Thursday, May 31, 2007

i was gonna post this in the morning ..............

BUT as i went downstairs for a glass of wine and a relax i noticed mrs d was glued to katie & peter on itv 2 , i nabbed the wine and came back to my pit to finish todays offering .

congratulations to paul on his laying service today who gave out 6 successful lays at odds including 1.93 & 2.2 a brilliant end to the month , well done .
today was a perfect example of why i rate MH as my number 1 service and why even when there is no bet his message is worth its weight in gold , take the sedge 8.40 he thought the oddson fav was vulnerable and his two against the field were both available @ 25/1 , one was successful supported into a sp of 9/1 , he only commented on two races today his other thought was that red clubs would find the 5f too sharp at sandown tonight , so even though no bet a successful evening on the back of his message .


thursday
ISIRIS
insider
HORSE A £75 @ 3/1 2nd -£75

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection

2.50 ayr hansomis lay £50 @ 3.00 2nd +£48.31
3.30 ling khyberie lay £50 @ 2.20 unpld +£48.31
4.20 ayr mceldowney lay £50 @ 3.70 unpld +£48.31
4.50 ayr darfour lay £50 @ 3.90 unpld +£48.31
5.20 ayr ronnie howe £25 @ 6.8 2nd -£25
5.20 ayr pirers brig £25 @ 8.6 unpld -£25
7.50 san new jersey lay £50 @ 3.10 unpld +£48.50
8.40 sedg intersky music lay £50 @ 1.92 +£48.50

PERSONAL TRADING

in the 3.50 ayr i layed primo way for £30 @ 5.65 i remember his recent win as isiris followers were on the runner up the enigmatic bay boy , i thought primo way was a fortunate winner with bay boy running in snatches and with a 6lb penalty i thought he was vulnerable , this he was and a small profit to start me off . the 4.50 ayr was a interesting race thebetcollection were keen to oppose darfour , isiris had a insider bet in the race and optimum racing were keen on fish called johnny , well he was a general 7/1 shot but neville porter were 15/2 so i had £25 at the price , he was weak on the betting front drifting on course and on the exchanges and i could have nearly doubled this price via the exchanges , but the horse defied this weakness to win well , so i ended the afternoon in profit to the tune of £216.60 .
the evening proved highly profitable due to a couple of snippets from MH he was not overly keen on red clubs in the 8.20 his thinking was that the minimum trip may be on the sharp side so i layed £25 @ 4.6 and then a 25/1 winner ! (small r4 though) he was slightly negative on the fav intersky music and his two against the field were back too bedlam and tuatara bay well i am trying to keep things tight at present personally so i wanted to ensure a profitable day whatever the outcome tonight so i had just £12.50 ew on both @ 25/1 , hit the jackpot with tuatara bay who was backed into 9/1 so a profit of £326.56 on the race and £567.22 .

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

thats the way to do it ............

as mr punch would say ! a very nice 4/1 main account winner , the horse in question i was alerted to this morning by the horse alert facility on www.easyodds.com as i had a inkling this horse was going to be a main account bet last week when a late withdrawal , i didnt pre empt the bet as i have long given up trying to second guess kb , a recipe for disaster ! , but i was going to have a pony ew .

did some business with www.betmate.com in the first at brighton and later @ yarmouth , im the first to admit it lacks the liquidity of betfair but @ 3% comm im happy , my lays on the laying service were split between the two exchanges , yes i would say that my trades on the fair were executed first but as soon as there is a slight discrepency between the sites the bots step in .

a second consecutive winner for optimum , hopefully the flat season will bring about a well deserved change in fortunes .





wednesday

ISIRIS
main account
HORSE A £250 ew @ 11/4 3rd -£112.50
HORSE B £235 ew @ 4/1 £15 ew @ 7/2 WON +£1191
insiders
HORSE C £25 ew @ 9/1 unpld -£50
HORSE D £75 @ 3/1 WON +£225
HORSE E £25 ew @ 10/1 unpld -£50


MARK HOLDER


5.15 cart musally £250 ew @ 8/1 unpld -£500


OPTIMUM RACING


7.50 bev morinqua £250 @ 7/4 WON +£437.50



LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection


2.10 yar rubirosa lay £50 @ 3.05 unpld +£50
2.10 yar spitfire lay £50 @ 3.25 won -£112.50
4.40 car pearson glen lay £50 @ 4.1 3rd +£48.31
5.35 yar gigs magic lay £50 @ 2.74 unpld +£48.31
9.05 sou tilapia lay £50 @ 1.98 won -£48.50



PERSONAL TRADING



i made a profit of £75 in the first at brighton , courtesy of sirjoshua reynolds i backed him for £100 @ 8/1 when he was under that price on the exchanges i layed £50 @ 7.50 and £50 @ 7.0 both on www.betmate.com in the same race i backed prunes £200 @ 7/2 laying it back @ 4.20 but sirjoshua was successful and a nice profit of £75 was achieved . then a similar trade in the 3.55 yarmouth , paddy power were bog and networker was 3/1 i was allowed £110 at the price , money was coming in for the horse and it was soon 3.6/3.7 in normal circumstances i may have layed some around that level but as i had some daylight and the bonus of bog i decided to hold fire , this paid off as the horse shortened on the shows , i layed £110 @ 3.00 , i was going to lay £135 but as i was already £75 in front i decided against this , well networker was the easiest winner of the day in my eyes and a profit of £110 , giving me £185 on the day , only 15 consecutive days like today and id be home n hosed in my yearly target !!!

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

unhappy with the betfair commission rise ????

i for one certainly aim , i could stomach an increase but i personally think its too severe in one move , i have not been impressed by their customer service (or rather lack of it) and this move has given me the hump ! so i was in the process of reactivating my betdaq account when i got a tip from a respected betfair forum comrade , in his words "for a better rate , have a bet mate and go green" well it was a sunday evening and i was not at my sharpest but to be honest i have never heard of an exchange called betmate , as this is the site he was alluding to . to all intent and purposes www.betmate.com is betdaq but with a different skin AND a 3% STARTING COMMISSION so today i used betmate for the majority of time and took advantage of the 3% commission , so if you are unhappy with "the fair" have a look at www.betmate.com for a 3% commission start off rate .
WHAT A SURPRISE .............. a 16 runner hcap becomes a 15 runner event less than 15 mins before the off ...... thankfully norminster held on for 3rd .

tuesday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE A £50 ew @ 7/1 3rd +£20

MARK HOLDER


6.30 hex blast the past £30 ew @ 11/2 £220 ew @ 5/1 2nd +£66.25
8.10 hex norminster £210 ew @ 14/1 £40 ew @ 12/1 3rd +£605
8.10 hex lilly tara £25 ew @ 11/2 £225 ew @ 5/1 unpld -£500

OPTIMUM RACING

no bets advised

LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection

4.10 chep £37.50 win penang cinta @ 11/4 unpld -£37.50
£12.50 win oldrik @ 12.9 unpld -£12.50
5.00 leices sohrab lay £50 @ 2.14 2nd +£48.20
7.05 hex £50 the saltire tiger @ 3/1 WON +£150
7.50 san £37.50 mount kilimanjaro @ 3.55 unpld -£37.50
7.50 san £12.50 bulwark @ 15.0 unpld -£12.50
8.20 san £37.50 ajaan @ 4.30 unpld -£37.50
8.20 san £25 old romney @ 11/2 unpld -£25



PERSONAL TRADING



a loss of £14.90 on the day i wont bore you with the details , it really was a non event for me today , i did back aqaleem ew for the derby though @ 10/1 but more of that on saturday .

