The Boards €1 last man standing challenge

CantGetNoSleep

Saw this on another forum, thought it might be a laugh

Everyone starts with €1 - you must bet on anything which is ~evens, say maybe 1.75 or higher anyway.

You must use all of your winnings as you would in accumulator for each bet - ie you can't take any money out

If you win 20 in a row you will make over €1m

Lets see who can keep going the longest, or who will bitch out after a decent run

Gavin "shels"

Everyone to post in here? That will get very messy.

Vurnon San Benito

I'm definitely up for it for the laugh.
This could be the thread for it, would get messy but there's no other way really!

CantGetNoSleep

The other forum I saw it on had a spreadsheet set up somehow, I'm sure we will be able to follow it, maybe if people copied + pasted their entire history from first bet into each new post so you could see where people are without looking through the entire thread?

Will really start to get interesting if someone wins 5 or more, I'm sure a few will just disappear and keep their winnings

Vurnon San Benito

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

The other forum I saw it on had a spreadsheet set up somehow, I'm sure we will be able to follow it, maybe if people copied + pasted their entire history from first bet into each new post so you could see where people are without looking through the entire thread?

Will really start to get interesting if someone wins 5 or more, I'm sure a few will just disappear and keep their winnings

Ya couldn't blame them
20 wins and you're a millionaire? I find that hard to believe really although it's probably mathematically spot on!

Groinshot

Doocey wrote: »

Ya couldn't blame them
20 wins and you're a millionaire? I find that hard to believe really although it's probably mathematically spot on!

20 wins in a row, mathematically the odds are one in a million (ish) that this will happen though

mike65

I think we've tried this before - its sounds so easy if you say it quickly 20 short priced wins and your are a millionaire. I'll give it a go.

Gavin "shels"

I'll defo try it, but well it would need to be worked right so everything is kept in order and stuff.

hitman79

Count me in

Gillington

I'm in

x PyRo

In also.

Onecoolcookie

I'm up for it aswell

Nulty

Go on then. Whats the story on time, how often do we need to make a bet? As often as we like?

CoalBucket

i'll have a punt at that too, €1 x 20 bets = 1m, how bad

Just out of curiosity what is 1.75 as a fraction, you know like you'd see in Paddy Power

x PyRo

3/4.

Gillington

CoalBucket wrote: »

i'll have a punt at that too, €1 x 20 bets = 1m, how bad

Just out of curiosity what is 1.75 as a fraction, you know like you'd see in Paddy Power

You can change your view to decimals if you'd rather.

So are we gonna try get everyone to start together then work away on their own or have a sorta schedule?

Fizman

I'd be on for this too.

Dont be at yourself

I'm in!

mike65

Friday start for this? Plenty of footie and rugby to get stuck in to.
Can the bet be for more than one event - ie say a double or treble to reach even money.

Gillington

mike65 wrote: »

Friday start for this? Plenty of footie and rugby to get stuck in to.
Can the bet be for more than one event - ie say a double or treble to reach even money.

Yeah,in other challenges like this I've seen,it can be any number of things as long as its circa EVS money

Vurnon San Benito

I'm liking the sound of it, especially the 20 wins and you're a millionaire part although I'm sure Paddy's or others will suspend ya well before ya hit the ten thousands mark!

Gavin "shels"

So would it kept to football and rubgy, or everything and anything?

As mike suggested Friday would be a good starting point, as I can see me doing most of my football bets being LoI.

colly54

sounds good ha:)

CoalBucket

I know the suggestion was to start on Friday but I love the ould darts. I have put down the first of my million euro winning bets Simon "The Wizard" Whitlock to beat the Ray Barneveld @ 2.25
So it's either Last Man Standing or First Man Out !

CoalBucket

CoalBucket wrote: »

Simon "The Wizard" Whitlock to beat the Ray Barneveld @ 2.25

The Wizard almost left me down. After storming to a 6-1 lead in a best of 14 match, Barney started to fight back and nearly snatched a draw.With Whitlock 7-6 up Barney had 2 darts at double 8 to salvage a draw. Barney missed leaving Whitlock to check out an un-orthodox 68, missing treble 20 and hitting fat 1 instead, but held it together hitting treble 17 and double 8.

1 down 19 to go.

CantGetNoSleep

I'd say we start off with at least one bet every weekend (say Thurs to Sun), but not an absolute rule. If we start getting people winning 6 or 7 (not the most likely) they can hold off for longer as it is much larger amounts at stake. Imagine having €256k to put on an evens bet. You would be shitting it. In all honesty I would probably bitch out at 12/13 i'd imagine (€5k/10k)

CantGetNoSleep

Oh and we should leave it open to any sport, or any thing you can bet on whatsoever really

Gavin "shels"

How would we work it, say set up a separate thread each week, and basically two comments per person, 1 to show the bet and the other to say how it done and what it returned, then set up a second thread, and so on...?

