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Point Blank: 100 thoughts on Betting

You've made me feel like winding the clock back and having a proper bet again Slim.

Not sure whether or not I should thank you for that.
 
That was a mad one.

Tipperary had destroyed Kilkenny in the 2010 final and were firm favourites all year. A few days before the final, they were (memory might be slightly off here) around 13/8 to lift the cup. The Great Man had £200,000 on at that price.

On the day itself, the phone rang in the Dublin Ladbrokes office — London accent, big swing dick trader on the line:
"What channel is the hurling on today? I believe we have a sweat on it."

They didn’t have a sweat at all. Thinking back, they most likely just wanted to know the channel — because they were all on.
 
Outsider said:
23# is brilliant and part of 13# applies to me.getting a nosebleed if I put £50 on.
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I've had a friend betting through me since a few months after that list was written. He completely changed my style. I'm a million times better punter than he is, but he's a million times better judge than I am. I've given him a decent-sized five figures since, and his average bet is €50.
 
I'm really struggling to find anything I disagree with in that list - and don't think I didn't try! 😂

FWIW I agree with just about all of it and very strongly agree with various items.

But, to avoid another 😂 post of Tolkienesque length, I will just say I particularly like "6" for reasons that link to another one on the list as well.

The web is full of punters making a lot of noise who cry like self-entitled babies because they've been restricted.

Like the Hunters' Chase specialist who opens a Bet365 account and his very first bet is to get the max he can on the first rick he sees in one of these niche races, his second bet days later is the same and then he wonders why the account lasts a week.

My Dad used to say: "If you're going to do
a crime, do a big one."

Well, if you're going to get shut down, make it because you copped the lot on a multiple not because you nicked a lousy monkey because they can't price up a niche race right.

Plus multiples can present the illusion of a recreational punter, as does spending a few quid in the casino or betting on the late-night in-play football in Belarus or whatever, it triggers all the A1 mug punter green flags, as someone at a major firm told me a few years ago.

You might wait a while to collect, but when you do you cop an amount worth getting closed down over.
 
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I'd agree with all of that—except the bit about bookmakers not fearing multiples. They're terrified of them these days. First it was the Curley/Emmet Mullins-style multis, and now it's the model men, who’ve figured out they can get the absolute f$%^ing lot by sticking their 20 value plays into random multiples every morning.

It’s a great game. It always changes. I love hearing which points on the list people really relate to. The only one I get pushback on is Number 1. One of the best punters in the UK told me that was the only one he really disagreed with—but I’ll deal with that in the next article.
 

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