Monday, May 28, 2007

£1.25 ew , £0.75 ew & refused ..................

on the 100/1 ew shot with the firms offering 100/1 , so i saved myself £96 as the next price available was 33/1 , i wonder if the £300/pt bloke got on with no trouble today !!!!! so who got the 100/1 ew to the full stakes asked for ???
i dont have all the answers but at least give us bets where we have a chance of getting on , it made matters worse that we had to get a main account on at the same time , kb gets a lot of uneccessary flak and rubbish spoken about him and his service and i will always try to offer a impartial view on the service and feel i do a pretty good job in that respect but todays bet leaves a sour taste behind with me .

monday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE P £500 @ 7/2 unpld -£500
insiders
HORSE K £2 ew @ 100/1 unpld -£4
HORSE B £100 @ 5/2 unpld -£100

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE -thebetcollection

2.05 red diademas lay £50 @ 2.44 unpld +£48.12

PERSONAL TRADING

a winning day to report !!! a profit of £168.44 on the test match via laying the draw and west indies , happy days .

Sunday, May 27, 2007

charlie and the chocolate factory ...............

with kb as willie wonka , who will get the golden ticket and be invited into the brethren !!! thats were my initial thoughts this morning i realise that more than 5 tickets are available and some may feel i resemble augustus gloop but i have been emailed to say that im a 33/1 rag to be invited into the chosen few !!!!

sunday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE K £50 ew @ 8/1 unpld -£100
HORSE O £25 EW @ 25/1 unpld -£50
£75 ew double 2nd/nr -£37.50

weekly review up to 26th may .................

a small loss on the week , and only one place to point the finger of blame .................... ME !!! some folk may point two fingers of blame there is the obvious one of my personal loss of £662.10 and i hold my hands up a poor week of my own bets and interpretation of my information received and the other is the tinkering of my staking . on the first point there is no dispute a poor week and this WILL be rectified this week i guarantee that and i would bet pretty long odds on that i will make a profit this week as will become apparent as the week unfolds , am i beginning to sound like someone a few of us know !!!!! lol
on the staking i stick by my review , this wasn,t a knee jerk reaction to losses or just 5 months worth of bets although i admit that may of looked the case , i made the adjustments due to the sums invested on the various services and as stated it didnt make sense to me for MH & OPTIMUM to have invested similar sums and for the insiders to be investing more than the main account , i still invested more on the insiders this week than the main account but im satisfied , it was interesting to note that to my reduced stakes i actually managed to beat the bottom line on isiris/mine figs over the week , i even managed to place some of the smaller insider bets via the phone which is a novelty for me ! of course they were referred to the liabilities team but none were refused .
some suggested that i go the whole hog and bin the insiders/optimum rather than reducing the stakes , these people i dont think understood the reason for my review or reasons for the revised staking , on to the weekly figs :

ISIRIS
main account -£75
insiders +£381.63

OPTIMUM +£125

MARK HOLDER +£209.37

PERSONAL TRADING -£662.10

LAYING SERVICE -£61.89

weekly p/l -£82.99

This translates into cumulative figures of :

ISIRIS
main account +£3458.35
insiders -£2242.51
OPTIMUM -£5751.10
PERSONAL TRADING +£3910.59
MARK HOLDER +£9661.19
LAYING SERVICE -£ 239.47

THE30KCHALENGE .................................... +£8797.05

Saturday, May 26, 2007

i will indeed be watching .................

dr who tonight so quite happy my viewing will not be interrupted ! a quiet but profitable day , i have been quiet myself this week but that has been in due partly to a problem with my broadband but hopefully that has been corrected after a visit from a bt engineer this morning , it has been working perfectly all day , which has not been the case recently which has proved frustrating and a slightly dangerous enviroment in which to arb .

saturday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE X £50 @ 9/2 unpld -£50
HORSE Y £50 @ 9/2 WON +£225
HORSE Z £75 @ 7/4 2nd -£75

MARK HOLDER

no bets advised

OPTIMUM RACING

2.35 hay prime defender £250 @ 5/2 +£625

LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection

no bets advised

PERSONAL TRADING

i decided to lay the draw this morning in the 2nd test , i realise the weather for tomorrow onwards is shocking but i felt england would wind up the tempo this morning , declare and hopefully make inroads into the windies who could be a bat down due to sarwans injury , with chaunderpaul not playing the batting lacks experience in my eyes , well for once i hit the nail on the head and read the match perfectly i didnt quite expect the windies to fold so tamely , but at close of play i had a all green book in a £50/120 range .
i nearly forgot , my only other business was in fridays oaks i have backed light shift £165 @ 6/1 but i am looking to lay back nearer the time as i can see her odds contracting in the run up to friday .

Friday, May 25, 2007

a great start to the day .................

with 2 nice insider winners to start off but it went a little downhill from there , these are trying times , not making money or progress in my quest to my yearly target .

it really is a shame there is no viable alternative to betfair , personally i feel their customer service needs vast improvement , their attitude at times i cannot believe but the alternatives for the serious exchange player are sadly non existent , so tomorrow betfair have announced that you get double points on the newmarket card ................ yippeeeeeee do they think we are stupid , the commission increase may be warranted but personally i think its too much in one move .


friday
ISIRIS
insiders

HORSE A £50 @ 4/1 WON +£200
HORSE B £75 @ 3.90 WON +£217.50
HORSE C £25 ew @ 20/1 unpld -£50
HORSE D £75 @ 6/1 unpld -£75
HORSE E £100 @ 5/4 unpld -£100
HORSE F £100 @ 15/8 won +£187.50
HORSE G £50 @ 7/1 2nd -£50



MARK HOLDER


no bets advised


OPTIMUM RACING


4.20 good run for edes £125 ew @ 9/1 unpld -£250
6.45 strat spring margot £250 @ 7/2 unpld -£250



LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection


no bets advised


PERSONAL TRADING

my unproductive spell continues and in keeping with the year its frustrating to say the least , im not losing fortunes but these are losses i can do without , today was £100 on the last at goodwood MH gave slight preferences to taboor & musical script 14/1 - 16/1 i backed them both for £25 ew @ the prices , taboor lost the race at the start by having a fag n cuppa in the stalls ............ and musical script in the 18 runner hcap finished 5th ! just sums up my state of affairs at present .

Thursday, May 24, 2007

first main account action of the week ...........

2nd @ 7/2 , missed a beat at the start but personally i dont think it was the difference between success or 2nd , thought the winner won well and comfortably enough we were beaten by the better horse on the day or evening ! MH gave a few indicators today but i took a pull and decided to wait for better opportunities , he was interested in oeil d'estruval in the 2.45 bangor but 3 n/r's made it a 15 runner hcap so that ruled that one out and it the 3.55 bangor he was negative on leading article and gave a positive word for the runner up .


thursday

ISIRIS

main account

HORSE N £250 ew @ 7/2 2nd -£75

insiders

HORSE E £50 @ 3/1 WON +£150

HORSE R £25 ew @ 14/1 upld -£50

HORSE D £75 @ 4/1 3rd -£75



MARK HOLDER



no bets advised



OPTIMUM RACING



no bets advised



LAYING SERVICE -thebetcollection



4.30 bang kova hall lay £50 @ 2.84 unpld +£48.12

6.50 south gold flame lay £50 @ 3.3 won -£115



PERSONAL TRADING



nothing doing .

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

another ...............

small loss today , but thats down to me , no one else to blame !! frustrating times but it could be worse you could have been a liverpool fan with a valid ticket & refused entry last night !


wednesday
ISIRIS
insiders

HORSE A £50 ew @ 8/1 3rd +£30
HORSE B £100 @ 3/1 unpld -£100
4 x £25 ew cross doubles 11/4 placed-5/2 & 9/1 placed -£33.37
HORSE C £50 ew @ 9/1 3rd +£40


MARK HOLDER


2.30 kelso Abstracts folly £250 ew (£50 ew @ 8/1 £75 ew @ 15/2 £125ew @7/1) 3rd +£209.37



OPTIMUM RACING


no bets advised


LAYING SERVICE -thebetcollection



2.50 ayr frank crow £25 @ 13/2 unpld
bay boy £25 @ 7.6 2nd -£50

7.50 sedge caipiroska lay £100 @ 1.98 2nd +£96.25

8.20 sedge programme girl lay £50 @ 1.67 won -£33.50

PERSONAL TRADING

my poor personal run continues with a loss of £200 today , this wiped out any profit on the day taking me into a small loss , my loss was a £200 bet on snorbans louie in the first at romford on a retreival mission after last weeks defeat , sadly it was a carbon copy of last week with a sluggish start and a severe bump at the first putting paid to any chance .

