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Scrip,

Just look at the finalists of last year; Porto and Monaco, hardly European heavyweights!!

Tonight Liverpool got their tactics spot on. It was a professional performance and good luck to them in the final

Still on for 7pm bakko, Steve???

John

still planning to come but suffering a bit with a chest infection so will have to see how i feel later - should be ok once i get a few beers in me!!!

Have a good time guys. If I was a bit closer I'd come along too.

Harlosh and Fundy,

Yep, Still on.

Pulled in some nice profits this morning on the tennis so plenty of beer money on me!

See you guys later.

Just gonna try and win mine now.

Scrip, thanks. Not fancy taking the Lear jet into Manchester? Lol.

Morning All,

Thanks John for a great evening last night.

Fundy, Where were you last night? We missed your humour and input but you'll have to be around for the next night out.

John and I discussed a great deal last night and even poked fun over our momentuous betfair cockups! Some very interesting strategies and tactics were also talked about. Hopefully, when we catch up again you'll be around.

Scrip and others are welcome too.

John, As we talked about the tennis the websites for the current mens and womens competitions are:

www.qtgo.de
www.telecomitaliamasters.it

Click onto live scores to get live updates.

Just looking at the matches today I'd expect Clijsters, Sharapova, Henin and Mauresmo (women). Coria, Gaudio and Nadal (men) to win comfortably. But, then again, what I expect and what happens in reality may not be the same!
Although, the odds on some of these are miserly, just use it to gauge the movements as the game unfolds.

Major carnage on the Tennis. Kim Clijsters retires on injury and a 1.01 gets turned over. More than 250k matched under 1.05!!

1.01 222,388
1.02 188,305

Ouch!!!!

Saying that i was on a clisters game last week and you could see she had real probs with her shoulder - they were talking then about her possibly retiring in that game

While in the US I watched a presentation that was very interesting. Very complicated maths but the summary was that for psychological reasons laying low and backing high is the preferred strategy regardless of your underlying reading of a game.

Unfortunately, I got f*****d on the Clisjers game.

Backed her at the outset but only had the scoreboard to go by. She only scraped the first set but then as the odds started to go berserk I realised something was wrong.

You win some and loose some! Unfortunately, I lost this one.

At least Sharapova didn't let me down.

Thank god for greening up. 2 mins from the end of extra time Sporting Lisbon get the equalizer to go through in the qualifying market. Great game end to end stuff.

1.01 sunk at half time as well I believe. Lots of 1.01 sunk all over the place today. Makes me tempted to lay a Labour win at 1.01!!

LOL - are you looking at the election market? Only seams to me that the turnout market and winning seats have any volume to them.

I can't resist it. The US election was massive volume but the UK appears to be much less at the moment. Maybe because it is not so close and therefore people are not trading in and out as much.

Winning majority looks like an interesting market.

I'm going to spoof it for a laugh.

Well I'll be damned somebody freaked out. Just gone green. Put the order in and the market moved to 100.7% to lay so I did. A coincidence I think.

A few overround bots working the market I think you could have some fun if you have the patience. I'm taking the laptop to bed, I think I am going down with a cold.