Last man standing Premiership Betting

frangleberry · 08-08-2008 4:43pm #1

Anyone heard of this?Not sure which bookies are doing it,free bet,pick one team a week to win.If you lose or draw your out.Is this real or too good to be true?

Warper · 08-08-2008 5:02pm

frangleberry wrote: »

Anyone heard of this?Not sure which bookies are doing it,free bet,pick one team a week to win.If you lose or draw your out.Is this real or too good to be true?

No its true - Paddy Power are doing it - you simply write down your name with your choice each week before the matches start and bang youre in. You must do it in the same shop every week and cannot enter in more than 1 shop. 50k for National Champion

Raoul · 10-08-2008 7:05pm

Can you just do them all at once? Instead of going in each week. It would be fairly hard to get into the exact same bookies every week. I actually thought the winnings would be more.

It sounds so easy though doesnt it?:D

GBX · 10-08-2008 7:07pm

Its done in a lot of pubs for a while now... the locals generally run one. PP and the like are probably just catching on as another way of getting custom.

mike65 · 10-08-2008 7:21pm

Sadly its on the PP site. Not that I can see.

Mike.

newballsplease · 10-08-2008 8:16pm

mike65 wrote: »

Sadly its on the PP site. Not that I can see.

Mike.

is it???? i cant see it anywhere

mike65 · 10-08-2008 8:20pm

Heh, sorry I missed the word not

Mike

newballsplease · 10-08-2008 8:28pm

mike65 wrote: »

Heh, sorry I missed the word not

Mike

ohh rite!!ha
ya it wud be a bit to convienent if it was:D

Collie D · 11-08-2008 9:31pm

Trick is probably to find a shop with feck all entrants. The one I entered into has over 60 names up already. Could drag on for weeks. We have less than forty in our competition in work and it regularly goes into a 10th week. Never forget good old Sheff U coming from one-nil down and scoring a winner in
88th minute to win me the pot two seasons ago. Week 11 and was really struggling to find a team

newballsplease · 12-08-2008 5:50am

I DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION SO, IS IT, YOU HAVE TO BEAT ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLAYED IN THE SAME STORE AS YOU? OR JUST KEEP GOING,AND PP WILL PICK A NATIONAL WINNER AT THE END OF THE SEASON? THERE COULD BE HUNDREDS THAT GO ALL THE WAY.
SORRY BOUT THE CAPS, JUST REALISED NOW!

Collie D · 12-08-2008 7:44pm

newballsplease wrote: »

I DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION SO, IS IT, YOU HAVE TO BEAT ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLAYED IN THE SAME STORE AS YOU? OR JUST KEEP GOING,AND PP WILL PICK A NATIONAL WINNER AT THE END OF THE SEASON? THERE COULD BE HUNDREDS THAT GO ALL THE WAY.
SORRY BOUT THE CAPS, JUST REALISED NOW!

Just beat the people in the shop you're registered in. Every week it goes on, they add fifty quid to the pot and last man in gets the pot so the longer the better for the purpose of getting a decent amount of cash although it does obvioulsy get harder the loner it goes. If there are two or more people left and they all go out same week, the pot is split.

Then, the winnners from every shop go into a national competition, although I think this is only outright winners ie if one shop's pot is split, you only get your share and can't go on to the big one. Winner of the national competition then gets 50 grand. Hoping to see one of you in the final against me

premierstone · 14-08-2008 3:21pm

Just took a stroll down to the local PP there and entered this for the craic, who have ye all picked for week 1??

Didint realise untill i went down that you can only use each team once, which obviously changes everything, for that reason i picked Bolton this weekend at home to Stoke cos i cant think of any other fixture that i will use bolton in tbh.

corban · 14-08-2008 3:42pm

did the same, strolled down an signed up, did bolton as well for the same reasons... lets hope its great minds think alike and not fools........:D

ssmith6287 · 14-08-2008 3:52pm

you pick a team that you think will win every week (You can only pick that team once)
If the team wins yer into the next week, you loose or draw yer out.
As the seaon progresses it gets harder to pick a winning team, so yer better off not diving straight in with the big 4.
I got to the last 2 in the pub I work in last week but he was left with Porthsmouth and Derby, I was left with Derby and Reading. He won :mad:

newballsplease · 14-08-2008 4:03pm

premierstone wrote: »

Just took a stroll down to the local PP there and entered this for the craic, who have ye all picked for week 1??

