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Or just don't do multiple bets at all. That is certainly the best way to make sure that all your bets don't lose.

Do you make a profit doing that?

If you've got four value selections, then yes. When you get them all right you'll win more than if you'd done four singles, when you get them all wrong you'll lose more assuming level stakes. I've never seen the attraction of things like that myself.

Hamilton West (Scotland) station is served by a taxi rank or a cab office. Check availability before travelling, and pre-book if necessary. Consider using the following local operators: Hamilton Radio 01698 281144 Bridge 01698 422288 Well-Man 01698 891313 Although the National Rail website says otherwise: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/hnw...Transport_Links (yes I'm bored, waiting for baseball to start)

Just finished "They Called it Passchendaele" by Lyn MacDonald. Very good book about the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. I'm very interested in the First World War anyway, but I'd recommend this book to anyone as it includes hundreds of eye witness testimonies (it was written in 1978) .

Facebook is scary. I entered the log in details for a Yahoo email address I have, and it was suggesting as friends people that I'd sent one email to five years ago that I'd totally forgotten about. Got far too many stalkers on there myself now.

Real Madrid may have a big reputation, but a lot of their players certainly don't live up to it. I never watch much Spanish football, but the league must be poor if they are so far clear of third place.

Games of chance in the bookmakers are their biggest money spinner these days. They don't actually want to lay bets, but just want to be mini casinos where the house edge means that they can't lose. The large bookmakers don't like paying out large amounts on bets I can assure you. My only problem is laziness really. I do alright from betting, but if I actually put a decent amount of work in, I would make twice as much at least. Too much time spent watching sport to put more work into the actual betting side of it though. That Bulls series was very close, but hopefully you'll recoup your losses with the Celtics losing to the Magic in the next round. I hear that the Bulls were pretty lucky to get to game 7 in the first place. I've got some money up on Betfair trying to back the Magic in the series myself as I think the current price is superb value (if I were to get matched, which I have a little), but don't see too many takers.

This thread has been dead for a good while, anyone doing better as a result of their resolutions for 2009?

Did you not have your house on the Aurelio to score first / 4-4 scorecast mid-table? I know I did, £1 million on it at odds of 10,000/1. Looked a banker before kick off.

The silly thing is that I don't even like horse racing, but I'm going to catch up with a few people and enjoy the atmosphere. Free hospitality always helps too. Unfortunately I live almost an intercontinental missile strike away, so am at the mercy of hoteliers and their 300% price rises that week! I was there for Gold Cup day last year, it was excellent as Harry Findlay and Clive Smith, the owners of the two main contenders, were in the Betfair marquee chatting to people before and after the race. Some serious money was won and lost in there.

You'll have to come and say hello on 13th March DJP, I'm going to be there for all four days

I was just browsing some odds the other day and somehow I vaguely knew Le Vell was alright (I didn't watch tonight or previously but noticed the winnings have been credited). Daft bets like that are amusing to win. On a more serious note I was bricking it this afternoon as I had far too much money on Andy Murray against Federer, and he proceeded to waste 7 match points in one game before luckily coming through a couple of games later. Well done on the poker by the way B)

£9 (all they would let me have on) @ 19/20 on Mardle/Le Vell to beat Part/McGuigan in the Pro-Celebrity darts . The most pointless bet I've placed in a long time, but satisfying to win none the less

Rather than typing the same things over again, I just thought I'd bump this thread to the top (hope no one minds) as a couple of people have PM'd me asking stuff and anyone new to the forum might not have seen this useful thread, plus this other post that I made in another thread.

