The Betting Thread

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PowerSpurs said:
You need to open an account with a spread betting company. I use Sporting Index. You bet, say £1 per point (or a higher or lower amount depending on your risk appetite). If you buy Spurs points at 67 and they end up with 74 then you win £7. If they end up with 50 then you lose £17. There are various markets - I usually bet on the Premier League Championship index which is an artificial structure that settles at Winner = 60pts, Second = 40pts, Third = 30pts, Fourth = 20pts, Fifth = 10pts, Sixth = 5pts. All others = 0. Spurs are currently quoted at 12-15 so are a buy if you think they will be fourth or better and a sell if you think they will be fifth or worse. Chelsea are 37-40 so they need to win the league to be a good buy and be worse than 2nd to be a good sell. The prices are updated all through the season so you can close out at a profit (or to limit your loss) at any time. This is the highest starting Spurs quote ever as I recall. I prefer this bet to the points one usually as the losses can only be 15 and the gains could be 45. I think the points one is more symmetrical in outcome.
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Cheers, I might just do that <ok>

Got Chelsea to win the CL at 12/1 and Dortmund to win the CL at 23/1 so fingers crossed <ok>
 
District Line said:
Cheers, I might just do that <ok>

Got Chelsea to win the CL at 12/1 and Dortmund to win the CL at 23/1 so fingers crossed <ok>
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Not done a CL bet, likely to go with Bayern again, no team has won it back to back have they? Reckon this is one of the best teams to give it a go. I have you guys to win the Prem though (feel dirty for betting it <laugh>).
 
Spurs or Sex? said:
Not done a CL bet, likely to go with Bayern again, no team has won it back to back have they? Reckon this is one of the best teams to give it a go. I have you guys to win the Prem though (feel dirty for betting it <laugh>).
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You'd get poor odds for Bayern.

I just think Pep has/will take the best aspects out of their game I.e Solid shape off the ball,4-2-3-1, direct and incisive play. I just feel if they come up against a side like Dortmund/Real or even City under Pellegrini they could get beat, something I'd never have said last year.

Not sure Chelsea have the players to win the PL. Just think with the final being in Lisbon, so many top European clubs going through managerial change and Mourinho's desire to prove a point that Chelsea may just do it.

I've got a feeling the league is going to get stronger this year so it'll be interesting for betting <ok>
 
theevilreddevil said:
Manchester City drop to pot 3.... Where can I bet on them still not winning a Champions League group game????? lol
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They won't get a group like they did last season. Impossible to draw a tougher group if you tried, plus that clown Mancini isn't there. A good bet (IMO) would be all English teams making it to the CL QF. You'd get great odds for that given country protection in the Last 16.
 
District Line said:
You'd get poor odds for Bayern.

I just think Pep has/will take the best aspects out of their game I.e Solid shape off the ball,4-2-3-1, direct and incisive play. I just feel if they come up against a side like Dortmund/Real or even City under Pellegrini they could get beat, something I'd never have said last year.

Not sure Chelsea have the players to win the PL. Just think with the final being in Lisbon, so many top European clubs going through managerial change and Mourinho's desire to prove a point that Chelsea may just do it.

I've got a feeling the league is going to get stronger this year so it'll be interesting for betting <ok>
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I think Pep's smart enough to know that he doesn't need to tweak much of what is technically the best team in Europe right now. If he tries drastically changing what has proven to be a winning formula both domestically and in Europe then you'd have to question why Pep would do such a thing. He'll no doubt add a little tiki-taka flair but I can't see him completely trying to make Bayern into his Barca version 2.

In regards to you guys, I really don't see a better team in our league at the moment. Utd have lost Fergie and while Moyes is a great manager, he just won't be a Fergie 2.0 simple as that, Fergie got the best out of every single player, there are players in the Utd team that ability wise aren't better than a lot of players in the other top 4/5 sides yet Fergie somehow got them to perform out of their skin, he installed a winning mentality, Moyes doesn't have that and personally I think it'll show at times. I don't expect Utd to suddenly become a mid-table side or anything but Fergie was an extraordinary manager and quite frankly there isn't anyone on the planet that could do what he done.

City, looked poor at times last season and while they've spent big (surprise, surprise) I just don't see them winning the league.

Arsenal so far haven't improved, Higuain joined Napoli and rumours say Bernard is Porto-bound leaving Arsenal so far with one sole target (that we know of) - Suarez. While he'd be a great addition to them, they won't be title challengers with just his addition, they're not strong enough in other areas of the pitch.

Us, while we've added two great players and could be finally signing a striker worthy replacing Berbatov, I still think we're a season away from properly challenging for the league, though I do expect us to cement a top 4 finish and give any team a run for their money this year, providing Bale stays of course.

Then there's you guys, you've re-signed one of the best managers in the game and someone that brought you great success, immediately spirits will be high among players to work under the self proclaimed "Special One", you've added two very good players in Schurrle and van Ginkel and you have Lukaku and De Bruyne returining to what was already a good squad. Mata improves with each season, Hazard and Oscar will no doubt build on impressive debut seasons and with that said, it just gives all the signals to me that Chelsea are the team to beat this year. Being a Spurs fan I'm sure you can appreciate that I hope I'm completely wrong but I genuinely believe you lot have all the ingredients to have a successful season.
 
Thanks to Zagreb grabbing a 1-0 in the 90th minute, I need Lyon to hang on for the last 7 minutes to get a 6/1 accumulator so go put your money on a Grasshopper equaliser! ;)
 
just a brief glimpse and i thought that said "have an each way on a gregorian declaration of war at 3.05". Was about to bunker it up.

At each way, i'd think that was pretty much a winner <laugh>
 
Bumping your betting thread,

I have gone with

Liverpool v Stoke 12:45 Home
Arsenal v Aston Villa 15:00 Home
Sunderland v Fulham 15:00 Home
West Brom v Southampton 15:00 Away

Ten on 13.87/1

Good luck to anyone else betting today.
 
Anyone having a 3pm accumulator today?

Accumulators are my lottery tickets, and I don't play the lottery, because it's wrong. Picking six horses at random is a much better option, and I don't do that either.

I always go for about six home wins (draws are boring), always take a look at Swindon, never the early or late Saturday kick off, always small change, always lose.

Everton
Hull
Southampton
Stoke
Swindon
Yeovil

@72.31
 
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