Didint realise untill i went down that you can only use each team once, which obviously changes everything, for that reason i picked Bolton this weekend at home to Stoke cos i cant think of any other fixture that i will use bolton in tbh.

aaahhh, it all makes sense now!! gonna go with fulham.
can someone explain so....does it only go on for 20 game weeks??? if you only can pick a team once?!

newballsplease · 14-08-2008 7:03pm

anyone?

corban · 14-08-2008 8:30pm

newballsplease wrote: »

aaahhh, it all makes sense now!! gonna go with fulham.
can someone explain so....does it only go on for 20 game weeks??? if you only can pick a team once?!

it only counts weekend matches that take place on sat, sun and monday. if there are midweek games they are not included

premierstone · 20-08-2008 12:56pm

So who's still left in this and who are you picking for week two, going with Blackburn myself??

corban · 20-08-2008 3:15pm

premierstone wrote: »

So who's still left in this and who are you picking for week two, going with Blackburn myself??

still in after boltons great win, prob gonna go with blackburn (v hull) or villa (v stoke). edgin towards blackburn atm...

premierstone · 20-08-2008 4:25pm

corban wrote: »

still in after boltons great win, prob gonna go with blackburn (v hull) or villa (v stoke). edgin towards blackburn atm...

Stop copying me i never win

Yeah im goin with blackburn cos i think villa will actually be really good this season so i wouldnt be wasting them just yet

newballsplease · 20-08-2008 4:32pm

hey. i actually didnt get time to go in to do this, but ive had a good luck at the fixtures, and i reckon this is / has a good enough chance
week1-west ham
2-blackburn
3-bolton
4-newcastle
5-liveerpool
6-villa
7-spurs
8-fulham (v sunderland?)
9-westbrom
10-chelsea
11-everton
12-wigan
13-man city
14-stoke v(west brom?)
15-portsmouth
16-middlesboro
17-sunderland v(west brom?)
18-hull v (sunderland)
19-arsenal
20-man utd

in brackets, the ones that will probably let me down. feel free to copy!!:D

Collie D · 20-08-2008 8:06pm

Good idea saving Man Utd and Arsenal for a while, newballs but I honestly can't see it going to 20 weeks so you could utilise them earlier. Plan to ignore the top four for first four weeks and always stick with home teams. Bolton did the trick for me in PP and in work.

Not sure who to go with this week. Probably Liverpool as I can see them struggling this season and want to get rid of them.

How many in the shops you're entered into, by the way? I'm in Amiens Street in Dublin. 118 entered, 33 gone, 85 left.

jkelly85 · 20-08-2008 8:15pm

i am thinkin of going with a home teams for the first few week myself spurs or blackburn,just droped into paddypowers earlyer and someone put down leeds and the girls had to put down aresanl so your man went through from the first week, if he wins in my shop i wil not be a happy man :mad:

newballsplease · 21-08-2008 10:53am

but at some stage ur goin to have to try and pick, stoke hull wigan westbrom etc to win, and i kinda think there the best weeks for it.
ur either in it to win it or not!!!
gutted i didnt enter it.

PIMPHO · 21-08-2008 10:57am

Thinking of picking Blackburn or Chelsea this weekend?

Thoughts?

newballsplease · 21-08-2008 11:07am

PIMPHO wrote: »

Thinking of picking Blackburn or Chelsea this weekend?

Thoughts?

blackburn............save chelsea for later

Collie D · 23-08-2008 4:18pm

Looking like a lot of draws today. Could be a few out. Did Liverpool in work and Newcastle in PP. Newcastle have let me down three times in past couple of seasons in work so no idea why I did them this week.

corban · 23-08-2008 6:13pm

blackburn let me down today

Collie D · 24-08-2008 2:08pm

Anyone else still in after that massacre of a weekend?

My shop

Entrants 128
Week 2 85

13 left including four on Chelsea this afternoon.

Still hanging on there after super Shay saves a penalty and Sicknote Owen comes off the bench to score winner.

16 left out of 38 in work including nine on Chelsea and one on Man United this week. First time I ever celebrated a Liverpool goal when Stevie Me hit that late winner.

Collie D · 30-08-2008 2:29pm

Anyone left in?

16 left in work. Myself and six others gone with Middlesboro which is the most popular choice. Next best is Arsenal with thre and Chelsea and Everton both with two.

17 left in Paddy Power. I've done Arsenal along with one other person. Chelsea the popular choice there with six selections.

So, if I had to choose one team not to win this weekend for competition purposes it would be Chelsea.

Collie D · 04-09-2008 11:13am

Probably a bit early but I think I'm stuck already. Was avoiding top four as much as possile and saving them but next week's fixtures are a bit tough. If I can get through that I will be happy enough having a lot of big teams left.

Paddy Power - 8 left from 128

Have used Bolton, Newcastle and Arsenal

Thinking of going with Stoke to beat Everton but surely has to be something better out there.

Work - 10 left out of 38

Have used Bolton, Liverpool and Middlesborough

Was going ot go with Newcastle to beat Hull but with all the shenangiagns going on I'm not so sure, that and I'd be certainthat most of the other nine (if not all) will be looking at this as well.

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