The Sports Betting thread

[Baddar]

Couldn't be arsed putting anything on today.

I'll put between £5 and £10 on Real tomorrow though. Depends how brave I am. They've won every game so far, but Sevilla lost on the first day and have won the rest, I believe, so it isn't straightforward. Should be a good game to watch if the ref isn't a twat though.

[TheArsenal]

Put £2 on an acca for all the teams at the top of the top 5 tables to win today. Returns about £30.

So that's United, Newcastle, Leeds, Bournemouth, Oxford.

[LexChaney]

Well I managed to lose £15. Manchester United got a draw loss of £5, Spurs got a draw loss of £5 and Newcastle also got a draw another loss of £5.

Roll on Monday so I can put more money on.

[Scott McFly]

Had a few accas on, Spurs drawing cost me a double with Burnley as the closest one, lost about £6-£7 in all.

[TheArsenal]

I managed to jynx the top team in the top 5 leagues in England today.

By putting them all in an acca where I predicted they would all win, none of them managed it. I wonder how long it's been since that happened?

The teams at the top of the Premiership, Championship, League One, League Two and Blue Square Premier ALL drew.

[Scott McFly]

So after a horrendous week in Europe last week and even over the weekend, I stick a few quid on the Johnstone's Paint Trophy games of all things. 4-fold with Carlisle, Leeds, Charlton and Bury, made £12 profit. Gets me back on the right track.

[9 to 5]

The fuck I am bothering putting more than a quid on international football if that.

[Scott McFly]

So I notice the Under 20 World Cup game between Germany and Nigeria was listed on Will Hill's website for a 7pm KO, Germany were 8/13 favourites so I thought I wouldn't bother. Happen to check at half-time and it's 0-0, so they're now 11/10. Checked the results in the groups (this is the knockout stage) and Germany steamrollered through their group while Nigeria scraped through even though they lost two of their 3 games. So I stick a couple of quid on and realise the game is on Eurosport. What a fucking second half, it had absolutely everything. It was one of those games that you could just watch even with no allegiance to either side and no clue who any of the players were. The commentary was really honest and top notch, far better than anything you'd hear on Sky that's for sure. But Nigeria went ahead and I shat it. Germany equalised about 2 mins later and all was right. Can't remember what order the next two happened, but Germany got a player sent off (really harshly to be fair) and Nigeria went 2-1 up. Nigeria then got a guy stretchered off and took forever to replace him, in which time Germany made it 2-2. Then with literally the last kick of the ball, 10-man Germany broke right up the field with the full back of all people, he had one other guy with him but couldn't pass because he was offside, so he just powered through with energy he got from goodness knows where and poked it past the oncoming keeper. The Nigerian players were literally crying on the bench and strewn on the pitch. It was unbelievable. The Nigerian keeper even got opened up by a knee to the head and still carried on, what a trooper. But incredible match, glad I caught the second half.

[9 to 5]

Finland

England

Bahrain

Austria

Charlton

MK Dons

Bury

Oxford

[IAceI]

Screw betting for the day, I hate it. >_<

[Scott McFly]

Had a quid on some random golf games yesterday in the President's Cup. Not a clue what it is but I got just over £4 back, so I'm not complaining.

Stayed well clear of Japan v Scotland since it was essentially Japan's B-Team against Scotland's C-team and anything could've happened.

Will have a look at the football today but I'm more inclined to go for the League 1/2 games rather than internationals.

EDIT: Okay so I went a bit mental. £9.80 worth of bets, most of them crazy accumulators that'll never come off and a single on Bournemouth. If I'm up then great, if not then I might put something on the South American games that kick off about 11pm British time.

EDIT 2: Cheers for that Bournemouth. Although some others lost too, they were the only ones I had a single on too.

International acca:

Bosnia

Bulgaria

Austria

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Turkey

[hugobomb]

£5 bet on three races:

2:10 Hexon Noble Alan 4/7

2:15 Ascot Our Edward 5-1

2:40 York Theola 9/4

All win and I pocket £153, can't complain

[9 to 5]

Arsenal

Cardiff

Blackpool

Man City

Leeds

Northampton

Histon

Thurrock

Llanelli

Celtic

Dunn to score first e/w

The value of all that? Priceless if the last one comes off with a winning scoreline.

[Scott McFly]

Arsenal, Spurs, Stoke

Blackpool, Bristol City, Leicester

Charlton, MK Dons, Colchester

£1.50 trebles on each, smaller acca and seven-folds on the whole thing, about £11 in total I think.

[TheArsenal]

Newcastle, QPR, Forest

Luton, Stevenage

Arsenal, Barcelona, Inter, Fiorentina, Olympiakos, Rangers.

£2 on each acca. If it all comes in it returns around £40.

[Baddar]

I haven't had a bet since way before the last international break. I hope to rectify that this weekend.

United are 6/4 against Liverpool on Sunday. Dare I? ...especially given the fact that Rooney's a major doubt now.

[Scott McFly]

I am staying way the fuck away from that game, too unpredictable. Rooney is probably out, Torres is possibly out, people are doubtful all over the place, it's a clusterfuck. Not that my other betting's gone too well, I've literally lost money every weekend and midweek for the last 2 weeks or something like that. Think I'm less than £10 up for the season now.

[Baddar]

To be honest, the leagues that aren't the Premier League rarely jump out at me because of so much unpredictability, and the Premier League this week just seems to be one "never know" game after another.

Ugh. I will find a way to put £10 on tomorrow.

[9 to 5]

Stevenson

Machida

Bolton

Arsenal

Notts County

Spurs

Rochdale

Preston

Being slightly more conservative this week.

EDIT:

Paddypower gave me a free fiver to play with in their casino. So, I switched it over to my sportsbook and slapped it on this treble:

Newcastle

Bradford

Huddlesfield

Edited October 24, 2009 by 9 to 5

[9 to 5]

Preston

Liverpool

Burnley :@

Rotherham

Leeds

Stoke

Southend

Dag + Red

West Brom

Celtic