Very harsh to get both of those going against

Each game is independent of what has gone before. Sure teams will have under-performed in the past but no one wins all the time. Once again people need to get away from backing short-priced favourites all of the time. Sometimes opposing them is the way to go. A team like West Brom is constantly over-rated because everyone seems to think that they are the best team in their league. Yet they do not win anything like as often as people think. Anyone backing them on Saturday got very, very lucky

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/070411 There's a good article which covers all the key points, which was written around this time last year. The guy's ideas are a little radical, but the point he makes is a good one. The NBA lags (in the opinion of most people) way behind the NFL and MLB in terms of interest and spectacle. As I was saying, late in the season it is great from a betting point of view because there are several teams "tanking". From a fan/spectator point of view, the NBA is boring and needs to change it's structure to avoid falling further behind the other two main North American sports in terms in interest and revenue. Another key point is that in the NFL and MLB, teams who are eliminated from playoff contention will play hard right till the very end. I only got into betting on American sports almost by accident, just having a few bets here and there to see how they went. I think a bit of mathematical knowledge helps more than it does in your standard UK sports like football and horse racing. Baseball in particular is very stats based and you can analyse the numbers in great detail if you so wish.

166,000 give or take. That'll be going up over the next few weeks now the MLB is about to start properly and there's plenty of tennis/cricket/football/NBA to bet on too. As you can see I do need to keep a bit of money in Betfair, I wish it was earning interest though! April is crazy because all four of my main betting sports are in season as it were, so I have a lot of liabilities to cover. As I was saying above though, the NBA is very predictable at the end of the season. There are some teams where it is in their interests to lose. If they look like they might win, their own fans start to boo and the coach then takes the best players off. It's not quite free money, nothing ever is, but it's as close as you can get in professional sports that I have seen if you know what sort of agenda each team has. I wouldn't bet nearly £43,000 every time, but last night I could do so and relax, even when they were a few points behind in the first half.

The NBA is very predictable towards the end of the regular season, you can get some very good bets at short odds that rarely lose. I don't think I've ever lost a bet backing 1.10 (1/10) and under on the NBA. Unfortunately to win anything much you have to stake quite a lot, so had one of my largest bets for a while last night and luckily win. Might as well give you the mid-table style Betfair screenshot too

Not sure which part of the profit you mean, but I staked about £22,000 last weekend for £8,000 profit.

Chesterfield going into yesterday had won 5 out of 14 home league games, Chester had lost 4 out of 13 away league games. Chesterfield's style of play and pacy forwards suits playing away from home better than at home. I was at the 4-0 win over Hereford and yes they played very well, but Hereford were tired after their FA Cup exploits. I was also at Chesterfield 3-4 Rochdale and some of Chesterfield's defending was dreadful that day. They had the better of the game but always looked like conceding goals. Add to this that Peter Leven and Jamie Lowry were suspended yesterday and Adam Rooney had terminated his loan spell. Leven is a very good player and had been the subject of bids from at least two higher division clubs in January. Lowry and Rooney have also done a good job for Chesterfield this season. It's easy to say now of course, but Chesterfield were a superb lay yesterday at around 1.70. All of this information was available before the game though and pointed (to me at least) to opposing Chesterfield.

I didn't bet on the Man Utd game, layed Chelsea, didn't bet on Birmingham, West Ham, Palace, Charlton games. Layed Forest, didn't bet on the Leeds game, and layed Chesterfield and Darlington. Walsall just sold their best 2 defenders this week so I nearly bet on them to lose, but left that game in the end. I left the Ipswich game because both teams had made quite a few personnel changes lately. I did lay Watford so lost a bit there, and also lost a little backing Stirling to draw with Clyde. I've attended a couple of Chesterfield games lately and am going to another one the week after next. They were a superb lay yesterday at the odds believe me. It's all about the odds. I would've ended up betting on them to win if the odds were higher but I layed them because they were too low IMO. You have to price every game yourself and then bet accordingly depending on the available odds. I don't just bet on favourites, in fact I bet against them more than I bet on them because weight of money often forces their prices too low. My last 7 days on Betfair is attached so you have your proof I placed a few bets elsewhere, like MK Dons because I couldn't get matched on Betfair at the price I wanted, but at least 90% of my profit for the last 7 days was made on Betfair. I'll try to post my best bets for each weekend on a Saturday morning from now on if you like.

About £16000 if you must know

Had my best football day of the season today. Everything seemed to win Won't list all the bets as I bet on 23 matches, but I'm quite pleased tonight B)