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

the quiet spell continues ..............

with nothing at all to report from isiris , mh or optimum , a frustrating withdrawal at the last minute meant that a isiris main account bet was cancelled and a superb position on broughtons revial meant nothing as she was scratched .



LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection



3.10 ling graceful steps lay £50 @ 3.53 won -£126.50

4.30 south tilipia £50 @ 3.50 won

majestic chief £12.5 @ 30 unpld

rich lord £12.50 @ 30 unpld +£96.25



PERSONAL TRADING



i was told by an ex betdaq colleague that there was going to be money for broughtons revival today in the 2.40 ling , trading was pretty "whippy" with me backing the horse @ 6.0 then laying @ 4.9 within 10 mins around noon today , i was in a brilliant position of winning £150 if she was successful or £112 if she was not , sods law she was withdrawn within 15 mins of post time , i had backed the winner inchmahone £75 @ 12/1 and laid her @ 12.5 but unfortunately the r4 did not work in my favour and i won £2 on the race .......... thats the post and a cuppa paid for then tomorrow , unfortunately though that £2 was my only success on the day , optimum gave a small word for jubilee street 3.50 bev £25 ew @ 10.0/2.64 he was reluctant to enter the stalls but the handlers persisted with their efforts he put in a tame display and a loss of £50 .MH in the afternoon had a preference for no time £25 @ 10.0 and henry hall £25@ 15.0 they ran well finishing 3rd n 4th respectively in the 3.20 bev , so i was £98 down from the afternoon , on a evening that matched the afternoon for lack of activity MH thought princess aimee was overpriced around the 25/1 in the last @ towcester i had £26 ew @ 28/1 ew 1st four , sods law she ran a terrefic race beaten approx 7l by the winner in a tight finish but beaten into 5th , so a loss of £150 on the day .

Monday, May 21, 2007

its been a quiet couple of days ............

but tuesday should see a increase in activity with the return of MH , something that was apparent on monday was the ease of obtaining prices on the reduced insider stakes , even with 4 advised on the one message i was able to obtain all 4 at the prices mentioned




sunday/monday

ISIRIS

insiders
sunday
HORSE A £100 @ 3/1 2nd -£100
monday
HORSE N £25 ew @ 20/1 unpld -£50
HORSE Y £25 ew @ 16/1 unpld -£50
HORSE P £25 ew @ 8/1 WON +£240
HORSE D £50 @ 10/1 3rd -£50

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection

2.10 muss le guancha lay £50 @ 3.90 unpld +£48.12
2.20 na learning the blues lay £50 @ 1.26 won -£13
2.40 muss collettes choice lay £50 @ 1.91 unpld +£48.12
8.40 wind cliche lay £50 @ 2.20 won -£60



PERSONAL TRADING

well i start off with a loss of £330 from my £150 lay @ 3.20 of the draw in the test match , the weather may have been the deciding factor whoever won the toss but i would have liked to see how the england bowlers performed on the first day rather than a rather rusty windies attack but credit to their batsman for not caving in and avoiding the follow on .
i managed to claw back £117.90 in the 3.10 muss i placed £138 ew on whinhill house i layed £138 @ 6.30/2.04 win/place with the david barker trained house putting in a decent performance a nice profit was attained for very little risk .

Sunday, May 20, 2007

a loss of £1208.52 ...............

on the week , as stated yesterday a real rollercoaster ride , and the p/l figs are below .

ISIRIS
main account +£1460
insiders -£1600

MARK HOLDER -£280

OPTIMUM -£350
PERSONAL TRADING -£207.60
LAYING SERVICE -£230.92
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-£1208.52
so no disasters from the services , thats if you combine the insiders/main account , i managed to get £165/200 on the thursday winner @ 12/1 but i have heard from a number of members who only managed 8/1 , its at times like these that the inability of being able to obtain advertised prices really cuts into the p/l of the service , that translates into a year to date figure of £8880.04 , made up of :
ISIRIS
main account +£3533.35
insiders -£2624.14
==========
+ £909.21
MARK HOLDER +£9451.82
OPTIMUM RACING -£5876.10
LAYING SERVICE -£ 177.58
PERSONAL TRADING +£4572.69
THE30KCHALLENGE .............+£8880.04
A REVISION OF MY STAKING
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I have not completed the figs for isiris from 1st to date but they will be produced in due course , ok ewt !!! let me first say that i fully appreciate people will not agree with my conclusions , fair enough , it would be a pretty boring n sad world if we were lemmings but my decisions have in some way been formed by my betting philosophy of being selective .
ISIRIS - normal main account £250 ew max main account £350 ew
- insiders £100/pt eg 1/4 pt ew = £25 ew
so i am increasing the stakes on the main account but halving the stakes on the insiders , totally happy with this as it dovetails nicely into my thoughts above , i dont intend to go over old ground but my thoughts on multiple insiders are widely known , the smaller stakes will allow me to get the prices advertised more often .
MARK HOLDER - NH increase to £250/pt
FLAT £100/pt
why the discrepency here ? well in the past MH has concentrated his resources on the 2yo's during the flat season , this season their is a change of direction with sprint handicaps being targeted , whilst i have every confidence in MH producing profits on the flat i just thought it would be sensible to start off at these levels . some will question me increasing the levels on the NH when i have in the past struggled to get my amounts on at £200/pt , i take that on board but i am confident with a recent addition of some new accounts i will cope at these increased levels .
OPTIMUM RACING - £125/pt
i dont need anyone to state the obvious that this service has been disappointing so far this year , but i do have confidence that the fortunes will turnaround come year end , but i feel it would be prudent to rein back my stakes at present, i rate MH as my premier service but there was little difference in the amounts i had staked so far this year , i was caught between halving the stakes to £100/pt or £150/pt in the end i went for £125 .
LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection
i have only taken these selections for a couple of weeks , so the staking remains as it is .

i went into the day ............

over £1700 down on the week , so a decent day was required to get me out of a hole on a rollercoaster week in which unfortunately the troughs have been larger than the peaks , i have brought forward my six monthly review of my services and tomorrow i will have revised staking plans , actually me taking this decision ties in quite nicely with the MH service as his flat season starts this tuesday .
my analysis of isiris is not complete but i know the way im going with them .

saturday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE Y £50 ew @ 20/1 5th -£100
£100 ew double 10/3 - s/p won/unpld -£200

MARK HOLDER

no bets advised

OPTIMUM RACING

2.35 thirsk samurai way £400 @ 6/4 £200 @ 5/4 WON +£850

LAYING SERVICE-thebetcollection

1.50 newk ascalon lay £50 @ 3.4 won -£120
2.45 newb peeress lay £50 @ 2.62 unpld +£48.12
4.40 newk silver guest lay £50 @ 2.42 2nd +£48.12

PERSONAL TRADING

nothing doing .

Saturday, May 19, 2007

after the fun n games .................

of thursday night , it was a most quiet friday ,i decided to continue my review of my subscription services and my staking , after that i decided to take advantage of the decent weather outside as there was tons to be done in the garden , but this isnt gardeners world blog so i,ll pass over these details !
1st jan - 17th may
MARK HOLDER +£9601.13
staked £26,200 profit £9601.13 65bets
a return of over 36% on my invested stakes , pretty impressive my anyone standards .

