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Weekend Wager Column - 30/01/2009 ************************************ I work as part of the team at the Secret Betting Club where we uncover exactly which experts, systems and tipsters you should follow to make money betting. As well as proofing dozens of tipsters we also include monthly articles on professional gambling tips and betting strategies. Every article and review we put together is also listed at our new member's website Money Maker Review. The Weekend Wager is designed to be your free guide to the forthcoming weekend's betting opportunities and features free betting advice and articles from a number of hand-picked betting experts. Keep a look out for The Weekend Wager hitting your inbox's every Friday afternoon. CONTENTS 1. Terry Says ******************************************************************************** 1. Terry Says As you can probably imagine, the Daily Mail is not my paper of choice but this week I read a fascinating piece on the “gambling endemic” that is sweeping the UK. Apparently 1.3 million people in the Isles now have a serious gambling problem (read the article here) and this figure was arrived at by doing a survey of more than 8000 people, which was carried out by the NHS. These kind of stats worry me a great deal but I can’t say I’m surprised as the powers that be have been swayed by the dollar signs that the big betting companies have dangled in front of their eyes. The knock-on effect is Joe public is now suffering with the huge temptations put before him and how ridiculously easy it is now to develop a gambling problem. One thing I can’t abide are those virtual racing machines in the bookies and my absolute pet hate are the jackpot machines you now see everywhere. Now I don’t know anyone who wins overall on the one-armed bandits (although there are plenty of myths about those that do) and it’s socially irresponsible by the government to allow them to be so widespread. I don’t know how many of you have been to Australia but that is a country with an obsession with jackpot machines or pokies as they call them. You will see people sat at them for literally hours and hours on end as they are so damn addictive. Russell Crowe who is normally more famous for getting into a scrap with the odd photographer, attracted national headlines for banning all pokie machines from the Rugby team he co-owns in Sydney. ‘Good on ya Maximus’, as any fair dinkum Aussie might well have said! Now I hate it when I say that I’m a professional gambler, and people associate me with playing roulette, the jackpot machines or placing a score-cast at the bookies. These are the some of the most popular ways that the bookies want me to gamble as they know that’s where they can make major profits. Indeed the score-cast where you place a bet on both the goalscorer and correct score of a footy match, are well known to fund the bookies holidays. Instead I would much rather annoy them by hitting the bookie hard on the markets they don’t want me to get involved in. This maybe by taking a value price on a horse, as if you back what should be a 7/1 shot when it is 10/1, then eventually you will make a nice wedge! Or if you know a football team in the Scottish league has a bunch of injuries that the bookies haven’t taken into account, then there you go another edge on them that they hate you taking up. It is easy to make money in this game IF you know what to do and where to do it, and if you’re keen to find out more than consider a Secret Betting Club membership. We have many subscribers who have never looked back since joining us, and who are making regular profits, with a fruit machine nowhere to be seen! Until next Friday… Terry Allen 2. The Next Week In Betting Well Andy Murray didn’t live up to expectations this week and his first Grand Slam continues to elude him. For the patriotic amongst you he is now 5/1 best price to win at Wimbledon. Everyone’s favourite Roger is in the final and will face Rafael Nadal after he won his epic semi final against Verdasco earlier on. Hopefully we will see a repeat of some of the amazing clashes between these 2 titans of Tennis on Sunday with the early favouritism lying with Federer, although this market is still forming. Big action state-side this Sunday with all eyes upon just exactly what expensive commercials will be rolled out and who will have a wardrobe malfunction….oh and a little game of American Football called the Superbowl to consider as well. Now I actually enjoy watching the odd game of gridiron but it’s a real test of endurance sometimes when the play is so stop-start and full of distractions, and this years game will have a way to go to match last years last minute drama. The Pittsburgh Steelers are strong favourites at 10/23 with Boylesports to beat Superbowl debutants the Arizona Cardinals who are 23/10 best priced also with Boylesports. There are a whole bunch of imaginative markets as well with even the opportunity to bet on Bruce Springsteen’s half-time song! Born to Run is 2/3 favourite with Paddy Power for anyone who wants a bet on ‘The Boss’. Football wise a string of important games with Chelsea visiting Liverpool in a game that usually has draw written all over it (9/4 best priced with Skybet). Rafa seems to be losing his marbles lately but he has a challenger for the craziest manager in Joe F****n Kinnear (or JKF as he is known to Geordies), who is doing his best to upset each Newcastle player one by one. He will struggle to put out 11 fit players on Sunday as his demoralised team face Sunderland in a fierce local derby, where the visitors are unlikely to stay 21/10 best priced with Boylesports too long. Manchester United took 10 men West Brom apart but their game against in-form Everton won’t be as easy. At 2/5 best priced with Paddy Power they look plenty short enough but perhaps the 6/1 on them to win 1-0 with Totesport appeals more. Lots of International cricket this week including West Indies V England that I looked at last week. Australia take on New Zealand and Sri Lanka host India in some interesting looking one-dayers. The Kiwi’s are 7/2 best priced to win the series with Skybet that looks a tad generous, considering the hosts are a shadow of the one-day side that has so dominated in recent years. Alternatively you may find interest in