Diary of a Commonsensical Gambler

[Dice Man]

Yeah I'll get on that now.

[Dice Man]

OK here we go. Quite often I've done something silly like bet on someone to win and then bet that the score will be they lose 10-0. It just seemed to me that independently they were good odds. Of course they're not independent, and I'm essentially betting that my other bet won't win. I'm not sure how irrational this strategy is.

[TylerStroud]

What does any of this mean?

[Dice Man]

OK \thread. Of the 7 games today had I bet £2.50 on all of them I would be down £21.83 just today, winning only two bets which were big favourites anyway. That doesn't bother me that much. What bothers me is that betting on these prospects ruins the entertainment value of the Premiership IMO. (This may be why I stopped betting on football before). When Bolton went 1-0 up I kind of wanted them to score another one to get my 40-1 for 2-0 in that game, and I hadn't even placed an actual bet. Even the hypothetical bet was only £2.50. Not even a hypothetical million dollars or something fun. So end of thread as far as I'm concerned. Anybody who thought I would give up at the first available opportunity was right. You win.

[Gus Mango Fish]

OK \thread. Of the 7 games today had I bet £2.50 on all of them I would be down £21.83 just today, winning only two bets which were big favourites anyway. That doesn't bother me that much. What bothers me is that betting on these prospects ruins the entertainment value of the Premiership IMO. (This may be why I stopped betting on football before). When Bolton went 1-0 up I kind of wanted them to score another one to get my 40-1 for 2-0 in that game, and I hadn't even placed an actual bet. Even the hypothetical bet was only £2.50. Not even a hypothetical million dollars or something fun. So end of thread as far as I'm concerned. Anybody who thought I would give up at the first available opportunity was right. You win.

That's a shame. I was quite interested to see if you could make a go of it. Out of interest would Lawro's have made a profit? Who did better this week out of you two?

[Dice Man]

Lawrenson, out of the 7 ties, got 3 right and no perfect scores. But the ones he got right were Tottenham, Chelsea and Liverpool wins which win him very little. He'd have been down £18.98. Although there are still today's matches to play.