THE BETTING THREAD

[Top Flight]

Can see myself cashing out tonight on this if it starts going my way

TF is going to be kicking himself over not hobnobbing today!

I've been at the seaside. Busy bank holiday weekend. Little time for hobnobbing. I wanted to lay Bristol Rovers this morning before I left, but I didn't place the bet. Annoyed now.

[Top Flight]

I have gone for 5ver on Everton (regretting it now though), West Ham, Soton and Reading under 21's to win, at £717.20.

Completely baffled by TF's non appearance by now.... he would normally be creaming over this sort of stuff.

I was at the beach. I missed out on some good bets today.

[Top Flight]

My Betfair is now £181. But it should be over £200 as I made right calls but didn't place the bets. I think I'm not betting enough at the moment.

My bet365 is £108. It had dropped to £60 on Saturday after Wealdstone lost to Hampton and Richmond, but after that I backed United, Napoli and Real Madrid on Saturday and Barcelona on Sunday which took it up to £108.

Betfair dropped to £144 after MK Dons lost but Readings victory over Cardiff got it up to 169 and then Wealdstone's win at Bishops Stortford has now taken it to £181. I was going to lay Bristol Rovers this morning before I went to the beach but I wanted to know Readings line up before I placed the bet. I knew we'd get a result at Bristol tonight. I should be on over £200 now.

[LWJ]

£13 profit last night with 2 wins and 2 losers on my lucky 15.

Can't complain I guess, though Saints apparently dominated and I heard they missed a penalty

[Top Flight]

I put a fiver tonight on wooded something or other at Romford in the champion stakes. He won at a price of 9 to 1. My fiver returned £45. So my accounts now stand at:

Bet365: £148.61
Betfair: £181.23

I'm making a lot of good calls at the moment. But I'm not betting enough and not taking full advantage. My accounts should be much higher than this.

[double d]

I put a fiver tonight on wooded something or other at Romford in the champion stakes. He won at a price of 9 to 1. My fiver returned £45. So my accounts now stand at:

Bet365: £148.61
Betfair: £181.23

I'm making a lot of good calls at the moment. But I'm not betting enough and not taking full advantage. My accounts should be much higher than this.

Do Accas then. High stakes ones aswell, that is how you get to your £1000. Couple of 20£ trebles

[Top Flight]

Not every call is a good one. If I do an Acca, one selection will let me down.

I have the whole season. I'd rather play it safe, take my time and get there slowly.

My bet365 was close to collapse on Saturday. If Rashford didn't score an injury time winner for United, I would of been on £20.

I could easily collapse from the position I'm currently in at the moment. I have blown far bigger accounts than this in the past. I want to learn the lessons and make it stick this time. I want to practise proper risk and money management and see if I can get to the grand.

if there is a good Acca though that is low risk and I think has a great chance of winning then I might go for it.

[Winston Smith]

I put a fiver tonight on wooded something or other at Romford in the champion stakes. He won at a price of 9 to 1. My fiver returned £45. So my accounts now stand at:

Bet365: £148.61
Betfair: £181.23.

can't post them up after the event mate.

[Sanguine]

I want to learn the lessons and make it stick this time. I want to practise proper risk and money management and see if I can get to the grand.

Then why have you ignored all advice you've been given? You said it yourself - your account would have been at £20 if United hadn't won. Why did you put your bank on a United win?

Interested in your moving into racing though, what's your background in that? I don't know anything about racing, so I stay well clear.

[double d]

I want to learn the lessons and make it stick this time. I want to practise proper risk and money management and see if I can get to the grand.

Then why have you ignored all advice you've been given? You said it yourself - your account would have been at £20 if United hadn't won. Why did you put your bank on a United win?

Interested in your moving into racing though, what's your background in that? I don't know anything about racing, so I stay well clear.

Also TF, you never mentioned anything about Man United or any bets at the weekend involving them? You mentioned 2 bets.... MK Dons and P'Boro. But how did you even get your account almost down to £20? That does not make sense to me.

I thought you were only doing the bets you were posting about? You said you bet £35 on 2 games and now a mystery Man united bet appears. I am convinced you are topping up your account, you must be hiding bets and losing a lot more then you say.

[Hendo]

I want to learn the lessons and make it stick this time. I want to practise proper risk and money management and see if I can get to the grand.

Then why have you ignored all advice you've been given? You said it yourself - your account would have been at £20 if United hadn't won. Why did you put your bank on a United win?

