Con Men

Firstly lets talk about the bookies. One thing i find is the constant conning that goes on with them drives me mad. I would appreciate any feedback on the subject of closed accounts and how to get round this problem. There is no consistency with them in regards to payouts some dock me money some dont. Many times i have backed a horse with seperate bookies to find out they have both paid me back a different amount of money, and its not like you can complain to anyone because they dont want your business anyway. It makes me laugh to see the idiot on from Victor Chandler saying they have just laid £2k each way. They must only be taking the money because they have a pretty good idea they wont be paying out on it. I dont bet with them because i cant. As below:

Dear Mr Dixon,

We are contacting you today to advise that a business decision has been taken by our Senior Traders and I must inform you that betting Account Number ++++++ has now been closed and no further business may be executed on your behalf.

The balance of this Account at the point of closure stood at zero with no outstanding bets.

As explained in our Terms and Conditions, a Traders decision is final and will not be over turned.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your past custom.

Kind Regards

Rose Comper
Account Queries Department

Victor Chandler

This communication and the information it contains :-

They are obviously not the only ones with Betfred/Sporting Bet all offering great odds until you try to have a bet with them the list goes on.

So to Friday i had a good day i backed Mini Beck E/W at 10/1 it went off at 14/1 and came second. I have pasted there website crap below with my return:

So i didnt get the BOG price as advertsied,and when i called them up i was told i had a restricted account and BOG doesnt include restricted accounts. Now you will not find this on their site and apparently they had sent me a letter to inform me a couple of months ago, which of course i never received.
Well the racing went ok i had 3 punters profits bets all going down the pan, i picked five myself got three placed and a 16/1 winner to boot. The two places were both 20/1 as well.

In the evening i won £130 on the darts only traded three games and the first game should have made a hay but hoped for Young to win and left the majority of the green on him. I couldnt believe the amount of doubles Thornton missed but he just came through.

Ticking Over

Well my own bets didnt fair much better today. Had three with the final one Mistress To No One again getting close but just not getting there against a horse that skidded on its arse after one fence but the jockey stayed on and it won ! Typical ! Did the two of the three Punters Profits selections one losing and the double bet winning . The third was to short a price for me.

Wish i could post up some pretty graphs tonight but of the four darts matches i scratched two and lost a total of £71 on the other two. I actually think i did well just the players i backed didnt step up to the plate when the going got tough.

I see Ireland have asked for the game with France to be replayed i think they've got two hopes and one of thems called Bob. Asking FIFA is like asking the FSA to regulate the banking system they are both pointless organisations and about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Anyway ended the day about £200 up so that was good.

The Hand Of God( Part 2)

So Mr Henry managed to get the French through to the World Cup Finals with a deft couple of hand movements, poor bloke must have thought he was playing handball. While everybody in Ireland will be up in arms about it i am sure we would have all done the same, still a shame as i was looking forward to a penalty shootout which i thought was the least the Irish deserved. Glad i didnt get involved in the football as all the World Cup qualifying games finished 1-0 and there was not much excitement about.

I didnt get up to much yesterday as i was out and about. Had a few bets and finished about £20 up with the Punters Profits selection winning again and me picking a few losers.

So to today and a bit frustrated with my own selections as all 6 finished out of the places losing me £300. Sometimes it just doesnt run for you as you hoped and i dont think i have picked my own winner since last weeks 20/1 shot came home.

I sat down tonight and tried to trade the darts which is just so fast moving and with such a lack of liquidity it is much harder than tennis. Mind you i managed to get involved in five games and seem to be getting a handle on it and am becoming more confident with where the entry points are in the market. Anyway i scratched three of the games and got a couple of winners as well, so ended the day down about £150. I hope to be a bit more confident and aggressive tomorrow with this tournament.

The Fast And The Furious

Or is it the Fats And The Furious? A big welcome back to the darts not as slim and athletic as last weeks tennis players but just as exciting especially the Mardle /Hankey game. Trying to trade darts is pretty tough, the action is so quick you just dont have time to get out if you get it wrong. So starting of with small stakes i will try to make some money. I wont achieve the same strike rate as the tennis but will try to get some profit and confidence as the week goes on. At least thats the plan!
So to today, it was pretty uneventful for me no horse tips so i had to do my own thing. I picked four horses and managed to get three placed . The closest was Chariot Charger at Plumpton which i managed to back at 8.5 with Lads it traded at 1.13 but cocked up the last fence and got beat.
Still made £32 from the each way horse bets and another £74 on Betfair from laying for small stakes and backing and laying in running.
This evenings darts got me another £30 so happy to have reached my daily target making £140
it doesnt sound a lot but over the course of a year its a nice wage and certainly beats working!

Normal Service Is Resumed !

Got back to some sort of normal routine with a few horse winners. Two from Punters Profits, one from The Tipping Legends and one from me. I was out yesterday watching the Albion win at Southampton thought they played really well and deserved to win, obviously all trying to impress the new manager. Next game i think is against Leeds so probably be bought down to earth with a bump!
Missed the tennis which was a shame because it sounded like a great match and now just waiting for the tournament in London which i hope will be as good. I made just over £1k from last weeks tennis trading so pleased with that in an otherwise forgetable week and clawed backed another £300 on Sunday. Unfortunately the NFL bets crashed and burned.
Hope everyone has a good week. Heres a bit of entertainment, watch it in slow motion..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDlRbq-7Xw

A Long Hard Day

Saturdays you either love them or hate him. So many bets to get placed, texts and emails coming in then trying to get the bookies to accept them and keeping track of them. I got all my bets done and then i thought i have staked a lot of money today i hope it doesnt go wrong. Then watched in horror as one by one they started losing and i started counting up my losses.
It was becoming bloodier than watching one of those SAW movies! Firstly Punter profits, all 3 bets lost and i have done 20% of my bank since the start of the week. I had a few other tipsters as well all losing. Now i dont mind if they run a race but this lot were falling ,getting tailed off it was rather depressing. I picked five of my own and got no winners but three seconds.

Didnt trade the first tennis match as i was so busy placing losing bets ! but got on the second one which was a fantastic match. Monfils is such an athlete and great to see such skill and touch from Stepanek who is so different to the hard hitters around the game.
Anyway i won on that and it helped ease the pain and then finally got a winner at the death from Tipping Legends which halved my losses. So ended up £ 400 down.
I will start trading the darts probably Monday because i had a bit of success with that last time so watch this space..

Indecisive? Im Not Sure !

Well as the header says today was a head scratcher. I didnt think there was any value in the tennis and i tried to trade the first two games and finished up even. I couldnt find entry points and then waited and missed chances. Eventually i gave up and went to the cricket England /South Africa game. Then it started raining and England were slightly behind on the stupid Duckworth (i dont understand it) Lewis rule so everybody and their mothers started bailing out. I had a nice postion on England but with the rain starting to descend i got out for a £30 profit which should have been £100. Anyway they bowled one more over in which England where now one run ahead on the stupid Duckworth (i dont understand it) Lewis rule and then the storm kicked in and that was that.
If i waited for another over it would have been better !
The horses again failed to live up to expectations i backed three of my own choices each way and they all placed , but the tips from Punters Profits and Tipping Legends were all losers.
Finally had a go on the football and won a bit back along with the NFL bet which won over night finishing down £300 for the day. Since Sunday i am exactly even so still £3k up for the month but its been a hard week so far.