Betting Blog - Bang and Pod’s bets

Just signed up to thsi site. www.Footbo.com You have to predict the scores of games. I’ve gone for 1-1 in Russia/ Sweden and 3-0 Spain/ Greece.

Footbo’s Beta site is an up-and-coming football social network providing you with a one-stop- solution to share and express your greatest passion. It brings together a number of features including:

• Meeting, interacting and competing with football fans from all around the world
• The ability to access the latest news and content, and get updates on fixtures and results
• Sharing your knowledge, adding media and content, interacting with other fans and exchanging your views and emotions
• Managing and receiving customized information: your teams, your fan clubs, your players; everything will be right there on “My Footbo”
• The opportunity to grade players’ performances, predict the outcome of upcoming games and challenge other users in prediction leagues
• And much more

I’ll probably have a good look at it when the premier season starts again. It could be wisdom of the crowds… or maybe the dumb masses. Only time will tell but I can’t help but think that football fans all over the world are deluded about the quality of their team. You can sign up here

Ok, I had written off that £250 and was shocked when Stephanie went but I am more concerned by the fact that the polls and the odds were so out. Maybe I should give up beting, well maybe not….. but I am up;

After the excitement of the Big Brother launch on Thursday its time to get down to the serious matter of the betting. After failing their secret task Mario, Lisa, Steph and Luke are all up for eviction, the polls have Steph as firm favourite to go and this is also shown in the odds where it is down to Steph or Mario, with Steph being the favourite.

At this early stage viewers/voters have not had chance to form views on the housemates so I think the result is still open, all it needs is a bad move from Mario and he is out of there. With this in mind I’m holding off betting too much but could not resist £250 on Steph at 1.6 on Betfair. Hopefully she remains favourite to go and I can put some more on later. 

Just rubbing my hands at a nice win for the dutch. Had a ton on them +0.25 on the Asian Handicap. Nice profit, but as with all winners on the Asian, I have regrets about not having them straight on the 1X2.

Anyway, the game has just finished. You’d think that bookies would suspend the other games in a group while the matched are going on. Looks like, Bet365, VCbet and PaddyPower have just left their markets open. I can only assume their odds setters went home. The sensible bookmaker will have suspended the market and got their odds setters to price the result of tonights game in to the France/ Holland game.

Before tonight, France were favourites, after a 3-0 win of Italy though, you’d think the Dutch would be favourites. This is whats happened on Betfair and Billy Hills. The Lazy odds setters have just left their prices up though, so you can get some good value backing Holland tonight. PaddyPower have Holland win at 3.0 whereas Bet365 have draw no bet for Holland at 1.95.

We’ve gone for Holland @1.95 at bet365. £82 Pod, £118 Bang.

So BB has started this year.  Good old Billy Hills has come out with some more odds for the show.

Rumours that we are in for the sauciest series of Big Brother yet have already sparked a gamble on a Big Brother Bonk, with William Hill having already accepted bets of up to £100 at odds of 6/1. Hills have cut the price to 4/1. William Hill are expecting a reality TV betting bonanza with Big Brother 9 expected to turnover in excess of £10 million.

“Big Brother is still the daddy of reality TV betting and we are sure to take millions of pounds on the outcome in the next few months,” said Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams.
William Hill Specials
Gender of winner: 8-15 Male; 11-8 Female
Gender of contestant evicted by the first public vote: 4-7 Female; 5-4 Male
Gender of 1st entrant in to the house: 5-6 Male; 5-6 Female
4/1 BIG BROTHER BONK CAUGHT ON CAMERA DURING BB9

William Hill have installed Michael as their 7/2 favourite to win BB9, with the rank outsiders Sylvia & Alexandra at 25/1.

“The house is full of Freaks & Geeks, it is going to be a very long 93 days,” said Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams

William Hill Big Brother First Odds: 7/2 Michael, 7/1 Darnnell 8/1 Luke, 8/1 Dale, 10/1 Mohamed, 12/1 Dennis, 12/1 Jennifer, 12/1 Rex, 12/1 Rachael, 14/1 Stephanie, 16/1 Kathreya, 20/1 Mario, 20/1 Lisa, 20/1 Rebecca, 25/1 Sylvia, 25/1 Alexandra.

