Well it was just ten days ago that I wrote a long post about "The Way Forward" for the rest of this year. Perhaps I was trying to talk myself into feeling better about things, but whatever it was, it didn't help and I've now reached a crossroads and I need to decide what I'm going to do.
It is clear to me now that the path I'm following at the moment is the wrong one - regardless of what happened in the last couple of years, I've got no confidence at all that this is going to turn round anytime soon, and it's just pointless thinking otherwise.
I've got no money coming in, the amount of cash I've got through over the last six months would give most people sleepless nights, and with every passing week the situation is getting worse.
I need to take some time out to have a think about things and try and work out the best way forward from here. I honestly don't know the answer to that at the moment !
Just about the only thing I have decided is that this is going to be my last blog post.
I've been writing here for two and a half years - over 800 posts, numerous comments in response, and over 350,000 visitors - I've been amazed by how many people look in every night to read my ramblings, and I'm very grateful for all the feedback I have received.
When I started out I never imagined I'd still be writing it after all this time, and it has been an integral part of what I've been doing over the last couple of years.
Thanks again for all the feedback - whether it's been ideas, encouragement, criticism, congratulations, abuse, or whatever else, it's been great to hear from you all.
To all those who are trying to make this game pay, I wish you all the luck in the world. I managed it for two years, and I hope I can find a way back to profitability before my bankroll runs out !
Be lucky !!!
Friday, 30 April 2010
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Quiet again
Thursday 29 April
Pretty uninspriring stuff again, producing just three losing bets from the portfolio - two from Fryboy and one from Nagman.
Not much else to add at the moment, with a bit of luck there'll be more to enthuse about tomorrow !
Thursday 29 April
Portfolio Results (below)...........(140)
Personal Bets / Trades..............(113)
Loss on day £253
Pretty uninspriring stuff again, producing just three losing bets from the portfolio - two from Fryboy and one from Nagman.
Not much else to add at the moment, with a bit of luck there'll be more to enthuse about tomorrow !
Thursday 29 April
Portfolio Results (below)...........(140)
Personal Bets / Trades..............(113)
Loss on day £253
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
No joy
Wednesday 28 April
Not much action on Wednesday from the tipsters with three losers - one from SLH and two from Fryboy.
A few other losing Betfair trades, forecasts etc from me - day to forget really.
Wednesday 28 April
Portfolio Results (below)..............(210)
Personal Bets / Trades.................(188)
Loss on day £398
Not much action on Wednesday from the tipsters with three losers - one from SLH and two from Fryboy.
A few other losing Betfair trades, forecasts etc from me - day to forget really.
Wednesday 28 April
Portfolio Results (below)..............(210)
Personal Bets / Trades.................(188)
Loss on day £398
Steady day Tuesday
Tuesday 27 April
Small profit from the portfolio on Tuesday thanks to Bollywood on SLH's exchange line (he also gave the second) and Woking won for Skeeve in the Blue Square South play-offs last night.
SLH's mainline bet Overrule lost, while two of Fryboy's selections - Ice Diva and Desert Strike - finished second, so just one place return on the day.
BLSC had a couple of winning bets on the Lyon - Bayern Munich game, but the Yankee advised on 4 short priced favourites came unstuck, I didn't put the Yankee on as I thought it was a poor bet - needed three winners to get the stake back, so I covered them in trebles and an accumulator instead.
Two losers from Nagman and a loser from Simplebet completed the action.
Tuesday 27 April
Portfolio Results (below)...............19
Personal Bets / Trades.................162
Profit on day £181
Small profit from the portfolio on Tuesday thanks to Bollywood on SLH's exchange line (he also gave the second) and Woking won for Skeeve in the Blue Square South play-offs last night.
SLH's mainline bet Overrule lost, while two of Fryboy's selections - Ice Diva and Desert Strike - finished second, so just one place return on the day.
BLSC had a couple of winning bets on the Lyon - Bayern Munich game, but the Yankee advised on 4 short priced favourites came unstuck, I didn't put the Yankee on as I thought it was a poor bet - needed three winners to get the stake back, so I covered them in trebles and an accumulator instead.
Two losers from Nagman and a loser from Simplebet completed the action.
Tuesday 27 April
Portfolio Results (below)...............19
Personal Bets / Trades.................162
Profit on day £181
Monday, 26 April 2010
Better
Monday 26 April
Got the week off to a good start, which hasn't happened much lately.
Star of the show was Fryboy who tipped three horses at Windsor tonight and found three winners - Getcarter 7/1, Sunny Game 13/2 and Contredanse at 3/1 (managed 11/4), great stuff.
