Sunday 18th March 2007

We have all enjoyed some of the very best sporting events during the course of this week but the week has ended on a very sad note with the announcement of the death of the gentleman,  Bob Woolmer.  My Dad always had the test match cricket on at home and I remember well the Ian Botham era that got me hooked on the sport. I can also remember Bob playing for the England test team in the mid seventies. He was better known by most as a brilliant cricket coach and of course the fact that it was he that brought Brian Lara to the UK to play for Warwickshire. My final memory of this great cricketing man will be the way he looked whilst packing his laptop away and leaving the ground after Pakistan's defeat to Ireland. R.I.P.

I have had a very slow day again with only 6 races traded and 1 football match but I had no losing trades so my week has ended well.

My first trade was in the 14:20 at Fontwell where I laid Schemer Fagan for £20 @ 36.00 when tailing off to result in a profit of £20. My next race trade, the 15:05 at Carlisle, ended with a zero return as I had backed Numero Un de Solzen for £149 @ 1.75 and laid all off @ 1.62 expecting him to win and by the time I realised that he wouldn't it was too late to lay further.

In the 16:00 at Fontwell I started with a lay of £100 @ 2.20 on Lady Racquet and then backed back for £100 @ 2.45. Later I laid her for £15 @ 2.20 to result in a profit of £15.

My next trade was in the 16:10 at Carlisle and here I backed Posh Stick for £50 @ 1.35 in the latter stages of the race when leading to result in a profit of £17. I had 2 more small winning trades to end my race trading with a profit of £60.

I only traded in one football match and it was the Real Madrid v Gimnastic game. I had missed the start of the game as I had to go and pick up my children and get them all ready for bed etc. So when I settled down to watch the match it was into the second half with the score at 1 - 0 and the odds on the under 2.5 goals market where already down to around 1.28 so I decided to wait for a better opportunity to trade on. With the score now sitting at 2 - 0 and 83 minutes showing on the clock I backed the under 2.5 goals for £199 @ 1.62. I laid this all off at once @ 1.56. Then in the 1st of three injury minutes I backed the unders for £461 @ 1.30 and again with  1 minute to go I backed the unders for £416 @ 1.26 to result in a profit of £256.

My day had therefore finished with a profit of £316, which left me with a profit of £2179 for the week.

Comments

[Brian]

Hi Ray

Sad about Bob Woolmer and yes he did look like poor old Jock Stein at pitchside. What I recall about Woolmer was that he was 1 min a No.8 for kent and then an English top order test player.

There was some strange prices laid on BF today and liquidity was very poor. Did you get matched for what you wanted on the Daq today? I put in a few large for me bets on Posh Stick and never got matched. Serves me right for going blue instead of purple!

Regards

Brian

[Paul]

Well done Ray,

Yes it was very sad about Bob Woolmer, I saw those images of him at the end of the Ireland match as well.

A very good week for me, my first 4 figure week.

I also took some of the 1.30 offered on the Real Madrid Unders Market. I don't know who bets on the Spanish Football, but the markets behave in very strange ways. I find the pre-event and in-play markets mad compared to the domestic football markets. Long may it last.

Have a good week

Paul (in Lux)

[Ray]

Hi Brian,

Liquidity tends to suffer after the Cheltenham festival, but it will soon be back to normall. Good Luck.

Ray

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Well done on your results this week.

I couldn't believe the odds on offer last night and they kept coming back for more. I just worried that someone knew something that we didn't. Good Luck.

Ray