I've never been one for the horses despite growing up in a racing town, but I like a flutter on other stuff. I'm missing the Tour de France greatly, since I picked 6 stage winners, the overall winner and second place rider, and the winnner of the green jersey. La Vuelta a Espana will probably be my next big investment, but I'll likely have something on the football too.

I've already had £20 on United for the title just to soften the blow if it happens.

Also, nice call.

>>2567
Thanks, I only bet on the horses if I receive a tip from a guy who is more often than not on the money.

I have £20 in my bet365 I want to get rid of but nothing is catching my eye to bet on.

I went for a Chelsea/United double (£10) just for a steady start to the year. If United choke against the toon now I'll not be impressed.

(1/6 and 1/4 respectively, just shy of 1/2 combined).

If it's a daytime match and the prices are fair, I plan to lump it on Mardy Fish to beat Andy Murray at Cincinnati.

>>2577
I haven't seen better odds than 6/4.

>>2578

No, nor me. I'll be leaving it well alone.

OP here again,

Putting £10 E/W on Rio De La Plata (9/1) at York 2:15.

>>2580

Your man has some good tips, OP.

>>2581
He does indeed. The £20 I deposited on Bet365 last week has now turned into £198.50.

However, I've made the mistake of telling my girlfriend about my winnings.

Two cheeky £5 bets on football this week:

Braga to beat Sevilla (7-1)
Hartlepool to beat Wigan (27-10)

Obscure bets time: Cycling edition. I've got £10 on Tony Martin (Evens) and £2.50 on Stijn Devolder (40/1) for the final Individual Time Trial in the Eneco Tour today.

>£10 on Tony Martin

Feels good, man. Can't wait for La Vuelta.

>Braga to beat Sevilla (7-1)
4 goals in the last 6 minutes, but fortunately I was on the money.

I don't know if Bet365 have fucked up because they're offering in play odds of 100/1 for Sampdoria to beat Bremen, even though Sampdoria are winning 3 - 2. I hope it was just for tonight and not on aggregate.

>>2589
Turns out it is just me being over-optimistic.

£20 on the England-Pakistan test ending in a draw (13/8). A combination of bad weather and England not needing a win, really.

>>2592
>England not needing a win
You can say that again.

Mohammad Amir is frightening for an 18 year old bowler.

>>2594

Yeah, he's exceptional. With a team who could catch, he'd be lethal. Great recovery from Trott and Malfoy, though. Two days ticked off and only seven wickets gone is good news for me.

Didn't fancy any of the top flight games this weekend so I have a £1.50 treble bet on Millwall (5/6), Cardiff (7/5) and Leeds (2/1) to all win this weekend.

>>2597

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>>2599
No, just under £20 better off, well when bet365 finally settle the bet. I've lost £5 thinking Leeds Rhinos would make a comeback in the Challenge Cup final though.

I'm a Hull City fan, so I'm tempted to bet on the club losing every away game. Today makes it 29 league & cup away games without winning, so it will be win-win either way for me.

>>2592
Still confident on that one?
I had £15 on Trott making 208 when he was on 179 this morning which would return at about 3/1, looked a cert while Broad was in.
Also has a 5/1 double on Arsenal and Blackpool; fucked over by Fulham's last minute leveller. Cunts.

>>2601

I have to concede that it's gone, don't I? Yesterday I was just thinking that if we could bat out the morning, all Pakistan would need to do is bat three sessions and it'd basically be signed, sealed, delivered.

Ah well, such is sport.

>>2602
For sure mate, there's no way anybody would have picked that Broad/Trott partnership. The Pakistan collapse in the first isn't totally alien though, SSN have just told me that on this tour they've recorded their 3 lowest Test scores against us.

Now hoping for a voided bet since the match was blatantly fixed. Fuck Pakistan.

This was all I fancied in the football this weekend. It won more by luck than judgement, having watched the game.

Just found out my tipster recommended Exit Smiling (50/1) at Ripon 4:10 today but I didn't hear about this until after the race. 1/4 odds e/w and it came second, I'm gutted.

>>2605
I haven't read into this yet - did NoTW uncover the story or did the match fixing only take place because NoTW offered some guy £150k?

The thing I love about NoTW is that if they don't have anything to report on they'll go out and create their own scandals.

>>2609

>I haven't read into this yet - did NoTW uncover the story or did the match fixing only take place because NoTW offered some guy £150k?

The guy spoke openly about previous matches which had been fixed/events within matches which were staged, so it's evident that it was going on and the NoTW simply managed to get in on the action. The only thing we know for sure about this series is those three no-balls, but think back to all that inexplicably bad fielding in the first test. It's hard not to be suspicious about everything.