Will Mario & Steph Pass The First Task? Yes 4/7, No 5/4

Betting on Big Brother is always better on betfair.  Prices are better and you can trade in and out of the market.  Here’s the link to the Big Brother winner market

 

 

England win 3-0.  Bet won.  We seem to be doing better not betting in the syndicate. 

This is a picture of the Pod at Dusk Till Dawn Poker on Thursday 29th May.  The crazy fool only went and won it.  I am suprised they let him in with the dress code.

Dress Code
Whilst we understand that our members wish to be comfortable when participating in poker events, we think it important that Dusk Till Dawn enforces a smart but casual dress code.
Members who do not dress appropriately will be refused entry on the door.

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/resultplayers.php?id=222  

This was a game I was going to skip.  I got burnt on the last friendly.  I have 3 or more goals and the game ended 2-0.  England were truely shocking against the USA.  They seemed to give up at 2-0 up rather than pushing for the 3rd goal. 

So todays bet is England to win to nil @ 6/5.  I chose that because I fear the 1-0 scoreline.  Asian Handicap is evens at -1.5.  I think if Trinidad do score, it’ll be a 2-1 or a 1-1 so Asian Handicap will lose.  1-0, 2-0 most likely scores though. 

Stakes, £60 Pod, £40 Bang.    No syndicate, just personal bets. 

Its nearly here.  WIth England out of the Euro Championships its the betting event of the summer for us.  There’s only one place to bet on Big Brother (evictions anyway) and that’s Betfair.  You’re not going to get your bet knocked back and prices are the best.  Get £25 free if you join Betfair with this code 3WC6THFMV

Bookmakers William Hill are planning on shipping in extra staff next week for the opening night of Big Brother and expect a reality TV betting bonanza when the new crop of housemates are unveiled. Hills will be betting throughout the night and expect to accept thousands of bets from Big Brother fans. Hills predict an industry turnover of £15 million on the outcome of BB9 and expect the reality TV industry to turnover £100 million in 2008. Hills are offering various specials for Big Brother including 100/1 that Big Brother will be taken off the air mid series and 5/1 that one of the wannabees changes his/her mind and walk out of the house within twenty four hours of entering it.

“In betting terms Big Brother is by far the most popular of all the reality shows. Turnover on reality TV has increased 100 fold in the last five years and we alone took £2 million on BB8. The most popular bet is the weekly eviction with an industry turnover of over a £1 million”,? said Hill?s spokesman Rupert Adams

William Hill Big Brother Specials:
5/2 Any contestant to receive over 90% of the eviction vote
3/1 OFCOM to demand another Public Apology following an incident that takes place during BB9
5/1 A Housemate to leave within 24hrs of the start
6/1 A Housemate to fall down stairs on arrival
16/1 Housemates to get married within One year of leaving house
20/1 A Housemate to be expelled from the house for fighting
100/1 BB to be taken off air mid series

How many Housemates will walk out?: 15/8 One, 7/4 None, 10/3 Two, 4/1 Three or more

 

 Got this from PaddyPower today.  Sometimes good value in special bets as the odds setters aren’t doing these week in week out.

PADDY POWER SPECIALS

Champions League Final

11/2 Fergie to win the Champions League and retire before the start of next season

 

Man Utd v Chelsea

6/4 Man Utd

2/1 Draw

15/8 Chelsea

To Lift The Cup

4/6 Man Utd

11/10 Chelsea

 

Premier League Latest

2/7 Man Utd

12/5 Chelsea

 

Premier League Relegation

	Go Down	Stay Up
Fulham	1/73	4/1
Birmingham	Evs	8/11
Bolton	6/4	1/2
Reading	2/1	1/3
Middlesbrough	22/1	-

Chelsea & Man Utd Title Race – two games to go

Who will score most goals across their last two games

Evs Man Utd

6/4 Chelsea

7/2 Tie

8/15 Man Utd to win both games

4/5 Chelsea to win both games

11/8 Man Utd not to take 6 points in their last two games

10/11 Chelsea not to take 6 points in their last two games

Winning goals in injury time

6/1 Man Utd to score a winning goal in 2^nd half injury time of either game

10/1 Man Utd to concede a goal in 2^nd half injury time to prevent a win in either game

