Tilt and Turn

Had a successful place lay and was going to call it a day. But had an outstanding win back on a horse that started drifting. I stupidly followed the drift out with the expectation I could trade out pre-race with my stake but it kept drifting and I kept backing. Ended up with £2k commited and only managed to trade for a small amount in running. Bloody Tim Vaughan is as bent as anything ! Well that sent me on tilt. Backed another horse to trade in running and got distracted. Would have traded to easily for a win and place in running but when I got back it had led travelled well but finished unplaced. Ended up facing a £5k loss at one point but ground it back with some large lays to a small profit on the day.

Another lesson learnt and another big escape!

December First week

Things have been pretty kind to me for the first week of December. As noted on my last post it is mainly down to the incredible volitility in the in running markets at the moment. I'm sure plenty of 'fast pics and track' boys are doing their conkers at the moment.

Most of the profit as always has come from the UK and US horse racing, but had some decent success on the greyhounds and dipped my toe into the soccer on saturday and a cheeky bet on X factor on Sunday (special bets), together with a small forray into the aussie racing this morning.

My P and L for December is summarised as follows:-

UK Wallet

Football: £93.41 | Greyhound Racing: £583.68 | Horse Racing: £2,124.18 | Special Bets: £93.41 Total P&L: £2,894.68

Aussie Wallet

Greyhound Racing: £31.16 | Horse Racing: £36.94 Total P&L: £68.10

Total Profit for december = £2,962.78

Very pleased with the current progress for December. These figures take me over the £20k made on Betfair since the start of this blog

Decent 3 days to start December

Started December by making the most of the volitile I/R markets. Layed plenty of short price favourites some of which won but traded at well into double figures in running so made some decent profit on all of them. Even made a few quid after dipping my toe into UK greyhounds again.

Not done much on the US racing because I've been a bit tired in the evenings so got out as soon as I was in profit on them.

Only one silly bet so far which almost sent me on tilt.

Delighted with .......

Profit = £2,135.78 (December)

November Summary

Noticed that my last post indicated that I tilted again. I'm glad to report that hasn't happened since, but I have been unable to post as a result of being very busy in my personally life since. I have done quite a lot of punting though, particular from information received so I am happy to report a decent profit on Betfair. In addtional to this profit I also made around £3k from the bookies which included a decent antepost bet on Denman, a trip to the races at Haydock and the bet on Red Suede Shoes. After long consideration I have decided to be using my betdaq profit within the figures.


November Profit on Betfair = £6770.05
Total Profit On Betfair so far = £17,444.37 (would be nice to hit £20k by christmas)

Total Betdaq Profit so far = £3,744.00

Total Exchange Profit = £21,188.37

Tilted Again!

A couple of days ago made a silly bet outside my comfort zone in the last race of the afternoon. With the US racing not starting for a couple of hours I was tilting and chose to bet on the dogs. 2 bad lays and I'm facing a deficit and start chasing. Was up and down for a bit then spent the whole evening until late on the US trying to recoup. Ended up £2k down on the day. I definitely wasn't as bad as I have been but if it wasn't for the tilt I realise I could have saved myself lots of effort and stress. Over the past couple of days I have worked really hard to recoup and can fortunately post an increased profit since my last post for November. Adding to this my favourite horse of the moment ran tonight and won. The info I got was reasonably positive but I fancied it quite strongly. It won quite easily and I had £200 e/w with William Hill at 9/2 (SP returned 7/2) and made me over £1k profit.

Nice to take it from the Bookies! As always my figures don't include this profit.

November Profit to date £3362.91

Nothing much to say.......

Not a great deal to report but I wanted to keep up the momentum on my postings. Had plenty of sessions and worked hard for a decent profits boost. I have kept 'reasonably' disciplined but I suppose I could have been more. Used a bit of trading where I felt value was to be had and made a few extra pounds that way.

November Profit = £2875.33

Profit Boost

A couple of good days gave my profit figure for November a decent boost. Hardwork on Thursday with several sessions and two sessions yesterday. Admittedly it was given a boost by a decent tip that I went big win and place. The sum total of this means that I am now in profit for November to a very respectable £2070.18

November In Profit :-)

Had a decent couple of days and I'm finally in profit which is a good achievement and feel more positive now. Up to last night I was £375.17 in profit but had a decent couple of winners this afternoon and added another £300 at least to that. I say at least because I've got three outstanding bets so if any or all of those come in I will see some more profit. But apart from those that is it for today so I'm happy with £300 at least

November profit = £675.17

PROFITABILITY UPDATE

SEPTEMBER (Includes last few days of August) - £1891.67
OCTOBER £8782.65
NOVEMBER (SO FAR) -£83.36
TOTAL PROFIT = £10576.96

just to note that there are £6.5k worth of Betdaq profits that aren't included in these figures or any bookmaker profit.

November Has Been Tough

So far November has been tough. Made a losing end to the month on Betfair account after the big loss day. And started off the month with a bad attitude and made a losing start. No chasing but I really couldn't be bothered so made silly decisions.

