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Later that wonderful day......................

Good evening. Despite losing a further 83 quid , I ended up winning a nice few hundred on the day which brings todays loss to a more manageable -1015.59  !   Week 2 : is now on -182.72 which isn't too bad all things considered.

Not sure what else to say really. Thanks for the comment Leon. I am a regular reader of your blog also and would leave more comments except I lost my fn' google password and don't know how to get it back. I read a good few blogs out there but you gotta update them. Tell us you'd beans and toast for breakfast. I don't care. Update them. Thats what they're there for.

In relation to my own blog I'm not sure what to do really. I started this with the aim of eliminating large losses and I'm not sure has it helped or not. A bit ironic to be writing that today. Leon is right when he sayes I'm a sloow learner at times. But being aware of it doesn't seem to help either. Perhaps this is just how I play and there will always be a crazy element to my game and I will have to just keep managing the craziness and hopefully keep paying the bills in the meantime. Winning 2K+ last week causes confidence to soar and days like today have you wondering .......

So what to do? I'm not sure . I think I will take some time off from blogging and concentrate on sorting my game out.

Having said that I may return tommorrow if I miss it. I have surprisingly found writing a blog a very good experience. Its like an emotional outlet at the end of a day and its great to free up the mind from all the gambling stuff that can cause your head to be whirring at the end of a stint.

So,thats it for now folks. Be safe and well.  Marty.

Fucking wednesdays.

Yes,rude and crude. If you don't like it,move along.  I'm not going to get much sympathy after that,am I?

I jest. Kind of. Pissed off.Kind of. -1468 after the 2nd or 3rd race.

Nice start Marty. Fuckin' hell. What a shit job. Picking mushrooms,thats what would suit me. Same thing every day. Can't fuck it up. Can't get it wrong. Same 'ol thing.day in ,day out.

OK.we get the message. Would you like to tell the blogosphere what happened today?

Ah, I'll pass on that one,Sir. Suffice to say, it wasn't my intention to loose such a large chunk. It wasn't my intention to loose anything at all. But I did. And I took it on the chin.    S Q U A R E L Y. And I have made some inroads into it,not a lot but every step back on the profit trail is a step in the right direction so despite not liking the look of the wolves card,  I is going to war.

I will come back with my P/L figure for the day later and I may call a halt to the whole blogging experience after that. I hope you've enjoyed what the high's and lows of sports trading can entail.

Soccer.

Dodging bullets! I just caught the last 5 minutes of the chelsea game and backed under 3.5 goals for 700 (1-1 score at that time). Chelsea's late goal left me reaching for the mute button and by the time celebrations were over there was only a minute of injury time left. Sweat it out time.  I could have nearly traded back out at 1.03 or maybe a little higher but said I'd sweat it out for the 40 seconds.

It very nearly became a very expensive 20 quid as everton missed a very good chance shortly afterwards. Moral of the story. Be sensible. Protect the bank. Protect the bank.Protect the bank.

Today's quote of the day: The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

So,I'm taking comfort in that!! Soccer:+20.05. Week 2 : +832.87.

Tuesday 8th January 2008.

A mixed day.I laid Wodhill gold in one of the first races at southwell which doesn't sound the best after making a post 2 days ago about laying favourites at 3 or 4 times their price while being shoved along at southwell but did well to exit position liked greased lightening when I realized there was horse left. That cost me -68 but could have been a lot worse. I also laid 2 with wrong colours today(2!) and got lucky on the 1st but liability wasn't huge anyway so no real problem there,but it can deflate the ego quite a bit.

The 2nd one was a bit comical as I was convinced that I had laid a colour change and he was being well bumped along and GG suddenly snapped me out of my daydream and the horse I'd laid was up with the posse and going well.I got a bit more excited than I probably needed and felt like I was banging in numbers with my toes but I got out of trouble to the tune of -43 euros which wasn't too bad all things considered.

So after dropping a 100, I did very well to finish up +265.10. It gets a bit abstract dealing with money from a betfair perspective sometimes. Winning 100 quid can seem small when you have a few big winning consecutive days.I normally get shocked when I go shopping and see how much groceries you can buy for 100+...

