I've had a wee notion tonight to try another wee elastic tenner bet. If you don't know what the hell I'm on about, basically the idea is to start with a tenner, placing it on a short priced football single and, assuming you win, punt all of your new pot on another 'sure fire winner' and so on and so on until you have a good few quid. It is acceptable not to punt your entire pot on your next bet once your balance is up a bit. In Sept/Oct 2007 I got 6 (I think) bets up on the trot and managed to reach a peak of £198 from a tenner. See here for the previous thread on this topic to give you a flavour of what I'm on about.

Anyhows, my first bet is £10 on Cowdenbeath to beat East Stirlingshire @ 1.6 on Betfair. Potential new pot balance = £16.

Go on. Give it a go!!

Ah feck it count me in. Not placed it yet, but my £10 today will be going on reading @ 4/6 with ladbrokes.

Potential new pot - £16.67

Count me in.Can i do a single handicap bet?

If so i will go for Rangers -1goal v St Mirren at 5/6 corals-new pot £18.33.

If not i will go with Brechin to beat Alloa at 4/7 Ladbrokes-new pot £15.71.


Let me know H.Wragg.Cheers

You can do whatever you want, mate. This isn't a competition or anything, just a chance to share your bets with everyone else.

Think you can get evens on Rangers -1 with Paddy Power, which is a great bet. Sure I saw 10/11 somewhere too. Check oddschecker.com.

£10 on Walsall to bt Hereford away. 13/10 at Hills.

£10 on East Fife at 1/2 for £15.

Cheers, i will do the hadicap bet then.will check the odds and re post.It's just some of the fun betting on here has strict rules.

Cheers mate,i will check



8/15 with totesport as we are doing this bet in the syndicate forum on here.

Okay

Rangers -1 goal Evens with paddy power return £20

Cheers Jordo 1872 and i have online account with them Give me a free bet ya feckers!!.

£10 on East Fife at 4/9 with Paddypower, return £14.44 + my free £20 bet gives a (hopefully) £34.44 for next week.

Edited - going to use me free bet this afternoon, £14.44 potential for next game

I'll have a bash.

£10 on East Fife at 4/9 with Paddy Power.

Returns £14.44

Oh well, that'll be that then.

Ditto

It was almost worth it to see that mob get beat though....

Well done East Fife and Cowden.

Just me and Kayster left then.

Barcelona 8/13

Potential return: £16.16

I think i will start this on Wednesday.

Leeds away to Rotheram, hopefully Leeds will be decent odds after losing today and Rotheram winning 4-1

6-1 more than happy with that...

next bet..... Everton (4/5) V Newcastle

Potential return : £29.09

Good start, will keep y'all updated with future attempts.

i ll have a go at it.

Start with histon to beat ebbsfleet tonight.

Should have stuck with Brechin .Don't really care to be honest.

1-0 histon

ended up bottling the bet which would have at roughly 9/4, to my disatisfaction. Just my luck. I ve decided to wait until the weekend. There have bound to be a few tasty prices on then.

started this weekend with a tenner on oldham to beat hereford at a tasty 8/15. Will probably miss out on the mid-week games this week.

New Balance:

£15.33

May start this on Saturday. Dunfermline at home to Partick maybe?

i wouldnt touch either teams myself as they are two that never give me the result that i expect on my coupon. although i think they are 4/5 with labrokes just now

Yep 4/5 mate, may actualy stick it on Cowdenbeath who are around evens or better with most bookies to win at Annan.

Ok decided to give this a go, and put my £10 one Barcelona playing away tonight. They won (1-0 nervious game by Barca, should have known better ) so that leaves me with £15.33 to play with. Looking at the up coming fixtures, can't see any stand out bets on Monday so Tuesday card it is. So far these fixtures have jumped out.

Birmingham vs Crystal Palace @ 1.57
Sheffield Utd vs Southampton @ 1.57
Leeds vs Leyton Orient @ 1.50

also looking at Scunthorpe vs Southend @ 1.72 However both Scunthorpe and Southend have an unbeaten record at the moment, so unsure if to go for this one or not. (Scunthorpe 8 games unbeaten, Southend 6 games unbeaten). Will confirm my bets by Monday night.

Went for Leeds and a 2-1 win gives me £23 to play with, with the two matches on Friday grabbing my attention.

Tranmere v Crewe at 1.61 - Potential winnngs = £37.15

Reasoning - Tranmere sitting nicely in 9th with Crewe at the bottom of the league without a win in 6 games (2 of the draws). Looking at the fans message boards, the talk is that the manager is clueless and they have this marked down as his last game.

My first elastic tenner went tits up when Zenit could only manage a draw on Tuesday

Anyhow, I started another one last night with a double on Chelsea and Barca so now got circa £20 to go on the next bet. Was thinking about going for the following double.

Hamilton v Rangers 1/3
Cowdenbeath v Elgin 1/2

Evens for the double

Bluesq prices (as that's the only online account i have!)

Think I'll get in on this, starting this weekend

Reckon I'll go for Cowdenbeath at the moment, but not had a proper look at all the fixtures yet

Can I start from tonight?

Laid £10 on Udinese and AC Milan. If it comes up it returns £35

Errr, your bet was already a loser before you posted if you laid Udinese and AC Milan.
Udinese game finished at 7.55, and they won, so laying them was a losing bet.

I'm confused here? I had already made the bet previous to the post. Am I not allowed to join in because I had posted my bet after one of the games had finished.

