World Cup 2010 Tipster Challenge

SirDelboy18

Okay, I've decided to create a Challenge to see who can get the most profit over the World Cup period. I welcome anybody to join on the condition that the rules are adhered to.

- Each person will start with 10 points.

- Bets can be outrights, accumulators etc. or any available market on matches, but there is no betting in running allowed.

- Each person must reference the exact odds and where they were obtained for each bet.

- If you lose your 10 points, your out.

- No after-posting under any circumstances.

I hoped to use 10 points as it is a relatively low number which enhances the challenge. Furthermore, one will have to decide whether it is better to bet on outright bets at larger odds or to bet on matches throughout the World Cup. I am personally very interested in which makes a bigger profit.
Each persons money equivalent of one point is their own business, unless they wish to say it.

I hope that many of you decide to join in the fun... its a good alternative source of added interest in the world cup

Cheers, Delboy

duffman13

Sounds good to me im in.
All my bets will be coming from betfair or PP most likely betfair though

SirDelboy18

Thank my opening post If your interested, then I can write out every user involved sometime next week

Have 9 so far.. its shaping to be promising

SirDelboy18

Sorry lads, had let this slip away to the dustier regions of the gambling forum. Anyway, will start on Thursday. 14 signed up so far, should be enjoyable

SirDelboy18

If anybody is a member of boylesports, I would recommend to enter the predictions competition for €1,000,000. While it is obviously extremely unlikely that you or I would win, it helps when plotting out the teams who will progress and how far. Usually with World Cup betting I pick a team without realising who they may have to play and when.

MiciG91

5 points E/W on Cacau to be top goalscorer 100-1 with Skybet he's been on fire lately think its worth a shot !

SirDelboy18

MiciG91 wrote: »

5 points E/W on Cacau to be top goalscorer 100-1 with Skybet he's been on fire lately think its worth a shot !

I presume thats you entering with a selection, but just hold off on the selections until thursday please;):D

MiciG91

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

I presume thats you entering with a selection, but just hold off on the selections until thursday please;):D

Ya thats me entering..I'll wait so

In_tuition

Hope you don't mind but I'll get the ball rolling/whistle blown on maybe having an entry fee.

€5 suits me and I will gladly send to a nominated party (yourself maybe) to hold the funds for anyone else who wishes to get involved financially.

Anyone else interested?

Given that most of us have paypal or the option to deposit into someones paddypower/boyles account I think it's worth considering, if it's in tune with the rules of the forum?

Juwwi

In_tuition wrote: »

Hope you don't mind but I'll get the ball rolling/whistle blown on maybe having an entry fee.

€5 suits me and I will gladly send to a nominated party (yourself maybe) to hold the funds for anyone else who wishes to get involved financially.

Anyone else interested?

Given that most of us have paypal or the option to deposit into someones paddypower/boyles account I think it's worth considering, if it's in tune with the rules of the forum?

lm up for that .

maybe anyone interested in betting a fiver thank in_tuitions post above

or anyone who thinks the fiver is a bad idea thank my post to get an idea of what people think ?

mark renton

Cant remember how to sign up to thread without posting :cool:

ValueSeeker

I'll be very busy during the world cup but I'll try to pop into the thread here and there with some selections.

Just a few questions:

1: Do you want reasoning or just straight out selections?
2: Will you be recording results yourself?
3: Maybe put a bet limit/day max in to make it easier on yourself and also to make it fairer (maybe 2 per day)?


Fair play to you btw.

SirDelboy18

ValueSeeker wrote: »

I'll be very busy during the world cup but I'll try to pop into the thread here and there with some selections.

Just a few questions:

1: Do you want reasoning or just straight out selections?
2: Will you be recording results yourself?
3: Maybe put a bet limit/day max in to make it easier on yourself and also to make it fairer (maybe 2 per day)?


Fair play to you btw.

If you want to provide reasoning, then be my guest. I actually encourage it... I really enjoy reading some peoples analysis. But reasoning is not a must. If you dont want to include reasoning then it isn't going to be frowned upon though.

I will record the points total after every individual stage eg group stage, second round etc.., but this would be helped if people could include their points total with every bet.

I wont be applying a bet limit as I feel that the 10 points is a way of making it fair. One has to figure out whether to go fully with outrights, partially with outrights or not at all. That decision in itself should be very interesting.

With regards the 5 euro, it wouldnt be an option unless everybody who will be participating agreed by 00:01 on Thursday so I dont think that is a feasible prospect. You are more than welcome to organise private ones, but since there most likely wont be complete uptake from the entire thread, it might be best to do it elsewhere. Bearing that in mind, if you dont do it elsewhere I wont tell you to leave the thread or anything, but if it wasn't too much bother then it would be appreciated.

