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Should you bet against your own team ?

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  1. Jammy 07

    Jammy 07 Well-Known Member

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    After garnering a lifetimes knowledge about your own team should you use that insight to make a financial profit when defeat seems likely or even inevitable ?
     
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  2. Sucky

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    You should yeh.
     
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  3. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    Ahah how much you lost then? Go on?
     
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  4. Jammy 07

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    To be fair over the last 16/17 years the opportunities have been almost limitless.
     
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  5. luvgonzo

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    I never predict a win or bet on my team to win, the lord of jinx is real and always watching.
     
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    I've never lost betting on Leeds to win <ok>
     
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  7. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    I dont gamble, been in a bookies maybe 5times my whole life. Made a few online but just not into it, I like at least a sore nose and a hangover if I end up with **** all in my pockets namean.
     
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  8. Sucky

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    Me either. :emoticon-0165-muscl
     
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    No never done that, bit of a club forming here.
     
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  10. Jammy 07

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    Ok here is an example;

    Leeds v Derby 2nd leg of the play offs...we're 1-0 up after the 1st leg but Derby are odds of 9/1 to win (not qualify).

    Do you offset the potential disappointment of defeat by receiving a financial windfall ?
     
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    Would imagine Sunderland have also been priced incorrectly by the bookies over the last few seasons ?

    Have you cashed in on the opportunities ?
     
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  13. Sucky

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    Probably not mate cos I don't gamble <laugh>
     
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  14. Jammy 07

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    You're probably not my target audience then Sucky...

    Feel free to move along <laugh>
     
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  15. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    But I was gonna ask you Wabout A-cups?
     
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  16. Commachio

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    I have never had any interest in gambling money. I think i've been into a bookies twice in my life.

    I am often open to dafter bets for a laugh, like an eyebrow or something stupid. But have never been a money gambler.
     
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  17. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    I used to bet against us every week in league one which gave me some beer money if we ****ed it up, Rochdale in particular gave me a good return. Insurance innit.

    Also had a bet on my recentish trips to Liverpool and City of each of them -3, which paid for my trip both times as we lost 6--1 & 4-0.
     
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    It’s one of my very few profitable strategies.
     
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    I rarely bet on an Everton game, either way, as I feel I’d jinx them if I back a win, and backing them to lose doesn’t feel right to me. So I generally swerve, unless it’s BTTS.
     
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    I've heard Ole uses this strategy
     
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