Time Off.

Well today was a fantastic day and has really topped off my month, so much so that I am taking Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off to relax and go visit family in Devon. I have doubled my monthly target and will start afresh on September 1st.

The betfair balance has improved, and my thanks today to Winning A Fortune who I have been following over recent months. The double stake bets havent really been firing but today they did so and also well done to Bet Cat. It has been a poor couple of months for Richard but this game is full of ups and downs and a nice winner come home today. My other tipster Terry came through with about 28 points profit for the month as well. The main bread and butter though were my selections which had the best month in the last couple of years along with the lays.
Today I backed just two horses in an 18 runner handicap in Ireland and managed to get first and second this helped me get my biggest days profit in a year.


Here are the others:

And Betfair for Friday and Saturday.

See you on the 1st.

Ring, Ring.

So the phone was ringing and I picked it up."Please do not put down the receiver" comes a voice "this is a public information call. " Jesus I thought, is the world ending? Is this how they tell us now days, no more wailing sirens like in the movies. No dark clouds hovering overhead and the rumble of UFO's like a Will Smith movie, no two hundred feet tall walking tri pods and a voice over from Richard Burton.
Then just as suddenly, "Are you in debt? Do you need help?"

Man, how many of these weird automated calls do you get in a day? Well I can tell you as I am home alone for most of it. It averages about three a day.

After replacing the receiver I go to my email and it doesnt get much better there, as many of you know that once you are down as a gambler your email address is sold to all and sundry.
Suddenly I am getting mail from the relatives of Nigerian King pins, who are unfortunately locked away.They have however managed to nestle away a very tidy sum and after scrolling through all the email addresses in the world have decided that I am the lucky one who can be trusted and offered a very large cut of the dough in return for my help. Then next up are the Russian and Thai brides and to help matters go with a swing a phenomenal amount of mail promising an everlasting supply of viagra from all over the World and to help with all this rigorous activity I can also get some pills and potions for making me bigger, thicker and harder than Arnie in Terminator.

On top of this junk I seem to get inundated with offers of systems and free trials and some of these are just the purest of crap. I think I will post up some web sites that I have experienced that dont work and if anybody does read this blog it might help you not make the same mistakes as I have done in the past. The first two in my experience are : Dreamlays and Its Lay Time both I have had the unfortunate luck to encounter. Both have scrapped their results from previous years and have restarted offering riches to behold. If you join either of these two services then good luck is I can say, because just like Keyser Söze, poof. There gone ....


Another strong day with a good profit, the horse lays are ticking over and three personal bets today giving me two places and an 11/1 winner.

The only fly in the ointment has been my tennis so called trading with me just constantly calling things wrong and having to bail out in the red . Over the past two days I have lost about £140 on this which is not a hugh amount but it grinds me because at the end of the day I need to make this sport profitable.

Fame And Fortune.

Interesting piece on Mr Pietersen, has fame and fortune gone to his head as well ? Pretty amazing really like football players refusing to turn out for their clubs when was the last time he played for his county ?



A casual remark from Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz last week illustrated how swiftly life moves on in elite sport.

Riaz was asked which of the five England wickets he had captured in his test debut at the Oval had given him the most satisfaction.

The answer was not Kevin Pietersen, England’s premier batsman with more than 5,000 test runs and 16 centuries. Instead Riaz nominated Eoin Morgan, scorer of 234 runs with one century.

Even six months ago such a statement would have seemed inconceivable.

One transcendent innings at Lord’s in the final test against Pakistan this week would silence the doubters but something is clearly something amiss with Pietersen, who has not scored a test century since March last year. He dropped out of the 2009 Ashes series with injury and averages 28 in the current series against Pakistan, including 80 at Edgbaston where he was dropped three times.

The decline dates back to the start of last year when Pietersen, then the England captain, called for the removal of coach Peter Moores before a series in the Caribbean. Moores did go but Pietersen, misreading the implications of his stance in a highly political role, also lost his job.

Pietersen is currently without a county, finding the demands of playing for Hampshire incompatible with his decision to live in the upmarket west London suburb of Chelsea. It is an instability that has marked his cricket career.

He quit his native South Africa to seek his fortune in England, citing a racial quota system he controversially claimed was hampering his career.

A contract with Nottinghamshire began brightly before ending in acrimony and he opted to decamp to Hampshire. Due to his international commitments he has not made played a championship at their home ground since 2005 and announced in June he wanted to leave.

In 2008, Pietersen was named as England captain, celebrating with a century against South Africa at the Oval, only to be ignominiously sacked early in the following over the Moores issue.

Pietersen’s meteoric trajectory recalls the rise of another South African, Tony Greig, an accomplished all-rounder in the 1970s who also sought fame and fortune in England. Greig ascended to the English captaincy before he was sacked for recruiting players for Kerry Packer’s rebel world series. He did not play test cricket again and has lived in Australia since.

Pietersen is only 30, a prime age for an international batsman. He was the player of the tournament at the Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean this year and still averages a healthy 48.23 in test cricket.