Interested in your moving into racing though, what's your background in that? I don't know anything about racing, so I stay well clear.

Also TF, you never mentioned anything about Man United or any bets at the weekend involving them? You mentioned 2 bets.... MK Dons and P'Boro. But how did you even get your account almost down to £20? That does not make sense to me.

I thought you were only doing the bets you were posting about? You said you bet £35 on 2 games and now a mystery Man united bet appears. I am convinced you are topping up your account, you must be hiding bets and losing a lot more then you say.

Well there are options here;

1) He is doing what you have said (what I bolded) and if so TF, you have a problem. FACT. There is no argument against that.
2) He is just trolling.

FTR - On horse racing. I only bet when I actually go, or its the Cheltenham Festival, and even then I only bet £5 on 1 race a day, which if I lost, I got refunded as a free bet, so it was pretty low risk/I would use the £5 free bet on something I actually knew about.

[Top Flight]

I want to learn the lessons and make it stick this time. I want to practise proper risk and money management and see if I can get to the grand.

Then why have you ignored all advice you've been given? You said it yourself - your account would have been at £20 if United hadn't won. Why did you put your bank on a United win?

Interested in your moving into racing though, what's your background in that? I don't know anything about racing, so I stay well clear.

Also TF, you never mentioned anything about Man United or any bets at the weekend involving them? You mentioned 2 bets.... MK Dons and P'Boro. But how did you even get your account almost down to £20? That does not make sense to me.

I thought you were only doing the bets you were posting about? You said you bet £35 on 2 games and now a mystery Man united bet appears. I am convinced you are topping up your account, you must be hiding bets and losing a lot more then you say.

I am not telling you about every single bet because that is going to get incredibly time consuming and sometimes I place bets on the spare of the moment. I hadn't planned to bet on the greyhounds last night, but an opportunity came up and I had to move quickly to have a position on the race. I'll explain more about that in a minute. Last night, I also placed a bet on the Boston Red Sox, but I didn't mention it because I didn't think it was important. Regarding the Red Sox, they were 3 runs to 1 down at home against the Seattle Mariners. The Red Sox price was 2.65. i put a fiver on them because i thought a great baseball side like the red sox would come from behind and win at home. However in the next innings they went 4-1 down and almost 5-1 but the Mariners had a run overturned. I panicked a bit at that point and thought maybe they wouldn't actually do it. Then in the next innings, the Red Sox had the bases loaded but 2 outs. Their price dropped to 2.15 so I cashed out for a 30p profit. I thought, if they hit it up the park and it gets caught then they are all out and the Red Sox would have a mountain to climb. They actually smashed a home run and scored 4 runs to take the lead. They eventually won 8-6. I shouldn't have cashed out as I would have won £8.25 if i stayed the course. But, a 30p profit isn't worth talking about.

This is what has been happening with my Bet365. I had £73 in my Bet365 account on Saturday morning. I backed Wealdstone with a £13 stake on a draw no bet. As Reading were away to Cardiff and I live in Ruislip, I went to watch Wealdstone. As I'm not a Wealdstone fan really, I wanted to have a bit more of a stake in the match so I have more of a reason to cheer Wealdstone on so that was the reason I backed them. I knew it was very risky because Hampton and Richmond have been getting good results in National League South this season as have Wealdstone to an extent as well. Wealdstone lost so I was down to £60. I wanted to recover my position so I wanted to bet on something a bit more certain of winning. i chose United in their game with Hull. United were priced at 1.44. I decided to put £40 on them in order to recover Bet365 to £76 if they win. But of course if United failed to win, I would only have £20 left. Fortunately Rashford won it for them at the death and I recovered to £76. Then later in the evening I put a tenner on Real Madrid when the price was 2.5 That was after Celta equalised and was around the 78 minute mark. That took my Bet365 to £91. I also put a twenty on Napoli when the price was 2.1 and that took me to £112. I lost a tenner on Athletico Madrid who I thought would beat Leganes but they drew 0-0 and on Sunday I backed Barcelona to get my account up to £108. I cashed out around the 87 minute mark on barca as they were only 1-0 up, had missed chances and I thought one mistake and they would throw the game away.

Last night, i put a fiver on the greyhounds. i was looking for something to bet on. I didn't bother with Germany/Finland because it was a friendly and Germany's price was far too short.