A good day at last for SLH with Postmaster winning at Ffos Las tonight. Message went on line earlier than the advised time and the price had already gone by the time I looked, so had to back it on Betfair. Traded around a bit and managed to end up with 5.6/1 on Betfair, although it drifted pre-race and the SP was 6/1. A welcome winner though following a loser earlier in the day - Foreign King.
Three other bets today from BLSC, Nagman and Packed Pockets were all losers.
Monday 26 April
Portfolio Results (below).................688
Personal Bets / Trades....................(34)
Profit on day £654
Got the week off to a good start, which hasn't happened much lately.
Star of the show was Fryboy who tipped three horses at Windsor tonight and found three winners - Getcarter 7/1, Sunny Game 13/2 and Contredanse at 3/1 (managed 11/4), great stuff.
A good day at last for SLH with Postmaster winning at Ffos Las tonight. Message went on line earlier than the advised time and the price had already gone by the time I looked, so had to back it on Betfair. Traded around a bit and managed to end up with 5.6/1 on Betfair, although it drifted pre-race and the SP was 6/1. A welcome winner though following a loser earlier in the day - Foreign King.
Three other bets today from BLSC, Nagman and Packed Pockets were all losers.
Monday 26 April
Portfolio Results (below).................688
Personal Bets / Trades....................(34)
Profit on day £654
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Profit and Loss w/e 25/04/2010
Running out of different ways to say the same thing at the minute.
Another losing week with £694 lost since last Sunday. All very depressing really, and something has to change soon as I can't continue to lose money like this week after week with nothing coming in. The overall loss now stands at just over £7000 since I resumed in mid-February, and the portfolio summary looks absolutely shocking at the minute with red numbers everywhere.
Dropped Tipping Legends and The Form Guru from my portfolio at the end of last week, and sods law being what it is, JC has suddenly hit a rich vein of form winning over 50 points this weekend. However, you have to make these calls as you see them, and it was the right thing to do as far as I'm concerned.
That pretty much sums things up, can't get anything to go my way at the moment - the SLH e/w double on Friday was another kick in the teeth - and I've got to admit to being pretty sick of the whole thing just now.
However, have to try and keep some sort of positive attitude towards going and just hope that things take a turn for the better. One bright spot on the horizon is that Equine Investments start their flat season next Saturday, hopefully they will provide the spark that finally gets things going for me.
Week ending 25 April
Portfolio Results............(944)
Personal Bets / Trades........250
Loss on week £694
Summary of Portfolio
Results in terms of points
Profit / Loss by day of week
Another losing week with £694 lost since last Sunday. All very depressing really, and something has to change soon as I can't continue to lose money like this week after week with nothing coming in. The overall loss now stands at just over £7000 since I resumed in mid-February, and the portfolio summary looks absolutely shocking at the minute with red numbers everywhere.
Dropped Tipping Legends and The Form Guru from my portfolio at the end of last week, and sods law being what it is, JC has suddenly hit a rich vein of form winning over 50 points this weekend. However, you have to make these calls as you see them, and it was the right thing to do as far as I'm concerned.
That pretty much sums things up, can't get anything to go my way at the moment - the SLH e/w double on Friday was another kick in the teeth - and I've got to admit to being pretty sick of the whole thing just now.
However, have to try and keep some sort of positive attitude towards going and just hope that things take a turn for the better. One bright spot on the horizon is that Equine Investments start their flat season next Saturday, hopefully they will provide the spark that finally gets things going for me.
Week ending 25 April
Portfolio Results............(944)
Personal Bets / Trades........250
Loss on week £694
Summary of Portfolio
Results in terms of points
Profit / Loss by day of week
Slow Sunday
Sunday 25 April
Not much happening today, but with no returns on this weeks golf bets then it's a losing day. Partly mitigated by place laying KJ Choi a couple of holes into his second round on Friday at just under 4/5.
Fryboy was the only one of my racing tipsters in action today, and a place for Bo McGinty and two losers meant it was a losing day for him.
Two football bets for BLSC - a winner and a loser so no movement on the account, and the aforementioned golf losses completed the days action.
Sunday 25 April
Portfolio Results (below)...............(274)
Personal Bets / Trades...................190
Loss on day £84
Not much happening today, but with no returns on this weeks golf bets then it's a losing day. Partly mitigated by place laying KJ Choi a couple of holes into his second round on Friday at just under 4/5.
Fryboy was the only one of my racing tipsters in action today, and a place for Bo McGinty and two losers meant it was a losing day for him.
Two football bets for BLSC - a winner and a loser so no movement on the account, and the aforementioned golf losses completed the days action.
Sunday 25 April
Portfolio Results (below)...............(274)
Personal Bets / Trades...................190
Loss on day £84
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