Derek's Donkeys and Other Bets.

Derek!

Hello and welcome to my log
I'll keep it simple as you all know the story with logs by now.
I wont be workin off a bank system and the log will finish when it gets embarrassin
I'm not a wannabe "high roller" like cockman08 so bets will not be big ones.
I also wont be goin into detail but I will have looked into all bets I place

WARNING: Do not follow my bets unless you want to lose money!

Gavin "shels"

Goodluck man!

Derek!

I enjoy tryin to pick winners in horse racin but I'm not very good at it which explains the tiny stakes

3:25 Doncaster
Rare Ruby 6/1
€2.50 Each way

6:50 Newcastle
Opera Gal 6/1
€2.50 Each way

Total bet so far €10.00

Derek!

Gavin shels wrote: »

Goodluck man!

Thanks I'm goin to need all the luck I can get.

Gavin "shels"

Derek! wrote: »

Thanks I'm goin to need all the luck I can get.

Well if it dies on it's arse don't blame me, I only suggested the idea!:D

Derek!

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well if it dies on it's arse don't blame me, I only suggested the idea!:D

Haha dont worry I'll blame my bad picks instead

fkiely

Good luck Derek. Will be watching with interest.

Letyourselfgo

Best of luck with it

Derek!

fkiely wrote: »

Good luck Derek. Will be watching with interest.

Letyourselfgo wrote: »

Best of luck with it

Thanks lads I appreciate that, hopefully I'll have a lot of luck.

ghosttown

Best of luck with it, ya might even inspire me to start a proper log !:)

Will keep to the fancies for today for now....... but will follow yours....

Derek!

Thanks mate, you should start a log I think it will be good to keep track of my bets.
I'm hopin it will break my bad gamblin habits aswell

Derek!

Shelbourne -1
Derry City

€10 Double returns €19.09

Derek!

Sh1t start today, I'm just assumin now that Derry wont come back and win.
I'll have to try harder next time

panthera

good luck with the new log coughlan08

Derek!

panthera wrote: »

good luck with the new log coughlan08

Good luck with coppin on
Edit: unless you were messin

Derek!

Ok for this bet I thought I would try out doin a very small write up explainin why I'm pickin this horse in the hope that it might help.

8:10 Stratford Lodgician 6/1 (GP)

This horse stood out to me when lookin into the race because its a CD winner (August 2010) and seems to almost always give a good account of itself in these conditions.
Sam Twiston-Davies takes the ride today (as usual) he is obviously very familiar with this horse and seems to get the best from it.
It was only beaten by half a length upon comeback at Ffos Las on the 16th of June so I'm hopin it will go well again.

€5.00 Win

Derek!

Bet 4 comes 2nd

UrbanSea

Derek! wrote: »

Good luck with coppin on
Edit: unless you were messin

Good luck Derek,that post made me lawless. Making a few quid for Galway?

Derek!

Thanks, tryin to anyway but the losin streak isn't exactly helpin

UrbanSea

Ah theyll come.

Derek!

Kildare
Tyrone

€20 Double, Potential return €39

Derek!

Bet 5 wins and the losin streak is over (for now)

Total staked €45
Total returned €39

Loss of €6

Derek!

Drogheda United v Shamrock Rovers (over 2.5 goals)
Derry City
Shelbourne

€10 Treble, Potential Returns €38.89

Derek!

Bet 6 is fu**ed now anyway, in hindsight takin over 2.5 goals in the Rovers game was stupid
And no doubt Shelbourne will hammer Finn Harps now tomorrow :rolleyes:

Derek!

Darts 18th July

Mervyn King
Wes Newton

€20 Double, Potential Return €42.93

Derek!

This is the most risky bet so far on the log
I have tried to do some dutchin on the correct score market on the darts

Phil Taylor v Mark Hylton

Correct score 10-0 25/1 €5.77
Correct score 10-1 14/1 €10.00
Correct score 10-2 8/1 €16.66
Correct score 10-3 6/1 €21.42
Correct score 10-4 11/2 €23.07
Correct score 10-5 11/2 €23.07

€100 in total for bet 8, Potential return of about €149.95

(My calculator wont cooperate)

Derek!

