What's your speciality/poison?

d-gal

We all have 1 thing we are good at backing and 1 thing that we are terrible at or just can't resist

My speciality? Greyhounds by a mile. If I focused on nothing but these I'd be sorted.

My poison? Maidens in horse racing. I just can't resist when I get a tip, hear word or really like the breeding of a horse. Bloody crazy backing them

What's yours?

Plus 10

Speciality - 8 to 10 runner novice hurdles with reasonably strong favourites
Poison -Big field handicaps

Outside of racing
Speciality - rugby
Poison - soccer

Wishful Thinking

Rugby is my best
Ulster Gaelic football
Scottish football


My worst
EPL
Philip Hobbs horses
& Irish & Meydan can prove costly

shangri la

Specialise in greyhounds? Is the racing post your main resource?

d-gal

shangri la wrote: »

Specialise in greyhounds? Is the racing post your main resource?

thebettingsite.com and the papers. Focus on the right tracks and trainers. It's very hard to get good information on how well a dog and trainer so if you record your own then you have a great chance

In play for me, you just can't evaluate the odds enough and are enticed too easily by the numbers, if I do in play I do it and cover in play for guaranteed profit.

Plus 10

Plus 10 wrote: »

Speciality - 8 to 10 runner novice hurdles with reasonably strong favourites

1.55 Kelso - Makbullet - 4/1 with Ladbrokes - max bet e/w. Online & phone will probably refuse it - shops the way to go. Would take 7/2 (generally available).

gnella

Plus 10 wrote: »

1.55 Kelso - Makbullet - 4/1 with Ladbrokes - max bet e/w. Online & phone will probably refuse it - shops the way to go. Would take 7/2 (generally available).

nice one +10,easy winner

MyStubbleItches

gnella wrote: »

nice one +10,easy winner

Yep, thanks for that.

Plus 10

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Yep, thanks for that.

No problem - happy to help - Surprised to see him drift to 9/2 for a while

Logic of the bet - 8 runners - included 3 no hopers and a 20/1 shot who was tailed off on his hurdling debut so I saw it as a 4 horse race. Fav deserved to be fav but thought it was too short on what he had done to date and had to carry a penalty. The other horse carrying a penalty had reasonable form but had a couple of poor runs since its win. The final runner had only 2 runs and was unfancied when finishing placed the last run.

The winner I liked - had recent winning flat form (over 7f) and plenty of experience over hurles (incl beaten by a nose and other results were actually better than the finishing positions suggested).

Nuri Sahin

Interesting thread.

Specialty? I'd say like to say golf (PGA Tour) and football (soccer) would be my specialty areas. The former I always state has been good to me post-Masters, more so starting in the summer though. Every year since 2005 has produced at least 2 winners bar 2010 which had a ton of close calls and bad luck in final rounds. Last year produced 8 winners, 2 were from mid-tourney ie: after round 2 but all were on the PGA Tour.

Football has been patchy at times the past couple of years since I've returned to footy betting (took a year break). But I'd consider myself quite knowledgeable in leagues around the world, whether that translates into winning bets is another thing

Also do quite well in the NBA and NHL playoffs over. But I'm the first to admit that's down to a lot of luck and research plus vague interest from living in Canada for a little bit. Last year was just simply brilliant for the most part in both.

Poison? Rubgy. Just never had much luck with it. GAA and the like, I'm absolutely clueless in as I've zero interest but did follow blindly at times. Less so than before :pac:
Probably could say the same about UFC and NFL to a lesser extent.

8-10

My speciality - Baseball. I live and breathe the sport March - October. Had a few successes on here. (hoping to start a new log for this season, I'll be betting for sure but not sure I'll have time for a log.)

Poison - Rugby 1st tryscorer. Always a whimsical bet, generally stick a fiver on someone for the bigger games if I'm watching them. Money down the drain 99.9% of the time. I like the 1st score of the game - penalty to away team bet as it seems to come up better than priced quite a but but I haven't done that long enough to say that for certain.

Summary - make all my money from baseball in the summer, lose it all in winter.

200yrolecrank

Specialty Bacarrat
Poison online poker

wp_rathead

Most of my wins- and bets I put big stakes on is in rugby- mainly domestic leagues like Pro12, Prem, Top14 and Pro D2. Internationals and HEC/Amlin are trickier. Don't follow Super 15 much- but gonna start seen as only rugby be on over the summer

I'v probably lost most in football- mainly just on stupid bets that seem obvious, but no value in them and then they don't happen *cough* Barcelona *cough*

I don't bet on horses or dogs or GAA (well i do the odd time in GAA)
had few longshot wins e/w on the golf but they mainly just stab in the dark or following a tip.

Rugby is defo where I put in research and see fruits for my labour