New Beginnings?

Well the Pokerstars profit attempt has not gone too well this last month, bad beat after bad beat and massive fields, so yesterday I gave up and put some money back on Betfair, along with the Berdych match this morning not a bad 24 hours, up a nice £141.83

No more leaving trades to run, the Berdych match would have been a good example...looked like Cilic was going to run away with it but i've seen it all before and sure enough Berdych took a 3-0 lead in the second set, thankfully I had already greened up. £50 wins on single matches are decent wins and i've come to appreciate that. Small trading wins on the Horses, mostly pre match with a couple of in play scares which I really should not get involved with, and a couple of big wins on the Rugby and Darts..(LOL).



Going back to the poker, as I had some money back on Betfair I entered a few mtts, back to some fairly normal size fields, and cashed in 3 of them with a nice result in a 10r (1r and add on) coming 3rd/790 for $1481...cool! so with my final table last month on Party Poker, what is it with the ridic rubbish on Stars, still determined to at least get a decent final on there...and I will!

Film wise watched the most overrated film I have seen since The Dark Knight, pointless violence, long drawn out scenes with ridic silence, no story, no emotion, yet geeky critics are pulling their pants down over it...go figure...

The final episode of this seasons Breaking Bad tomorrow, brilliant show just gets better and better and puts films like Drive to shame, actually glad that the writer has decided to make next season (season 5) the last one so it will have a proper ending and not drag on and on like a lot of American shows...

Another full week at work as yet another member of staff on holiday! ah well hopefully some evening tennis to trade on but I think a lot of it is going to be early morning stuff...

Nothing Much...

Covering holidays at work most of the time yet again so been busy and tired on an evening, a few days off this week, have played some Tennis, lost against Horner 3-6 3-6 6-7 (up 5-2 in the last set...pfft) and today vs Sniper 6-1 4-6 7-5, some good workouts there and a good match from Snipes on his return from paradise...

Came 2nd in an Mtt on Party Poker for $1679, played some cash and have ran well but have given quite a bit back on the BastardStars, the amount of suckouts at the moment are horrendous! Hoping for a decent final table (even the $1 rebuys have a $10,000+ 1st place) and then cash out forever!!!

This would then leave me with a bigger roll and hit the trading hard, as too many times I have threw the odd £100/200 away on silly trades...have been trying a few paper trades (Fairbot has a simulation trade option), a place laying system seems very good in its early days, and a more stringent way of tennis trading is looking good...

So for now there's not much trading to report....I may be a while...

Beat The Red!

Just as im moving forward I take a step backwards...yup its the old red devil again!
Could have greened up for £25 in the Isner match at the weekend, but no I thought lets get a bit more, boom the market flips the other way as Isner changes into a complete dog wanker! and I sit there and let the red increase and increase till I collect the nice shiny £65 RED...

Have won it back and more since, but to make a decent go of this discipline is 100% vital, pretty much as I said in the last post...;)

Scalping the horses, mainly laying one of the faves in certain races, where they are pretty much certain to trade higher, and plenty of tennis on at the moment, although its not involving the top seeds recentley...

Saw a couple of quality films, Limitless was great and Insidious was a fairly decent low budget scare flick.

** FRIDAY - After following a horse tip blind today (at work so could not trade out), I bounced back with a nice evenings trading...

Nice 24 Hours...

So after a few silly 3rd set losing trades recentley, I got the rule book in place (red out early...avoid 3rd set trading) and took a crack at proper trading last night and today.

Small scalping mostly in the racing, while the tennis mainly involved laying the fave early on in a match where they had no right to be starting at like 1.2-1.4 and quickly pushed up to bigger odds, especially in the womens tennis where some of them hit double faults for fun...

I actually prefer these smaller tennis tourneys as there are much bigger swings in the odds as the players struggle to live up to their on paper form...played tennis myself today against one of the best players from the squash club, I lost the first game but came out 6-1, 6-2...not bad!

Ok time for the pub...

Greedy Bastards

Not traded much, only get Fridays off now at work (busy) when I do trade I do well on the tennis (still have messed up in some final sets, which I know to stay away from!) but give it back on stupid lays on the racing.

Full time trading seemed something to look at but what on earths the point when Betfair have now put up their premium charge up to 60%, ahh but that only affects 0.01% of punters or something...think again Mr Piggy, they've just worded it in a pro conman way, a fellow blogger says it much better than I can...check his latest post out...http://centrecourttrading.blogspot.com/

With the last few years with Mp's expenses, banks gambling money away, big business cons all over the place, its pretty obvious the whole world is on the fiddle...I guess the average working guy is just a chump sheep, the latest disgrace are Full Tilt, my fave site for mtts and software have been playing dodgy greedy bastard all along, so one of the biggest and most "trustworthy" online poker sites is now actually offline without a license, still to pay millions back to Usa punters, and the rest of the world joining that queue, while Lederer and his fellow thiefs lap it up on some off shore island...

I think the riots in Greece and other places in the world are just the start...although the "xfactorers/eastenders" of the Uk will probably just eat another pie.

Cut Out The Third Set

Working most week days recentley so missed a lot of the Madrid day tennis, have done a few trades but hit two reds when I traded the 3rd set in play. Now this is just idiotic as it can swing either way, I was been greedy after recent success and need to make that a rule...to not trade the 3rd set, unless its a lay of 1.05 or below...

Layed Nadal from the start against Federer yesterday when he was a very low starting price, worked out nice! Should be a good final today, Nadal V Djokovic...

Watched a great film - Tucker And Dale Vs Evil, it turns films like Wrong Turn and Deliverance on their back and makes for a decent comedy/horror, nice pic of one of the stars above.

Man Utd v Chelsea should be a classic today, not trading it as have no idea which way it will go, just going to enjoy the spectacle...

"Good" Friday

Played tennis in the glorious sun this morning, losing 4-6 4-6 to Horneris which is not bad against the "net king". Felt knacked in the afternoon after plenty of beers the previous evening so settled down to some trading...

The Safina match was first and this had the usual crazy ingredients! She had won the first set which I had not seen but now in the 2nd was looking very ropey...hardly running and looking faint, just a good job I took my green when I did, as Safina ended up winning!



Could have made a load more (see the screenshot above, a lay there would have added to profits nicely!) but decided to keep clear as had already made what I wanted, what actually happened was Safina sat down with her coach and said "ive got cramps, I cant carry on" 1.01 is now available on her opponent, but guess what...time out and she comes back and wins the final set, lol unreal!

The Ferrer match was also a good trade, put a lay in when Ferrer had broke he then took a time out for a leg injury, boom his odds shot up and collected the green right there...



Got a bit greedy after that and jumped straight into a Wta match without even looking at what had happened or watching it for a bit, paid with a £26 red, lesson learnt there, but all in all a good Tennis trading today and no racing to put me off...