Derek! wrote: »

Darts 18th July

Mervyn King
Wes Newton

€20 Double, Potential Return €42.93

This is the worst game of darts I ever seen, Pipe is so fcukin slow its drivin me mad :mad:

Derek!

Complete disaster, i'll keep goin anyway and see if I can turn it around.

Derek!

Duchess Dora 5:10 Ascot Tomorrow
6/1

€10 Win, Potential return €70

Derek!

Another loser, maybe I should turn this into a lay log when I think about bettin on somethin

ft9

Derek! wrote: »

Another loser, maybe I should turn this into a lay log when I think about bettin on somethin

Pm me if you do and let me know will ya, cause thats when they will start winning!

Chin up!

Derek!

Derek! wrote: »

Duchess Dora 5:10 Ascot Tomorrow
6/1

€10 Win, Potential return €70

Derek! wrote: »

Another loser, maybe I should turn this into a lay log when I think about bettin on somethin

I thought 'twas a great bet tbh, not our fault the bastad favourite took to the ease in the ground

Derek!

ft9 wrote: »

Pm me if you do and let me know will ya, cause thats when they will start winning!

Chin up!

Lol that would be typical of my luck if my lay bets started winnin, thanks though i'll keep tryin

RoverJames wrote: »

I thought 'twas a great bet tbh, not our fault the bastad favourite took to the ease in the ground

That's true, I was very confident of Duchess Dora winnin the race but it wasn't to be :rolleyes:

Derek!

Green Destiny 3:10 Goodwood
11/4

€10 Win, Potential Return €37.50


Sagramor 3:10 Goodwood
13/2

€5 Win, Potential Return €37.50

If both of these lose, which is probably inevitable :rolleyes: although there drawn well, then i'll probably paper trade on the horses for a while to try and improve. Sick of gettin close but no cigar :mad:

Derek!

Last roll of the dice before I start paper tradin the horses after another disaster earlier.


4 or more Goals in the Man City Match tomorrow

€100 @ 6/4, Potential return €250

UrbanSea

Big bet tomorrow. Good luck Derek

Fingers crossed there are four goal in the first half

Gavin "shels"

RoverJames wrote: »

Fingers crossed there are four goal in the first half

4 goals for City in the 1st half please!:D And an attendence of 1,000 or so would bring a smile to my face too

Derek!

UrbanSea wrote: »

Big bet tomorrow. Good luck Derek

RoverJames wrote: »

Fingers crossed there are four goal in the first half

Gavin shels wrote: »

4 goals for City in the 1st half please!:D And an attendence of 1,000 or so would bring a smile to my face too

Thanks men, hopefully the bet wins handy enough
United destroyed an Airtricity team before so hopefully we see plenty of goals and a similar result for all our bets

I won't be having a bet in it, don't want you having too much of a sweat though waiting for the 4th

Derek!

RoverJames wrote: »

I won't be having a bet in it, don't want you having too much of a sweat though waiting for the 4th

Thanks, hopefully it will be as painless as possible

And so begins the paper trade, have to say i'm lookin forward to this bit, no more damage can be done and it might eventually help.

I may or may not back the odd one of these but win or lose they obviously wont count towards my log. Just wanna see how I do without losin money (again)



Newmarket 2:20
Watneya 12/1 €5 e/w



Goodwood 2:35

Harlestone Times 6/1 €5 win

From this thread there's nothing at all wrong with your selections, knock out the accums and stick to singles with a dare I say sensible staking plan and you'd get weeks and weeks from a betting bank of 50 and more than likely grow it I'd say

Derek!