Fizman

Right so my first is a double. Inter to beat Juventus at home and Leinster to beat Ospreys at home. Both tomorrow night. Odds are 2.1 for the double.

x PyRo

I'll give it a shot.

2:40 Newbury - Cheveton - €1 @ 7/1

No harm starting with something above Evens i suppose.

Gillington

Here's mine for today.I dunno about 1 bet a weekend,especially with most of the leagues finishing up soon.Anyways

1 Arles @ 1/1 v Guincamp
Stake: 1.00 Single
Potential Winnings: 1.00

glanman

1.

Darren Bent to score anytime v Burnley, 5/6 Boylesports

Bet €1, Potential return: €1.83

Dont be at yourself

1.

Bohs to win
Inter to win
(double)

Stake: €1 Potential return: €2.15

SomethingElse

1. Juventus DNB 7/2

Stake: 1.00 Potential Winnings: 3.50

L'prof

1. €1 treble:
   • SC Altach
   • Petrojet
   • Prestatyn Town
   Returns €2.30

coughlan08

fulham v wolves win @ evens

stake €1, return 2

CoalBucket

Gillington wrote: »

Here's mine for today.I dunno about 1 bet a weekend,especially with most of the leagues finishing up soon.

I agree, I like to bet on football so gonna do a few before the season ends.

hitman79

Shamrock Rovers/Inter Milan double
€1 returns €3.08

Blisterman

My local bookies has a £2 minimum bet, so:
£1 bet with a friend on a head toss. Guessed heads.
Came out heads.
Won £2.

CantGetNoSleep

Blisterman wrote: »

My local bookies has a £2 minimum bet, so:
£1 bet with a friend on a head toss. Guessed heads.
Came out heads.
Won £2.

Try winning 20 coin tosses in a row though, makes this sound a little bit more difficult all of a sudden

bigdaddyliamo

I don't normally go near bookies but this tickled me so I'm in:)
I put €1 on Bohs to beat Galway, which should lead to a whopping return of €1.30

With this money I shall buy and sell you all...bwahhhhhhh haaa haaa

L'prof

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Try winning 20 coin tosses in a row though, makes this sound a little bit more difficult all of a sudden

That's true...doable all the same and not quite as random.

Gavin "shels"

Since everyone is throwing up there bets may aswell do so, personally gonna go for two to start off myself:

Bohs and Fingal/Draw double €1 returns €1.87

Drogheda/Draw and Monaghan/Draw €1 returns €3.06

L'prof

Nobody's gonna be a millionaire :mad: There are maximum bets for all singles and multiples (on PP at least). The maximum you can bet on an evens football match (single) seems to be €1005, if you have a treble adding up to about evens you can bet ~€3000.

Blisterman

Assuming you double your money each time, you'd get
€1
€2
€4
€8
€16
€32
€64
€128
€256
€512
€1024
€2048
€4096
€8192
€16384
€32768
€65536
€131,072
€262,144
€524,288
€1,048,576

Of course, how many people are willing to risk losing 10k+ on one bet?

Vurnon San Benito

1.

Birmingham to beat Hull City @ 3/4
Stake : €1

*Just thought I'd start off at a 1.75 one , it seemed perfect, being a single and all...

CoalBucket

Doocey wrote: »

1.

Birmingham to beat Hull City @ 3/4
Stake : €1

*Just thought I'd start off at a 1.75 one , it seemed perfect, being a single and all...

I hope it's great minds think alike

I have that as my second bet.

2. Birmingham to beat Hull

Stake €2.25 @ 1.75

Fizman

Fizman wrote: »

Right so my first is a double. Inter to beat Juventus at home and Leinster to beat Ospreys at home. Both tomorrow night. Odds are 2.1 for the double.

Round 1 success for me.

Now to assess tomorrows options. (I really should be on a flight to Fuerteventura at 7:20 in the morning but thanks to Mount Buzzkill I have a bit more time on my hands).

yesno1234

I'm in as well. Have a few accumulators so wait to see if any of them come out before depositing more money(seems all I f**kin do is deposit money these days).

Will post my bet probably tomorrow.

Fizman

Rd 2.

2.10 on Stuttgart to beat Leverkusen @ 2.10

hitman79

hitman79 wrote: »

Shamrock Rovers/Inter Milan double
€1 returns €3.08

Happy days with round 1
€3.08 on Sunderland/Barcelona pays €6.45