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

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 :-)

£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.