Sky Sports News showed footage earlier of Kamram Akmal's keeping in the now notorious test in Sydney where Pakistan had been in such a strong position that the Aussies for 40/1 to win, before going on to do so. This fixer says that it had been arranged that Pakistan would let the Aussies bat themselves back into it to a lead of about 150, then would collapse themselves. Akmal is just dropping Hussey left, right and centre - and all of them are dollies. At one point a throw comes into the stumps which he gathers cleanly and could have run him out by yards, but for some reason he just doesn't bother taking the bails off.

£5 says Ireland, Croatia, Romania, Lithuania, Italy, England, France and Portugal (28.01/1) will win tomorrow.

I put this on when I was drunk. I have high hopes.

As an aside, anyone play poker?

£10 on England and Germany at evens. I feel foolish for putting faith in England at the moment, so undoubtedly they will win and the Germans will somehow mess it up.

>As an aside, anyone play poker?

I play in a regular live game, but I can't get on board with internet poker.. I enjoy fucking with people and trying to read them too much, the mathematics is only part of the fun.

>>2677
I think England will win a scrappy game against Bulgaria and then draw against Switzerland. I expect the atmosphere at Wembley to be terrible, I've never understood why people pay quite a bit of money for England tickets just to boo.

Belgium has a fair amount of promising young players, I'm not sure if Euro 2012 will be too soon for them, but I can see them doing well at the next World Cup.

>>2675
>Romania, Lithuania, France.
Well, bugger. Portugal will probably draw with Cyprus too.

Think I'll stick to 4/5 games max multiple bets in future.

>£10 on England and Germany at evens.

I decided to reinvest these winnings while watching Nadal vs. Istomin. Fancied Nadal for the second set tie break, so got him at 11/10 when he went 2-0 down (£10), then backed him again at 6/1 when he was 5-1 down (a further £10).

He won 7-5. Feels fucking good, man.

Had a cheeky fiver on Wawrinka to beat Murray at 2/1 after he won the third set. Shame to see Murray lose, but at least it was good for me.

>>2700
Is it possible to bet on Murray never winning a grandslam?

I have a strong feeling he won't.

Two bets on today:

£2.50 says Cardiff, Reading, Man City, Chelsea and Colchester will win (8.76/1)

£2.50 says Carlisle will beat Sheff Wed (4/1)

>>2718
Great shout on Carlisle.

>>2719
At those odds I thought it was worth a punt.

I'm probably going to have a treble bet on the Champions League, although I haven't made my mind up between: Bursaspor - Valencia, FC Copenhagen - Rubin, FC Twente - Inter, Lyon - Schalke, Bremen - Tottenham, Bayern - Roma, Cluj - Basel and Marseille - Spartak.

The other games don't have worthwhile odds, Valencia look like the only safe bet out of those.

>>2721
I've gone for Valencia, Lyon, Copenhagen, Barca and Man Utd (15.07/1)

The games on Wed aren't worth it unless I include Cluj - Basel and I can't call that one.

I had a fiver on Arsenal, Real and Chelsea at just better than evens. Pretty drama free evening.

I had a tenner on Casey Stoner wining the GP today, I put this on a few weeks ago, before he did so well in qualifying, so the odds were good. Can't remember exactly but I think I won about £85. Tidy.

>>2722
If I wasn't greedy and stuck with Valencia, Lyon and Copenhagen instead of putting on Barca and Man Utd for slightly better odds I'd be just over £30 richer now - I should have realised Rangers would put 10 men behind the ball and Fergie would put out a Carling Cup team against his old mate Walter Smith.

This weekends betting:

Prem - Birmingham, Villa, Spurs (8.6/1)

Championship - QPR, Derby, Coventry, Reading, Ipswich (26.81/1)

L1 - Colchester, Brighton, Notts County (7.09/1)

£20 on Chelsea just because betfair are offering me free money. I'm uninspired.

>>2746

So obviously that picked up a few quid, but the free money I mentioned was the real point of it all. Because I'd signed up to an account there ages ago, forgotten about it and opened another without ever using it, they sent me an email saying that if I bet £20 on a champions league game they would give me £30 win or lose. I've just withdrawn almost £60 without risking a penny.

I highly recommend opening an account with betfair and then not using it at all.

>>2747
The luck I've been having with bets lately I might try this. It'd be nice to lose somebody else's money for a change.

Back on the horses after only 3 of my last 13 football bets have won.

Dick Turpin (6/1) at Longchamp 2:20.

I had a regrettably low punt (£1) on Thor Hushovd winning the world road race championships (cycling). Romped home at 12/1.

>>2759
>Dick Turpin (6/1) at Longchamp 2:20.
Made a whopping £2.50 profit.

£10 E/W on Lochan Mor (14/1) at Goodwood 2:35.

>>2793

Given your run of not being wrong about a horse yet, I backed that one with you. Cheers!

