[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

Take £20. Bet it around evens. Take all winnings. Do it again. Do this 6 times in total. Get a grand. Mine went like this

Forfar v Morton - Morton @ evens - £20 became £30
Man City v Swansea - Man City @ evens (-1.0) - £40 became £80
Watford v West Ham - West Ham @ 6/5 - £80 became £176
Aston Villa v Blackburn - Aston Villa @ 3/4 - £176 became £308
Bolton v Man City - Man City @ 5/6 - £308 became £564.67
Tottenham v Man City - Man City @ 6/4 - £500 became £1250

You'll see that I shat out the last one and only put on £500 of the £564.67. Myself and my mate who decided to do it couldn't decide if 'the rule' was you had to bet it all every time or just get to £1,000.Anyway that's gone to my Vegas fund for next year.

Anyone up for giving this a shot? The thing to always bear in mind is that even if you lose at the final stage it's "still only a score" as I said to myself about 50 times before finally having the balls to put £500 on Man CIty. Ironically what should have been squeeky bum time went perfectly well.

Anyone up for giving this a go? I'll be starting again shortly, but probably not until next week as international football is baws. If you do decide to do it post how your getting along in here.


PS - I know posts about winnings after the result are frowned upon in here but BT have taken 4 fucking weeks to install a phoneline/broadband in my flat.

[the jambo-rocker]

Lambie, on 31 August 2011 - 17:27, said:

Take £20. Bet it around evens. Take all winnings. Do it again. Do this 6 times in total. Get a grand. Mine went like this

Forfar v Morton - Morton @ evens - £20 became £30
Man City v Swansea - Man City @ evens (-1.0) - £40 became £80
Watford v West Ham - West Ham @ 6/5 - £80 became £176
Aston Villa v Blackburn - Aston Villa @ 3/4 - £176 became £308
Bolton v Man City - Man City @ 5/6 - £308 became £564.67
Tottenham v Man City - Man City @ 6/4 - £500 became £1250

You'll see that I shat out the last one and only put on £500 of the £564.67. Myself and my mate who decided to do it couldn't decide if 'the rule' was you had to bet it all every time or just get to £1,000.Anyway that's gone to my Vegas fund for next year.

Anyone up for giving this a shot? The thing to always bear in mind is that even if you lose at the final stage it's "still only a score" as I said to myself about 50 times before finally having the balls to put £500 on Man CIty. Ironically what should have been squeeky bum time went perfectly well.

Anyone up for giving this a go? I'll be starting again shortly, but probably not until next week as international football is baws. If you do decide to do it post how your getting along in here.


PS - I know posts about winnings after the result are frowned upon in here but BT have taken 4 fucking weeks to install a phoneline/broadband in my flat.

First off, fair play for having the stones to go for the £500 bet, and well done for coming up trumps. I get nervous putting on £20 on a single bet, but the odds of being able to get to that for me would be rare. If maybe I have £20 to blow and I'm feeling lucky then I could be tempted.

[CC 33]

I'm going to get involved in this, starting with Ireland to beat Slovakia this weekend

[ParT]

Nice work. You have made it sound all so easy. I'll have a bash at it, but will imagine I'd pussy out after venturing into £500 territory.

[Kris.]

the jambo-rocker, on 31 August 2011 - 18:11, said:

First off, fair play for having the stones to go for the £500 bet, and well done for coming up trumps. I get nervous putting on £20 on a single bet, but the odds of being able to get to that for me would be rare. If maybe I have £20 to blow and I'm feeling lucky then I could be tempted.

Pretty much this. Although I get nervous even putting more than £5 on! I'd like to give this a go, but being out of work just now, I don't I could really afford to be risking such amount of money. In fact, if I ever got to £100 I'd probably just back out then!

[ParT]

Ok, going to give this a try.

£20 on Georgia to beat Latvia.

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

It was remarkably 'easy' for me to be honest, the Morton and Villa games were going on when I was watching Thistle so I was only half paying attention and both teams won with what seemed like ease, Can't remember when the West Ham game was but it wasn't live or for whatever reason I wasn't watching it.

Man City crucified Swansea and Spurs and it was only the 4 minutes added on when they were 3-2 up at the Reebok that had me a wee bit worried. If anything City smashing Spurs kind of ruined it, I expected to be bricking it but it was never in doubt and I had the celebratory single malt in hand with 30 minutes to go.

I don't really fancy anything international this weekend so will wait until next week.

In theory there is no time limit on this so if nothing takes your fancy one week you can just wait.

[wunfellaff]

ParT, on 01 September 2011 - 21:42, said:

Ok, going to give this a try.

£20 on Georgia to beat Latvia.

Kerrrllllunk, i am afraid.

[ParT]

Pish!

