Sam's weekly 50p and how to waste 50p: The football betting thread

$5 on Liverpool to finish higher than Man City, $5 on Liverpool to win the Premiership at 11/1, $5 on Olympique Lyonnais to win at 7/4

Lyon being shorter odds than LFC to win the EPL seems harsh, but probably fair;)

pre season bets

villa to be relegated £10 @ 20-1

divisional accumulator £5 e/w:
prem - man city @ 4-1
champ- ipswich @ 18-1
lg 1 - mk dons @ 14-1
lg 2 - shrewsbury @ 12-1
potenlol returns - 46 grand.

First day accumulator for lols:
Wolves, Fulham, Liverpool, QPR-Bolton draw, Wigan, Arsenal, Chelsea, Utd, City

yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes, ?

Not the best start.

United was a yes

o right i misread

$5 parlay, FC Dallas/Sounders draw + Timbers/Whitecaps draw
$1 parlay, Arsenal & Fulham to win

without wishing to jinx myself wolves fulham looks good for a 'no goalscorer' bet tomorrow.

backed wolves, villa, liverpool and sunderland for wins

Found a grand total of £2 in an old account.

Had £1 on Chelsea and Dortmund to win, plus a Wigan / Swansea draw.

The other £1 went on wins for Dortmund, Benfica, Viktoria Plzen and both of the Old Firm.

You're 6/6 so far - how much do you stand to win?

Only about £12 in total. It's a shame it wasn't more than £2 in the account!

Ah, Celtic fucked you over, shame.

but idk if you can complain:

I had a 10 match accumulator, 9 matches done right, awaiting on a Celtic win at home to net a grand.

They didn't.

― Mark G, Friday, September 24, 2010 9:25 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark

without wishing to jinx myself wolves fulham looks good for a 'no goalscorer' bet tomorrow.

can you tip us every week?

Wigan 13/2 away at Everton is too tempting to ignore.

middlesbrough
stoke
man utd
palace
huddersfield
burnley
chelsea

here for the horrible fun of it is the 7 game accumulator i stopped myself from putting 20 quid on this afternoon (i don't let myself bet but i had nowt better to do than think about it)

looks like boro have got theirs sown up

I'm already about £40 up this season, using a system of pure luck and not touching any games in the SPL. I may report back tomorrow now I've remembered this thread exists.

knew burnley was greedy

Coral e-mailed me to say I had £1 left in the account I haven't touched for six months. Now have £34 having correctly predicted the results of:

Man Utd vs Chelsea
Levante vs Getafe
Girona vs Huesca
Villarreal vs Gijon
Atalanta vs Pescara
Lyon vs Marseille

Plus the correct score in the Lyon game.

Free streaming on the Bet365 site is excellent. Caught the Shakhtar and Galatasary games earlier while waiting for my 25-1 accumulator to come in.

Of course as soon as I say that it freezes.

well go on then, what was your bet

Sligo, Rapid Vienna, PSG, Galatasaray, Shakhtar, Ferencvarosi, Crvena Zvezda and Belenenses all to win.

fucking nazi fascist racist bigot Di Canio cost me £70

Yesterday's accumulator was originally part of a 14-match bet I split into two. The back end (Barca, Dinamo Zagreb, Atletico Madrid, Fenerbahce, Kharkov and Basel) came in too.

Would have been 260-1 had I stuck with one bet.

Hats off to the few folk I know who stuck money on Hibs at half-time when they were 3-0 down and looking terrible against Falkirk on Saturday. I wasn't even for wasting a quid on it for lolz.

I can't remember the last time I won an accumulator. There's always one team ruins my both-teams-to-score and I couldn't predict rain in Glasgow in November when it comes to actual matches (see Sunderland yesterday).

For posterity as it'll never happen again (losing predictions in bold):

Bet 1:

Universidad de Chile - Universidad de Chile v Palestino
Botafogo SP - Botafogo SP v Bragantino
Ponte Preta - Ponte Preta v Mirassol

Bet 2:

Real Madrid 3-0 - Athletic Bilbao v Real Madrid

Bet 3:

Atletico Madrid - Atletico Madrid v Granada
Barcelona - R Zaragoza v Barcelona
Fenerbahce - Fenerbahce v Eskisehirspor
Basel - Basel v FC Zürich
Dinamo Zagreb - Dinamo Zagreb v Inter Zapresic
Metalist Kharkiv - Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava v Metalist Kharkiv

Bet 4:

Sligo Rovers - Sligo Rovers v Cork City Foras Co-Op
Rapid Vienna - Rapid Vienna v Wiener Neustadt
PSG - Troyes v PSG
Galatasaray - Karabukspor v Galatasaray
Shakhtar - Shakhtar v FC Zorya Luhansk
Ferencvarosi - Ferencvarosi v Siofok
Crvena Zvezda - Crvena Zvezda v Spartak Zlatibor Voda
Belenenses - Sporting Lisbon B v Belenenses

Bet 5:

Wigan - Wigan v Millwall
B. Munich - B. Munich v Nürnberg
Morton - Morton v Dunfermline
QOS - QOS v Stranraer
Novara - Novara v Vicenza

