Friday 24 May 2013

And again...

Ligue 2 proves to be a profitable Friday night hunting ground yet again.



My 'Fantasy Multiple' proved to be just that. A pitiful one from five left me four short of three grand, and three matches short of a £50 refund had I actually placed that bet. Looking at some of the odds I don't think it would have been that difficult to work some kind of trade around the promotion but also think that would have been far too much like hard work! Better with a fivefold to LAY the multiple.... if you've the bank and cahones for it.

Friday 17 May 2013

Just for a bit of fun....

Let's see how I get along with the Betfair promotional offer on multiples this weekend....


Those readers concerned with my recent lack of edge can rest easy. The 'Place Bets' button remained un-clicked.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

An idea for a 'sequence buster'...

Well done Chelsea! The fist British club to complete the European 'hat trick' - a great game and they fought well to nick it at the end.

The sequence buster bet, of course, is to back Benfica in the next final they appear in.... 7 lost finals in a row.

Friday 10 May 2013

How to win on Betfair on a Friday evening...

... trade the Scatter Gun in Ligue 2. It is, pretty well, that simple.

For reasons best known across the channel the Ligue 2 Friday evening matches kick off at 7 pm rather than the 7.45 slot they occupied last season. This has played absolute havoc with my Friday trading as I'm rarely home before about half seven. I've still traded them and made money, and I remain convinced that this league is one of, if not THE best, league for this trade.

I've been picked up before, quite rightly, for making sweeping statements with not a lot to back them up, so, in the interests of accuracy, I trawled through www.soccerstats.com noting just the Friday night results for the current season. There are two match days left but I doubt the figures you'll see here will change that much.

I have made some assumptions for the purpose of this exercise, namely that all bets will be placed from the off, and that every single match played was traded - i.e. no filters whatsoever. The odds I've used are realistic, and the stakes scalable. A quick glance at the attached image shows a loss over the 36 rounds to date of £14 from total stakes of £3,058.

Betting theory states that if a 'system' can't be profitable to level stakes then it can't be profitable, and obviously I really wouldn't want to trade 300 odd games to come out the other side a few pints in arrears! But the SG is not a 'set and forget' trade / bet. It is designed to be actively worked in-play. In reality, for example, there is no way I'd take 17 as a 2-2 bet - my method is to wait until the 2-2 price hits at least 20 and more usually I look for 24-26. I also sometimes trade out of the 2-2 at 1-2 or 2-1, other times I'll let if run having already taken a green book as the game has progressed. A classic example of this is the Auxerre match against Angers this evening. It finished 2-2, but I'd already got an all green book of over £25 before Angers scored a last minute equaliser to net me a further £45. On the spreadsheet pictured that game made £23 so you can see just that one match would have turned a loss into a profit overall.

So the next time you think about heading to your local watering hole on a Friday night, tell your mates you'll be a bit later than usual and put your beer tokens in your wallet courtesy of a league in a country some people would have you believe is useless to trade soccer in!

Wednesday 1 May 2013

It didn't work out last night, but I've a feeling it might tonight...

In case you were wondering I'm referring to a low liability lay of Bayern in the Champion's League semi against Barcelona. I tried the same trade last night with Dortmund but despite a veritable assault on the German goal in the first twenty minutes or so the winker and his colleagues proved to be sadly lacking in the task.

I really, really, really can't see the Catalans giving up quite so easily and 1.06 is too good and too low to resist.

Good luck if you trade it, should be an enthralling match.