OPTIMUM RACING -£6884.85
staked £24,300 loss £6884.85 81bets
a negative return , a loss of over 28 % on my invested stakes .

i currently use the same stakes/pt for the above services , optimum introduced premium bets which i believe were behind the rise the number of bets , these were smaller staked bets eg 1/2 pt ew there has also been a change in the point band for staking purposes .
the figs are there in b&w and there is no getting away from a poor run in the optimum service , a point in their defence is that theu have selected a fair number of horse that have ran well but only to find the runners up spot , but it has been a poor first half of the year so far .
my thinking is to increase mh to £250/pt and decrease optimum to £100/pt until the p/l improves .



friday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE I £100 ew @ 12/1 unpld -£200
HORSE F £100 @ 10/3 unpld -£100

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

2.45 york the last drop £25 @ 5/1 unpld
2.45 york percussionist £25 @ 12.00 unpld -£50

no other activity .

Thursday, May 17, 2007

well i didnt get international rescue ...........

but i got a very nice winner @ 12/1 i nearly mentioned it there kb !!! only downside will be the inevitable restrictions put on my accounts where i got the 12/1 , so from a deficit of over £1300 to a profit of nearly £700 on the day , needed that after yesterday . not gonna go into much else as i feel knackered after all that ............

thursday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE K £200 @ 3.2 unpld -£200
HORSE O £165 @ 12/1 £35 @ 8/1 WON +£2260
insiders
HORSE G £50 @ 3/1 £100 @ 11/4 WON +£425
HORSE O £150 @ 5/1 unpld -£150
HORSE T £100 ew @ 10/1 unpld -£200
HORSE F £200 @ 2.06 2nd -£200
HORSE I £200 @ 4/1 unpld -£200
HORSE A £138 @ 9/2 £62 @ 4/1 unpld -£200

MARK HOLDER

3.05 perth the saltire tiger £200 ew @ 8/1 unpld -£400

OPTIMUM RACING

4.25 alrida £200 ew @ 5/1 unpld -£400

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

3.15 york wise dennis lay £50 @ 3.30 2nd +£48.12
6.45 lud woolly bully lay £50 @ 2.67 won -£83.50

PERSONAL TRADING

as i was quite active on other fronts , personal stuff took a back seat .

Since i started doing this since june 2002 every six months i review the services i subscribe to , having a look at my staking and returns then tweaking anything that i feel needs tweaking , this is due on the 30th june , well i prefer to be proactive , im unhappy with the year so far i was uneasy at my returns even before yesterday , so i have decided to have a look at things tonight .

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

16TH MAY 2007 WORST DAY EVER ........

p/l wise , an unwanted full house during the afternoon and the evening bet did nothing to lighten my mood definately the worst day of the year p/l wise and looking back at last years figs this may be a record breaking day but for all the wrong reasons ...................... days like today when you miss the security of a 9-5 job !!!!! but still up on the year and dont forget i was nearly £9,000 down at one stage but understandably a little down tonight . a truly awful afternoon mirroring the weather outside , no it was much worse than anything outside , not even international rescue from thunderbirds can get me out of this hole today i was hoping for hobson to recoup some but he ran a terrible race perhaps the delay in the stalls didn,t help but this run tonight was a backward step from his debut run .
so it looks like today was my worst day punting ever p/l wise with a loss of £2376 on the day ....... but over the last week wed/wed i am in profit of £110 , that puts it into perspective , i think !


wednesday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE A £115 @ 7/1 £285 @ 13/2 3rd -£400
layed £200 @ 6.00 +£200 less comm
insiders
HORSE B £150 @ 11/4 unpld -£150
HORSE C £100 @ 9/2 unpld -£100

MARK HOLDER

4.00 exe montecorvino £200 ew @ 10/1 unpld -£400
4.00 exe brave jo £200 ew @ 9/1 unpld - £400

OPTIMUM RACING

4.25 york ingleby star £200 ew @ 11/2 unpld -£400
6.45 bath hobson £400 @ 2/1 unpld -£400

LAYING SERVICE -thebetcollection

2.45 york passage of time lay £50 @ 1.77 won -£38.50
4.35 exe terramarrique lay £50 @ 3.75 won -£137.50

PERSONAL TRADING

perhaps i should have realised what was in store for me after my two bets on the 1.45 york 2 x £37.50 ew on pevensey (10/1) and collatoral damage (10/1) ............. the stalls opened two were basically left by 8l ................ yes the two i backed , a loss of £150 . well roll on tomorrow ..........

BETTING SHOPS ..................

were a place i spent a lot of my childhood as the shop my dad owned was a family run affair , mum was the cashier , dad was the settler and my grandad was the boardman on saturdays i was the knockout kid putting a red pen through the losing selections , win or lose there was always a genial atmosphere in the shop , i dont go into them much these days but this morning i needed to get on a selection given out by isiris last night i had managed £115 @ 7/1 last night and needed another £285 at the price , you have a 15 minute window of opportunity or so i thought to get bag a price thats under pressure usually a pricewise selection for a limited sum of £25/£50 . So off i went this morning to get my post and have a look at the opening times , thats something else that has changed as 2/3 of the shops locally to me open @ 9am and i found out in conversation that a corals opens @ 8.30am , well i nabbed my paper and it was 8.30 am i thought id grab a bacon roll have a cuppa and read the paper , got to the shop readies in hand but the shop was locked after 5 mins i got in looked up at the screen and the horse was 6/1 from 7/1 there were a couple of oriental girls behind the counter so i asked the girls what happened to the 7/1 they shrugged their shoulders and carried on chatting in mandarin or whatever is their native language , it was obvious i was not going to get anywhere here , so i crossed over to the hills shop , whilst on my journey i made some calls but all the 7/1 seemed to have gone so it was the 13/2 with hills i got £50 @ 13/2 so now i needed £235 , i gave the cashier my slip who made the call to liabilities , the girl was sitting on her twirly chair she wasn,t the tallest of girls and she suddenly stood up looked me up n down and told the person i was well built (how polite of her) it would have been funny is she had told them i was fat !! just over 6ft had spiky hair .......... i popped up i know i need a shave and that i had a bacon roll for breakfast !!!! to her credit she started to laugh , the bet was allowed to be accepted ........... am i supposed to say thank you very much ??? is that the done thing these days ? so my bet of £235 @ 13/2 was on , she let me know that if the bet was successful she would have to give me a code name ,this was like mission impossible .......... i did say dirkdiggler but she didnt understand , i left the shop at just before 9.30am the 3 roulette machines had players on them though ............................

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

what a pleasant end to the day ...................

obviously not weather wise , but compton star more than made up for earlier disappointments , a pleasing day as i managed to get all the advertised prices and a spot of luck personally , roll on york !!!


tuesday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE A £200 ew @ 4/1 unpld -£400
insiders
HORSE B £25 ew @ 25/1-20/1 4th +£231.25

MARK HOLDER

6.35 hunt enthusius £200 ew @ 5/1 unpld -£400
7.35 hunt compton star £200 ew @ 11/2 WON +£1320

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

4.10 brighton bienheureux £37.50 (3/4pt) win @ 4.8 unpld
flying spirit £37.50 win @ 5.8 2nd -£75

PERSONAL TRADING

a fortunate profit of £105.87 in the afternoon , andrew @ optimum metioned a couple of races @ newcastle the 2.20 where he was interested in dan tucket and the 3.20 newcastle where he was no so keen on aston lad around the 9/4 level and thought that madiba would be had to keep out the first 3 and @ 5/1 a decent ew bet ................. dan tucket was passed over as i had a interest in the horse via the isiris main account bet , so onto the 3.20 race , aston lad was trading @ 3.55/3.65 when i first looked at the race i put a trade to lay £50 @ 3.25 on and also orders to back madiba @ 6.00/2.10 win/place , as the race approached i had been matched in the place market £100 @ 2.10 but the other two were untouched , 2f out madiba was caught out as he lacks a turn of foot but stayed on stoutly to just be denied for 3rd ............. a loss of £100 , but then happy days ! the clerk of the scales objects to the 3rd , well that to me one thing , that the 3rd will be chucked out , this was the case and as if by magic a £100 loss was turned into a £105.87 profit ! i made a small amount on the compton star race i backed him for an extra £151 ew @ 11/2 i layed £151 @ 5.8 then i/r i layed £150 @ 1.70 on average , in the place market i layed £151 @ 1.88 to produce a small profit of £32.53 if he reaches the frame and a loss of comm if does not , thankfully he reached the frame via the winners enclosure a profit of £138.40 on the day .

