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!!!

Footy Season

The Us Open turned into a small profit overall, my big green on Wozniacki failed as she flopped in the semis, was quite a shock! and my big greens in the mens both lost in the quaters, leading to a small win on Nadal.

Seem to have a bit of a wall at the horse trading, cant seem to make much pre race anymore, has it got tougher or am I doing something wrong...dunno. Obv lumping on or laying is still there, but would prefer to trade pre race if possible.

Have turned my attention to football as the season picks up pace, so many matches most days, so to get competent at football trading would be aok.

Having read a trading football service at http://mysportstradingjourney.blogspot.com/ I decided to join and looks good so far, I tried one of the ideas on the Doncaster v Leeds match, oh dear 0-0 which is never much good for trading, and the quality of the football was terrible, they should both be back in York Citys league!!!

One of the best things is the Webinar and the trading chat rooms, lots to learn!

The US Open 2010

Start of the US Open today, looking forward to some good tennis and have got involved pre tourney with quite a few players to get the decent odds hopefully...

Am on Djokovic, Berdych, Roddick, Nalbandian, Davydenko, Fish, Baghdatis (Horner), Querrey, Verdasco, Gasquet, Ferrer and Kohlschreiber, big odds and small amounts and will trade through the tourney...in the Womens im on Wozniacki, Clijsters, Zvonareva, William and Pennetta.

Horner smashed me at tennis, 2-6, 2-6, 0-6. ooof! best hes played but I seem to have gone downhill over the last couple of weeks, managed a win vs Sniper though, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0. Snipes tried destroying another racket but the racket won...lol.

Played some Poker in the last week and brutal both times, came 30/2000+ on Poker Stars...$70, $7k+ 1st...aq loses to q10 for the mini world, and last night on Betfair after 7 hrs and been in the top 5 for the last 2 hours, came 9th for $300...$3k+ up top. Play great all tourney then big blinds and luck kicks in when playing the bigger $$$...ugh!!!!

Watched Hatchet and I Love You Phillip Morris, pfft Hatchet poor horror, and the latter is a gay comedy starring Jim Carrey and Ewan Mcgregor! can see why this has not yet been released in the Usa, I had to look away at some bits...enough said!

Amazing Scenes

Laptop is virused up, wiped it back to factory settings but still playing up...thats what I normally blog on, a bit of trading between the work...a nice £45 made laying Murray in play after he won the first set.

An amazing turn around last night when Roddick was 1.01 when 1 set and 5-2 up, lol Fish came back and won it, I was in the Red on this backing Fish and took a small green, obv could have been much bigger, but I should just be thankful for the fight back as Fish looked battered and out if it!

A lot of blogs not been updated or finished recentley so have updated the links, more lazy than me!

In more amazing scenes I actually watched and enjoyed a British tv show...Vexed, in the vein of 80s Usa shows Sledge Hammer and Moonlighting and not the type of show the BBC would normally make, a good laugh but only 3 episodes made so far, wtf?

Got schooled by Horneris at tennis, 5-7 0-6 4-6, but managed a win vs Sniper yesterday 8-6 6-2 (after a loss to him last week).