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

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

aaaand that's 2-1 to portsmouth

2-2. Not dead yet.

ah fuck that. stuck another 50p on the saturdays

blackpool
watford
wolves
fleetwood
crawley

£4.80 acca at 30-something/1.

already regretting throwing blackpool in.

― ewar woowar (or something), Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:26 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

feel 4 u bro

90:00 +3:34 Goal scored
Goal - Scott Wiseman - Blackpool 1 - 0 Barnsley
Scott Wiseman heads into their own net. Blackpool 1-0 Barnsley.

90:00 +5:16 Goal scored
Goal - Ryan Lowe - Tranmere 3 - 3 Crawley
Ryan Lowe scores with their right foot. Tranmere 3-3 Crawley Town.

seems i'm just as lucky with football as i am with fucking horse racing.

Chucked a few different bets on today, this was unexpectedly the only one that came in off a site I follow on facebook:

Watford @ 4/6
Peterborough @ 11/8
Fleetwood Town @ 6/4

Covered the rest of my shitty bets and then some.

I had £102 going onto Fleetwood @ 4/5

Fleetwood 2 - 3 Burton

:(

Hibs' unexpected equaliser from their only shot on target for the whole game did me out of £15 off a £1 stake.

Spurs 3-0 7/1
Defoe 2 or more goals 5/2

Weekend accumulators occasionally seem more stressful than they're worth.

Had:

Standard Liege to win against Kortrijk 2/5
Fenerbahce to beat Sivasspor 8/13
St Gallen to beat Luzern 5/4
Basel to beat Young Boys 8/11

and just needed Zulte-Waregem to draw with Anderlecht for a 30/1 win.

After two red cards for Anderlecht and one for ZW, Waregem scored an injury time winner to make it 4-3.

However, i also had:

Legia Warszawa to beat Craicovia 8/11
Terek Grozny and Anzhi to draw 5/2
Zenit to beat Lokomotiv 8/11
Spartak to beat Tomsk 2/9
Slovan Bratislava to beat Vion Zlate Moravce 1/3

just needing Lech Poznan to beat Zawisza Bydgoszcz at 4/7 for a 27/1 win, which they were doing comfortably until some moron got himself sent off and Lech were pegged back to 3-2. They held on though.

Also had:

Ehime v Kataller Toyama - draw
Montedio Yamagata to beat Mito Hollyhock
Yokohama to beat Thespa Kusatsu

for a 13/1 bonus.

Went for five home wins at the weekend and got none correct - two draws and three aways wins, two of those with ten men vs eleven. Couldn't pick my nose.

I had two results right out of a seven game acca, and went for a fourfold both-teams-to-score which mustered up three goals between the eight of them.

I fucking hate betting.

Hit the bar tonight with this (had two trebles on, one with the English games which won, one which hit the bar with the CL games, decided to double them up for a sixfold, and really fucking hate Real Sociedad right now as had them on a both-teams-to-score treble as well, and looked from what I read that they were the better team so one fucking goal for three separate coupons including this belter would have been nice, eh?)

Bolton v Derby (Both Teams to Score) 8/11 Won
Leicester v Blackburn (Both Teams to Score) 4/5 Won
Huddersfield v Charlton (Both Teams to Score) 8/11 Won
Over 2.5 Bayern Munich v CSKA Moscow 1/2 Won
Over 2.5 Galatasaray v Real Madri 3/5 Won
Over 2.5 Real Sociedad v Shakhtar Donetsk 1/1 Lost

Have calculated this out now as potential £16.50 back of £1.50 across the three coupons they burst. This isn't the 50p betting thread for nothing.

Had Liverpool / Swansea to draw and Roma / Dinamo Moscow to win at 12/1 yesterday, put some of the winnings on an enhanced treble of Madrid and both Manchester clubs to win at 4/1. If I wasn't such a low-stakes gambler I'd be rolling in it this week.

4 fold knackered by Forest. There was a time when by default I would never have prefered Forest Odds on at home rather than Millwall Odds against at home. Need to stop looking at the league table after 7 games.

Five fold knackered by Dundee United :-(

Celtic @ 1/3
Inverness CT @ 1/1
Dundee Utd @ 6/5
Motherwell @ 7/10
Annan Athletic @ 11/10

Had a few bob on that Annan match as a single as well, Queen's Park are utterly rank, and got Samaras at just over evens for a hattrick after his second went in. Free money!

I started with Man City to win and it went downhill from there. Fucking disaster of a coupon.

Premier League Matches Man Utd v West Brom
Premier League Matches Aston Villa v Man City
Premier League Matches Southampton v Crystal Palace
English Championship Matches Burnley v Charlton
English Championship Matches QPR v Middlesbrough
English Championship Matches Leicester v Barnsley
English League 1 Matches MK Dons v Stevenage
English League 1 Matches Wolves v Sheff Utd
English League 2 Matches Hartlepool v Oxford United

The fact I went for a draw in a match that ended up 5-0 at half time gives an indication of how my day has been.

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 :-)