Monday, May 14, 2007

not a good day for personal trading .............

but thankfully a slight negative from MH managed to limit the loss , otherwise a pretty quiet day .

ISIRIS
insiders
£150 ew double 5/4 & 6/4 2nd/won -£56.25

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection
2.00 south laa rayb £25 @ 5/1 won +£125
2.00 south six of hearts £25 @ 5/1 unpld -£25
4.10 muss neardown beauty £33.33 win @ 3.65 2nd -£33.33
4.10 muss dispol isle £16.67 win @ 7/1 unpld -£16.67
5.00 south sentiero rosso £25 @ 5.8 unpld -£25
5.00 south wodhill gold £25 @ 8.0 unpld -£25

PERSONAL TRADING

not a great start for me as i backed the fav fol hollow in the first i had £75 @ 2.10 early doors but went in again for £75 @ 2.60 as he drifted , perhaps i should have layed some back in the photo but i didnt as a short head defeat cost me £150 ,i noticed that a internet firm was offering 5/1 the double of sky masterson and baylaw star well i noticed money coming in for the gosden runner and i made it just under a 4/1 shot the double i asked for £100 and was offered £50 as sky masterson went off a 4/5 shot i was happy , if my memory is correct i think the horse although easily beaten in the end traded @ 1.20 i/r a pity for me and followers of isiris as baylaw star was successful . so i finished the afternoon session £200 down , but a couple of plays in the evening and was hopeful of turning that around ........ 6.56 romford was first up , on my visit to the kennels i was told that that snorbans louie was expected to win but the price was not expected to be anything to get excited over i thought 2/1, i managed to bag £150 @ 3.00 before support came in and louie entered the traps a well supported 6/4 fav unfortunately he left the traps about as quickly as he entered them totally missing the break and anychance of a win was scuppered he stayed on stoutley to nick 3rd , 7.20 towcester i layed the front two in the mkt @ evens coupled oeil destruval £85.50 @ 3.75 & visibility £74.50 @ 4.31 , on a slight negative from MH both on stamina concerns on a rain soaked testing track @ towcester i wanted to lay them in the place mkt but as i was £350 down i felt that i would be happy to win the £160 so i decided to rein back .......... a pity !!! so that was the day , a day im pleased to see the back off to be honest a loss of £196 on the day .
im building up a position on the test match @ lords starting on thursday , im keen to lay the draw @ around 2/1 , my thinking is this , the weather is expected to clear as the week developes with a few showers on thursday , the wicket will be under cover as the rain falls this week causing the wicket to "sweat" and "green up" this produces a wicket that is attrative to seam bowlers harmison and hoggard are in terrific form and will enjoy the lords wicket, lords with a ridge is already a fast bowlers wicket and the weather in the lead up may produce a underprepared wicket and one on which batsman may find scoring difficult . the west indies i feel will struggle they are used to fast hard wickets not the slower wickets of the uk they are more underprepared than the lords wicket with their latest game against somerset rain affected , their batsmen without lara are stroke players but their lack of match practice coupled with lack of experience of english conditions will prove a huge disadvantage and one i feel they wont be able to overcome .
why lay the draw @ 2/1 rather than back england @ 4/6 , im concerned that if the west indies win the toss and bowl superbly on a bowler friendly wicket we could be in trouble ,if i could guarantee that england would win the toss and bowl id back england .

Sunday, May 13, 2007

what a day to walk yer dog !!!

my little bitch has left my mates and has gone to dave mullins to start her schooling round ockendon then hopefully onto romford , spoke to dave earlier in the week to say we shall pop down on sunday .............. the red carpet was duly rolled out !! but what a day we picked .......... we had other arrangements after the dog walking and a sorry wet state we looked but still we had a good day , until i got home and turned the laptop on .................

sunday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE G £200 @ 2.22 3rd -£200
HORSE F £100 @ 5.30 unpld -£100
HORSE U £50 ew @ 16/1 unpld -£100

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

3.20 worces £50 guymur 1pt win @ 3.25 unpld -£50
3.20 worces £25 syroco 1/2 pt win @ 7.00 unpld -£25
3.20 worces £12.50 incorporation 1/4 win @ 18.00 WON +£207.34

ntg else to report .

A MESSAGE FROM DIRKDIGGLER ............

you know how on the betfair forum , when a comment is made of a certain service its removed , well someone has insisted that they must ALL be removed on here now ............. quite frankly im pi$$ed off ,would i have been asked to remove them if they all praised the service to the hilt , i wonder !!!! i know im going to be accused of giving in , what happened to free speech etc etc but quite honestly i dont need the hassle , im not sure what im going to do with this blog , i do enjoy the blog and i realise i have many who read it on a regular basis , but i may drop the service in question from my blog , only allow comments from registered bloggers or members of the blog , moderate comments as per betfair forum or not allow any comments if you wish to comment you can email me personally .
im gonna sleep on it , there were some constructive criticisms aired today , but again the heavy handed approach is seen .....................

figs for the week ending sat 12th may ..............

we have the addition of figs from the layingservice if you wish to receive any further info please email paul at the email address below , he quotes his figs @ £100/pt im starting off at half those stakes .
again the flagship of the isiris service continues to struggle but the insiders continue their successful run which more than compensates for the main account , so all services contribute to the positive bottom line , including optimum which is great news for all concerned .

a most satisfactory week with a profit overall of £1679.66 , made up by the following :

ISIRIS
main account -£ 920
insiders +£1576.46

MARK HOLDER +£ 320.50

OPTIMUM RACING +£ 459.60

LAYING SERVICE +£ 53.34 for info paul@thebetcollection.co.uk

PERSONAL TRADING+£ 189.76

weekly p/l +£1679.66

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ISIRIS
main account +£2073.35
insiders -£1024.14
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overall +£1049.21
OPTIMUM RACING -£5526.10
PERSONAL TRADING +£4780.29
MARK HOLDER +£9731.82
LAYING SERVICE +£ 53.34


THE30KCHALLENGE ................................ +£10088.56

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ps ; i have been left sadly with no option but to moderate comments , one reason i have touched on above , but i have become increasingly concerned that the anom comments are being abused by people with ulterior motives , the anom derogatory comments aimed at thebetcollection were untrue on further investigation by myself and it looked to me that the anom multiple comments came from the same person .

Saturday, May 12, 2007

a brilliant day for the isiris insiders ..............

but for those who only play the main account , its still a struggle . on the insiders i thought we were a trifle unlucky not to have two winners , fonthill road would have surely won but had the jockey had to take a pull 1f out and angle the horse out as his run was blocked by a couple of horses . a couple of points though ............... neville porter pretty astute bookie and consequently when there is a odds on fav his early prices are 9/10 win only as was the case today with chantilly beauty , did anyone manage to get the 28/1 the dukes speech ? the reason i ask is that i tried hills was offered 20/1 as that was the first show , i decided to use betfair and traded myself into a decent price especially on the place market . overall a decent but challenging week for me , p/l figs to follow tomorrow but a profit of over £1500 on the week .
hoping for a quiet day tomorrow as off to the kennels and then a visit to leigh on sea for some cockles ...........

saturday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE T £200 ew @ 9/2 unpld -£400
HORSE M £300 ew @ 3/1 2nd -£120
insiders
HORSE I £50 ew @ 28.5/7.42 4th +£258.96
HORSE K £50 ew @ 33/1 4th +£362.50
HORSE T £50 ew @ 12/1 3rd +£70
HORSE L £50 ew @ 14/1 WON +£875
HORSE I £50 ew @ 14/1 unpld -£100
HORSE U £50 ew @ 20/1 unpld -£100

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bet advised

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

3.05 hay £37.50 win munaddam @ 5.5 WON +£162.42
3.05 hay £12.50 win quito @ 10.0 unpld -£12.50
3.45 ling £50 win sunlight @ 3.40 unpld -£50
3.45 ling £25 win brisk breeze @ 7.0 unpld -£25

PERSONAL TRADING

as isiris was pretty busy today my attention was on these selections but i played on 2 races @ haydock the first couple of hcap hurdles but a loss of £150 was my reward , all three were highlighted by MH but out of the frame unfortunately they were 3 x £25 ew in the 1.25 irish wolf 16/1 , 2.00 gringo 32.00/7.2 & sunday city 20/1 .