the 11/5 from Stan James for the Kiwis to rub salt in the wounds in the first game of the series. India are a superb team in the one-day format but face 2 of the best spinners in the world in Mendis & Muralitharan in this best of 5 series. They struggled against the newcomer Mendis in a set of games between the 2 sides not so long ago and the Sri Lankans are 11/4 with Paddy Power to win the series. A big upset in Celebrity Big Brother last week when very short favourite (sorry to use the height pun again) Verne Troyer only managed 4th spot, with Ulrika Johnson claiming the spoils. A result which raised as many eyebrows as when the erstwhile Swedish weathergirl was wooed by unlikely ladies man Sven Goran Eriksson. Good luck with whatever you’re having a punt on this weekend. ******************************************************************************** 3. Tipping Legends Column Having been involved in racing as owner and tipster for more than 30 years, take it from me that it is easier to find rocking horse manure than it is to find good reliable inside information. I have my ear to the ground and many connections, and I get a handful of good inside tips a year! Good Luck with your racing. Visit The Tipping Legends Website
4. The Winabobatoo Weekender It’s always a quandary as to which of the recommended Winabobatoo bets to give you. All the bets have value on our side, as the record from the start of last season shows: Bets: 864; Winners 437; Losers 427. One point staked on each has returned 992.79, for a profit of 128.79 points, which is 14.91% profit on turnover. Isolating one is always difficult. Swansea won for my members the other night, so I think we’ll stick with them for the weekend tip. They’ve been in very good form of late. Their opponents, Southampton, have a relegation battle looming, and are vulnerable to another home defeat in this match. It looks as though Swansea have around a 50% chance of taking the point’s home to Wales. The best price is only available with Corals now, as my members have been getting their bets on, and the 13/10 has disappeared elsewhere. Have a bet on Swansea to beat Southampton at 13/10 (2.30) with Coral. Good luck with your betting. Mike Lindley (www.winabobatoo.co.uk )
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Hi everybody, Another winning pick last weekend (+5.46 units profit), so let's take a look at the stats after eleven free picks:
Doesn't look bad at all. In fact, I wish my long-term RoI was 25.9%! Anyway, I've had a great January so far, +32 units profit, 30% RoI, and I would be satisfied with any kind of profit this weekend. Those were hard earned units and I'm not giving them back! 31/1/2009 BSP/BSS DOUBLE: OXFORD – Lewes 1 @1.33 & THURROCK – Fisher 1 @1.53 (2.03 @Bet365) 4 units Oxford decided to accept the point deduction, but they still want a play-off spot and they're not very far from the play-off zone. They'll be without defender Killock (injured) and their best scorer Constable (suspended), but that shouldn't be a problem against Lewes – I'm sure Odubade and Haldane will do a good job upfront and score a couple of goals. Oxford had five league wins in a row (5:1 vs Ebbsfleet, 2:0 vs Salisbury, 1:0 vs Altrincham, 2:1 vs Forest Green, 1:0 at Crawley) before yesterday's 1:1 draw at Cambridge and they had more possession and more shots on goal than their opponents in almost every match (Cambridge had a bit more possession yesterday, but they received three cautions in the last couple of minutes, five altogether, and Oxford still had more shots on target), four home league wins in a row and they're the 3rd best home team in the league (nine wins and a draw in the last ten home matches in the league). Lewes are still without suspended defender Pearson and a couple of long-term absentees, they're the worst away team in the league, they have seven league defeats in a row, four away defeats in a row. In other words, as long as the odds against them continue to go above 1.20, they're great double material. Thurrock only have two draws and four defeats in the last six and their last league win happened back in November, but if we take a look at their recent opponents (1:1 at Eastleigh, 0:1 to Chelmsford, 2:3 at Chelmsford, 0:1 to Weston, 1:3 at Hampton, 1:1 at Bognor) and if we know that Eastleigh, Chelmsford and Hampton are all promotion candidates (Thurrock didn't look bad at all in those matches, they could've taken all the points at Eastleigh if they had a bit more luck and Chelmsford were incredibly lucky to win both matches against Thurrock, both in injury time), that Bognor have only one defeat and four draws in 2009 (another injury time equaliser against Thurrock, copy/paste from the Thurrock's fans' forum: ''...You couldn't make it up, 1:0 up having completely dominated the game, ninety minutes are up, now facing only 10 men, fourth assistant raises board to show four minutes of extra time, for two minutes Bognor don't touch the ball, then we drop deeper and one of their players runs unopposed into our half and shoots from 35-40 yards. The balls is going well wide but takes a wicked deflection and ends up in the opposite corner of the net. 1:1. end of story, f*ck me I can't believe it's happened yet again...'') and that Weston brought in a couple of very good players lately, it's obvious that there is still some value in these odds on Thurrock, or should I say against poor Fisher. Thurrock are missing a ruthless goalscorer since they've lost McKenzie, that's true, but they've just brought in a new striker, Allen who has recently been at Crawley and he could be the one they're looking for – I'm predicting a nice debut against Fisher. Thurrock conceded a late goal five times in the last seven matches, but I'm pretty sure that Paine & Swaine (their central defenders) won't allow that to happen at home against Fisher who have nine defeats in a row, seven handicap defeats in a row (0:2 to Bromley, 1:4 at Team Bath, 0:3 to Wimbledon, 0:3 at Wimbledon, 1:3 to Newport, 1:3 at Weston, 0:2 to Braintree), they scored three and conceded twenty three in the last nine. Thurrock won 3:1 at Fisher in November and I expect a similar result. (2.03 also at StanJames, 1.97 at Blue Square and Sportingbet, 1.96 at Coral...) Read our review of Skeeve's service
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