But does sporting immortality still beckon for a player who scored more runs in his first 25 tests than any other batsman aside from Don Bradman? Will the grind of test cricket without the glamour and high profile of the captaincy be fulfilling?

Could his future ultimately lie in the Indian Premier League?

A pretty boring day for me when the only highlight was getting the 1/8 fav in the 2.50 turned over and luckily for me I managed to get the winner at 8/1.

Catch Up.

A weekend in which it helped having a few strings to my bow. After dropping money on last weekends football I managed to make a nice profit this weekend which made up for the horse lays which didn't pan out as expected. I missed out on most of this tennis as I had a busy weekend and am under orders not to work on Sundays anymore. This works out well for me as theres not to much happening apart from the same footy teams being shown on Sky Sports each weekend and any bets are placed long before kick off.

Below is from Saturday through til Monday evening.




As you can see nothing amazing but a profits a profit and to help bolster these my winning run continues when backing horses as on Saturday my only bet of the day came in at 17/2.

I havent put this on the blog or shown the results before but I also get tips from someone I know. He doesnt advertise but has a group of about twenty of us that he supplies tips to everyday. On average it works out at about two tips per day and I pay him per point, so if he makes a loss he doesnt get paid. Suffice to say he has been getting paid and has a year to date profit of over 270 points which I imagine would put him very high in any tipster leagues.

Concerning Ian's Elite I am currently standing £ 6 down after two weeks of bets. The first two FTS games he picked both finished 0-0! I couldnt believe my bad luck but over the past weekend the losses have nearly been made back.

All in all a profitable last three days that has put my bank at a high for the month.

Todays Bacon.

August really has been the best month for me this year.I had five bets today and managed to nail the first two winners at York as Mount Athos in the 1.45 and then Rio De La Plata in the 2.15 brought home todays bacon.
The lay of Andy Murray came through as he bowed out to Mardy Fish in todays quarters losing the deciding set in a tie break. I am really surprised he managed to get that far as firstly Chardy and then Gulbis really did seem to crumble under the strain of possibly taking his scalp.

With the US Open starting in a couple of weeks he can now go into that tournament fresh and as one of the favourites if not the favourite. Unlike Wimbledon and Roland Garros I believe the weather will be one of the utmost importance features there. Obviously just like this week the top seeds will play a lot of the time in the evening where it might be humid but not half as bad as being out in the blistering heat. I reckon you would get short odds if Djokovic is playing in the afternoon of him calling for a trainer or suffering from some sort of heat stroke. He is a right drama queen who always seems to throw the market into panic.

After yesterdays blurb trumpeting my lays as is normal when you speak to soon I managed to pick up three winners out of three today which was a bit of a gutter and cost me about £ 270 !

Managed to get a lot of it back though and won a few quid on the tennis too.

Hip Hip Hooray !

A nice touch for me with Hooray winning the 2.15 at York today. I managed to get on at 16/1 in the morning and though I didnt see the race reading the Sporting Life it stayed on well in the final furlong and done the business.


The lays keep on losing with another two today.For a couple of months over the summer I back tracked an idea. It did seem to work but as everybody knows putting it in practice is what matters so I did. I started with a £2k bank which took two months to double which was a bit sooner than I expected and is now standing at just over £4.5k. Now its whether the greed kicks in and I start raising the stakes or do I just plod on and hope in two to three months the bank doubles again. Being very sensible or very boring I will just continue at the current stakes, in case its just a flash in the pan!

Football wise I havent really got to involved the last couple of seasons mainly because of two reasons, number one being I dont have the enthusiam to sit through a game and more importantly I havent made any money! So this season I have joined Ian Erskines Elite Club and I will see if he really does as well as he says. I shall keep you posted on this.

Value Odds.

Now I love to watch tennis and have the occasional trade, i have been watching solidly for the past year since finishing work. From staying up all night in January for Auckland to the Australian then on to the clay in Brazil,Chile and Argentina and Dubai and Croatia and Germany and France and Wimbledon and all over the USA, my body clock has slowly been adjusting to Tennis Tournaments around the globe.

Now I really watch OK ? I dont buy newspapers I dont watch any soaps,most of the time I havent a clue what is going on in the World.I would be good as a phone a friend or something like that if Chris Tarrent asked you why Ms Peer had to play Ms Venus Williams on some shitty court in Dubai this year in the semi final. The reason I am saying this is if you want to be good at anything you have to put in the leg work and you have to make it something you enjoy otherwise you are kaput ! I obviously browse lots of forums and blogs etc and that is the only thing I can say on the subject of trading. You need to know where the odds are going and why and you just need to sit and watch for as long as it takes. As i said it is nearly a year since I quit work and I am still a novice trader which is kinda of upsetting especially after staying up all through those freezing nights in December and January while the rest of the country slept.

Recently have I started seeing some really crazy odds being offered up on some players so maybe its loony season but there seems to be more value in recent weeks and I hope this continues into the US Open.

Today was a good day with all my horse lays losing and also a couple of winning back bets bringing home the bacon. Long may it continue.




As a special treat below is a trick shot that I taught Roger Federer.