Friday, May 11, 2007

sods law !!!!!!!!

after my moan about my ability of acquiring the best prices i spent a couple of hours this morning going through a list of possible bookmaker accounts , now after losing money to a couple of bookmakers that went under riobet and luvbet i was not gonna open an account with rogue racing or arthur daley bookmakers !!! but i did open a few new accounts this morning and pricewise it paid dividends but not in monetary terms as the selections were out of the frame .
a awful friday , after a couple of decent days a kick in the goolies so to speak today , i go into the last day of the week now just over £900 in front with saturday to go , i dont need a repeat of last week , the isiris main account continues to struggle but not concerned that will rebound , just a question of when

friday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE A £200 ew @ 8/1 unpld -£400
insiders
HORSE B £100 ew @ 10/1 unpld -£200
£100 double @ sp both unplaced -£200
HORSE O £100 ew @ 12/1 unpld -£200

MARK HOLDER

no bets adviced

OPTIMUM RACING

no bets advised

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

2.10 ling sailor king lay £50 @ 2.16 2nd +£48.12
4.20 ling monte alto lay £50 @ 1.34 won -£17.00
6.30 winc kings head lay £50 @ 2.14 unpld +£48.12
6.50 ham aahayson lay £50 @ 3.25 won -£112.50
7.50 ham maysarah lay £50 @ 2.80 won -£90

PERSONAL TRADING

a quiet day as i was sifting thru a list of 200 bookmakers quite laborious to say the least , my only trade came in the evening , the 7.30 winc where MH was hugely negative on the chances of nodforms victoria but the price of 10.5/11.5 was not hugely inspiring the place market was 3.2/3.45 so i suspect someone had got there before me as the place market had just shot up , i arbed in the win market laying @ 10.0/10.5 then backing back eventually @ 11.5/12.5 leaving me with a lay of £50 @ 5.8272 so under my 5/1 threshold , never dangerous so a small profit of £48.12 on the day .

Thursday, May 10, 2007

a welcome and deserved winner ..............

for optimum , realise it is going to take a few more winners to turn the p/l around but i do have every confidence in time it will , in fact through the sea fret when we lost all vision of the runners to my eyes it did not look too good , with egan pumping along on lacework but when the runners reappeared lacework had a healthy lead , so after hitting the woodwork continually with recent bets its nice to hit the onion bag !!!
i left for the spurs match tonight not in the best of moods , quite frankly i was hacked off as the spectre of getting on raised its head again , well the lack of getting on to be precise , its part n parcel of my job but these knockbacks really bite into my p/l , i have be asked in the past how i manage to get on at the prices i do , but at present im struggling and a few changes are on the way , i may be having the op to become mrd diggler so i can get a new identity !!! i can ring these lines near enough on the dot and i have noticed in the past i act as a early warning system and a fairly cheap one at that , i tested it once on a day MH did not give a selection asked for a bet was allowed £25 ew and the price immediately was cut by 4 points !!! now i hope some of you managed to get the 25/1 daldini with the magic sign , i was in a corals betting shop as i wanted to see a mates dog run @ romford , unfortunately sods law corals were not pricing up the 8.40 so i called for the 25/1 the bet was referred as per usual the lad came back you can have £25ew @ 25/1 the rest @ 14/1!!!!!! , i nearly told him ........... , well lets just say i didn,t i took the £25 ew and ran like linford without the lunchbox back home to get the remainder on ............


thursday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE A £50 ew @ 9/1 unpld -£100
HORSE B £50ew @ 20/1 unpld -£100
HORSE C £150 @ 3.05 unpld -£150

MARK HOLDER

8.40 weth daldini £200 ew @ prices from 7/1 - 25/1 3rd +£543.63
8.40 weth upright ima £200 ew @ 8/1 - 9/1 2nd +£176.87

OPTIMUM RACING

4.20 good lacework £200 ew @ 5.2575/2.08 WON +£1059.50

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

no bets advised

PERSONAL TRADING

not sure if its connected or coincidence but last couple of days i had received a few knockbacks , last nights on the isiris winner it cost me £120 , last week i arbed more heavily then i get a these knockbacks so i decided to have a rethink , a shame as i quite enjoyed last week although the profits in this field were minimal . i called the isiris losers line today as kb said he had something special , well i called this line about 18 months ago religiously for just over a month made some good money but as i called from a mobile (i had no land line phone) the bill was astronomical , since then i vowed never to call a premium line service ........... well i gave in today , hopefully my profit of £96.25 covers the phone bill this time round !!! the first lay was the pricewise selection kay two £50 was layed @ 4.10 and the second was river kirov an uneasy fav in the 2.40 good layed £50 @ 2.72 so a profit of £96.25 in all . my only other action was in the 3.10 good i did not fancy ten down he won on monday at windsor but had the advantage of a cracking draw and a enterprising ride on fast ground , although never likely to be caught i thought his stride was shortening as the line neared , in this rain softened ground i thought he would struggle , the fav beat dark angel who won yesterday on his debut , i thought he was open to further improvement and could concede the weight , he did comfortably in the end but not as impressive on the eye as his last run , perhaps the weight concession and rain took its toll but anyway my £125 @ 1.72 was successful a profit of £182.41 on the day .

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

i mentioned yesterday ................

that MH followers had a spot of fortune with a cancelled bet due to a n/r spoiling the ew terms , well andrew @ optimum who provided the chasing selections most successfully on the MH line for a couple of years could do with a slice of fortune , a plethora of selections have been runner up as was todays , being matched @ 1.03 although quite how someone backed it at that price is beyond me , the horses he mentions continue to win on monday ten down and light shift today . i realise these must be trying times but surely the tide must soon turn . the MH selection passed the post in front flower haven sadly did not have chris honour on board though .............. but he did make the winners job easier with a barge which was a result for isiris followers .......... talking of results for isiris followers ............. a brilliant day for their followers , i was particularly impressed by the evening winner , jumped like a stag led all the way ......... happy days !!!

wednesday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE P £150 @ 10/3 2nd -£150
HORSE I £150 @ 7/2 WON +£525
HORSE T £100 @ 6/1 unpld -£100
HORSE A £100 ew @ 9/1 WON +£1080

MARK HOLDER

4.55 fak flower haven £ 200 ew @ 11/1 unpld -£400

OPTIMUM RACING

1.50 ches fast feet £400 @ 11/4 2nd -£400

LAYING SERVICE - thebetcollection

3.00 bev £50 win kames park @ 9.8 2nd -£50
£50 win focus group @ 6.8 unpld -£50
£50 win kilmandscharo @ 5.3 WON +£210.68
3.35 bev £100 lay collettes choice @ 2.72 unpld +£96.25

a couple of points i realise its a laying service paul who runs the service will occasionally advise split stake win bets as he did today the other point came to me this evening paul advetises his selections to £100/point eg 1pt lay 3.0 equates to laying £100 to lose £200 and this is the staking i have used over the last couple of days , i imagine yesterday was unusually busy having 6 selections but i risked well over £700 and today £322 well personally thats too much , so from tomorrow i will be betting to £50/pt .

