Laying bets can pay a fortune if you can afford to lose.
You could have went on Betfair this season and offered 10/1 on every SAFC opponent, you set you’re own liability, so let’s say you’d said ‘I’ll hit £500 in’.
People will take 10/1 all day, even if it’s couple quid bets you will easily get your £500 of stakes in.
We’ve played 27 games and lost 2. You’d have 25 x £500, so you’ve made £12,500, tax free in 6 months.
£200 in 2 weeks isn’t worth the hassle for me. I did lag betting once when we played Liverpool at home (2-2 draw) and made about £600 I think it was.
It was stressful as **** though, as I said it was money I could afford to lose but £600 is a kick in the nuts. I closed Betfair account after that as I thought it could become addictive taking so much on a single, effectively.
The way to ramp it up is take that £200 and offer daft odds on near certs, and hope enough people have small punts to double you’re lay. There’s a lot of people make a living of it.
As Bri says though, drop in the ocean to what bookies make. Bookies like big winners, good PR. The underbelly of betting is daft lads betting their last fiver on 10 golds, that’s the bookies bread and butter.
I feel like I win a lot of bets but my SkyBet profit/loss was plus £700 last year.
You don’t notice when you lose a fiver and that’s how bookies always win, as most people lose.