Bet 6:

Shakhter Karagandy v Lokomotiv Astana
Horizont Turnovo - Horizont Turnovo v FK Drita
Naxxar Lions - Naxxar Lions v Mqabba FC
Tarxien Rainbows - Tarxien Rainbows v Mosta FC
VMFD Zalgiris - Kruoja Pakruojis v VMFD Zalgiris
Trapani - Trapani v Pavia

Bet 7:

Wellington Olympic- Wellington Olympic v Petone FC
Al-Sadd SC- Al-Sadd SC v Al Kharaitiyat SC
Guangzhou Evergrande - Dalian Aerbin FC v Guangzhou Evergrande
Al Kuwait SC - Al Naser SC v Al Kuwait SC
Al Qadsia SC - Al Salibikhaet SC v Al Qadsia SC

Bet 8:

Yokohama F-Marinos - Yokohama F-Marinos v Kawasaki Frontale
Kashima Antlers - Oita v Kashima Antlers
Urawa Red Diamonds - Urawa Red Diamonds v Shonan Bellmare

can't believe u went for shakhter karagandy there, what were u thinking lad

Anyone else here doing the £10-£1k challenge on facebook? I'm a bit late to the party, and haven't put on every day, but I'm getting there... https://www.facebook.com/FootballBettingTipsandAccumulators

Blew the lot on what I thought was a safe doubler chasing a few extra quid to catch up the other day, bah (was up to about £250). Stupid St Patrick's Athletic (forgot that they were once the "stars" of the worst game of football I've ever seen). Started again yesterday, turns out finding myself watching Czech league games on the bet365 website and cheering consolation goals is re-invigorating my interest in football a bit.

It's a really tough time of the season to bet. So many dead rubbers in the European leagues. Have been taking a bit of an interest in Japan / China but even that is waning.

Ha, oops, I look like a big gambler there. Was only up to £25.

just won 50 quid on Magic City at Goodwood only to find out after it's part owned by Fergie

truly he is lord

VPS Vaasa's away form is making me ££££ atm.

May have unwittingly benefited from some jiggery-pokery this afternoon. FC Daugava were drawing 0-0 away at FK Daugava Rīga at half time but had odds of 11/1 to win - which struck me as rather high given that they are the defending champions. I put a small bet on and within two minutes the odds had shot up to 16/1 then 18/1. Bear in mind this was at half time so nothing was happening on the pitch. I put another small bet on and Daugava went on to win 1-0. I don't know how easy it would be to manipulate the odds on a relatively minor match, or how easy it would be to stop people doing it, but it was a little strange.

"amazingly" vaasa (who i've never even heard of before) have two players i have signed during my champman career in silanpaa and kerr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bjork

this guy is what p much would happen if i had to invent a finnish footballer's name on a not particularly inspired day

I managed to screw up a bet today by putting over 0.5 goals in the first half rather than in the match for one game. There was a goal in the second half after a goalless first half and everything else on my acca came in. OK, it was just for a fiver, but still, stupid mistake :(

The should steal him more, I lost my $2,000 in a bet between Ghana vs Uruguay in 2010. I still feel the pain, Gyan should never step in USA or he will pay my money for me. Even my friend bet his car on that penalty. Now you crying because the stole your $10,000 kwosiaaaaaaaaa!!!

Chernomorets Odessa 7/5
Sparta Praha 4/6
Teplice 5/4
Debrecen 2/9
Gent 1/2

16/1 accumulator to start the season properly.

uh it's actually chornomorets ...

gr8 bet on them anyway, presumably cos of theirs and metalurh's europa league games?

ooh gent only just scraped it

Chornomorets in Russian, which is the majority language of Odessa, but you're right. Yes, the European games were definitely a factor.

Debrecen cut it pretty fine too.

Sorry, that should have been "Chernomorets" in Russian.

Hafnarfjordur / Austria Vienna - draw 11/4
Metalist Kharkiv / PAOK - draw 3/1

Double - 14/1

Fucking Blackburn. Really? REALLY?

Charlton v Middlesbrough
Ipswich v Millwall
Watford v Bournemouth
Yeovil v Birmingham
MK Dons v Crewe
Wolves v Gillingham
Coventry v Bristol City
Accrington Stanley v Portsmouth

all home apart from cov

blackpool
watford
wolves
fleetwood
crawley

£4.80 acca at 30-something/1.

already regretting throwing blackpool in.

yknow i dont expect to win every time or anything but can i at least not have my coupon burst before 3pm every week ffs (1-1 accrington, 15 mins to go)

tbh early ko's are seemingly nearly always drab wash-outs, more fool me for not checking

Rotherham v Peterborough Match betting Peterborough6/4
Millwall v Leeds Match betting Millwall6/4
Preston v Swindon Match betting Preston6/5
Bradford v Shrewsbury Match betting Bradford4/5
Northampton v Morecambe Match betting Morecambe2/1

Usual let down by one dodgy away selection scenario for me, annoying that a header cleared off the line by a Cobblers defender has denied me 750 quid.