PERSONAL TRADING

i am not a lover of backing odds on, especially in a 3m novice chase at fakenham ! BUT i was taken with blu teen @ chepstow last time out so on a quiet day for arbing opportunities i had £100 @ 8/15 ,a smooth win produced a profit of £53.33 . my only other bet was in the kelso 6.10 another novice chase and another pleasing display from the chasing debutant tessanoora i had £100 @ 11/10 and layed back £50 @ 1.83 , the henderson horse was successful producing a profit of £68.50 , £121.83 on the day.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

nice to have a bit of fortune ..............

MH was looking to play in the 16 runner hcap in the first @ kelso but just as the message was going to be put on the line a n/r came through and the bet was cancelled due to the poor value of betting ew in 15 runner races , the horse polly whitefoot was never travelling so a loss was averted .
i think i was busier responding to comments/criticism on my blog than i was trading/gambling today ! i have been pleasantly surprised by the interest that my blog has created , and i accept criticism is part of life especially the british way of life , i made some comments today along these lines on the betfair greyhound forum (mark wallis responds ........) .
in the communication i have had with paul from thebetcollection he has come across as a honest and genuine bloke , someone who was a member of one of the services i subscribe to and was a regular poster on the betfair forum , until the betcollection asked him to join them . if some of you have had bad experiences with them fair enough , but i will learn via my own experiences , in the simplest terms there is in gambling p/l , i hope the service proves the doubters wrong , but if im left with a gaping hole in my p/l i will hold my hands up and say you were right , but let me find out for myself , thats the way i prefer it .
after the recent bust up with kb and today i have been accused of a "total sell out of your blog" , "your blog is better than this" , "giving into a tosser" & "totally pathetic your stance not naming the bets" i suppose i should take these comments as backhanded compliments in a way , all i have to say is ................... i dunno im gonna sleep on it !!!


tuesday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE A £100 @ 11/2 3rd -£100
HORSE B £ 50 ew @ 12/1 2nd +£ 70

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING
no bet advised

THE BET COLLECTION - laying service

3.05 south ha penny beacon lay £100 @ 3.30 3rd +£ 96.25
3.25 kelso mumbles head lay £100 @ 1.33 2nd +£ 96.25
4.10 south megalo maniac lay £100 @ 3.00 won -£200
5.50 exet in the lead lay £100 @ 1.91 unpld +£96.25
7.50 exet celebrity call lay £100 @ 2.00 won -£100
8.35 catt pennyrock lay £100 @ 1.94 won -£94
pennyrock bay was advised @ 2.96 the lay was matched 2 n/r's reduction factor kicked in .

PERSONAL TRADING

a quiet day but i noticed money coming in for mohawk star in the kelso 4.30 , i managed to get £150 on @ 13/2 also strong in the early market was the irish raider magnet money , i laid saif sareea @ 7.8/8.0 as i had a feeling that this one may drift near the off , well as the tapes went up i had three winners magnet for money £34 , saif sareea +£75 and mohawk star +£154 with the rest costing me a comm fig of £12.60 , st pirran took the races so a small loss on the event , that was the only trade for me on a quiet day personally ........... i wonder why !

a fixture list anomaly .............

i mentioned last week that everyday seems to be a mini bank holiday fixture wise ............. well everyday that is apart from a bank holiday !! it strikes me as slightly odd that we have 5 meetings per day on a normal weekday but when most of the country has a day off , only 4 meetings with no jump racing .
a very quiet day all round as family matters took centre stage , first day of the laying service from thebetcollection .

www.thebetcollection.co.uk LAYING SERVICE

2.50 wind everygrainofsand lay £100 @ 3.6 2nd +£100
3.35 newc dan dare lay £100 @ 1.53 won -£ 53

p/l +£47 less comm

any info on the above service please contact paul@thebetcollection.co.uk

bank holiday monday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE K £100 @ 6/1 4th -£100
HORSE O £20 ew @ 9/1 £80 ew @ 7/1 3rd +£85

nothing else to report .

Monday, May 07, 2007

an enjoyable day @ newmarket ............

with mrs d , had a day in the sid james marquee , the sponsors , i must admit offered a decent package for just £25 per person and a thoroughly enjoyable day was had by all , special thanks to the darts players bristow , deller , anderson & lazarenko who were most friendly and accomodating .
i havnt listened to the isiris back up message but if he advised treat with a bookmaker who offered 1/4 odds first four fair enough if not anouther faux pas , yesterday i backed treat with sid james as they had pc terminals locked into their site .
i have been contacted by the chap who is behind the laying service from a tipping service called the betcollection ( www.thebetcollection.co.uk ) and i shall be showing the daily results on my blog , if you have any questions please contact paul@thebetcollection.co.uk .

sunday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE T £50 ew @ 28/1 £50 ew @ 16/1 4th +£50
HORSE I £50 ew @ 20/1 unpld -£100
HORSE C £100 win @ 4/1 unpld - £100

MARK HOLDER

no bets advised

OPTIMUM RACING

2.10 newm charlie cool £100 ew @ 15/2 unpld -£200
pulled up after spencer stated the horse was never travelling .

PERSONAL TRADING

nothing doing .

Saturday, May 05, 2007

not the greatest end to the week ...............

slight understatement ! a loss of £1300 on the day that took the week into a deficit, a loss of £453.70 on the week , it was the isiris main account which was the main culprit , but i can live with that , over time that will produce profits but sadly not this week , the max main account bet was out of the frame and todays guineas bet were the lowlights but nice to see the insiders produce some decent profits , optimum remain out of form and out of that little bit of luck that all of us require and as for MH his selective approach continues to reap dividends playing when there is a edge to be had either via a vulnerable favourite / short priced runner or when the odds are favourable like a 16 runner hcap, i enjoyed taking a more active role trading wise and a tiny profit on the week was recorded , the full figures are as follows;
ISIRIS
main account -£1440
insiders +£ 630
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overall -£ 810
MARK HOLDER +£ 860
OPTIMUM RACING -£ 600
PERSONAL TRADING +£ 96.30

weekly p/l -£ 453.70

during the week i have analyzed possible returns exchanges versus traditional bookmakers , well during the week my p/l figure would have been worse off by £20.36 if i had used exchanges , the isiris winner advised @ 3/1 drifted to a sp of 5/1 , 6.8 on the exchanges , up until this point the exchanges had been considerably worse off .

saturday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE A £150 win £50 place @ 12/1 unpld -£200
HORSE B £150 win £50 place @ 12/1 unpld -£200
insider
HORSE C £100 @ 5/1 unpld -£100
HORSE D £100 @ 5/1 unpld -£100
HORSE E £100 ew @ 12/1 unpld -£200

main account+£2993.35 insiders -£2600.60

MARK HOLDER

no bets advised
p/l +£9411.32

OPTIMUM RACING

2.10newm danebury hill £200 ew @ 9/1 unpld -£400
p/l -£5985.60

PERSONAL TRADING

i try to keep trading to a minimum on a saturday as usually there is a house full and saturday i like to potter about in the garden in the afternoon listening to the football on five live , this is what i did after watching the guineas , MH mentioned the 3.20 uttox and he put two up one was a isiris selection so i had a £25 ew @ 46/6.8 on festive chimes , this was unsuccessful as was my only other bet £25 ew harrys lane 30/4.3 in the 6.55 worces so a small deficit of £100 on the day.
p/l +£4590.53

THE30KCHALLENGE .................... +£8409

time for a punters charter ???????