I watched a bit of the Greyhounds on Sky Sports. They did a little feature on the Wooded Allen dog or whatever his name was. Also the commentators were saying that the race was wide open and literally any dog could win. So I decided not to back the favourite if it was going to be so close and unpredictable. I backed the Wooded dog who they felt had a strong chance, as good a chance as anyone. I decided to chance it on that dog. I only staked a fiver because it was unpredictable and fortunately he came in. so that was what gave my account a really good boost. if my dog had lost i would have been on £103.

Regarding Betfair. i was on £167 prior to laying off Peterborough in their game with MK Dons. I layed Boro that dropped me to £144. Then I also thought sod it, I'm going to lay Cardiff as well, that dropped me to £106.5. Luckily Reading won, so I recoverd to £169. Then on Monday I layed of Bishop stortford in their game with the Stones to win another £12 and that brought me up to 181.

[Top Flight]

This evening, I did something a bit stupid. Iran played Qatar in a World Cup Qualifier. I had logged into Betfair to see what the betting options were for this evening and if there was anything that took my fancy. I saw that Iran were leading 1-0 and they had played 90 + 3 minutes of stoppage time. I clicked into the game and saw that Iran had scored an injury time goal and it looked like the winner and the prices backing Iran were at 1.03 which isn't bad at that stage of the game. I hit the play button and clicked in to see if I could watch some of the game. When I got in, it looked like the game had finished. Carlos Quieroz was on the pitch, there were lots of stewards standing on the pitch, there were a lot of celebrations taking place so I naturally assumed the game was over but noticed that bets were still being matched. So I thought, this is a sure thing. The game is over, If I can match up a bet at this point I am making guaranteed profits. So I whacked £180, almost my full account on an Iran win. I came out of the game believing it was finished and I was just moments from making a little profit. I basically bet £180 at 1.01 on an Iran win. Then I noticed the clock was still ticking and the game seemed to be continuing. I thought what the heck. Then the betting got suspended and I panicked. What if Qatar had equalised.... Luckily it was Iran that had scored again and it was now 2-0. But fricking heck. I thought the game was over. I went back in and they were still playing. They ended up playing over 100 minutes. There must have been a big delay during the match. A long injury or something.

Fortunately, I won the bet so that was another £1.80. My betfair is now £182.95.

That was a big mistake I made on that game.

[double d]

This evening, I did something a bit stupid. Iran played Qatar in a World Cup Qualifier. I had logged into Betfair to see what the betting options were for this evening and if there was anything that took my fancy. I saw that Iran were leading 1-0 and they had played 90 + 3 minutes of stoppage time. I clicked into the game and saw that Iran had scored an injury time goal and it looked like the winner and the prices backing Iran were at 1.03 which isn't bad at that stage of the game. I hit the play button and clicked in to see if I could watch some of the game. When I got in, it looked like the game had finished. Carlos Quieroz was on the pitch, there were lots of stewards standing on the pitch, there were a lot of celebrations taking place so I naturally assumed the game was over but noticed that bets were still being matched. So I thought, this is a sure thing. The game is over, If I can match up a bet at this point I am making guaranteed profits. So I whacked £180, almost my full account on an Iran win. I came out of the game believing it was finished and I was just moments from making a little profit. I basically bet £180 at 1.01 on an Iran win. Then I noticed the clock was still ticking and the game seemed to be continuing. I thought what the heck. Then the betting got suspended and I panicked. What if Qatar had equalised.... Luckily it was Iran that had scored again and it was now 2-0. But fricking heck. I thought the game was over. I went back in and they were still playing. They ended up playing over 100 minutes. There must have been a big delay during the match. A long injury or something.

Fortunately, I won the bet so that was another £1.80. My betfair is now £182.95.

That was a big mistake I made on that game.

Words litrelly cannot describe what I have just read.

