After an awful day yesterday.......

Cyrus

has anyone got any tips they are pretty confident about today?

Justified, Mariah rollins e/w and comanche war paint all let me down, only an e/w on brave inca brought a small silver lining to a poor poor day!

Any decent tips for today?

PADDYPOKER

At least you got something back!
My day was so bad, I backed 5 losers and layed 1 winner!
Somebody give me a winner today please.

scargill

I backed Arcalis in the first (small money e/w) so I was up early on. Lost most of it on War of Attrition and lost even more on Harchibald. Lodged more money into PP and lost on Iris Bleu and Comanche War Paint.

Lodged even more money into PP and backed Dabiroun at 20/1 so ended the day in profit. Thats the way Cheltenham goes - you have to stick it out!! The problem is that you get sucked in and start backing in every race. Not doing that today - I have two bigish bets (profits from yesterday) and I'm just backing Moscow Flyer and Missed That.

I have a small e/w on Roman Ark in the first - if that wins I'll probably do a few more small bets for the craic, so hopefully I won't end up chasing my tail again today.

okidoki987

scargill
If you are having bigish bets why are you using PP?
Why don't you use one of the betting exchanges?
Better odds 90% of the time.
Easy to open an account and best of all you can lay a horse (or anything else) instead of just backing your selections.
Betfair has 90% of the exchange market business but charges 5% commission
on your WINNINGS, Betdaq charges 3%.
During Cheltenham they both have very good liquidity and easy to get on.

My tip for the day is to LAY the 3 big runners in the QM Chase.
I've laid MF at 1.3, WC at 1.44 and A at 1.3 (includes stake).
I've shaded the stakes so if any 1 fails to finish in the first 3, I'm in the money.
I don't think all 3 will make the frame (crosses fingers!)

528i

'No Refuge' a good e.w bet in the 2 o'clock @ 9/1

Do it :cool:

Frank Spencer

528i wrote:

'No Refuge' a good e.w bet in the 2 o'clock @ 9/1

Do it :cool:

good call


2.00 Cheltenham
1st 6 No Refuge (IRE) 17-2
2nd 10 Racing Demon (IRE) 14-1
3rd 8 Our Ben 33-1
Winning Trainer J Howard Johnson
Winning Jockey G Lee
Royal Paradise, Gold Medallist 9-2 jtfav
20 ran
Non runners 18

jimi_t

Plausabell in the 2.50 @ Wolverhampton. STAY AWAY from Cheltenham, 'tis evil!

528i

Just heard someone put £1/2million down on Moscow flyer.. :eek:

'oneway' @ 20/1 could surprise :cool:

ninebeanrows

He could well get a place as i really dont fancy Well Chief no more but
really he'll be praying for third if the big shots stand up but ye at 20-1
with the ground gettng onto the soft side of Good he could surprise
if there are a few fallers

Worth a win punt anyway

super103

Just put 120 euro on Central House. Fingers crossed

eirebhoy

528i wrote:

Just heard someone put £1/2million down on Moscow flyer.. :eek:

Didn't even think bookies pay that much out.

jimi_t

eirebhoy wrote:

Didn't even think bookies pay that much out.

If there's half a million going down then it's clearly a private bookies or in Asia etc... Nice stuff for whoever did have it down, though I was rooting for Well Chief at the end...

allin-king

someone also had 100,000 sterling on azertioup, hate that

allin-king

okidoki987 wrote:

scargill

My tip for the day is to LAY the 3 big runners in the QM Chase.
I've laid MF at 1.3, WC at 1.44 and A at 1.3 (includes stake).
I've shaded the stakes so if any 1 fails to finish in the first 3, I'm in the money.
I don't think all 3 will make the frame (crosses fingers!)

that was a bit of a mad idea, i know the race is over now but still....

jimi_t

allin-king wrote:

that was a bit of a mad idea, i know the race is over now but still....

Azertyioup very nearly fell and Well Chief is really a flat horse who had a good chance of falling, with PPs offering 11/8 for all 3 to make the frame I think laying them wasn't the worst idea I've heard

scargill

all in all I was happy with the 6/4 PP gave me. I get too panicy when trying to lay!!! Like to keep it simple !


.................and Missed That came in at 3/1.

as I said keep it simple !!!!! :cool:

528i

yeah, its very easy to get carried away and drop a serious wad of cash (on the likes of some donkey like Central House, wuhahaha)

okidoki987

Aghhhh.
Thought I was quids in when A hit that fence.
Laid Beautiful Vision in the bumper so got something back but still down overall.
Cheltenham is one of the few places where you can get a huge wedge on a horse as there's so many bookies to lay it off with if they need to.

fade2black

okidoki987 wrote:

Aghhhh.
Thought I was quids in when A hit that fence.
Laid Beautiful Vision in the bumper so got something back but still down overall.
Cheltenham is one of the few places where you can get a huge wedge on a horse as there's so many bookies to lay it off with if they need to.

I can't imagine you could've gotton much back on laying a 20-1 shot

scargill

fade2black wrote:

I can't imagine you could've gotton much back on laying a 20-1 shot

was just thinking that myself. to make 50 quid you'd have to have 1,050 in your account - correct me if I'm wrong ?

thats another thing about laying that scares me - I don't like having all that money available to play with at the touch of a button !

Crumbs

Maybe he could have laid it for a place only. That would have been about 5/1.

okidoki987

I didn't fancy the horse at all so what I actually did was
backed it at 33/1 to win the race and then laid it at 20/1 to get back all my possible loss which left me with a posiiton that was either break even or win if he didn't win.
Sometimes that way doesn't work if the odds don't go down but I was guessing there would be some money for it.