my experiences this week has got me thinking , hot on the heels of the sponsors offering me £1.10 ew on haatef and strategic prince , yesterday uk betting offered £0.80 ew on treat and perhaps most infuriating of all was my experience with vcbet MH put up two in the 8.10 and vcbet were my first port of call i asked via the net for £100 ew lowe go @ 12/1 i confirmed the bet and the usual sign appeared my bet was being referred "vcbet are unwilling to accept your full amount but will offer you £83 ew " no worries i will accept that , confirmed the bet , but pinged back to me was the price has now changed to 9/1 !!!! now this is not the first time this has happened to me , and no doubt others have had similar experiences , but to me this is bang out of order , but what can we do ? sweet fanny adams ............. if you bet oncourse each bookmaker has to show a liability sign , eg will lay a horse to lose £500 but us stay at home punters get no such offers . We have ibas who will mediate on disputes but bookmakers do not have to abide by their findings , i really feel its time that punters interests are regulated and safeguarded , why cant bookmakers offer a minimum £50 win or £25ew on each selection , they have the option to cut prices if liabilities dictate but for a group who contribute so much via the levy punters are treated very poorly at times . Unfortunately napp (national association for the protection of punters ) which was set up to protect the interests of the punters folded i imagine from lack of support which i feel is a shame , perhaps its time for napp to rise from the ashes .............
a cracking evening from the insiders celebrated in true style with a curry and a few pints !

friday
ISIRIS
insiders
HORSE T £150 @ 2.40 2nd -£150
HORSE I £150@ 7/1 unpld -£150
HORSE N £150 ew @ 4/1 WON +£750
HORSE A £150 @ 5/2 unpld -£150
HORSE R £100 @ 6/1 WON +£600

MARK HOLDER

8.10 font Le Concha £200 ew @ 11/1 unpld -£400
8.10 font Lowe Go £200 ew @ 10/1 4th +£300

OPTIMUM RACING

no bets advised

PERSONAL TRADING

a quiet day as i needed to help a mate out for a couple of hours and yesterday afternoon with no jump racing or main account bets looked a good time , only one small bet in the evening £50 ew on bring on the bling 6.00 bangor 10.5/2.68 i had the value but not much else !

Thursday, May 03, 2007

credit where credits due ..............

on the isiris stance with regard to teofilo and a touch getting on last night with the 2000 guineas selections , but the day overall was a rollercoaster affair starting with the teofilo news , then a shortpriced winner , a loser , then a max main account unplaced , a winner advised @ 3/1 but sp of 5/1 and then a loser ............... my other services were quiet but a profit was ensured on the day by my personal betting


thursday
ISIRIS
main account
max ew bet = £300ew but was restricted on every bet as tapes were released i had £200 ew
HORSE S £200 ew @ 5/2 - 11/4 unpld -£400
insiders
HORSE W £150 @ 6/5 WON +£180
HORSE M £100 @ 6/1 unpld -£100
HORSE B £150 @ 3/1 WON +£450
HORSE O £50 ew @ 13/2 unpld -£100

MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bets advised

PERSONAL TRADING

i started the day £125.12 in profit from last nights football , hands up im one of the worst football judges around when it comes to backing a outright winner but i like the under/over 2 1/2 goal market and have a fair success rate with my bets in this field , i thought it would be 5/4 under and 4/5 over 2 1/2 goals but the unders was marginal favourite when i had a quick look last night so i layed £130 @ 1.95 under 2 1/2 goals and this proved a success .
a profit of £45.31 was made on the first race at hereford i had backed arrows gold £37.50 ew @ 50/1 r4 10p and layed back @ 36/5.6 so i lost comm on this trade but MH was also negative over the chances of slaney eagle and £50 was layed @ 5.10 so a small profit on the 2.10 . i arbed two in 3.10 kyathos and gappersonneldotcom £150 on each with potential profits of £60 & £40 respectively , native daisy took the race so a small loss of £11.25 . i layed joris de vonnas £30 @ 4.1 in the 3.40 and a profit of £28.81 was collected . in the 4.10 i backed jamadast roma £37.50 ew @ 20/1 i was worried that with non runners coming in throughout the day that 7 would go to post but 8 went into the race mark goldstein did brilliantly to keep the partnership intact but he faded after being prominent for quite a while ,a loss of £75 on the race . andrew @ optimum was keen on the chances of royal hector in the 5.10 hereford but at the time of the message he was 7/4 - 15/8 and he was looking for 2/1 minimum well he drifted to 2/1 before being supported to 6/4 fav i backed him for £125 @ 3.25 to produce a welcome profit of £270.70 on the race . thats where i pulled stumps on a pleasing day personally with a profit of £383.69

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

a most unispiring day .................

the highlight of which was the sponsors offer of £1.10 ew on both of the isiris selections for the 2000 guineas ................


wednesday
ISIRIS
insider
HORSE B £100 @ 10/1 unpld -£100
HORSE C £50 @ 6/1 2nd -£50


MARK HOLDER

no bet advised

OPTIMUM RACING

5.55 chelt vinnie boy £200 @ 7/2 2nd -£200
i think the assessment that the 4m1f was the more appropriate option was spot on ................

PERSONAL TRADING

a sad post script to my bet on dundiclou yesterday as i received a text last night saying that he was badly struck into during the race and sadly it was so bad he had to be put down .
a quiet day overall i tried to trade a few races at ascot but it was very slow going with not much happening for me , with the last race looming i was £18 down personally but i noticed some money coming in for hassaad , i managed to get £200 ew @ 11/2 i layed £200 @ 6.046/1.95 win/place he got up in the last few strides to provide a profit of £175.75 on the race , £157.75 on the day .

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

not the best of starts to may ............

technical problems and a unfortunate unseated just two of the highlights to day to forget , also a message to lay a horse at 8/1 when the price is 11/12 with only £20 on the offer @ 12 i may be good BUT lets be fair !!! as i speak @ 7.20 tuesday evening its 15/200 £51 x £4 for the epsom race , i imagine im not the only one hoping for a decent run on his reappearance but news of a sluggish trial today does not sound promising , ladbrokes who have a fair grip of the o'brien team have taken him out of the betting and on the fair he is 75/300 for the first classic of the season after the 1000 guineas episode i think i may leave the ante post selections alone as the liquidity or prices to come to that do not add up .


tuesday
ISIRIS
main account
HORSE W £100 ew @ 3/1 2nd -£40
HORSE Y £100 ew @ 8/1 unpld -£200
insider
2.50 win HORSE S £100 @ 7/2 unpld -£100
3.50 win HORSE O £100 @ 5/1 unpld -£100
5.10 bat HORSE H £100 @ 8/1 unpld -£100

MARK HOLDER

no bets advised

OPTIMUM RACING

no bets advised

PERSONAL TRADING

i played a couple in the first at wincanton master of the race £100 ew @ 10/1 laying back @ 10.0/3.0 and le corvee £125 @ 10/1 and i layed this also @ 10.0 neither looked likely to trouble the judge and i took a commission loss of £12.18 on the race . MH was keen to oppose scotland yard i also had a call back for this race from another service so i decided to hold fire as i didnt want all my eggs in one basket so to speak , although not a clean round of hurdling scotland yard comfortably accounted for his market rival but no damage done personally . i was quite active in the last at wincanton optimum were none to keen on the chances of liberty ben i layed £40 @ 4.96 and i arbed 4 other horses carpet ride (+£50) , or apples (+£107.50) , manly money (+£81.20) and mr splodge (+£38.13) , but with obviously liberty ben a loser and so was salinas when you take commission into account , sadly for my book liberty run prevailed , i was quite impressed by his performance he had every opportunity to buckle under pressure but his jumping stood the test and he battled on for a pleasing win for connections but not for me ! then my only other bet was in the bumper at sedgefield i was told by a respected judge that the trainer thought a lot of dundiclou he disappointed when made favourite on his debut but he floundered in the soft ground ,i waded in with £200 @ 11/4 before the non runners , well he drifted like a barge and travelled about as quickly as one , my judge is a little less respected by me after that !!!! so that brings to a close a most miserable 1st of may -£400.35 .