In exchange betting terms, 'laid' means backing against the outcome.

The way you worded your post made it lok as though you had backed against Udinese.

I imagine that's not what you meant, and you did an Udinese/Milan double, but I can see why it has been interpreted the wrong way.

As Tom has said, if you bet on them both to win their matches, then you backed them, if you bet on them both to not win their match, then you laid them.

Ahh, my bad, showing my gambling nievity. Sorry.

Went for the safer of the 2 options and went for Tranmere, still might put something on the Bradford game though.

to catch up, turned the 15.33 from oldham to £48 with a midweek international treble of england, holland, and paraguay.

Now doing my own syndicate with that and started with the first tenner the other weekend on Dons which didnt come up. Now the eight quid will be stuck on dundee to beat morton at 6/5 to return me £17.60

Balance now at £32
Possible new balance to be at £49.60.

Started doing this last week only with a £5 though because i am currently poor and i stuck it on new england patriots - 20 to beat the Broncos at 5/6 which came in then i stuck the winnings on Man utd -1 against Celtic the other nite which again came in I then stuck it on Chelsea,Barca and Inter the other night and it came up again! Looking for a good value bet to stick it on this weekend so any tips are appreciated!

a nice solid 2-0 win for Tranmere gives me £37.15 to play with. So far I have seen these.

Everton v Man Utd @ 1.57 - No real explantion needed to be honest, but as I'm looking for the next best thing to a dead cert, Man Utd come really close

Rochdale v Aldershot @ 1.80 - Rochdale coming off a 6-1 over Chester, yet over the past 4 games, have lost one and drawn 2. Aldershot are now 5 games without a win suffering a 5-1 defeat last away to cheseterfield week.

Norwich v Doncaster @ 1.72 - Norwich has been in poor form but a good 5-2 win over Wolves may signal a change in form, Doncaster have been without a win for 8 games now, including a couple of heavy defeats

a couple of others which need more research, but will more than likely pick one form above.

Went for the game above, most people are giving the game to Norwich and looking for a decent odds to increase the funds.

Potential Winnings £64.17.

UPDATE: Norwich came through and leaves me with £64.17 to play with. Will put £10 aside so if need be can start again so adjusted total is now £54.17.

Sundays card does'nt give many options, avoiding the Cup game I can only see Arsenal away to West Ham @ 1.61. Also see Pompey at home to Fulham @ 1.72. Will have to wait to see how I feel but currently thinking of giving tomorrow a miss, I cant see both of those being absoulte stick ons if I'm honest.

Off Topic - How the hell do Ladbrokes have Spurs as fravourites over Bolton, that seems a strange one to me.

Well just goes to show i should stick to gut instinct instead of putting too much reasoning into my bets. BotH Pompey and Arsenal doing enough to win their games.

Anyway, onto Tuesdays card - so far I've seen

Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forrest @ 1.61 - Potential return = £87.51 - Forrest on a poor run at the moment, sitting plum at the foot of the table. Crystal Palace form is not too bad the last 6 games ( D/W/W/W/L/D) compared to Forrest (L/L/L/L/D/L)

Millwall v Hereford @ 1.53 - Potential Return = £83.06 - 3rd Place Millwall hosting Hereford, who find themselves 23rd in the table. Only slight concern is that Millwall have a slight tendency to ship the odd goal or two, but I think they should be too good for Hereford.

Wycombe v Macclesford @ 1.53 - Potential Return = £83.06 - Top of the table and unbeaten Wycombe take on Macclesford, who are sitting in 17th and have lost 4 out of their last 6 games (L/L/W/D/L/L)

Not sure who to go for here, once again though, sticking with the home teams.

actually went for a chelsea and liverpool draw instead of a dundee away win, not that it paid off anyway...

Tomorrow to stick £6.50 on Peterborough away to Crewe @6/5 for £14.30 and take the balance up to £46.30.

Feck me that was a close one, leaving it late till scoring. Still a win is a win, and judging by the other 2 I had put aside, once again dodged a bullet.

Not sure who to go for tonight, at work so can't see odds, but maybe Chelsea away to Hull on Man Utd. Need to look closely as will be using £83.06. It's getting towards the squeeky bum time!!!

f**k me am having a mare since i decided to do a syndicate with myself, i might just stick the whole lot on this weekend as picking singles clearly isnt my specialty

Kind of neglected this for a week or so, but over the weekend I had my fund @ £124 wish I stuck on Brechin @1.72, which got me £215.

I then decided to halt there and withdraw the £200 and left me £15 (plus the £10 I kept behind) to start again with £25 on Swansea which got me £45, and Ive put that on Wycombe tonight and it looks as if I have another winner on my hands.

My question is has anyone made a decent amount on money doing this? I was happy with the £200, although slightly kicking myself for not having the balls to put the full amount on Swansea.

I think I'm going to start this tomorrow, and see how long (if longer than tomorrow itself ), it can last.

I think I'll try it and see how much I can get by Christmas.

I'll place the bet in the bookies tomorrow.

Bet 1:-

Peterhead vs Stirling - 4/5
Stake: £10.00
Possible Return: £18.00

Not the best start Thomas

Thought I'd give this another try (1st attempt failed on bet 1)

£10 on Spurs returned £17.28, bumped the lot on AC Milan tonight at 8/11.

Reckon if Milan win I may get another 3 bets before I chicken out.

Was a fucking stupid idea in the first place