His genius plan of on course bookmaking has pivoted into a straight white label bookies
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If anybody ever brings this up, hereās a current fact that should shut them up for good.
The Indian national cricket team has played twenty one day international games in the last two years. They have lost the toss in every single one of them.
Thatās the equivalent of backing twenty consecutive losing even money favourites. And itās a genuine one in a million chance.
Being a cynic, and having noted that Asian bookies take bets on the toss in these games, I wonder if thereās a link between most Indian cricket fans betting on India to win the toss, and the fact that they donāt!
If you started with a Ā£1 bet on the first game and doubled up after each loss, your stake for Match 21 would Ā£1, 048, 576. Might have a bit of a struggle to get on!
Their next one day game starts at 8am our time tomorrow (Saturday), India v S Africa.
Iāll let you know what happens!
Alan
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Surely itās rigged
You could never get tired of listening to The Dog Findlay. What a character.
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Interesting
Definitely angles in the rubby that the odds compilers canāt get handle on. Wonder what markets he is betting in itā¦constant rule changes mean opportunity for an edge
Backing greyhounds is muggy enough behavior unless you are in the know.
He should stick to the rugby by the sounds of it
Heās clearly a bright lad.
Iām not trying to shit on his winnings because Iāve been there and itās remarkably difficult to turn a profit against the gambling machine.
What changed my behaviour was a number of simultaneous things. One of the main ones was, I had a similar year where I tracked all my bets and given the amount of time and effort put into researching and the profit I made(similar 10%ish) I thought Iād be better served putting extra effort into my job instead and seeing if I could meaningfully improve my salary with that time and energy instead. Turns out I could. Very easily.
ā¬8k return on ā¬100k in bets is great as a hobby. I donāt know what he does for a living but I imagine if he repurposed a sizeable chunk of that time and effort into something more stable he could end up in better position financially longer term. Heās likely getting limited already by bookies now too.
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Those bags meetings are totally fixed. All the owners know each other and have it sewn up
Great post
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Whatās the purpose of making money?
Iād imagine most people who want to get rich
are doing so to buy back time.
If you want money for lifestyle and things, then work is the easiest way.
People that want to get rich or make it in something like gambling are probably chasing something else , that work will never bring. Work is probably the antithesis of what they want.
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The story of the rich American and the small fisherman
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He accused them of drug smuggling and bombed them?
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Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a Corvette
Thinks heāll get the girl, heāll only get the mechanic
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Yeah I found a few quirks within that.
The stake you bet doesnāt really scale linearly with the level of satisfaction you get with a win the more you put on. The level of dread of losing does though, if not exponentionally. When you go bigger stakes the joy is flavoured with relief (offsetting the dread) which isnāt really the same thing. A ā¬10 bet winning and a ā¬100 bet winning gives satisfaction in the context of knowing you were right. But the ā¬100 bet would not give 10x the satisfaction. Far from it. So shitbox ā¬5 bets for me these days entertains me adequately.
At one point I was doing really well in a niche sport but the amount of effort I put into it and the amount of money I was winning made it feel like poorly paid work which is the opposite of what a fun hobby should feel like and was where it began to ring a bell in my head.
Very difficult and remarkably unlikely given how the industry is set up to get rich just from gambling, far more likely end up the other end of the scale.
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Iād say Kendall needed
The few quid
What are we looking at here