Sat 16th Jan - England and Africa

Stoke 1 - 1 Liverpool

Backed Stoke for £35 as I thought they had a chance of turning them over, everyone can see that Liverpool are rocking recently. As it turns out a draw was the result, which if I had been more risk averse, I should have gone for. Anyway, Stoke had chances to win it - at least I didn't lose much.

Everton 2 - 0 Man City

Backed City for £50. This was Cities first test under Manchini as the other teams they'd pretty much expect to win. I was surprised by how easy Everton won, another loss for me. I also put another fiver on the draw in the 2nd half in case City fought back.

Nigeria 1 - 0 Benin (African Cup of Nations)

Back Nigera £200 @ 1.73 - and traded out for a £93 profit. I could have held on for the full £150 but as it turned out to be just 1-0 it would have been very dangerous to do so.

Egypt 2 - 0 Mozambique (African Cup of Nations)

Seen plenty of TeeGypt to know that they are a class act, also chasing their 3rd straight tournement win. So I backed them £100 @ 1.4 and left it on there until the end of the game to get the full £40 back, to help make up for the City game.


Quite a lot of money thrown around today for not much in the way of profit. Didn't have chance to bet on any Spanish games and it looks like it did me a favour as Real were held to a draw.

A couple of games, quick update

Blackburn v Aston Villa

Backed the Villa, traded out for ~£30 profit.

Ivory Coast v Ghana

Backed Ivory Coast, traded out for ~£50 profit.

Hamilton v Rangers - the most expensive iphone app ever!

I had backed Rangers the night before as I wanted to get good odds. The next day I was playing with this new game I got on the iPhone (Trenches - very good btw) when I remembered the afformentioned game. Oh crap!

I checked the live scores and Rangers were 2-0 up! Jobs a good 'un so I went down stairs and turned on the telly. By which time it was 2-1! Argh! I booted up the the PC and by the time it had spluttered into life it was 2-2!!!! Bloody hell!!!! It was a minute to half time but Rangers still manage to conceed another one! What!? 2-3 to Hamilton.

2nd half Rangers equalise and I hold on for the result but it doesn't come - that cost me £100. Expensive iPhone app but lets face it, it was my own stupid fault for not watching the game. Loss.

With the illness and being pee-d off with betfair I decide to give it rest.....double frowny face.

I told you I was ill!

Sorry for the lack of updates - I've had, well I don't know what I've had but it was bloody annoying! Aside from myself being under the weather my daughter ended up in hospital AGAIN! Alls well that ends well, so we're out the other side of it and looking forward.
Not been doing any betfairing as you can see, apart from a big loss last Sunday which I'll update you about now...

7th Jan - Copa Del Rey

With bugger-all going on domestically in the football calender, I once again had to look afar for some betting action.

Hercules v Osasuna (Copa del Rey)

After getting burnt so badly in the Copa with Barcelona, I didn't want to overstretch myself again. After reading a few posts on this match and studying the form, I plumped for Hercules £50 @ 2.44. You could compare this tie to Newcastle v Fulham in England I suppose, with the hosts flying high in Div 2. Hercules duley scored first and I traded out @ 1.45 for a £35 profit. The game is still going on as I write this post but I'm not going to dip into it anymore - this is a good profit for a market I know little about.

Win

Back up to £600

So I'm back up to the £600 mark after todays drastic action. Actually with that £35 on Mr Vincent Jones in CBB, I've made a profit - doesn't feel like it though. What lessons have I learnt?

1) I didn't bet the farm - not even when I was conviced that Barca would win. I just didn't want to write in this blog another entry in my litany of shame! This blog is keeping me on the straight and narrow.
2) Under 2.5 goals isn't working for me plus it makes a game harder to watch when I have money on this market as it's so negative.
3) With another bad result today, I could have lost a lot of money. I was basically chasing my losses, which is 'a bad thing'. I believe I was lucky in that regard, I had a good selection of games but also you make your own luck - I still had to have the balls to put those big sums on.
4) AC Milan were so good, I might have a little dabble on them overturning Man Utd (yes, them who've just got beat by Leeds) in the Champ League. Currently they are 2.72 to qualify.

End communication.....

6th Dec - La Befana in Italy

Today the Italians celebrate 12th night or La Befana. See I'm an expert on all this being part Italian and having nothing to do with me just Wikipedia-ing it. Quite a few football games on today and I need a massive swing in my direction to make up for last nights cock up.

11.30 am : Chievo 0 - 1 Inter

Backed Inter for a Mets-busting £100! @ 1.95 and managed to keep up to date with the scores using Livescores.com. The first goal went in quite early and I held my nerve up until the 60th minute (after I came back from lunch) - so I traded out using the iPhone.
Only problem with the Betfair site on the iPhone is there's no Max Payout button so I had to work out the correct numbers to lay by using a calculater. It also doesn't give you the 'What-if' figure either to check your figures. It was with some trepidation that I put the Lay bet on.

Lay bet = (Green figure + red figure) / current lay odds

I got it right-ish, it came out to a £57 profit. Win.

7.45pm AC Milan 5 - 2 Genoa

I can't believe I went for the under 2.5 goals market again!!!!
Only kidding - bloody hell AC Milan were awesome. Ronaldinho did that outrageous flick-flack trick and Boriello scored a cracking Hugo Sanchez style scissor kick goal. Even Beckham had a good game - he's got to be worth taking to the World Cup if he keeps this form up.

Backed AC Milan for a pant browning £200 @ 1.63
Traded out after 65 minutes for £110 profit. Win!

Seems the witch, La Befana, has been generous to this lucky little boy today.