not just backing the ones everybody knows are going to win

Confirmed by watching Sprinter Sacre just waltz to the finish while taking a giant piss on the rest of the field.

>>3777
>I think I'm probably a mug for not just backing the ones everybody knows are going to win.

Apparently, someone bet £100,000 on Hurricane Fly because it was the clear favourite. The field for Sprinter Sacre was ridiculous though.

I'm slightly down for the day because I stuck a treble on Sprinter Sacre, Hurricane Fly and Quevega (4.5/1) so I've decided to stick a tenner on Reading beating Doncaster (10/11) to get into a downward spiral and make an even bigger loss try and even it out.

>>3781

Hurricane Fly has saved the bookies a world of hurt, I think. Seems like everybody in the country was backing that treble.

>>3781
>so I've decided to stick a tenner on Reading beating Doncaster (10/11) to get into a downward spiral and make an even bigger loss try and even it out.

Welp. Don't fancy much betting today. Simonsig (9/4) in the 2.05 and Sizing Europe (Evens) in the 3.20 is all I fancy, may stick an e/w bet on Poole Master (12/1), Cape Dutch (16/1) or Balgarry (7/1) later, if I can make my mind up.

None of tomorrow's fixtures take my fancy, but I'm going to go for an FA Cup treble of Southampton to beat Sunderland (11/8), Everton to beat Swansea (4/7) and Hull to beat Brighton (9/4) = 11.31/1.

Gerrard's Slip 12:40 at Donny, worth a cheeky E/W bet.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/gerrards-slip-run-1240-doncaster-4590165

Hope this isn't too much of a diversion, but since you've bumped the thread, like. I've been toying with the idea of putting money down on boxing for ages now, as I follow a few fighters quite closely (started the thread at >>4742).

Golovkin to win his next by knockout within the first four is almost a given, and Pacquiao to win by stoppage or points wouldn't be a bad call either. I wonder if any shop would take a bet as safe as Pacquiao to win against Algieri, or if it would even be worth making.

I can't actually gamble because it would be stupidly irresponsible given my financial situation. I might play pretend for a little while, though. Keep a virtual bankroll or something.