Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Our First Bad Day

We've just had our worst day yet, and it has led to a loss of £30.47 today, but we can't always win and our total profit 5 days in is £169.66.

In brighter news the Australia theory pulled through and the bet of the day came through too making it 5 out of 5 and a total profit from the bet of the day of £238.34.

Stick to the strategy

We enter the 4th ODI between England and Australia still with the belief that Australia do not lose 5-0. So we back Australia today at 10/11 with 2.2 times our standard stake.

Onto the Men's Quarter Finals, and we'll back Yen-Hsun Lu at 5/1, Federer at 2/9, Murray at 2/7, and Nadal at 4/6. Put your standard on each, except for the bet of the day, Nadal to beat Soderling. Put 10 times your stake on that one.

Back the Williams' sisters to beat Vesnina/Zvonareva at 1/10, the Bryan twins to beat Moodie/Norman at 1/7. Put 5 times your standard on each.

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Do you love me yet?

Day 4 has seen us go from £92.90 profit to £200.13 profit.

We can thank the bet of the day for most of it, 4 out of 4, with a total profit of £171.67.

Spain are still the cream

The Ladies' quarter finals take place today and back Zvonarera at 7/2, V Williams at 1/8, S Williams at 1/5 and Kvitova at 4/6. Put your standard on each.

Also take the 1/9 on the Bryan twins to beat Ball/Guccione. Put 5 times your standard on it.

At 1/50, this may seem a ridiculous tip, but 2% return for little to no risk is still good. So take the 1/50 on South Africa to wrap up the test match against the West Indies. I'd put 10 times your stake on it, but we won't call it the bet of the day. You expect more.

On to the world cup games and nearly everyone I've spoken to have been impressed with Japan. I am quick to mention that Paraguay were also impressive in their group, but I'll still back Japan in this one. Put your standard on Japan to qualify at 6/4.

Now I am still backing Holland, but it is hard to deny that the best international team of the last 4 years have been Spain. They are the cream of the crop and, unless Ronaldo puts on a show, this will be too easy for Spain.

We can take Spain to keep a clean sheet at 13/10. Put 2 times your standard on that.

And finally the bet of the day is Spain to qualify at 1/2. As always put 10 times your stake on it.

Monday, 28 June 2010

Betting Summary after Day 3

I've been giving tips for 3 days now and here's a summary of how I have done:

I have given 29 tips:

1 bet was void as Zvonareva beat Jankovic who retired injured a set down and 3-0 down in the second set. It is annoying but it works the other way too.

1 bet is still pending, with Ghana at 5/1 to be knocked out in the Semis.

Of the other 27 tips, I have picked 17 winners and 10 losers.

With a standard stake of £10, this has led to profit of £92.90.

20 bets for the day

I'm bored today, a destructive gambling attitude. But I am going to pick the 16 winners of Wimbledon and the 2 world cup winners, as well as 2 other bets that may tickle your fancy.

Federer at 2/17
Tsonga at 2/7
Berdych at 1/8
Hewitt at 11/10
Roddick at 1/14
Soderling at 1/7
Nadal at 1/7
Murray at 2/9

Nothing bold there apart from maybe Hewitt, but Roddick apart there is decent value.

Na Li at 4/5
V Williams at 1/20
Pironkova at 3/1
Zvonareva at 6/5
Henin at 10/11
Wozniacki at 4/11
Kanepi at 4/9
S Williams at 3/10

Stick your standard stake on 15 of the 16, with 10 times your stake on bet of the day Serena Williams to beat Sharapova at 3/10.

On to the World Cup, and my favourites from the start of the 09/10 season Holland take on Slovakia. It was the moment I saw Robin Van Persie start the season with a bang that I thought the Dutch might just do it this time, then injuries destroyed his season but ironically he came back with a month to go and is now fresher than most.

So it may come as no shock that I am backing Holland to win the match in 90 minutes at 4/9 put 2 times your normal stake on.

As for Brazil vs Chile, take the generous 4/1 for Chile to qualify, so give that your standard stake. I'd give them more than the quoted 20% chance.

Put down 5 times your standard stake on the Holland Slovakia game NOT to go to penalties at 1/9.

Finally back Berdych to win 3-0 at evens, put your standard stake down.

So all in all, I have 34times the standard stake on today. That's how you pick up your Monday!

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Take A Bow, Jose Mourinho

Today we saw two awful decisions ruin two potential classics. The comfort at which these decisions changed the respective games has made me think once again about Jose Mourinho and his simply incredible run of over 8 years unbeaten at home in the league. He has overcome shocking decisions, injuries, sending offs, wonder goals and still installed a belief in his players that they will not be beaten. Love him or hate him, you have to respect his results.

As for Video Tech, http://www.thebinocular.co.uk/2009/10/06/video-technology-in-football/.

I've already said my piece.