Day Off Work...

Had a good day trading a few of the matches in the Monte Carlo Masters...some quality strops today, with Malisse and Gulbis both getting close to meltdowns with the umpires, always adds a bit of spice to the matches lol. My best trade was a lay of Tisparevic, I was pretty sure he would fade and rode the red for a bit to come up with a green...



Couple of small Horse and Football lays paid off so quite a good day for my stakes...



Played tennis mid afternoon between the tennis trades, and was keeping level in the first set, but ffs for the 3rd week in a row I got shoulder pain from serving, but this week it was actually stopping me hit it hard, sigh at getting old and creaks and pains creeping in...so obv I lost.

Have put some small stakes on the Snooker World Championship market pre start to test the waters, have picked Murphy (19/1) Cope (70/1) and Fu (80/1)...will green up if they make a few rounds progress.

Will see how Murray performs in the Tennis tomorrow, surely he cant get any worse?

Golf - Us Masters

Had a hit and miss day trading the Tennis, layed Wozniacki but she was just too good vs Vesnina so only small profit on that one, but I messed the Nishikori v Sweeting match up, it was 4-0 to Nish in previous matches and he has played much better than Sweeting recentley...Nish started at 1.37 and I guess I should have layed him from the start and see what happened, in the end Sweeting won 2-0!

Bit peeved with that and saw that the final round of the Us Masters was underway, say that Rory was 1.99 and thought that was way too low with so many holes to play and various players not far behind him...so I stuck in a lay. His odds went up but then they started coming down again and I bottled it a bit...as after that he made a massive crash and summed up my form at golf later on...lol. Played around with the odds on a few others, but the main profit was from the demise of Rory, not bad for my first proper trade on Golf...



Monte Carlo Masters starts today, so lots of good tennis during the day, shame im at work for most of the week...;)

Nadal V Djokovic

Miami - Nadal v Djokovic - £45 GREEN

What a cracking match that was! Got out mid way through the 2nd set, and could then sit and marvel at the quality of Tennis. The trade was a back of Nadal early on, green up...and then back Djoko at the start of the 2nd set as he had got into his groove near the end of the 1st even though he had lost it. Again greened up after he broke Nadal...if only all tennis trades were as nice and simple as this! (unlike my mess of the Wozniacki match last week - RED!)

Been playing around with the ladders pre horse race and may be making progress on that front, seeing some regular patterns emerge that could be of use.

Lost to Horneris at tennis, i lost a set point though after coming back from 0-4..sigh! in my other match I took down the Sniper...

Watched The Other Guys which was good for a laugh, never knew that Mark Wahlberg went to prison for racist violence and blinded a Vietnamese man in the attack, never really liked the fella! Lol at this film title Hobo With A Shotgun!





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We Have Light!

Finally spring/summer seems to be here, has felt like the longest winter ever...off to play some tennis today (will obv lose as I am against Yorkshire's no.1 player, Chief Horneris), there is one big downside to this change of seasons though, the light mornings which now includes pigeons making a racket from 5am, really doing my head in!

Tennis still going well on the trading front, bit poor with no live footage in the early rounds of Indian Wells and Miami, especially when you get round 1 live streams from places like Outer Mongolia.

Still not got my head round pre horse race trading yet, I just cant seem to follow the swings, in race trading seems the way to go, but then this seems to have a high level of risk to it...need to stick at it I feel, as there are so many meetings every day all year...

If In Doubt Lay..

Did some nice tennis trades yesterday, laid Ferrer from the start and should have let it run a bit longer as he ended up losing, aswell as backing Del Potro when a set down...he came back to win.

But then came the BIG mistake laid Murray (or cretin for short) from near the start when 1.03 but then checked out the stats on Donald Young, world no 143 and should obv be easy for Murray, so I got out of my lay (sigh)...the other matches were on at this time so left it alone, a bit later I saw Murray lost the 1st set in a tiebreak, ahh higher odds to back, nice!

So I put a chunk on him and put the match on live on Sky, OMFG the complete and utter turd burgler was not even trying just like in a match last month, is his Mum or Brother trading him on Betfair? the odds moved fast and I had to take the red, its good that we have a British player in the top 10, keeps some interest in the sport over here, but this guy is like the Diouf of Tennis! ha anyway rant over...

One day I will catch one of these low lays full on from the beginning, until then I will keep backing cabbages...;)

One last quick rant, Betfair have been an abs disgrace this last few weeks, with Saturday downtime now been a regular thing, it was off for like 7 hours yesterday, with people losing £1000's through no fault of their own..sort it you monopoly mugs!

Leaving Winter Behind...

Hopefully the arctic conditions are gone for good now...back to a normal schedule and now with the tennis calendar back to its busy normality I can trade a lot more of that. Done ok with the horse trading, but not much good on the football, I find that the hardest to trade on...

Got some new links on the right to some quality blogs, lol at Arsenal going from 4-0 to 4-4, sych an easy 1.01 lay right there, but who would have thought it!

Speaking of 1.01 lays been a few in different tennis matches in the last few days, the 1.01-1.10 chances are a lot more common that i thought with players throwing it away just as they have the match in hand.

Just watched the new Hawaii Five O, actually very good! Archer (an animated spoof) also seems good. Film wise, shark thriller "The Reef" was ok, so was Buried but the Denzel Washington film "Unstoppable" was so cliched and dull considering it was meant to be an action blockbuster. Ok roll on summer!

Breaking Out

So long time no post, working a lot of the time, but did have a few mishaps trading...got to be very careful with the tennis as blatant fixes still abound, cant remember the match now but I need to concentrate more, when a player is one set down but he is still the 1.3 fave!!! the writings on the wall...

Trading the horses has been the most profitable, smallish trades adding up and have recentley discovered an automated back to lay system on Fairbot, where I can put a back of say 700/1 and a lay of 30/1, this happens a lot in the tail end of races and if I can be quick on the green up button this would be sweet!

Football trading seems a lot of work, but have had some success, but think I will make my own way now rather than pay a subscription...

Have to mention the tv show Breaking Bad, abs amazing show and I have watched all 3 seasons in the last few weeks, its actually surpassed my faves 24 and Dexter with Seasons 2 and 3 having such brilliant twists and turns, you really never know whats coming next. Shocked that this hasnt had a good showing on the multitude of channels over here, buy it on Dvd or download asap imo!!!

Lots of snow here and one thing to say to about global warming and all the new green taxes on flights etc...LIB LAB CON!!!