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Had a physio session which ran over till nearly half time - was planning on backing the two home teams - expensive physio lol

3.5 about no more goals in the chelsea game looks good value to me - has the game been tight?

just seen the goal - how lucky are chelsea - a deflection and drogba offside

glad i didnt back no more goals lol

Fundamentalist - 06 Apr'05 - 20:37 - 2126 of 2128 edit

3.5 about no more goals in the chelsea game looks good value to me - has the game been tight?


Just goes to show how much i know - just the 5 more goals lol

phew - fota island rescues a poor afternoon :-)

afternoon all

had a cracking afternoon on the horses after a ropey start

trading wise made nearly 60% of my max bet size, gambling at aintree had 3 winners out of 4 bets

:-)

I find I need to modify my style with these big races. The market moves much slower than I am used to!!

Sporting look value for a goal at the moment IMO.

evening scrip

agree the big races - i find them impossible to trade based on volume of money - tend to find myself trading at leicester whilst gambling at aintree/cheltenham etc

hope your wrong on sporting - want to see newcastle keep a clean sheet either they have no chance in the second leg


edit: milner should have buried the tie - no composure at all

how many chances do they want to put this tie away

Much or most of the movement on many horses is traders trading in the direction of the movement (which is why it often comes back so quickly). Where there are a lot of traders and low liquidity the price moves a lot, on the bigger races with high liquidity the traders don't manage to move it much.

Thats what we were discussing Kayak.

Have any of the new financial markets taken off yet? Haven't drifted into them recently as the liquidity was so poor.

kayak

the big races, such as aintree, have very high liquidity (not low as you say) hence it takes a lot more than a few traders to move a market - there is often 10k+ on each side of the book on the favourite

sorry, meant high, have amended.

Fundy, Had a few quid laying Newcastle but didn't come off. Pretty close though, I think Sporting deserved a goal. Especially looking at the stats.

Scrip

thank you for your money lol

i was backing newcastle from 1.4 - to me sporting never created a clear cut chance in the last half hour - all the good chances were newcastles

scrip

you around in the morning - got caught up with planners hence couldnt call

Dont you just love it sometimes - just turned over to watch the golf having laid woods - the first shot he plays that i see is him putting for eagle - he putts it off the green and into the water lol!!!!!

I'll be on the train into London from 9am so you can call on my mobile if you wish.

Re: Golf, saw that. Believe it or not when I started all this laying and backing business Woods was often 2-1 to win any major. I laid him nearly all the time it was a great profit centre. Harrington is playing well at the moment.

Scrip

i spent most of last 18 mths laying woods - i remember laying him at as short as 5/4 (2.2). saying that was happy to lay at less than 5-1 for this tournament. will try and call you in the morning