The 2013-14 betting thread! **Spoilers**

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Got many bets on tonight, including:

Ulloa to score first/0-1 at 55/1(unbelievable!)
Upson to score first at 50/1
Ulloa to score/Brighton to win in 90 minutes at 8/1
 
5-fold
Dundalk @ 1.33
Shamrock Rovers @ 1.28
St Patricks @ 1.20
Benfica @ 1.28
Ilkeston @ 1.36


Anytime scorer
Matthew Upson @ 23.00

Anytime Scorer
de la Fuente Sergio Garcia @ 3.40

Double
Hull @ 1.95
Sheff Wed @ 1.90
 
I went about 200 down earlier and have scraped most of it back. Bloody south american games again. Back under 2.5 and a 90th min goal leaves me even instead of £20 up.
 
I had put a bet on the weekend, thought I had backed Brentford who would have let me down but had chosen Bradford by mistake and they won, so won my bet after all. Pretty lucky for once
 
Well, that's me done with sports bets. Time to give it up and start saving money instead of wasting it doing this. Accounts are closed forever. :)
 
How come fella? I always thought you did pretty well?

Sure you won't be back come The Estonian Cup!!

What's next for you? I know I'd be bored without constantly looking at bets. I've dabbled in shares but it's not quite as quick or intense.
 
Marvt74 said:
How come fella? I always thought you did pretty well?

Sure you won't be back come The Estonian Cup!!

What's next for you? I know I'd be bored without constantly looking at bets. I've dabbled in shares but it's not quite as quick or intense.
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I don't have much control to be honest. End up betting on random crap and have way too many bad streaks, today was the last one. Took some horrific beats today and yesterday. My last ditch bet was £20 on a tennis game at 7/1, she went 6-2, 5-3 and 40-15 down. Won that set 7-5, went a break up in the last, then a break down, then served for the match at 6-5, lost that game and the tie break 7-3.

Basketball game yesterday: backed the unders line, there were only 97 pts after 3/4 of the fame. I had a monster 56 points to play with. There were 57. Even had 13 pts left with 57 secs left. Today I backed the overs line and needed just 28 in the last quarter, there were 136 in the first 3/4 of the game. There were 22 in the last quarter.

I backed a player to hold his serve in the tennis, £50 @ 2/5. He was broken to love. Only time he was broken all match.

I'm the same, I get bored too easily. I took a break before but always looked at what was on because I had nothing to do. 5 times in the past 4 years i've won £1,000 or more and every time it's gone again within 8 weeks. I want to be able to have some money aside in case me and the other half move in together or we end up expecting a child or something. Now is the time to give it up.

I don't really ever use the forums for much else other than this either :/

I'm currently studying for my AAT accounting qualification, so hopefully that'll set me on a decent career path. I probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't for her. Wasted my life and intelligence in a crappy retail job for years and tried to win a bit to keep myself comfortable. It didn't work. Hopefully I can get into something that pays better and learn to save.
 
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Good luck with the AAT fella. I did that a few years ago and am just about to do my last exams with ACCA now.

Maybe it's accountants and liking numbers to analyse!!

All the best in everything you do fella. If you don't end up around here often in the future it's been a pleasure reading your posts and getting your insights on things :)
 
Thanks mate, I really appreciate that :)

I was always insanely good with numbers as a kid, to the point where my parents had me checked out because I was some kind of machine. This sort of ties in with it, an obsession with numbers, and that's why I thought accountancy would be good for me. Boring but a natural forté as it were.
 
I am going to do a Sage 50 course soon....i have around 4-5 years accounts experience in the past yet can't seem to get out of retail either it sucks. :(

I know what you mean with badluck, i've lost so much this year on football compared to last season where i won a lot more.

I've cut down a lot, i just bet £20 max a month now and if it wins anything i'll bank £20 then play with the winnings a bit.
 
I found that actually playing with a few quid can be a lot more fun. Sometimes after work i've got a 35 minute wait for my bus so I sit in Hills and dabble with a quid or 2 on the dogs and chat to the staff. If I win it's paid for my lunch, if I don't, it's only a few quid.

Online gambling is getting out of control imo, who the hell knows about the UAE under 19 league for gods sake! Way too much random stuff to bet on.
 
i just do it to make the days/evenings game a bit more interesting but ultimately i know over time anything i win will go over time which is fine as its just a bit of fun for me

agreed about online though
 
I used to be so bad, now I limit myself to £25 a week, it's pretty hard staying away from these new sites which pop up all the time. I tend to just make an account then exclude myself incase I'm having a bad day so I can't go and open an account somewhere and stick a ton on something stupid.

Another ACCA studier here :p
 
Christ. The accountants of OCUK unite in the betting thread. What does that say :p

Garriec. Where you up to?

On Topic. My night isn't looking good. Currently Celtic are down to 10 men and United don't look like scoring!
 
Marvt74 said:
Christ. The accountants of OCUK unite in the betting thread. What does that say :p

Garriec. Where you up to?

On Topic. My night isn't looking good. Currently Celtic are down to 10 men and United don't look like scoring!
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I've done F1-3 and F5. Sitting F9 and resit of F4 in June. F4 is law, I find it so boring so didn't really study it much last time round. Now every saturday morning 9-12 is studying, fun times.

Yes it is el_dazza, basically the next step after AAT.
 
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