Real Madrid just removed all the free money I made off Samaras and Annan :-(

dont u just love it when the early game torpedoes ur sprawling epic accy before it's even begun

fuck u vitesse arnhem

ffs, had AC Milan to score before 60:00, goal went in at about 60:10. Then to add insult to injury they scored another 2 minutes later :-(

everton, rotherham, blackpool, leicester, rmad + bale anytime, atleti, preston, dortmund, newcastle, nor-palace under 1.5 goals, elgin-queens park btts... orient, hartlepool, southend, boro-bolton btts

note to self stop being a greedy cunt

I can't even get a decent treble, fuck me I feel greedy when I do a 5-fold!

My big treble today was Huddersfield 2/1, Blackburn 13/10 and Exeter 6/4. I thought Exeter odds against at home against a shite side must be a gift but then you look at the L2 table and there are a few points between the top 10.

Man U have replaced old favourites Arsenal in my "teams that always fuck up my coupon" list.

My new betting strategy from next weekend is to use the Ladrokes Result Rush coupon - it's a combination of traditional 1-2-X and Goal Rush - betting on a result and with both teams to score. A double usually comes in better than 10/1.

You just have to find shite teams who somehow always score or good teams who somehow always concede. Easy, eh?

Celtic are usually ok for that one :-(

I've been doing better recently with e/w trixies on first goal scorer. Usually pick Zlatan, Stevie May and one of Negredo or Suarez or Rooney or Lukaku depending on who they're playing (odds always way too short now on my original third choice of Sergio Aguero and Zlatan appears to be going the same way).

Of course I changed it up this week, and picked Lee McCulloch who proceeded to miss the penalty I knew Sevco would be awarded in a cup game. Decided to go big on Virgil van Dijk rather than any Celtic players who would actually score, and added Alexis Sanchez in the weekend Barcelona go to shite.

9/4 on Arsenal / Chelsea draw. 8/1 on no goalscorer.

It's a Christmas miracle!

I thought all my bets were down till I noticed this little nugget had been settled, forget about it because of the conference late ko.

£0.50 QPR 1-1 Millwall Match betting Draw 12/5 £68.78
Rotherham 2-2 MK Dons Match betting Draw 12/5
Fleetwood Town 1-1 Southend Match betting Draw 12/5
Forest Green 1-1 Wrexham Match betting Draw 5/2

Took advantage of bet365's Champions League offer in style last night- place a bet pre-match and get a risk-free in-play bet. Put over 0.5 first half goals and decided to wait and see whether that won before deciding what to do in-play (thought I might have to recoup my loss). Goal duly scored so decided to go for a high odds one with my free bet - nothing ventured, nothing gained - so banged it on Sergio Ramos to score any time at 11/1. Nice wee balance going into the World Cup now :-)

£45 off a £3 accumulator. Good start to a long and profitable season.

Guy next to me put £150 on a skinny dog. Proper gamblers are nuts.

Igor Vetokele's equaliser in the second minute of injury time for Charlton at Huddersfield sparked a remarkable £24,243.69 pay-out for one 50p Football punter.

Do I have this right?

Most seats at 2015 General Election

Labour best odds 4/5 (William Hill)
Tories 11/8 (Sportingbet)

Assuming no ridiculous UKIP swing...
to win £1000 I'd have to put either £555 on Labour or £421 on Tories. So if I do both I win £24. Which sounds shit for a £976 bet - but 2.4% tax free is better than any ISA earns in a year.

Do I lose if it's a tie?

You have your sums right, but as you surmise you'd effectively be putting £976 against the election being a tie at very short odds.

Besides, there are much easier ways to make risk-free profits from the bookies. You could make more than £24 every day for months if you have £976 you don't need straight away.

how so?

'Months' is bullshit, actually. Maybe up to two months if you did it every day. Matched betting - matching free bets you get at bookies with lay bets you put on at Betfair. There's at least a grand of free money available across the various bookies, though it can be a bit of a chore. I just do it when I'm going on holiday or something and need an extra couple of hundred.

Today I clicked on this icon at ladbrokes that said if you get four out of a five-fold accumulator staked you get a refund on your bet. This is my bet and these fucking tossers haven't refunded shit.
Swansea 1-1 Sunderland Match betting Swansea 1/1 £ 0.00
Derby 4-1 Bolton Match betting Derby 8/15
Wigan 1-3 Bournemouth Match betting Bournemouth 1/1
Swindon 2-0 Barnsley Match betting Swindon 4/7
Preston 1-0 Coventry Match betting Preston 8/13

fucking wankers.

I think it's refunded as a free bet rather than a balance credit.

How do you claim this free bet? I have zero credit on my account and it was fucking guileless Swansea that caused all this shit. I mean it is only 3.40 but it hasn't appeared as free bet credit either.

my account / free bets

Tfw you get home and have a quick scan at the live-scores and 4 out of 5 on your acc is currently winning.

there I fucked it up, one equaliser and one a goal down.

Way to justify that 8/15 home banker status Blackburn - you set of cunts.

I'm going to petition my club to recall Payne, because you are an amateur set-up.