22/06/09

P&L for 22/06/09

Tennis : 8.37

P&L since last post : 8.37


Bit dissapointed in today considering the amount on. What a day, was it humid enough for you where you were. I was in room with the curtains shut and a fan running and was still sweating. Ughh!

Tennis.

7 trades on 3 matches. I suppose today's major point is Blake out 3-0 to Seppi. I got 2 trades on Blake's first 2 serves before he went to shit. Would have loved to have been the guy who backed seppi 3-0 at 55.0 Would have hated to be the guy laying Seppi at 55.0 . LO.... NO NO I must not write LOL after every small F***in' humourus remark. STOP IT!!!, I'm not a teenage girl DAMMIT!!. Right now that that is out of the way.
Struggled on the other 2 matches after initial good trades for the same reason on both. Soderling and Djoko losing their first set. I got a trade on Soderling before he buggered up and was on a second with only £4 taken when he was almost broken but thankfully he came back from that one and I scratched. Same story with Djoko. Get one trade in and then it goes to crap. When a player is a set down and you are looking to trade their serve in the second set you have to be aware that while the market will move down if they hold, just like it would if they weren't a set down, if they break though the odds will go through the roof. If a favourite breaks in the first set of a match then there odds will rise 30-50 ticks depending on who they are playing and how many sets is required for the win. If they break already a set down then there odds can rise 100+ ticks. In my experience anyway. With such poor play shown in the first set it made me very nervous trading in the second.
As the tie break progressed at the end of Djoko second set I made a foolish mistake. When Djoko made it 5-1 I backed him at 1.15 thinking he will surely take the set and I can get out at 1.14. He did win the set but the odds never reached my money at 1.14 and then went back up to 1.16/1.17. Shit!. All the Djoko backers had shot their load when he made it 5-1 and so there was nothing but layers piling cash in in the 2 points that followed and the set break. I moved my lay to scratch and waited. Of course Djoko took the first game and his price came down past 1.1 so I would have been fine but I felt better scratching as I should have realised how the money was going to move at that point. Got a couple more on the 3rd set and then realised I couldn't care less who won the match and moved to the football.
Didn't really pay attention to the Fed or Serena matches. Likewise Verdasco and Robredo. Too much on at one time, have to focus on one match at a time. Maybe keep an eye on the score on the others so you can switch over if something looks a better market.

When I set up for the 2 U21 football markets I was planning on not making any big effort. I wasn't however planning on getting nothing. I was eating dinner when the first goals went in so I wasn't paying attention. I went in to the Finland v Spain match just as HT came and got stuck when the price went up 2 ticks above my back. Bugger!. I moved my lay to scratch and waited. Took too long to get out but I got there. Foolish mistake again.

So that was day one of Wimbledon. On to day two.

Venus kicking off centre court tomorrow. Will watch a bit until Del Potro is on court 1 an hour later. Roddick follows Venus and then Murray is on. Safina is on court 1 after Del Potro and I'll be interested to see if she has gotten any more consistent in the last few days. Ha Ha. Don't think I'll be trading her though but you never know. No football worth interfering during the day tomorrow so all eyes on the tennis.

I should be happy that today was decent profit but I had kind of greedily expected more.

Keep it green everybody.