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Steve, OK on that

Thanks Bakko was overtrading to include Chelsea, especially as a Canvey Island supporter (south london is not allowed) glad you made on it as well!

No one planning to use betfair tomorrow are they?


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About right at least it's broken on a wednesday instead of Saturday

Dead heat in the 14:35, Still can't get my head around the calculations. My P&L still looks the same. Any body ever looked into this?

Next Friday after the meet sounds good to me guys.

Couldn't get on the PC last night to trade cos my daughter was doing her Uni work. I didn't have the heart to tell her I wanted on it. Looks like a laptop is on the cards for her Xmas prezzy.

Come to think of it she'll be on it tonight too. She can buy her own bloody laptop THIS WEEKEND!!

Staples are selling an excellent value IBM laptop at the moment for 399. I bought one as a spare PC for the office.

John

tell her if you can have the pc tonight you'll earn enough to buy her a laptop!!!

Scrip

dead heat rules - you will have the same profit if you were greened up.
The way it works is effectively you half your stake on each of the winners. If you were just a punter and had backed 1 horse for 100 at 4.0 you would win 300 + 100 stake back = 400. In adead heat you effectively have 50 at 4.0 so 150 + 50 stake back

Sorry to be lazy Scrip - you got details handy on the laptop please?

Thanks Steve.

Choccie, you lurker you.

I nipped on their web site but nothing there. The laptop is the new generation of Lenovo built stuff. I'm a very pleased with it, they seem to have retained the IBM QA mantra but just built it cheaper.

Don't have the details to hand but nip in your local Staples and its usually displayed as the hero product.

Friday is fine...should be a good day and night so looking forward to it.

Cheers Scrip :)
Hey I only pop in for the running commentary.
Hope it'll subliminally stick one day ;)

Tonights footie anyone? (except John obviously :-) )

Arsenal should win though with a draw enough to guarantee they go through 1.26 looks awfully skinny to me

Man Utd games are no go currently - whilst good enough to win, the loss against Boro makes them unbackable at 2.38 for me

Werder Bremen look good value at 1.81 to me - needing to win, at home against a side struggling for goals

Juve v Bayern looks like it could be a cracker and could make a case looking attractive at the prices (so itll probably be a draw!!!)

Barca should win comfortably but again price is too skinny to get involved - if level at half time will look to back Barca

Also like over 2.5 goals in barca game at 2.36 and under 2.5 goals in Juve Bayern game at 2.48

Thanks for nod re the laptop Scrip. I'll take a look.

"Also like over 2.5 goals in barca game at 2.36"

Looks value.

I think Barca and Arsenal are backable tonight because the imperative to win is there but I would probably hedge the position in the correct score market just to be safe.

fundy the barca game is 2.36 for under 2.5 goals over is 1.73

thanks woodie :-(

my best bet of the night is the man u game over 2.5 at 2.5 leaking goals it looks best value bet of the night hence the word LOOKS after last night i thought chelsea were nailed on to win .

No mention of the Ajax game lads......

Evening All,

There isn't much value around tonight. Think I'll wait for half time if Arsenal or Barca don't score before.

Thun v Ajax....don't really know too much about these teams. Best to keep a wide berth. Odds don't suggest much either