I've been in a better frame of mind though the past few days and started to claw ssome back. Betfair is down at the moment so can't check my Pand L but I think I'm about £400 down for November. I need to update all my figures anyway and I'm going to start recording them outside betfair in a spreadsheet on a daily basis.

Part of my problem has been I was messing about with my daily depsoit limt on betfair and accidently set to to just £500 a day. So i ended up trying to turn the £500 into a £2k bank which I got close to on a number of occasions but ended up losing the £500 on a few occasions! Anyway I'm back to normal now and as I have said, slowly clawing things back.

Will update my figures of October, November and running total later.

Betfair - £4700 Betdaq + £6600

That's right I've been to the dark place and back again!!!

I had a stupid stupid big bet on a horse I was given and was hoping to trade out some but it just kept drifting and I didn't get out. Lost £1400 on the first race. Then I had an even bigger bet on a horse that was even more strongly fancied. It drifted and drifted and drifted and lost! So I did nearly £5k in on my betfair and moved over to betdaq. I backed three godolphin horses and upped my stake each time. ALL three won and ALL three drifted. So I was £1600 up on the day but my betfair P and L shows a different story. Not bothered though I'll forget the betdaq win for my stats for the blog and call it a nice £6.6k bonus :-)

So I have a target to make the £4.7k back by the end of the month. Only 2 days ha ha unlikely. Only got £396 in my betfair account and can't deposit anthing until tomorrow because of my self impossed limits so I'll see how far I can get that in the next two days. It would be nice to get back to my £2k betfair bank without having to deposit. Either way my October figures will be good without the betdaq win and I have another £1600 to treat myself with!!!!

BIG let off :-) :-) :-)

Control losses and profits

Been playing the markets a bit today to lock in profit and hold losses but first last nights value seeking

sort out a but of value last night on the televised dogs and football and made £48.16

This afternoon traded the markets a bit when I new the price would shorten on fancies pre-race or after the off I placed slightly bigger bets and traded out quite quickly, a couple of winners meant a decent profit and the for the 4 losers I was slightly green so all good. Made £249.03 this afternoon.

On to this evening had a few bets on US racing and end slightly up but boost this after backing a tip at Kempton that won making a healthy profit of £649.71

all in all I've made nearly a grand over the past two days which is almost a months target.

A decent enough day for little effort

Wasn't planning on doing much today but was given a bit of info which I didn't go too big and it worked out well netting a nice profit. After last night it was a relaxing bit of profit. May have a search around for any value tonight but may just not play at all. I just want to make use of the time that I have while the wife is working because after this week I'll have less time for punting and as it's a new month soon I'm not sure I'll be able to hit targets. Speaking of targets I'm gonna have a rethink of my targets

and adapt them to the different punting styles I adopt.

Just think how I can maximise profits and more

importantly minimise losses and stop the dreaded tilt!

Horse Racing: £320.27 Total P&L: £320.27

Learning Lessons - RONALDO I LOVE YOU!

Learnt an important lesson on staking last night. I played the US horses and it was one of those nights when I knew it just wasn't my night. Despite reducing my stakes to what I had been playing in recent weeks whilst trying to recover losses, it wasn't long before I 'd lost quite heavily and was into chasing territory! Some of my concerns in the early posts of this blog questioned my form on the US racing but over the past couple of weeks my good form has returned and you could say I have been ON FIRE! Fortunately my good form hasn't deserted me, it was just my good fortune. The amount of close 2nds and close 3rds was unbelievable.

Anyway, early doors my staking got me into trouble (LESSON 1) fortunately my banker bet of the evening which was an amazing 7/4 when I expected it to be odds on, got me out of trouble. I should have just quit then, I was a few quid down but up on the day and if I had a proper look at the cards ahead (particularly later on) I would have done (LESSON 2). But no I continued aiming to make a profit and my eratic staking continued (LESSON 3) and got me into an evening bigger mess. I wasn't blindly chasing, I was waiting for what I thought were good opportunities but my luck was out. I layed a fav and back a 2nd fav, the swing was huge and mine lost in a photo when it looked the winner all the way up the straight but that happens in racing and it will go the other way one day. By this point there was very little racing left and it was getting late. I wasn't posting my selections on the forum. I placed a massive bet and the horse absolutely hacke up by about 12 lengths. I won't forget the horses name in a hurry, Ronaldo, I will never show hatred for the ex -man utd now with real madrid footballer again! For the first time that night I was in front.

It was reckless and I shouldn't have been there in the first place and in future I wouldn't have been so lucky (LESSON4) but boy was I happy.

The profit for a turbulent day was £588.07

How do you stop yourself?

Right last post I suggested I may need to analyse my strategy as far as the aussie racing was concerned. Well I put today down to part poor aussie form but mainly down to big bet chasing.

Within the space of less than 2 hours I managed to rack up a £2.5k loss on aussie racing and it may have been more but my funds were limited so 'I had to' be careful. Basically I was reckless yet again.