Anyway,thats it for me.Played better than the last few days(sort-of!) and good to build on the weeks profit.  Week 2 : +812.82.

Monday 7th January.

I'm not sure what to say really. It has been a very good day on the financial front but not so good on the "loose calls" side of things. I had great intentions for today. A handy hundred quid, no drama,no hassle but I just seem to be playing too agressively at times. Don't get me wrong ; 200 of todays profit came from an excellent pre-race drift that I anticapated well in advance but 200 of the rest of todays P/l was not so pretty. I was exposed to big liabilities in both instances with little chance to correct either position. I had a very buzy last 24 hours ,so perhaps thats part of the reason.I need to chill out a little though as I could have quite easily dropped 1300 in the last race.

I don't want to be too harsh on myself at the same time because you've got to ' wing it ' out there everyday and its easy to be an expert in hindsight, BUT I don't want to be too easy on myself either(!). Dropping 1300 is not a nice experience especially when you know you were wrong and the thoughts of dealing with another of those big losses is rather offputting.

So, solid reliable game is going to be resurrected tommorrow.Somehow. Monday:+547.72.

Sunday 6th January.

Jammy. Poxy. Blessed. Miraculous. All would be apt descriptions of todays performance and I'm not exaggerating!

I laid a stupid bet in the first a southwell and I knew, I just feckin' knew when I hit that button that I'd done my dough. Laying a fav at 4 or 5 times its original price when being shoved along at southwell with a home straight of 9 miles is a recipe for disaster especially with slow pictures and and I had no realisic chance to change my bet once submitted so it ended up costing me -171.45. Nice start.

I also have family stuff to do this evening and genuinely wanted a quiet relaxed day and didn't want to be dealing with the extra drama of a losing day especially when I knew it wasn't  A-game stuff.

Was that what promted me to go on tilt. Yes. But ,I stayed there for some reason after getting up. Not really caring. Banging up lays here there and everywhere and having fun! God, I can be so silly .

Anyway, the next race was a big field hurdle race in Ireland and I was determined to find a lay before the off but couldn't so I ended up laying a 1.3ish shot for a place in running for about what I'd lost -180ish,to get me levels but that hung on for 3rd which cost me nearly 50.

The next race was the M I R A C L E one. A 6 runner novice hurdle with 3 places. I had about 2 minutes to decide was anything worth playing. I had already had a look at it but I haven't been playing places for a month or so but damm,this looked good. Gary Moore fav at 8/11, 2nd fav with decent form in the context of this race,very decent especially when considering places. 25/1 bar. 25/1! 6 runners. 3 places.Jesus,If you can't get something to place here you might as well give the game up. The 5/4 shot was the one. 1.17 for the place. Lump on job. Mind working overtime. How much to win 200?

Prices crashes. 1.1. Fuck off. I'm not taking 1.1. He was fuckin' 1.17 a minute ago. Principle kicks in.

They can keep it. 1.1. ffs!

Then another angle appeared. Out of the mist. The holy grail at plumpton on a sunday. 6 runners. 3 places. 2 form horses that should fill the places. 2 outsiders already well beaten over hurdles. 2 middle horses-one with a good run,2 runs back at 1.7 and a hurdling debutant at 3.83. Surely get one of these in the frame so I dutched both prices with the horse with form a winner and the other one break even. Can't remember the figures but both to place worked out at 400 quid profit.

But, It didn't stop there. No Sir. The white colours of Mr.G Moore's gamble jumped off in front(one of the most astute trainers imo..). Marty panicked and backed him for 1,500. Yes.1,500.  I thought I'd get a free trade but he didn't jump the first great and something else took the lead and price starting quickly drifting. I was also using bet angel instead of betrader so was like a fish out of water.

The long and the short of the story. Red for -158 on a G.Moore gamble in a 6 runner novice hurdle is not where I like being and turning for home looked like he was going to go on and win BUT he fell as did the 2nd fav which left only 3 finishers. So, not only did I get away with my stupid in running play, I also copped my TWO place bets AND AVOIDED LOSING A GRAND OR SO ON THE 5/4 SHOT THAT FELL. What a poxy race.

