Cheltenham Festival 2015

realdanbreen wrote: »

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can't beat going in to the bookies. Having the chat, filling out the docket, changing the docket,changing your mind, tearing up the docket and starting again. Having a bit of a flirt with Denise behind the counter(now and agin she will put you wide to a horse).
Online gambling IMO is a bit like making love to a blow up doll(not that I have any experience of that)

However all the bogeys roaring at the screen and trying to tell you how McCoy/Ruby/Geraghty fooked them over for a treble do not add to the experience!

Only happens in bookies, you wouldn't have people coming up chatting to you telling you that the sausages were out of date yesterday in a supermarket ffs!

Hate bookies, spend as little time as possible in them (and I don't really bet online tbh)

shy-tall-knight wrote: »

I agree, especially during festival week. Get up, don't buy the post, look at the markets, ignore the morning line and then down and do the bets for the day before the place gets infested with dirty students leaving their schoolbags lying all over the kip and treating the bookies like it's their canteen. IN and out in ten minutes and then home to pace anxiously around the house until pub time!

FYP

:pac:

Peintre Celebre wrote: »

The more I stay out of a bookies the better. Full of smelly fools talking about the great double they won, who they're backing in the cartoons. Paddy Power in Prospect Hill full of students roaring home the 4/6 shot they that had their 3 quid on as if they are some sort of gambling god. There's one degenerate in there that goes around cleaning the shop every time I'm in there. Didn't realize he was employed by them.

Was in Galway for a weekend last month and popped into that very shop for a bet on dundalk. That fella (a settled traveller by my estimation) started cleaning up around me and threw my almost full Butlers latté in the bin. Savages in that part of the country!! Not to mention the group of 15 young Africans who were considerably louder than a 747 in take off

A small treble on Sprinter Sacre, Conti and Coneygree and a single on Balder Succes is my only antipost betting this year, finally realizing getting my hands bitten ain't nice

Gregk961 wrote: »

Not to mention the group of 15 young Africans who were considerably louder than a 747 in take off

LIONEL, LIONEL JOSEPH from the African Education Counsel

Nuts102 wrote: »

If anyone fancys douvan and thinks he's to short now to bk. 888sport are doing douvan/faugheen double 8/1. Only for 24 hrs though

I've logged onto their website but can't see any mention of this offer anywhere?

I read plenty of the chat on this forum and i'd say plenty of ye who look down on the fella in the bookies are not in the 20%, ye know for a fact, who make a profit, or was it 5% in the latest survey that followed two minutes after. Anyone who doesnt gamble online is a mug? I'd imagine the fact it is Paddy Powers highest growing market blows that idea out of the water. There are degenerates in society, who through maybe their own fault are not as well off or capable as others, but seriously the way some of the posters here go on you'd swear they should be segregated. I can go into a bookies and write out my slip for a fiver and no one bothers me. If they do, i'm capable of being polite and moving on. Does it annoy ye that they go on about McCoy, Geraghty, et al, because you want them to shut up so you can tell them how clever and clued in you are? You're Irish (i'll assume) that means you're middle class at best, get over yourself. Back to Cheltenham and trying to break even and have fun at the same time.

well lads just a quick question.First time going to cheltenham and have tickets for a few of us,but one of the lads left it too late and now tattersalls tickets for friday are sold out.Just wondering do ye expect more tickets to go on sale or would you get in if you go to the gate very early on the friday??cheers for any replys

Deco99 wrote: »

I read plenty of the chat on this forum and i'd say plenty of ye who look down on the fella in the bookies are not in the 20%, ye know for a fact, who make a profit, or was it 5% in the latest survey that followed two minutes after. Anyone who doesnt gamble online is a mug? I'd imagine the fact it is Paddy Powers highest growing market blows that idea out of the water. There are degenerates in society, who through maybe their own fault are not as well off or capable as others, but seriously the way some of the posters here go on you'd swear they should be segregated. I can go into a bookies and write out my slip for a fiver and no one bothers me. If they do, i'm capable of being polite and moving on. Does it annoy ye that they go on about McCoy, Geraghty, et al, because you want them to shut up so you can tell them how clever and clued in you are? You're Irish (i'll assume) that means you're middle class at best, get over yourself. Back to Cheltenham and trying to break even and have fun at the same time.

Never ever gamble.put the odds in your favour that is what I do.

I have been asked for my back /lay of the meeting.my back of the meeting is 6/1 jezki e/w in a four horse race my lay of the meeting is between silviniaco conti/un des sceaux.will wait till the day to lay either.Never ever back a sire/dam flat bred hopeless ****ers bookies love these type of muck.

sting60 wrote: »

I have been asked for my back /lay of the meeting.my back of the meeting is 6/1 jezkie e/w in a four horse race my lay of the meeting is between silviniaco conti/un des sceaux.will wait till the day to lay either.

I can't see sil c doing it this year either, I may be talking out of my pocket having been on him the previous 2 years but there is no way he'll be third time lucky.

UDS is a machine, I'll be backing joses hill at the prices but he is clearly the best in the division.

My lay is douvan on any ground better than soft.

Some good banter here tonight :pac: My local bookie is more like a senior citizens social club, especially when I do my bets first thing on Saturday morning. Not a fella there would have a clue about horse racing, but you get some good laughs. Many a time I'd go in and just do a £2 football bet.

Twiston Davies doing his best to talk up The New One claiming he should be joint favourite with Faugheen. Also says that Faugheen is a grinder(!!) and his horse is a bridle horse. Also claims that Faugheen has made many more mistakes in his races than The New One. Says that he reckons he has Jezki covered and was disappointed to lose last years Champion Hurdle as he thought he could win 3 in a row.

If his horse performs as well as Twiston Davies is talking he will win on the bridle.

sting60 wrote: »

I have been asked for my back /lay of the meeting.my back of the meeting is 6/1 jezki e/w in a four horse race my lay of the meeting is between silviniaco conti/un des sceaux.will wait till the day to lay either.Never ever back a sire/dam flat bred hopeless ****ers bookies love these type of muck.

Where are you getting the 6/1 on Jezki?