Betting Blog – Bang and Pod’s bets

This blog has been neglected a lot of late. Basically, the months of January, February and March this year was just too much to stomach in terms of losses. We both still bet but independently again. Its no fun blogging when you are losing.

This world cup, Pod is well up. His strategy has been a lot better than mine. I lost quite a bit but it was all down to the Germany/ Spain result. I didn’t see that one coming at all. Got giddy and lumped on the Germans.

So for the final, I was looking round for a good bet and stumbled across Paddy Powers specials markets. They were doing a bet on which channel would get the most viewers.

With billions of people expected to tune in around the world for the World Cup final both the BBC and ITV will be battling it out to win their own match in the World Cup Final TV ratings.

And Paddy Power make the men at the Beeb the hot favourites to record more viewers than their ITV rivals with Gary Lineker’s team just 1/5 and Adrian Chiles’ crew the 3/1 outsiders.

To anyone living in Britain this is a no brainer of a bet. Check this blog post about a gift from Paddy Power. I lumped on this before the price dropped. Its actually the biggest bet I have ever had. I hit the bet max button and it came up with £414.75. £82.92 profit guaranteed.

So the Guardian publish the viewing numbers today,

“Average of 15.1 million viewers choose to watch BBC’s advertising-free coverage, compared with 3.3 million for ITV”

and I get paid out. I really can’t see how that bet could have gone wrong. Someone at Paddy Power must be kicking themselves now. I’ll keep an eye out on those specials in future in the hope of getting another gem like that.

January was a bad month, February, just more of the same. Here’s the months summary from a text message Pod sent me.

Everton/ Wigan overs. -£100
Liverpool/ Chelsea double +£87
Sunderland win -£100
Roma/ Real Madrid and a tennis bet treble -£100
Madrid Win +£90
Newcastle win -£100
Birmingham/ Man City/ Chelsea Treble -£100
Villa/ Fulham Double -£77
Grim reading. Bad month. Just wire me the money when you’ve got it.

So its another bankrupt month. Running total is -£1306. Sound a lot but if you look at it this way, its 3 years entertainment.

Lessons to be learnt from this month, don’t back Man City. They are the new Liverpool when it comes to screwing bets over.

Next month will be better.

Its been a while. We have still been betting, well, losing, just not been updating the site. Last month we ended up £36 down. That ends or winning streak.

This month has been a disaster. First bet won but that was only £50. From then we had 4 losing bets in a row, with the last bet being for £150. That bankrupts us for this month. Very disappointing. Overall loss in 3 years is £906.

Pod’s been doing some solo betting. He’s been winning but Spurs yesterday screwed him over a little. We’ll be back next month. I still think that there is money to be made in football betting. Just need to pick better games.

Been very slack with the updates. Looks like this month is going to end up with a loss.

So last week, we had,

West Ham vs Chelsea over 2.5 goals. Ended up 1-1.

Bank down to -£195.

Boxing day

Newcastle to beat Wednesday 1.72
Burnley to beat Bolton 2.37
Man City -1 on the Asian 1.79
Wigan Bolton unders. 1.7

First 2 lost. Ended up £51 down on the day. Bank at -£246.

Todays bets were, Everton -1, 2.1 and Man City win at evens. Everton win 2-0. Man City are 1-0 up. Fingers crossed, we’ll be only down £36 this month.

Today, Pod identifed 3 bets. Portsmouth +1 on the Asian Handicap, Villa – 1 and Man City overs.

I didn’t get up early enough to put the Portsmouth bet on. Gutted as that would have come in at evens. We had the other 2. Villa was evens and City overs was 1.75.

Villa win 1-0 and so bet is a push. Man City ended up 4-3. It was 2-1 after about 17 minutes so bet won easily.

Bank now at -£95. Very hopeful of making a profit this month.

On my personal bets, I’ve had a stonker of a weekend. Had Villa to win to nil at 6/4, £100 and Fulham at 6/1 also £100. Both won. £750 up on the day. Clawed back all my losses from last weekend and more.

Well, its been a while. Been a bit pre-occupied playing blackjack to be totting up our betting. We’ve had the following bets since the last update. £100 on each.

9th December.
Olympiakos vs Arsenal – Arsenal 3/1 LOST
Coventry vs Newcastle – Newcastle 5/6 WIN

£17 down. Bank at -£117.

Last weekend
Birmingham vs West Ham, Birmingham, 2.22, Win
Bolton vs Manchester City – Man City 5/6. Loss.
Liverpool/ Arsenal under 2.5 goals. Evens. Loss
Jensen Button to win Sports Personality of the year, 19/20. Loss

Last night
Birmingham v Blackburn, Birmingham, 2.29, Win.

Overall bank is now -£168. Still half the month to go.

Bad start to the month. Only one bet today. It was Cheslea to beat City. Started well enough with an early own goal against City. Somehow City managed to score 2 and win 2-1. £100 lost. Bank at -£100.

I think Man City are going to get put on the blacklisted teams. Everytime we seem to bet on a Man City game it appears to lose. Usually we are betting on them to win but this time they screwed us over. Chelsea are a bit rubbish too. The like of Hull, Burnley and Fulham all got draws at City and the so called champions elect get beat.

I don’t think we’ll be having anything tomorrow. I fancy Spurs strongly but Pod fancies Everton.

Its been a bad weekend for the syndicate. Saturday’s bet was Fulham to beat Bolton. We thought that was a 5 star bet and got 1.98 on it. Ended up 1-1 so £100 down.

Then today, we couldn’t decide on any bets so we had a tennis bet. Pod’s mate tipped Del Potro. We stuck the £160 profit we had it on. He lost, so bank wiped out for the month. Overall we finished this month even. No change on the overall balance which is still negative in the almost 3 years we’ve been doing this.

At the end of the day, we only bet what we can afford to lose. Its just numbers on a screen to us. Fingers crossed for a better December.

Sunday was a good day for the syndicate. Only be we could decide on was Spurs/Wigan overs. Had a choice between over 2.5 at 1.70 or over 2.75 at 1.93. We went for the latter. Spurs win 9-1 so bet comes in. Just like printing money. Bank up to £260. At this rate, we’ll be in overall profit by the end of the year.

The epic fail is on my part. Pod fancied Spurs to win but I had a look at the odds and lumped on Wigan. This will go down in history as the worst bet I ever had.

Had a loss midweek. We had a cheeky bet on the snooker. O’Sullivan to win. Not a clue why. Another one of Pod’s nailed on bets. Don’t know the result but he didn’t win. Might have drawn or lost, I do not know. £100 lost. Bank at +£50.

This weekend we are going to have Chelsea to win. It was a toss up between -2 on the Asian and win to nil. With Chelsea’s injury list, we decided to go with the to nil bet. Price was 1.73. Thats a bit low so we dutched 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and 4-0 to get 1.98. Bookies are a bit stingy with the to-nil bets sometimes. Its highly unlikely its going to be more than 4 so we got effectively the same bet but at a better price. £100 staked.