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About to green up on Parma vs Stuttgart if draw reaches 1.20

Done, Thats me for the night. Hope you had a good one.

Just nicked some off the snooker - backed williams at 1.28 and 1.19 and 3 mins later he had won - didnt even have time to green up lol

Making a complete idiot of myself on the horses this afternoon. But fortunately so are the favourites! Six races no profit, but no loses either.

Sheesh, A funny afternoon. Have ridden my luck a bit but kept disciplined so now I have had a good run will call it quits and start looking at the football this evening.

Big steamer Bizet in the 4.20 at Clonmel - nice!!!


edit - wins easily

Just watching AtTheRaces on sky - they have american racing on in the evening - they have just advertised tonights offering - they are showing 58 races!!!!!!!
good job they have no liquidity on betfair

I was having a great day on the races today until I made a cock up towards the end which cost me. At least I seem to be getting some consistency back.

Anybody know anything about Grazer AK, Middlesborough's opponents? Don't even know which country they are from.

John

Austrian (champions i think)- not played a competitive game since mid December

they lost to both rangers and liverpool earlier this yr

game is live on channel 5 followed by the newcastle game

Thanks for that Steve. I'll do a bit of research.

If anyone is after some adrenaline busting movements with odds take a look at darts, Taylor v Dudbridge. I haven't a clue with the scores but have piled up a big profit on Taylor if he holds on to win and no loss if he loses

Taylor has just won and I've just bagged a huge wad of cash for only 15 mins work.

If I get more moments like this then the day job can take a hike!

Tread carefully bakko. At one stage I was winning so often that I thought I couldn't lose. All I had to do was place a trade and I would win. Came down to earth with a bit of a bump!

Well done on the darts.

Harlosh,

Thanks for sound advice. I've come a cropper a couple of times and I constantly try to remind myself not overtrade which I find that I can easily do once I'm on a rich vein of gains.

I welcome your earlier post regarding being disciplined whether trading on the markets or betfair. The exact rules apply.

With Scrip's course just round the corner, those attending, after reading about some of our big gains will probably be desperate to join in the fun. I can definitely confirm that it's not as easy as the posts make them to be. Although, the gains are very possible, I and other regular contributors on this thread do lose quite often. It's all too easy to publicise the gains rather than the loses.

Harlosh/Bakko, thank you for that piece of advice.

D

Sound advice guys

ill share a little horror story for you - last night i had just opened a large trade when my missus called me in a flap - she was stranded at night in the middle of nowhere with her car having broke down. I immediately rushed out, completely forgetting i had just opened a trade. when i came home i couldnt work out initially why my balance on betfair was a lot lower than i thought it was!!!!

sorry to hear that Fundy.

Nicely profitable volatility in the FTSE 10-11 due to the auction. Lots of "WTF was that" posts on Betfair :-)

I was watching that too. Quite funny.

Stupid bloody trade I played last night on the Middlesborough game. Backed them 100 at about 1.25. 2 minutes later GAK equalised. 100 risk for potential 25 gain.
The percentage bet would have been to back the draw at 5's I think. 100 risk for 400 gain.
So instead of winning 400, I lost 100.

Doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!