This weeks bet

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07/12/2007, 12:36 PM
Steve Bruce

This weeks bet

I’m not a serious gambler(as you will see with my 2 bets)

I do it for a laugh, I’ve been getting closer lately, but I don’t expect to win.

Anyway here’s my 2 accumalator bets for the week,

From Eastwoods.

Ballymena 1 / 2
Glentoran 4/9
Portadown 2/5
Dortmund 4/6
FC Zwolle 1 / 2
RKC Waalwijk 4/11
PSV 4/11
Standard Liege 1 / 2

£5 stake pays out £105.76

My other bet, which is a lot more ambitious.

Chelsea 1/6
Man Utd 1/8
Newcastle 10/11
Wolves 4/5
Leeds 4/7
Leyton Orient 8/13
Tranmere 8/13
Hereford 4/7
MK Dons 1/2
Celtic 1/7
Dundee 2/5
Raith Rovers 4/9

£5 stake gets back £503.76

What are your weeks bets?
07/12/2007, 1:04 PM
TheBoss

Do you just pick big favourites ?
08/12/2007, 1:36 PM
Steve Bruce

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBoss

Do you just pick big favourites ?

Not as a rule no. Just this time I have. Why do you ask?
08/12/2007, 2:23 PM
gustavo

I suppose with accumulators its the only way to go.
08/12/2007, 9:16 PM
TheBoss

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Bruce

Not as a rule no. Just this time I have. Why do you ask?

Bookie's generally overprice favourites so that punters will put them in accumulators and therefore they try to trick the punter.
09/12/2007, 5:32 PM
pete

Had an 8 game favourites accumulator but let down by Celtic. Karma I suppose but first & last time will include them :(
09/12/2007, 7:22 PM
bellavistaman

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

Had an 8 game favourites accumulator but let down by Celtic. Karma I suppose but first & last time will include them :(

likewise, i had 10 teams though
09/12/2007, 10:01 PM
Junior

I had a 5 team accumulator. Arsenal let me down today. The one result i didnt think I needed to worry about!!
10/12/2007, 3:39 PM
osarusan

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBoss

Bookie's generally overprice favourites so that punters will put them in accumulators and therefore they try to trick the punter.

Really? I'd have thought that the bookies would be far less concerned about the type of punter who bets 5/10 quid on a 154/1 accumulator which comes through far less often than 1 in 154 times than they would be concerned about the kind of punter who puts 5 or 10 grand on a single bet on an odds on favourite.

Overpricing favourites to lure in punters on wild accumulators will also bring in punters who bet thousands on short-priced favourites.

Which bet do you want to pay out?
10/12/2007, 9:32 PM
TheBoss

Just Singles if I see a team at odds that are wrong in my opinion, I bet then.