So,that should have been it. Up 180 on the day.Avoided major bullets.Recovered losses. But I just pressed on. I won't go into the rest of my antic's but lets just say there was a lot of unwarranted agression which left me up a whopping +798.26 on the day. I know its great to be up the cash but there could so easily be a minus before that figure and a lot more.

Whats the lesson? Always go on tilt when you do something stupid!

Or maybe not. I'm not sure really. A silly day. But we got lucky and thats what counts. I just need to refocus on playing solidly next time I play.

So,thats it .Week 1 of the year weighs in at a gigantic +2199.31 but plenty of work to be done on how I'm playing.

Kempton.

Not happy with how I played. Got colours wrong in the first but was only caught for small money. It could have been worse had there been more available. That was forgivable but was just a bit jittery,not relaxed,trying to force the issue and it became a bit of a smash and grab job but ended up winning  +63.13 on the night which isn't too bad but playing like I did opens one's bank to all kind of unnecessary exposures. So best not to be too critical but lessons to be learned(as always!).

Week 1 : +1401.05.

Saturday 5th January 2008.

A good day. Things started very slowly but I thought I was back playing well and trusted that opportunites would present themselve if I keep my patience and discipline(which I did!) and I ended up winning +   289.40 , which is obviously great. Nothing of major interest happened today at least that I am aware of but with 5 meetings on you never know. 7.8billion could have been done on a 1.01 shot at lingfield that I may have missed or something.Sheik Mo on the booze maybe..

To play kempton or not? My goal this year is to make serious financial inroads into getting a large chunk together as I've things I want to do and I need the resources to do them. This might seem a bit Irish (excuse the pun) from somebody that only won 9k last year but I dropped 20-30k,maybe more on possibly avoidable bets.I was going to try and do some tally but after counting 4.5 k in "maybe avoidable" losses last february alone, I decided to give it a miss.Water under the bridge,lessons learned(!).

The point of this ramble. I want to win enough to get sis and the only way I would feel comfortable in getting it ,is to bung THE TOTAL costs for the 3 years in an account with a standing order making the payments.Its hard enough keeping your balance when paying the bills etc.. without having to think about your sis payments every month. I don't know if I would actually go through with it if I got the costs together as you never know when matthew feckin' imi whatever his name might decide to speed up the pictures again. It also might make little or no difference to my game but then again it might!

So,the point of all this is that I'd better play any time I can if I want to get the cash together for sis. Bring on kempton!!

I was going to bring up atr extra and the journalistic efforts to get to the bottom of the biggest issue that had hit the inrunning part of the sport ever(discussed on a majically dissappearing thread on the bf forum a few nights ago),but I'll keep it brief. Well done on your 3 day effort. Shocking. I hate injustices. Some things are worth dying for in this life. I'm not saying atr extra was one of them but for the atr management to treat the public with such distain is unforgivable and to allow "them" of the hook so lightly is equally unforgivable. In running journalist,my arse.

Also,a big well done to Jon the gambler after landing a huge punt last night.

I'm thinking of going back on the grog too.  ;-)

Week 1: +1337.92.

Wolverhampton.

Patience won the day.  :-)   +120.93.    Week 1 : +1048.52.

Friday 4th January 2008.

A dissappointing afternoon but it could have been worse.I played fairly shoite today. I just seemed a step ahead of myself,getting into trades too early, not trading out early enough,taking bigger chances than normal etc.. and was aware I was not playing well but just couldn't seem to get into the zone and ended up with a liability of -250ish on a horse that got there but somehow managed to get a 100 on at 6/4 in running which softened the blow considerably and was up 60ish before that point so after winning a few more quid ended the day with a profit of +19.22 which is never bad. So lesson's to be learned or need to relax or something. Not sure really. Play wolves in this frame of mind?

You betcha!! Back later life permitting.  Week 1 : +927.59.