The 2013-14 betting thread! **Spoilers**
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All my scores are going my way at the moment except for Norwich which seem to bee all over Hull but haven't scored.
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Norwich take the late win and net me £59.65 
Hearts came back from 3-1 down to draw and bust my acca.
Crazy end to the match by the looks of it!
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St Johnstone
3 - 3
Heart of Midlothian
21' Steven Anderson
39' Steve May (pen) 1 - 0
49' Steve May 2 - 0
58' 2 - 1 Dale Carrick
62' Steve May (pen) 3 - 1
89' 3 - 2 Sam Nicholson
89' Ryan Stevenson Red card
90' Alan Mannus Red card
90' +1' 3 - 3 Danny Wilson
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I've got Swansea 1 - 2 Tottenham for my free £5 bet off a local bookies since my accumulator didn't do too well yesterday
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Was this <-> close to sticking the same £300 on Chelsea to win when they were 1-0 up to net £99. FU hindsight!
Not quite that much but also let down by both clubs. Only ended up £2.50 down as I put some on the Lakers over Toronto to win the match and it came in.
...I don't do decimals!but I think 7/4 is something like 1.8?...no 2.8?(I don't know!)
I wouldn't expect Blackburn to score normally, but this is the cup!
Edit- it is 1.75 apparently....I don't use Betfair at all
7/4 is 2.75. Just do the calculation implied by the fractional odds (in this case 7 divided by 4), then add 1 to convert
Slight tangent but for the majority of people decimal odds are much easier to work with because it is really easy to compare odds and indeed work out effective odds for accumulators etc. The only thing I like about fractional odds is they are still what seemingly all the main bookies operate on and there are some odds that don't convert to nice even decimals, so when you see e.g. 1.91 chances are it is actually 1.90 recurrring (10/11), 1.83 is 5/6 etc.
Depends a bit on how you start off I suppose - I didn't start gambling until about 10 years ago and Betfair was already around then, whereas people who grew up going down the bookies in town may be more comfortable with traditional odds.
edit: one thing I never understood was the use of improper fractions e.g. 6/4, 100/30 etc - why are these not 3/2 and 10/3 respectively?!? Is it something to do with making them easier to compare?
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