A Mixed Few Days

6 days on from my last update and I'm slightly up.
Still the lack of horse racing is leaving me betting/trading on football, which on Saturday went quite badly. I was going fine until the evening, when a match finished 0-0 which really shouldn't have. I had a loss and stupidly put more on the next match too, layed the draw, layed under 1.5 and 2.5 goals, as plenty were expected, but once again a 0-0 draw! This meant a total loss of £124.07. I made it back surprisingly quickly though, and with plenty of luck.

Here's a summary of the last few days...

Thursday 18/02/2010

Very little activity today, just two trades on horses, one gain, one loss, and a small amount made on football.

Horse Racing: -£0.33 | Soccer: £1.45  Total P&L: £1.12

Friday 19/02/2010


Again just a couple of decent trades on horse racing and no football.

Horse Racing: £3.42 | Soccer: £0.00  Total P&L: £3.42

Saturday 20/02/2010


Really bad day today, as explained above. I really need to stop having days like this, there's been to many losses of over £100 in a day and with a bank the size of mine, I just can't let it happen again.

Horses went well, traded in quite a few races and made small profits, but ended really well with a risky £18 stake on a horse at a price of 770. I had a feeling this would come down as it had started around 100 and the forecast price was 100/1. There was also quite a good amount of money traded for such a big outsider so I gambled and sure enough within a few minutes it dropped and I traded out at about 350 for a good level profit of around £20 if I remember rightly.

Today just proves why I'm looking forward to having horse racing every evening during the summer. I can be quite consistent on the horses and accept small profits but my mind just seems to work differently on football for whatever reason, but I think today's loss has really made me more determined not to let that happen again.

Horse Racing: £30.83 | Soccer: -£154.90  Total P&L: -£124.07

Sunday 21/02/2010

Didn't feel up to doing too much today after reducing my bank so much yesterday. Horse racing was off too due to the weather. I did manage a small gain betting that Sedgefield would be off so still managed a profit on horse racing without a race!
I was wary about the football but I got involved anyway but with smaller liabilities. I was limiting myself to a liability of £10 for each bet, which when I was laying draws, and under 1.5, under 2.5 etc meant stakes of mostly under £5, but results went well and it soon added up.
Then came the game of the day involving Real Madrid, I had my usual lays of the draw, under 1.5, under 2.5, but for this game I decided to lay under 6.5, so I needed 7 goals! There were 8 goals in the game, so all my bets were won including my £50 layed of under 6.5 (liability was only £2.50). This was a big relief to have recovered so quickly from yesterday, I was expecting it to take at least a week to get back to where I was. I won't be risking such big percentages of my bank in future though, I feel like I've finally learnt a lesson there.

Horse Racing: £4.95 | Soccer: £105.32  Total P&L: £110.27

Monday 22/02/2010


No activity today

Tuesday 23/02/2010

Just football today and again I managed to keep my liabilities low and come out with a nice profit which is how I need to go on.

Horse Racing: £0.00 | Soccer: £20.50  Total P&L: £20.50

Current Bank: £220.71
Total P&L since June 2009: -£349.29

Any feedback at all, good or bad I will be pleased to hear it, and also if anyone has any questions or would like me to explain something in more detail just ask.

Thanks for reading.