Thanks

SirDelboy18

Just under 4 hours until the beginning of the tipster competition. If you haven't yet signed up and intend to then do it soon!

Juwwi

l see paddypower have priced up the boards world cup tipster competition
heres a few of the odds

valueseeker 6/4fav

x PyRo 4/1

goldcupfav 6/1

sirdellboy 7/1

intuition 250/1 :eek:

the bet that caught my eye is 1/2 someone to be caught cheating :pac:

Dave147

Just to confirm that I'll sign up for this. Without reading back over the thread, are we allowed accumulators as long as we post the odds?

mark renton

Dave147 wrote: »

Just to confirm that I'll sign up for this. Without reading back over the thread, are we allowed accumulators as long as we post the odds?

theres 1 page on the thread

SirDelboy18

John you managed to induce a serious fit of laughter on my part:D;)

Yes. Anything, accumulators on anything, corners markets, first to be yellow carded, you name it.
If you provide the odds and where they were obtained then no problemo.

But, the one thing that is definetly banned is Betting in Running on games.
I dont mean betting on Spain to win the competition if they are in the Quarters, but if Spain were playing France and in the 65th minute it was 1-1, then you cannot do something like Over 2.5 goals.

Ill start things off in 2 hours by posting up my first bets, which people will probably be skeptical of:D

Verance

robbie1977 wrote: »

the bet that caught my eye is 1/2 someone to be caught cheating :pac:

On that note, can we have no editing of selections, not even for results? Not that I don't trust ye of course

SirDelboy18

Verance wrote: »

On that note, can we have no editing of selections, not even for results? Not that I don't trust ye of course

Okay, Ill agree with that. I'll display the formula for posting eash bet when I open the competition with the first one in under 2 hours.

I'm going to have listed out all involved before I post my first bet, so could everybody sit tight on selections until I give the all clear

Thanks as always:D

Colm C

Beware Lads:I'm in

SirDelboy18

Here is the list of competitiors:

baraca
colly 06
Colm C
coughlan08
CrabieCrawford
Dave147
dotsflan
duffman13
Gillington
gnolan
Goldcupfav
hon pa
In Tuition
jkelly85
john47832
Johnny86
Kod-box
Omeceron
Onecoolcookie
paddypowder
Rich1691
richardbradley
robbie1977
RocketRonnie
Scoobydooo
skeleton boy
SomethingElse
Stokes
tiernanmul gos
todolist
ValueSeeker
Verance
x PyRo
MiciG91
SirDelboy18
Topher
youcrazyjesus!
El horseboxo
Kevin11
Maloney o9
oppiuy
mickos
IrishWolf
usurename

SirDelboy18

My first bet will be up in 12 or so minutes. As soon as ye see it, then ye can start working.

Töpher

late addition? :pac:

SirDelboy18

Bank = 10 points ( +/- 0 Points ) Profit in Blue, Debt in red please. Level in black

Bet 1 = France to win the World Cup outright - 20/1 w/Jameson Racing - 2 points win

Reasoning can be found in the other forum.
Closing Bank = 8 points
In Play = 2 points

*Could everybody follow this structure please, the reasoning isn't essential though*

It eliminates the need to edit posts as was mentioned earlier. If you want to update profit/loss and don't have an upcoming bet, create a new reply.

Thanks:D

youcrazyjesus!

I'll take part.

x PyRo

Cheers Delboy, This should be good fun. Fair play for organizing it.

Robbie, It would be class if PP's actually priced this up and took bets. We should e-mail them.

SirDelboy18

robbie1977 wrote: »

l see paddypower have priced up the boards world cup tipster competition
heres a few of the odds

valueseeker 6/4fav

x PyRo 4/1

goldcupfav 6/1

sirdellboy 7/1

intuition 250/1 :eek:

the bet that caught my eye is 1/2 someone to be caught cheating :pac:

Im being given far too much credit at 7's, more like 50's!! haha:D;) after seeing my first bet ill be drifting like a barge

colly_06

Do you have to use all your initial 10 points bank over the tournament?
Lets say someone only bets 1 point throughout and finishes on nine and it's a winning score.

SirDelboy18

colly_06 wrote: »

Do you have to use all your initial 10 points bank over the tournament?
Lets say someone only bets 1 point throughout and finishes on nine and it's a winning score.

Thats perfectly fine. But highly unlikely all the same considering the amount of people

El Horseboxo

Can't believe i missed this thread. Sounds like a great idea and i'll be on board with it if it's not too late delboy.

SirDelboy18

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Can't believe i missed this thread. Sounds like a great idea and i'll be on board with it if it's not too late delboy.