[Top Flight]

This evening, I did something a bit stupid. Iran played Qatar in a World Cup Qualifier. I had logged into Betfair to see what the betting options were for this evening and if there was anything that took my fancy. I saw that Iran were leading 1-0 and they had played 90 + 3 minutes of stoppage time. I clicked into the game and saw that Iran had scored an injury time goal and it looked like the winner and the prices backing Iran were at 1.03 which isn't bad at that stage of the game. I hit the play button and clicked in to see if I could watch some of the game. When I got in, it looked like the game had finished. Carlos Quieroz was on the pitch, there were lots of stewards standing on the pitch, there were a lot of celebrations taking place so I naturally assumed the game was over but noticed that bets were still being matched. So I thought, this is a sure thing. The game is over, If I can match up a bet at this point I am making guaranteed profits. So I whacked £180, almost my full account on an Iran win. I came out of the game believing it was finished and I was just moments from making a little profit. I basically bet £180 at 1.01 on an Iran win. Then I noticed the clock was still ticking and the game seemed to be continuing. I thought what the heck. Then the betting got suspended and I panicked. What if Qatar had equalised.... Luckily it was Iran that had scored again and it was now 2-0. But fricking heck. I thought the game was over. I went back in and they were still playing. They ended up playing over 100 minutes. There must have been a big delay during the match. A long injury or something.

Fortunately, I won the bet so that was another £1.80. My betfair is now £182.95.

That was a big mistake I made on that game.

Words litrelly cannot describe what I have just read.

I can't believe I made such a schoolboy error on that one. The pictures strongly suggested the game was finished. I thought it was easy money. I should have known Betfair wouldn't be taking bets if the game had really finished. Massive risk taken for nothing really.

[Top Flight]

Also, don't forget on my Betfair account, I still have a position open on the US Presidential Election. I have got £182.95 in cleared funds. If Trump wins the presidency then I'll have another £72 added to my funds. So overall, my Betfair is looking pretty good at the moment. If I were to cash that bet out right now, I would have another £19 added to my coffers and would be on £200.

[double d]

Also, don't forget on my Betfair account, I still have a position open on the US Presidential Election. I have got £182.95 in cleared funds. If Trump wins the presidency then I'll have another £72 added to my funds. So overall, my Betfair is looking pretty good at the moment. If I were to cash that bet out right now, I would have another £19 added to my coffers and would be on £200.

If i were you cash out, there is no way in hell he will win

[Top Flight]

Why not? I think he will win. I might even add more to that bet.

I think the Americans know voting for Trump is a bit crazy but they will think, what the hell... Change is good. Hillary doesn't represent change.

We voted in the UK for Brexit as well. Everyone told us it was crazy, so we did it. The Americans will do the same.

[Top Flight]

Then why have you ignored all advice you've been given? You said it yourself - your account would have been at £20 if United hadn't won. Why did you put your bank on a United win?

Interested in your moving into racing though, what's your background in that? I don't know anything about racing, so I stay well clear.

Also TF, you never mentioned anything about Man United or any bets at the weekend involving them? You mentioned 2 bets.... MK Dons and P'Boro. But how did you even get your account almost down to £20? That does not make sense to me.

I thought you were only doing the bets you were posting about? You said you bet £35 on 2 games and now a mystery Man united bet appears. I am convinced you are topping up your account, you must be hiding bets and losing a lot more then you say.

Well there are options here;

1) He is doing what you have said (what I bolded) and if so TF, you have a problem. FACT. There is no argument against that.
2) He is just trolling.

FTR - On horse racing. I only bet when I actually go, or its the Cheltenham Festival, and even then I only bet £5 on 1 race a day, which if I lost, I got refunded as a free bet, so it was pretty low risk/I would use the £5 free bet on something I actually knew about.

I don't really understand why you think I have a problem...

Neither of your two options are correct. I only funded my two accounts once and that was back in July and I've been playing with the same money since then.

Most of you lot are betting more than me and are gambling on much riskier accumulators but you don't all have a problem do you. Why is it than whenever Top Flight bets, there is a problem?

I have a simple target to turn £100 in to £1000 on each account. I might make it, I more than likely won't make it. But, it's a good little challenge. What is so wrong with that?

I have taken on board a lot of advice and have focussed my betting much more on what I know. But occasionally I get distracted and bet on something that I don't know too well like greyhound racing or baseball. That usually happens when there is no football on like during an international break.

Tonight though, I haven't bet at all (apart from my little error with Iran. But that was because I thought it was guaranteed profits). I was looking for stuff to bet on, but I couldn't find anything. I had a little think about betting on Reading Ladies against Liverpool. But then I realised I didn't really have a clue what would happen so I left it. That is proof that I don't have any problems. Also the fact that both my accounts are up also shows that I am being careful about what I bet on. Or I am just lucky.

[Silver Fox]

I've never really looked at this thread as I don't gamble much but I'm missing some absolute gold! I can't believe Jay's trying to put his family back in the poor house, you'd have thought a man with a bachelor's degree would be a bit brighter