What would you do?

Consolation bets mate. It's the best way, your on a run of luck so back yourself as much as you can that your gonna pull of a perfect 10, whilst also making sure that your gonna get a small winning. When you have 9/10, you gotta back yourself in the majority!

 

£500 on each, you still get a canny return if your original bet turns up.
Guaranteed money is the way to go.

My way of thinking is, would you put that amount of money going onto the Norwich Sunderland draw if it was a one off bet?

A long time ago I had an accumulator going onto a Pat Eddery horse at 9/2.
Roughly £1000 quid going onto Well Carpeted (The name is ingrained on my brain )
The bookie offered me half the winnings before the off. ( He knew the Eddery horse was a good tip too. )
Stupidly I didn't take his offer and Eddery whipped the ****ing horse half to death trying to win, but it just couldn't handle the softer going.
Money in the hand with football has to be your best bet.

 

Norwich vs Sunderland will be a 1-1 draw.

Fact! Do nothing and watch that cash roll in... you can buy me a pint once it wins.

 

2-0 to Norwich Mackems will bottle it.

 

You've got to go for the guaranteed winnings mate. 495 quid atleast is some amount of money for a £2 bet. Yer you will feel abit sick if it ended up a draw, and your not getting your megabucks, but you'd feel 100 times worse if you come away with nought.
Tough decision, but I wouldn't mind swapping places with you. Haven't had an accumy up for soooooooo long. Always seem to be on the end of some freak results, i.e teams winning at places they haven't for 30 odd years or something. ****ing frustrating!!

 

Consolation bets are looking likely now. £150 on Norwich and £200 on Sunderland means I'm guaranteed at least £100-£120, but the bumper £2900 prize is still there for the draw.

As someone said, you only live once and I'm very unlikely to ever be in this position again, so having at least £100, with a good chance of bagging the mega prize, is still good imo.

Anyone else agree?

 

put 200 on Nowrich and 250 on the scum and then i will agree

 

Leave it, the minute you start tinkering with stuff is when it's most likely to go wrong. You've done great so far for everything to come through, especially with the result yesterday... I'd say ride it out!

 

Go for C and if there are any betting sites that you have never used you can get free bets up to £100 when you sign up. So you can put £200 on Norwich win and £200 on Sunderland win. But actually you are only betting £200 not £400.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/norwich-v-sunderland/winner - that shows you the offers you can get when you hover over the '£' sign above each bookmaker!

 

I don't know if anyone has suggested this, but 'dutch' your bet, meaning you put a certain amount of money on each outcome based on the odds and you will always get the same return whatever happens.

So if you're staking £500, at Hill's prices, you'd put £259.26 on Norwich and £240.74 on the Mackems. Whatever happens, you'll win £174.07. And of course if it's a draw, you'll get you're £2700.

 

If you put £1,100 on sunderland to win and £1,226 on norwich to win you will be guarunteed a minimum win of £874. This is the safest bet with the optimum return of at the very least £874. It does of course assume you have £2,326 to spare to put the bets on.

Having said this I would go for option C as £3k is a lot to win but remember you didnt have it and you wont get the chance again.

 

Bet your gutted if you went for C - hopefully you have £495 in your back pocket though by choosing B

 

Ah hindsight... still even if you did go for C you have 100 quid out of it.

 

Whoever said B, right answer!

I choose C though, so I have £100 in my pocket now. The opportunity for that big chunk of cash was just too big to not give it a shot.