By the end of the day I managed to turn things around with some decent form on the UK racing and turn out a profit of around £200 for the day.

Food for thought and so much for having a day off!

I need to get some discipline. May be if I say it enough then I'll start to act on it!!

Two Months down the line and some might say I give up Ozzie

Not been any activity since my last post but I realised that it's exactly two months since I started recording my progress so I thought I'd post some screen shots while I have time!

What you will see is my UK wallet is showing a very healthy profit and my AUS wallet is showing a huge loss. I put this down to chasing and some heavy chase bets lost on the aussie stuff but I will be keeping an eye on my aussie horse and greyhound profits over the next couple of weeks to see if there is a profit.

The sum total of all this is that my profit for the first two months stands at £14,363.49

In a way though this is pretty meaningless while I still am struggling with my chasing issues!

It happend AGAIN !!! Ground Hog Day

Ok since the last post I had a bad run started chasing and lost plenty in one day!!!!

So it's like ground hog day!

However, I was probably further down this time and my lowest point and now I've got myself into a decent increase in profit since my last post.

I'm saying no more about this because I said it all last time!!!! Except to say apart from one bank job horse that won me £2600 there was nothing spectacular about the comeback except to say it was a hard slog over several days.

I'm back now though so all is good.... for now

Figures for October to date are as follows :-

UK Wallet + Total P&L: £15,718.91

AUSSIE Wallet - Total P&L: -£3,247.09

Total Profit ++++++++ £12471.82 :-) :-) :-)

So just over £2300 made since last post which on reflection aint too bad at all :-)

Taking things easy until the end of the month.

Some great information!!!

Firstly I must point out that I started the last post on Saturday but saved it as draft cos I was took tired and only finished it yesterday.

So, where do I start had a cracker of a day yesterday. Was given a really strong tip last week and I waded in on it! I know that this breaks my rule but the info was really really strong so I went vert big win and place. I collected just over £3k on Betfair, and included it in a eachway Lucky 15 with a bookie and had one other winner and two placings. I won nearly £600 from that bet as well. I had another winner and two good session on the US racing and a small session on Oz racing.

Stats for yesterday were - £4,196.16 UK + £46.56 AUS

Also had a small session on the Oz racing this morning and won £42.45

So currently my month to date stands at - £10169.84. Which is huge!!!

Last month was £1891.67 so the total is £12061.51 since the start. But as last month proved it could all go horribly wrong if I don't keep my discipline.

I was concerned after yesterdays great day that I would get ahead of what I know is reasonably acceptable. But I kept things steady and ground out a decent profit in last nights US racing sessions. I know that if I get enough sessions in each week I would be able to hit £2k every month quite easily so I think I'll have that as my target moving forward.

Obviously this month I will easily surpass that so I'll set a target from today 13th October to make £1500 by the end of the month. Which means that I need a total of 25 sessions if I make £60 a session as a minimum. I think I will target 20 sessions at £75 a go.

Busy Weekend !

Strange sort of day on Saturday. Was given a strong fancy which won at 9/1 but I only had a small each way on it's own and had included it in multiples. Did all the the bets on by bookie account from the winnings from yesterdays dog and ended up in profit on the day. In fact from the £100 deposit on Friday I was able to bank £412.50 on Saturday.

I didn't have any sessions durig the day because I was busy putting decking down in the back yard. Then in the evening I decided to have a small session in the evening even though I was a bit tired. the secod bet won, I had backed it quite big (£65) at prices around 15's on betfair as I thought it was sure to shorten and I would trade some out. It didn't shorten even though it went off 5/1 on track and ended up storming in!

Yesterday I had two tips, went quite big on the first one which won at 4/1, I made areound £900. I'd also had a small eachway double on the two at the bookies so I just went small w/p on the 2nd and it came nowhere.

Had a small session last night and was losing quite heavily, about £2k down at one point. Landed a decent bet which got me back to only £800 down and decided to take a break for a bit. I thought about what I should so and had been given a american footbal tip to back earlier in the day from a mate at even money. I put £800 on that. Then I went back to the US racing. The first bet was a lay of the fav and the back to a 12's shot in the same race. The 12's shot won which got me back another £600. So I was actually only £200 down, so I traded out of the american football bet until I only had £200 on the bet. That won as well which netted me about £18 profit for the session.

So Saturday and Sunday proved to be very profitable and made sure that the figures for the first two months of the challenge will be nice and healthy

Profit was = £1,723.36

Also had a small session this morning which I mad £46.56

Two weeks wages in One Day

Good day today. 3 sessions

1 aussie, 1 uk and 1 us. Very good profit on each, mainly from a tip I got for a horse which won me £500. So I ended the day winning 923.47 profit from Betfair.

I also had a greyhound tip but it was tonight at Perry Barr and it won, could only get SP which was 7/4. Apparently it opened at 3/1 on track. My £100 stake won me £175 but this blog is about Betfair profits so I won't record that it. Just a bit of beer money :-)