Can You Beat The Bookies?

I have a lot of success with first half goals. Due to time I don't analyse it as well as I could but it generally keeps my account needing fewer deposits.

I work on a match day so it is impossible to bet in play but you can make some serious profit timing these bets right. I place them as an accumulator for worse odds. I won £8 from a £2 4 fold on Saturday which gives me spending money for tonights fixtures. Scunthorpe let me down for £430 from 50p on the 20 fold.

I win the small bet more often than and usually let down by only a couple of teams on the 20 fold. I simply go through the fixtures and look at the first half league table. If both teams average more than 1 goal per game at home/away then I scribble them down and the best looking ones go in my bet. As it is the start of the season, I used last seasons league table. I generally avoid those with new managers but didn't with Scunthorpe!

I find the stats side very interesting and don't profess to be an expert but by doing it and placing accumulators, I come closer to winning a tidy sum than when I operated on my gut instinct. Another one I go with using the same method above is corners. I only started doing this during the last few games of last season but again, I come quite close.

Back to Lloyd's programme, it was interesting to see how it consumed his life. I'm disciplined and restrict myself to a maximum of £10 per week but when people stake huge sums, you can see how quickly it escalates. The dogs are very volatile and I can't believe that guy put on £700!

Have to say, the tennis was fascinating and it didn't take him long to get from £800 to over £3000!

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Anyone had chance to watch this yet with our resident celebrity fan, Lloyd Griffith.

Excellent watch as he tries to double his money in 1 week. Won't give too much away but some of it is filmed locally.

It's on BBC 1 in about ten minutes, I haven't watched it yet so I'll give it a look.

Who's up for a bit of courtsiding then?

Quoted from Les Brechin

Who's up for a bit of courtsiding then?

Wonder how long it’ll be before they close this loophole down.

Basically, bookies are cnuts, who will change the rules when you start winning, but happy to take your bets if you mostly lose. The upshot of that programme was basically ‘no you can’t beat the bookies unless you are REALLY smart and do it as a full time business (but not many people have the know how)’.

I’d rather spend my money with drug dealers than bookies (Im talking about the big companies here, not the little guy making a living using old school methods). Morally they’re on that level. Football clubs who take their sponsorship money are basically whores infecting their punters.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Who's up for a bit of courtsiding then?

I couldn't believe how much money that bloke was making, wasn't it something like 1 Million a year between him and his mate, 300k each after costs travelling the world.

Quoted from promotion plaice

I couldn't believe how much money that bloke was making, wasn't it something like 1 Million a year between him and his mate, 300k each after costs travelling the world.

I couldn’t either to look at him. But maybe he’s got some other habits to feed.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I couldn’t either to look at him. But maybe he’s got some other habits to feed.

I did notice he looked to be shivering a bit but maybe it was cold.

Courtsiding is rife in golf too, following players around the course and on the phone to people half the world away betting on someone making a putt etc

They say they hate bookies because they take your money when you lose and they restrict your account when you win... but if it weren’t for online gambling, that lad at the start who made his money from poker and that courtsiding bloke wouldn’t have hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bank.

you cant win, I know from experience haha! best ever bit of luck I had was a dog race, had 60 pounds on, looked at the form clear 6/4 fave on trap 3, wrote it down, 3 was excrement, looked at my slip and id written trap 6 and won 300 quid. when I actually did it right I lost tonnes, so I no longer bet