The gambling thread Page 43

Yes I'll have a go that one too ta, I like these as you can't lose. I wish I was more up this new acca freeze thing, just found out if I'd used it last weekend I'd've won about £70 instead of nout - good Yorkshire word for you there SG. I'll see if I can be more on the ball with it today...

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 21st January 2025, 8:34 AM

Of course, what you've both failed to take into account is that the horse didn't win.

(Not my slip btw. I merely posted it to highlight the danger of betting at long odds-on - if I had £20,000 to spare, I wouldn't risk it in the hope of winning £8,000.)

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Ah, you had your thumb over the not winning bit, but now I see PL...which I assume meant it was placed. You'd still have lost several grand, so 20k seems very risky, foolhardy I'd say. Does make you wonder about the oddsmaker though, did he get that one right?? Don't know enough about racing but in team sports if a team is 2/5 it's pretty much a certainty, but then I suppose you only have two players, not several as in racing.

Bloody Brighton.

Yeah well don't mention Ultser then in rugby! Last to play on Sunday in the weekend games I had two 6 folds on, and all the others won. I never for a moment thought a team at 1/33 would lose. But that they did, and cleared out the 40 odd quid I'd had in the account to put it all on that lot just for barely £20 profit after covering a couple of 1/2s backing the other team for security.

If I'd bothered to do it for that last game, I'd have won over a hundred probably. But no, the team who hadn't won away in 36 games over 4 years decided to change that yesterday! I should give up now, my luck at gambling is getting worse, if that were possible. 😠