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

I'm starting this again, only get a ten spot in my account so it'll need to be 7 bets this time.

£10 on Green Bay Packers (-4.5) v New Orleans Saints at 10/11, it's on in the wee hours tomorrow.

[MTJ]

I'll give it a bash too.

£20 on the New England Patriots (-7) at 19/20 v the Miami Dolphins this coming Monday Night.

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

MTJ, on 07 September 2011 - 21:09, said:

I'll give it a bash too.

£20 on the New England Patriots (-7) at 19/20 v the Miami Dolphins this coming Monday Night.

I've already got that pencilled in if I survive that long.

Also looking at Morton at 8/11 on Saturday and a Browns/Gianst double at a bawhair over evens on Sunday.

[ayrmad]

Kris., on 01 September 2011 - 14:17, said:

Pretty much this. Although I get nervous even putting more than £5 on! I'd like to give this a go, but being out of work just now, I don't I could really afford to be risking such amount of money. In fact, if I ever got to £100 I'd probably just back out then!

Just start with £3.

[Phantom Bud]

I've had a few wins recently so I'm going to have a go at this. First £20 is on Arsenal (-1) against Swansea at Evens. They should be fired up after their 8-2 hammering and will have a few new signings in the team. Swansea haven't scored yet so 2 Arsenal goals could be enough.

[kaiser]

Phantom Bud, on 08 September 2011 - 17:49, said:

I've had a few wins recently so I'm going to have a go at this. First £20 is on Arsenal (-1) against Swansea at Evens. They should be fired up after their 8-2 hammering and will have a few new signings in the team. Swansea haven't scored yet so 2 Arsenal goals could be enough.

same here, most appealing bet of weekend for me.

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

Pressure is on, a few guys in work have given me money to get in on this shit.

Packers on the spread, Morton, Arsenal (-1), Giants/Browns double and Patriots on the spread, got it all planned.

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

Won the first one by the tiniest of bawhairs

[yoda]

I don't quite have the stones to do a £20 bet. I'll start out with a £5 bet instead.

Colchester vs Leyton Orient - Colchester @ 5/6

[dave258]

Lambie, if your mates have given you money for this are you doing it as a £100 bet rather than £20 to start with (or whatever amount the cumulative total your mates have given you is)? What bookie are you using, as from what I've heard most will be blocking your account or limiting how much you can put on even after only a few moderately large wins like you have had.

[Gaz]

Could always do it in a shop, I guess

[GingerSaint]

£20 on

Plymouth v Port Vale (19/20)

[Adam]

Gaz, on 09 September 2011 - 22:34, said:

Could always do it in a shop, I guess

Or Betfair, although it's been reported recently that even they have closed a few accounts that have seen a substancial profit within a short space of time which if true is pretty sickening.

[dave258]

You'd also have betfair's commission to take into account, wouldn't you?

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

dave258, on 09 September 2011 - 16:12, said:

Lambie, if your mates have given you money for this are you doing it as a £100 bet rather than £20 to start with (or whatever amount the cumulative total your mates have given you is)? What bookie are you using, as from what I've heard most will be blocking your account or limiting how much you can put on even after only a few moderately large wins like you have had.

3 guys in work gave me a fiver and I used £15 of my own cash so started out with £30 this time.

I do it on Paddy Power who I have had an account with for years. Although I'd never bet anything like the big gingles I was towards the end of my first streak but they paid out no bother. I already withdrew that one.

Lumped it all on Morton and Arsenal (-1) souble today.

I've heard about bookies limiting big players but I always assumed that was people betting thousands? The £1250 I withdrew will be a drop in the ocean for one of the biggest online bookies surely?

[Adam]

Lambie, on 10 September 2011 - 07:43, said:

3 guys in work gave me a fiver and I used £15 of my own cash so started out with £30 this time.

I do it on Paddy Power who I have had an account with for years. Although I'd never bet anything like the big gingles I was towards the end of my first streak but they paid out no bother. I already withdrew that one.

Lumped it all on Morton and Arsenal (-1) souble today.

I've heard about bookies limiting big players but I always assumed that was people betting thousands? The £1250 I withdrew will be a drop in the ocean for one of the biggest online bookies surely?

You'd be surprised. I post on another forum where a guy that had mainly been a losing punter (in the region of £50 per month) and after two decent sized wins (£1000+) within a short space of time, Hills closed his account. Not sure why because as you say that is simply a drop in the ocean for a massive high steet bookies, perhaps they thought he had come up with a full proof formula.

And Dave, even with commission on Betfair, more often than not you're getting the best price. For instance, a £100 single on Everton today at Betfair returns £208, minus commission is £202.60. Best price on Hills is evens, so you're still up compared to a high street bookie.