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I won or traded at a profit on every bet on betfair last week, apart from Green who I cost nothing - I'll go and work it out for % of total steak a bit later. I'm pretty small stakes though!

BBW. Sorry I didn't do formal intros to the missus and the kids but my little girl's obssessed with the BBW and I didn't want to lose one of the few remaining weapons in my armoury (ie fear of the Big Bad Wolf) by introducing her to a very pleasant looking and amiable young man carrying Bleak House, and saying "This is the BigBad Wolf".

* awaits the "Why not Saturday's?" posts ;-)*

My ploy for the Open is to choose 2 or 3 potentials rather than top 5 - as Woods tends to push the others out alot you can get some good odds - and then trade 'em if they're near the leaderboard, you then get 'free' bets with still a decent potential pay off or a small guranteed profit and a smaller win chance - although I tend to like having a freeroll. You've got to pick at least one out of three though!! I've also taken on Woods if he's silly odds. Aussies evens for the series England 2/1 ish, I think MM. Cricket's good for inplay if you're watching but I don't get the impression you're a big fan? Profit is profit - even if its ?15! I had my best week for ages B)

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mockers, if WHU 'came into some money' do you > think the Academy would be as successful as it is > now? It seems to me that clubs like WHU have no > choice but to concentrate on their Academies, > since they can't go out and spend ?20m on a single > player. If they could would their academies suffer > as a consequence? I think that's true - I also think that teams like West Ham can offer Premiership football to ambitous youngsters far earlier than they'd get a chance at Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U etc which helps too - they have a reputation as being a good club for these sorts of players and that's helpful in attracting them.

Cole - Carrick - Lampard - Ferdinand - Johnson - Defoe (although we nicked him from Charlton)- to name a few *tries to hold back tears*

HAL9000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Presumably, this strategy is known as 'hedging a > bet'? > > It sounds like the financial market strategy > called 'arbitrage': specifically a type of > 'spread' (aka 'hedge') position. > > As in 'hedge' fund. Yo! Hal - the principles are exactly the same as financial trading (as is sports spreadbetting). Betfair was set up by a guy who built trading platforms for the city.

Indeed,I've had a lump on Federer since day 1 - during the final yesterday I laid Federer at 1.18 at one stage (which was mad as he was never looking that certain) then bet him again a bit later when his odds went out as I'd slighly overcooked it towards Roddick - so sat and watched the match with a sure profit, either way (infact I would have won a bit more if Roddick had won). Any one interested in betting on the Ashes? I think the first test is the best chance England has to win a match and they'll lose the Ashes.

How did Sean get on in the dancing?

Yeah, really important AFN, nice one... oh, almost forgot, RIP the people who died

Well we love the foul mouthed amd loud bit don't lose that, but respect on the booze abstinence

reggie can you play some Smiths?

I had Meat is Murder on at full volume in the garden about 7ish to detract from the merriment

Funky Monkey in Camberwell - nearer than Clapham

Nice to see some old and some new - sorry we weren't there long. BBW, you can still take the p1ss....a bit PS impressed with the discipline chavwald/legal

That horse is fantastic - and I had no financial interest - nice one RD MM, I am beginning to feel for you now.

1.98 on Betfair - almost always better odds! Cheers

Mathew - do you write those reviews outside west end theatres by any chance?

Red - I presume you're not getting a great price on Fed for straight sets?

I may just go and have a ?5 on the Lions then MM

I'm at heart an anarchist - but in realty any isms (and include idealism) are uselss, impractical and ultimately hugely dangerous as well as being as delusional as religon. So liberal democracy is about as good as it gets, with its many flaws - to nearly paraphrase Churchill.

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We are planning on 4ish unless it rains...so if people are about :)-D, if not we'll just have a family drink ie kids bored, pregnant mrs Quids driving me on the pop

But no bets for me today I think - if Green and Federer come up trumps tomorrow it'll have been a very good week!

I think that's a reasonable bet indeed Matthew