No problem..
We'd be happy to have you

Kevin11

Add me in too please

Gillington

Bank = 10 points ( +/- 0 Points ) Profit in Blue, Debt in red please. Level in black

Bet 1 = David Villa Topscorer @ 8/1 (Various bookmakers) 2pts
Nothing too intricate here,I see Spain going far and with ahandy enough group Villa can bang them in.


Closing Bank = 8 points


In Play = 2 points

Verance

Bet 1 = Mexico to qualify from Group A (Evens)
USA to qualify from Group C (7/10)
8 points double with PP pays 2.4/1

Closing Bank = 2 points
In Play = 8 points

In_tuition

Selection 1

Golden Boot: Robin Van Persie 16/1 (Stan James) 2pt win

Arguably the best striker in the world. Fresh and fit (after an injury scare last week). Think Holland will go all the way to the Final.

Selection 2

Golden Ball: Robin Van Persie 33/1 (Boylesports) 2pt win

As above.

Selection 3

To Reach the Final: France 9/1 (Betfred) 3pt win

Selection 4

Top Scorer/Winning Team: Holland/Van Persie 50/1 (Stan James) 1pt win

Selection 5

Straight Forecast: Holland/France 175/1 (Paddy Power) 2pt win

Total staked: 10pt

Good luck!!

ValueSeeker

Antepost Betting

Top Scorer : 0.5pts E/W Robin Van Persie @ 14/1 (Skybet places 1-5)

To Reach 1/4 Final: 1pt Serbia @ 16/5 (Paddypower)


Bank: 8pts

SirDelboy18

Van Persie is proving to be very popular, not just in this thread, but I was talking to another extremely knowledgable football fan last night and he was very very positive about Van Persie. Might put some on shortly:cool:

Luap

Is it too late to join Delboy?:)

Warper

Bank = 10 points ( +/- 0 Points ) Profit in Blue, Debt in red please. Level in black

Bet 1 = Brazil/Villa (Winner/top scorer double) @ 50-1 PP - 10 points win

Closing Bank = 0 points
In Play = 10 points

Thanks Delboy

SirDelboy18

Warper wrote: »

If im not too late, can I join?

If so 10 pts on Brazil/Villa (Winner/top scorer double) @ 50-1 PP

Okay, but copy the outline I showed for each bet please:cool:

ValueSeeker

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Van Persie is proving to be very popular, not just in this thread, but I was talking to another extremely knowledgable football fan last night and he was very very positive about Van Persie. Might put some on shortly:cool:

He's been backed in from 40's +

Fantastic bet if he stays fit.

1 forseeable problem is if the Dutch win their first 2 matches, he'll be rested for the final group game.

dotsflan

Bank = 10 points ( +/- 0 Points ) Profit in Blue, Debt in red please. Level in black

Bet 1 = Kaka Topscorer @ 40/1 (Various bookmakers) 0.5pts
No particular reason, he was just the one who jumped out at me at a big price:)


Closing Bank = 9.5 points


In Play = .5 points

mickos

Count me in as well Delboy if its not too late, Thanks.
I'll post my first selection later.

oppiuy

I would also love to take part in this

ValueSeeker

So much for your deadline Delboy! I don't envy you;)

Irish Wolf

Can I play too?

I'll thank your OP

Luap

Bank = 10 points ( +/- 0 Points ) Profit in Blue, Debt in red please. Level in black

Section 1

Bet 1 = Brazil to win the World Cup outright and David Villa Top Scorer - 50/1 w/Paddy Power - 3 points win

Brazil always find their form on the big stage, they have an easy enough group and second round. Spain have an easy group so I see Villa scoring a bucket load.

Closing Bank = 7 points

In Play = 3 points

Section 2

Bet 2 = England to win the World Cup outright - 7/1 w/Paddy Power - 2 points win

Have a strong team with a very good manager all the ingredient to sucess.

Closing Bank = 5points

In Play = 2 points

Section 3

Bet 3 = Fabiano World Cup Top Scorer - 10/1 w/Paddy Power- 2 points win

He was brazil's top scorer in the qualifiers and he takes the peno's.
Closing Bank = 3 points

In Play = 2 points

Section 4


Bet 1 = Brazil to win the World Cup outright - 9/2 w/Paddy Power - 3 points win

Already said above.

Closing Bank = 0 points
In Play = 3 points

SirDelboy18

ValueSeeker wrote: »

So much for your deadline Delboy! I don't envy you;)

I Know! Okay, I'm going to finish all new additions at 23:00 tonight, Thursday June 3rd.

Ive tried to be accomodating, and have been, but the end is tonight.

If you haven't joined by tonight and still hope to, there aint anyhing that I can do for you.

Thanks:D

SirDelboy18

Also interesting that we have had some stake their entire bank on outrights. It will be very interesting to see whether it proves more profitable than match betting, or a mixture of both

oppiuy

Delboy, are you on Hattrick