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23rd Feb it is, in London. Details will be going up on the GLOMTC website over the next few days

I'm up for the London course

Well, what a day. Fast and furious stuff this. A race every 10 mins.

Results: 17 races
7 winners
6 draws
4 losers

First loser was my first ever attempt and I suffered the biggest loss. I got better after that.

On the day, fractionally under 10% profit. So a result.

John

well done mate - good luck with tonites footie

Thanks Steve,

Prob ring you tomorrow.
Couldn't resist the races at Wolverhampton. I know I shouldn't but they're good practice. Bagged another winner so improved my % gain.

Sorry Fundy couldn't stop laughing when Arsenal went 1-0 down in 30 secs. That's the quickest greening up ever I think. I'm not on the match itself just covering my Carling Cup winner position but couldn't believe my luck that I could cover after less than a minute!! Win, win now.

Well done Harlosh on the days work.

Scrip - i did think of you when the goal went in - ho hum it was only the mickey mouse cup. i managed to nick a few on the back of weight of money but found it hard backing manure then laying it back off

Uefa set to launch betting probe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4062519.stm

I was watching the drama unfold on Betfair and such was the pattern of betting that it was obvious something was up. The match played out exactly as the odds dictated. The forums on Betfair were awash with people predicting the flow of the match and remarkably (though it shouldn't be) the match followed the pre set betting patterns. So obvious, that somebody is surely going to get found out for this. Incredible stuff.

For posterity I kept a copy of the betting patterns to document at some point in the future. Similar patterns are developing in the Lazio match tonight but not so distinct so I think this may be the madness of crowds after last night.

I considered punting some money on it but won't have anything to do with anything suspect so just watched it from a distance.

Prices all over the place at the moment on Lazio, Big arbs available if you dare but I think bookies may not payout.

Thanks for the info Peter

You can watch the Lazio match live on the internet. Works really well over broadband. Commentary in Italian though. Delay is around 15 seconds at my end.

http://mms://vmedia.tin.it/LA7-180K

17 races again today.
4 winners
1 loser
12 draws

Made a decent profit considering my bet sizes.
Problem I'm having is my bets are too small to 'geen up'.
Once I'm more confident, I'll up my stakes enabling me to green up. Then the number of draws should reduce and the winners increase

Scrip,

Just wondered what you thought of the card today
I found it a little hard going at times with a lot of races not showing a clear favourite.

What's the general tactic with footy matches ? Do you just trade them based on POM ? Or do you go into a match betting in favour of the most probable outcome and try to trade out if it doesn't turn out as planned ?

There is some interesting and slightly complicated betting/laying stuff on I'm a Celebrity GMOOH to be done when playing the Top Woman/Top Man scenario as a hedge against other bets. Useful training.

Edit: Am now greened up on either Sophie or Janet winning Top Woman.

PS. Considered a bet on Paul winning this one. Couldn't get the odds I wanted and so had to leave it out. ;-)

The 5th elimination has been fun tonight.... 1st & 2nd favourites swapped. I'm all greened up now.

Unfortuntately I was not on the horses today as my wife is Ill with the thing I had two weeks ago. So only one left in the family not to get it. Hope I haven't passed anything on!!