I think your right you know, lookin back over it i'd be a lot better off if I had of been doin singles and with a staking plan.
Nice one

Staking plans are a pain in the arse as we all know :pac: Necessary evil though, huge help in keeping the discipline, a staking plan and a realisation that lots of losers on the trot are all part of this lark and are essential in keeping the head above water

Derek!

RoverJames wrote: »

Staking plans are a pain in the arse as we all know :pac: Necessary evil though, huge help in keeping the discipline, a staking plan and a realisation that lots of losers on the trot are all part of this lark and are essential in keeping the head above water

Very good point again there James, what sort of staking plan would you suggest?

Derek!

Still part of the paper tradin

Saxonette 5 e/w 12/1
Hamilton 8.10

Derek!

Derek! wrote: »

Very good point again there James, what sort of staking plan would you suggest?

Well as mentioned I do hate the things so my idea of a staking plan is a fairly crude yoke, I thought the bets I've quoted below were suitable for a betting bank of about €200, except ideally I reckon you should ditch the e/w bets and go win only, easier said than done and it's something I find very hard to do myself as anyone who peaks into my log can see. Max bet €10, most of them €5 or €2.50, that way starting out with the €200 you can say, right I can have 5 x €10 bets, 10 x €10 bets and 20 x €2.50 bets, that's 35 bets. Worst case scenario you have 35 losing bets on the trot, if you start chasing losses you use up all 5 of your €10 bets very quickly, stick to your plan and you won't do that as you'll value those €10 bets more and want to keep them for the yokes you really fancy, the staking plan thing does take your betting to the next level in fairness to it if you stick to it, you really really weigh up things much more critically. Well worth trying out, even as a paper trade exercise.

Derek! wrote: »

I enjoy tryin to pick winners in horse racin but I'm not very good at it which explains the tiny stakes

3:25 Doncaster
Rare Ruby 6/1
€2.50 Each way

6:50 Newcastle
Opera Gal 6/1
€2.50 Each way

Total bet so far €10.00

Derek! wrote: »

Ok for this bet I thought I would try out doin a very small write up explainin why I'm pickin this horse in the hope that it might help.

8:10 Stratford Lodgician 6/1 (GP)



€5.00 Win

Derek! wrote: »

Duchess Dora 5:10 Ascot Tomorrow
6/1

€10 Win, Potential return €70

Derek!

Thanks maybe next time I start a log i'll work from a bank and see how it goes

Seldom in the 9.10 at Hamilton for me @ 4/1 (paper trade)
up 2 lb for a win 12 days ago but has a 7 lb claimer on board

Derek!

Just tried to log into my William Hill account to find out it's been "locked" WTF? They didn't even have the decency to send me an email explainin why :mad:

Edit: They replied
"Hi Derek,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Your account was locked due to password problems and has now been reset, so if you are happy with the password you should experience no further problems when attempting to log in. Please note that the password must be between 6-15 characters so if you are entering a longer password the account will lock" em no it hasn't been reset at all cause I just logged in now with the password I always had


Anyway some more PT from me

4:00 Newton Abbot
Taroum @ 5/1

7:55 Carlisle
Sunnyside Tom @ 13/2

Derek!

Time to sort out the disaster that is my log.
The moral of the story is €300 in bets and only €39 returned
Loss of €261

I'm to fcukin stubborn to give up on it though

Hopefully when the rest of the football comes back i'll get my act together!

Derek!

I'll try a bit more practice without puttin money down and see how we go

Flamengo vs Atlético PR

In these 2 teams last 5 games there has been an average of 3 goals in each.
Flamengo are top of the Brazilian league and Atlético PR are 19th and concede a lot so there must be a gulf in class.
All things considered i'll go for over 2.5 goals @ 10/11 (PT)

Edit: Half time now 0-0, there has defo been enough chances for some goals but for the poor finishin.
I'm glad I didn't have money on this one, these players couldn't finish their dinner never mind a chance.
And Flamengo are the top team at the moment? lol, doesn't say a lot for Brazils clubs.