16 days to Cheltenham. Every day I wake up and smile because I know it is one day closer to the greatest show on turf.
My wishes for today were that Man City could beat Fulham to seal my acca and £463 and Spencer Levin or Brian Gay could win the Mayakoba Classic to bank me over £400.
Neither happened. Although I did fortunately manage to accrue some money by the way in which neither happened. Man City went 1-0 up and were trading @ 1.3 on Betfair so I deposited £60 and laid for £200 making my book Man City + £363, any other +£163. Fulham equalised which really really pissed me off as I had made the trademark amazingly stupid error of already spending the other £200 in my head on antepost bets for Cheltenham.
The Carling Cup final also left me with a nasty taste in my mouth. Looking at Birmingham's 4-5-1 scrappers line up and Arsenal missing a few key creative players I didn't see goals and I got involved with some small correct score bets, £15 on 0-0 @ 14.0, £20 on 1-0 Arsenal @ 8.2 and £15 on the 1-1 draw @ 10.5. The freaky nature of the Birmingham winning goal to make it 2-1 after 87 minutes left me feeling very pissed off. I'm a centre back myself in the Monday night York College 6 a side league. What on earth Laurent Koscielny was doing there I have no idea. Its like he knew my bet and was purposefully ripping the piss out of me. Thats exactly what it felt like anyway. Cheers Laurent, you French prick, thats £157.50 I won't be seeing.
It was looking like being a pretty bad day. Then 26 year old Spencer Levin stepped upto the plate in dramatic fashion in the Mayakoba shooting a magnificent 6 under par 65 to earn himself a playoff with Jonathan Wagner. A quick wikipedia check to make sure he wasn't the son of the famous singer Wagner and I find out he is a very decent golfer. Levin is trading at 1.9 in the playoff so I lay for £225 @ 1.9 making my book Levin +£255, Wagner +£155 with my £70 tournament stake back in my account. Unfortunately, like the Man City game the worse of the 2 results came in.
Still a very decent weekend and at least I got the opportunities to lay/green up like a nit. Ended up like £700 in profit over the 2 days and quickly invested just over half that in 5 antepost Cheltenham wagers I had been keenly eyeing up. That cash never had any hope of hitting my bank account.
Might not be a post for a while, the sporting week looks shit, not even any European football! I'll have a few days off the punting and start getting what money I have together for my seasonal Cheltenham raid.
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