7/1 Chelsea to score a winning goal in 2^nd half injury time of either game

9/1 Chelsea to concede a goal in 2^nd half injury time to prevent a win in either game

Fulham v Birmingham

4/1 Fulham to win and stay up

11/5 Fulham to win and get relegated

Championship Race

	Outright	Promotion
West Brom	4/9	-
Stoke	13/8	1/25
Hull		21/10
Crystal Palace		5/2
Bristol City		7/2
Watford		4/1
Wolves		13/2
Ipswich		14/1
Sheff Utd		40/1

 

Championship Relegation

 

Evs Southampton

11/8 Leicester

6/1 Sheff Weds

22/1 Coventry

25/1 Barnsley

 

Championship Last Day of the Season

Play-off Winner

 

9/4 Hull

7/2 Bristol City

4/1 Watford

5/2 Crystal Palace

13/2 Wolves

14/1 Ipswich

20/1 Sheff Utd

40/1 Stoke

 

HT/FT Automatic Promotion Place

1/16 Stoke/Stoke

15/2 Stoke/Hull

16/1 Hull/Stoke

40/1 Hull/Hull

HT/FT To Be Relegated

 

7/4 Southampton/Southampton

14/1 Southampton/Leicester

33/1 Southampton/Sheff Weds

10/1 Leicester/Southampton

9/4 Leicester/Leicester

33/1 Leicester/Sheff Weds

16/1 Sheff Weds/Southampton

25/1 Sheff Weds/Leicester

8/1 Sheff Weds/Sheff Weds

 

Saints v Sheff Utd

7/4 James Beattie to score

80/1 James Beattie to score an own goal

Sven’s Next Club

15/8 Lazio

5/1 Roma

6/1 Valencia

7/1 Chelsea

10/1 Real Madrid

11/1 Barcelona

14/1 Marseille

14/1 AC Milan

14/1 Inter Milan

20/1 Benfica

33/1 Liverpool

40/1 Man Utd

Next Permanent Man City Manager

5/2 F Scolari

8/1 G Hiddink

8/1 Mourinho

12/1 Ranieri

12/1 Mancini

12/1 Houillier

12/1 Rijkaard

12/1 Allardyce

14/1 Lippi

14/1 McClaren

18/1 M Laudrup

18/1 Koeman

22/1 Hughes

25/1 Ince

33/1 Benitez

33/1 Martinez

40/1 Wenger

40/1 Hoddle

50/1 Keegan

50/1 Pearce

125/1 Ferguson

1000/1 Goater

Owner Sack Race Betting – club owners these days are changing almost s much as the managers, who’s next to leave?

11/4 Tom Hicks (Liverpool)3/1 George Gillett (Liverpool)

6/1 The Golds (Birmingham)

7/1 Daniel Levy (Spurs)

12/1 Thaksin Shinawatra (Man City)

14/1 John Madejski (Reading)

16/1 The Glazers (Man Utd)

16/1 Roman Abramovich (Chelsea)

18/1 Al Fayed (Fulham)

18/1 Gudmundsson (West Ham)

20/1 Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal)

25/1 Walker Trusties (Blackburn)

25/1 Mike Ashley (Newcastle)

25/1 Bill Kenwright (Everton)

25/1 Randy Lerner (Aston Villa)

25/1 Alexandre Gaydamak (Portsmouth)

25/1 Drumaville Consortium (Sunderland)

28/1 David Whelan (Wigan)

28/1 Steve Gibson (Boro)

Pod was right with respect for Milan.  I ended up having overs anyway so my bet won.

Today’s bet was Bristol Rovers -0.25 on the Asian handicap to beat Shewsbury.  Didn’t really know much about this game.  Pod gave me a call about this and I agreed to have it.  £100 staked at evens.  Rovers were 1 down after 3 minutes but came back to win 3-1.

Profit £100 so bank is now +£50.