24/05/09

P&L for 24/05/09

Football : 1.93
Tennis : 0.30

P&L since last post : 2.23


Some harey scarey moments today.

Football.

Started the day off well again with trades in both the 1100 matches. More trades in the 1300 matches followed and I was feeling good. On to the 1400 italian matches. I had managed a half time trade in the Lecce v Florentina match and was keeping an eye on it as the clock ran down. I decided to go back in on the match with about 5 to go and not a lot of action. This is the point my laptop began to have a meltdown. I suppose having a two tab firefox window, betfair forum, open office spreadsheet and betrader pro open all at once got a little too much for it after over 4 hours. I submitted a back at 1.09 and the system counted it down and then it vanished and I couldn't tell what was happening, whether it had been taken or not and then it froze completely. I killed everything and restarted the laptop. I don't know why I did not immediately open betfair on my main system which is always on but I waited for the laptop to boot and I opened betrader and futbol24 for scoring. I found a goal had just been scored and my back had been taken before it. DAMMIT!. At this point injury time had just begun and the hedgeout point would have been 1.14. Not a massive loss I should have taken it but I had a mad gambler moment and decided to wait to get 1.08. I figured it would be pretty quick considering we were in injury time. My gambling fingers crossed tightly and then BOING!! the goal noise from futbol24 and sure enough it's the Lecce v Florentina. NOooooooooo!!!. WHY AM I SO STUP..... Oh wait it's been disallowed. WAHEEY!!. I trade out for a tick profit and the match ends. Pheww!. I really should no better than to mess around with italian matches like that.
Oh but the foolishness did not end there, see the Tennis.
I traded 2 more matches today and got good green on both.

Tennis.

I had not payed attention to what tennis was on today and just idly glanced at the in play list in the afternoon. I spotted Andy Murray v Whathisface Nobody and doing pretty well. Match odds was at bugger all but set betting still had a possible tick or two to be had. I did one trade successfully and watched a bit more of the match. As Murray went 5-1 up and was serving I was suprised to see 2-0 at 1.08 and decided to do another trade. Only after I back do I realise that the reason there is still so much on offer is because it's the french open and it's 3-0 I've backed. MUPPET!!!. Of course this is where Murray fluffs two cross court ground strokes, one on a ball that looked like it was going out to me but what do I know, and breaks himself. He does win the set and starts well in the third to give me my profit. Still a foolish mistake to make though.


So what was up with me today. I was knackered from lack of sleep. Sodding neighbours 2 floors up were having a party till 0430 and it kept me from sleeping properly. The people directly above me grumbling about it to each other didn't help either. Why didn't I go up and ask them to keep it down?. Well in my experience asking drunks to be a bit quieter when they are in full swing is not recieved well and I have a short fuse so it would have been a recipe for disaster. It's not like they do this often either so I grit my teeth and stuck my soundproof earmuffs on to block as much out as possible and dozed on and off. At least it didn't cost me any green.

So 14 trades total today. I crossed the 100 trade mark since starting to keep track 13 days ago. 13 consecutive green days as well. Not too shabby. I must not get complacent or greedy though and keep on selecting my trades carefully. Hopefully tomorrows holiday football and tennis will provide more opportunity for green.

Keep it green everybody.