Spain are 2/5 to beat Scotland. This is really too good to miss.

>>2799
Spain have gone to 4/11 with William Hill, but England & Spain on a double at 0.7/1 is attractive.

>>2800
>England
>attractive

Spain had me a bit worried when they let the two goal lead slip, but safe money in the end. That would have been a bad way to lose £40.

>>2801
That's why I didn't put it on myself...

>>2794
I don't blame you. Trying my luck on the football again tomorrow - if Leeds, Watford, Ipswich and Cardiff win I'll be just under £70 richer.

>>2807
>Leeds
Middlesbrough fan here. You cunt.

>>2808
I hate to see Leeds doing well, but Boro are in all kinds of trouble. I should have gone with my gut instinct and bet on Donny instead of Ipswich and Watford.

>>2809
>I hate to see Leeds doing well
I sometimes feel sorry for Leeds since they're such a national heel. Then I remember it's Leeds and continue booing with the rest of the country.

>>2811

I love Leeds United and have since I was a nipper. Becchio's goal yesterday was magnificent. I nearly jumped out of the window when that went in.

>>2811
I dislike Leeds because when I was younger and Hull were in Division 3 and Leeds were in the Prem you would see an awful lot of Leeds shirts in Hull city centre and many of them crossed the line from good banter to just being arrogant cunts. Plus, when both clubs were in the Championship 3/4 seasons ago many Leeds fans still had their big club mentality, so it was great to stay up at their expense, especially as they tried to dick around with going into administration.

I don't understand why fans of clubs that have no connection or rivalry with Leeds (although it is mainly Hull fans that care about the Hull - Leeds rivalry, I bet most Leeds fans don't give a shit, just like the rivalry we're meant to have with Sheffield United) sing 'we all hate Leeds scum' though. I know a couple of seasons ago a section of Swindon fans would regularly chant it, fuck knows why.

>>2813

I've never heard of any Hull rivalry. I like Hull and wanted them to do well when they were up in the premiership. That 'alpha male' Brown was an entertaining arsehole, too.

I was born in Leeds and still don't live too far away. Most of the dickhead Leeds fans I met were from around there and weren't just glory hunters (back when there was glory to be had). On a side note some of Ridsdale's remarks about the chequebook days are hilarious.

>>2816
>I've never heard of any Hull rivalry.
My point exactly. I think some Hull fans consider it a rivalry because there's not really anyone near us in Yorkshire, the Sheffield United one is pretty much down to spending a lot of time together in the same division. Apparently York and Lincoln consider Hull as one of their main rivals, but I don't think any City fan really gives a shit. I only care about Grimsby, Scunny and to a lesser extent, Donny.

I hope Phil Brown gets back into management soon, he may have imploded in the Premiership and the only legacy we have from being there is a high wage bill (the debts meant cancelling planned stadium expansion and building a youth academy), but if it wasn't for him we'd have ended up in League One. He said he'd take any job to get back into management, but I know he's turned down a few League One/Two clubs.

Back to the betting:

£2.50 on Chelsea, Arsenal, Braga and Ajax (10.49/1)

£10 on Sevilla to beat Karpaty Lviv (evens)

>£2.50 on Chelsea, Arsenal, Braga and Ajax (10.49/1)

Well played, sir.

I must say, there have been a disproportionately high number of winners called in this thread. Well done, lads.

>>2813
Exactly the same reason that I was brought up to hate Leeds. Leeds United was always the worst swear word in my house.

>>2819
>York and Lincoln
Never even occurs to me.
>Scunny
For some reason I can never explain, I always want The Iron to do well. Might just be down to listening to their post-match coverage on BBC Humberside at the same time as ours.
>Sheff United
For a local derby between "rivals", the atmosphere last night was shite. Their stand was empty, there's hardly an excuse for it when they only live an hour and a half down the road.

>>2833
>Well played, sir.
Buoyed my success I've decided to bet on tonight's games - if Schalke, Rubin and Valencia win I'll be just over £10 richer, but I'm concerned about Rangers playing for a draw.

>>2834
The atmosphere at the KC isn't meant to be brilliant in general, but I haven't been to a game since City beat Watford 3 - 0 in March 08.

£5 on Inter and Valencia at 5/2.

Tottenham just lack defenders, and I have no faith in Rangers whatsoever.

I'm having a bit of a punt this weekend. Doubles from Four on:

Everton to beat Tottenham
Blackpool to beat Birmingham
Blackburn to beat Liverpool
Arsenal to beat City

In the very unlikely event that they all win, I'd be about £400 richer.

>>2843
I reckon the Blackpool and Blackburn games will be draws.

I'm going for Coventry, Burnley, Forest, Hull, Watford and Norwich (55.44/1).

£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.