This Week

As I alluded to in my previous post, with the exception of the Golf, I am taking this week off punting. I'll be resuming for next weeks big Haydock card. I've found in the past that after a great couple of weeks I then suffer a downturn , and learning from previous mistakes that isn't going to happen this time.


My Golf bets are as follows:


Italian Open


Lima e/w @ 250/1
Heath e/w @ 150/1
Ed Molinari @ 22/1


Barclays


Mickelson e/w @ 28/1
Speith e/w @ 33/1
Schwartzel e/w @ 50/1
Noh e/w @150/1
Cabrera e/w @ 125/1


I'll be back next week with an update.


Have a good one


Steve

The Weekend

The Weekend

 

Had a bit of an issue with the website and hence I haven’t updated the blog for a few days. I’ve also decided to stop doing the precise details of my staking, although I will from time to time let you know how my quest is going with a rough idea of my monetary gains/losses. I’ll keep the blog as more of an informal/entertainment thing rather than detailing every single bet and stake.

 

Suffice to say, the weekend just gone was a roaring success with some fabulous winnings, which came as welcome relief after a less than great days 2 and 3 at York. Day 2 at York was a small loser on a day with few bets, and day 3 (The Friday) was only saved from complete disaster by a 7/1 winner from Tipping Legends in the evening racing. I’d actually decided to give Saturdays racing a miss until Swivel came from last to first to save my bacon, never was a man so relieved.

 

On Saturday Ben Linfoot once again produced the goods as he tipped up both the first Mutual Regards at 20/1 and second Van Percy at 14/1. I usually and in this case backed both each way, so it was a monster result for me. Ben also tipped Kashmiri Sunset who won the each way money at 20/1 by staying on well for fourth. 

 

On Sunday there were more winnings to come as Ben Coley at last managed to land a golf winner as Hunter Mahan came storming through to win the Barclays golf at 50/1. To be honest, after the previous days bonanza I was quite relaxed about this winner, just kind of goes to show that to have the right sort of punting attitude I need to have regular big winners. This was in sharp contrast to Fridays rollercoaster.

 

The week ahead looks pretty quiet, given the Hunters win, I’ll follow this week’s sportinglife.com golf tips, but the racing looks relative mediocre, so I wouldn’t anticipate a great deal of action. I will update later in the week, and let you know how things have gone on.

 

Steve

York Day 1

The first day of the York festival, and it was as predicted a busy day, with 3 bets from the Sporting life's Ben Linfoot, a couple of my own bets, and the Tipping Legends had a few bets as well. I'll post the bets below, and update with thoughts as the week goes on. What a fantastic start though as BL continued his great run with a 20/1 winner in the first at York as Blaine produced an escape act to fly home in the first race. That means I surely won't be losing money today and hopefully another winner will show my a great profit on the day. I just seem to have done really well in the big race meetings this year, just failing with the midweek dross. Fingers crossed for another good one tomorrow


Ben Linfoot – Sporting Life
£25 e/w Bogart 15/1 = -£50
£25 e/w Blaine 20/1 = +£560
£25e/w Totalise 14/1 = -£50

Own

£35 e/w Growl 6/1 = -£70
£35 e/w Felix Leiter 5/1 = +£160

Tipping Legends

£30 e/w Sir Morgan 33/1 = -£60
£30 e/w Entihaa 9/2 = -£6
£60 win Giovani Jack 9/4 =+£135
£15 e/w Ujigar 8/1 = -£30


Total invested = £500 Returns = £1070
Profit on the day =£570
Total blog profit =£1180

Tuesday 19th August 2014

Crazily busy at work this work, and todays a busy punting day as well, and that's before the storm of York which starts on Wednesday. Exciting and hopefully profitable times, although I do feel a bit under pressure. Today we've got some bets on the weeks golf. I was going to back the Scottish Football bets but I've decided to give football a miss for a while until I have monitored the results for a bit longer From Wednesday onwards its likely to be mayhem.


Here are the bets;


Barclays Golf Bets (Ben Coley) = £150
£20 e/w Snedeker 35/1 =
£15 e/w Simpson 55/1 =
£10 e/w Delaet 70/1 =
£15 e/w Westwood 66/1 =
£15 e/w Mahan 501/1 =


Czech Golf (Johns) = £130
£60 win Luiten 14/1 =
£20 e/w Fisher 28/1 =
£10 e/w Webster 66/1 =
£15 e/w Kalberg 50/1 =

Monday

 

Sunday

 

Saturday provided to be a fantastic day of punting, with the highlight being the win of Outdo in the big race at Ripon. As I mentioned I watched the racing later on, so as to take the emotion out of my punting, and it certainly provided to be a great end to the day. The Scottish Football Bets also went very well with 3 out of 4 winners. The Asian Handicaps were continuing to look good as well.

 

Sunday was a much quieter day, with only the one bet from Tipping Legends, which alas got going too late and could only finish second. The golf was a little disappointing, with players flattering to deceive especially in the Wyndham, although places for Pepperhill and Simpson meant there were minimal losses overall.

 

Tipping Legends

£45 win Precision Strike (100/30) = -£45

 

Wyndham Golf (Ben Coley) =  -£75

 

Denmark Golf (Johns) = +£34

 

Monday

 

Always a hard one making it into work on a Monday morning after a heavy weekend, but it had been successful, with good winnings and a win by the mighty Featherstone Rovers in a vital match in the chase for the £450k prize money for finishing second in the league.

 

This week looked like it could be quite busy, with the big York meeting starting on Wednesday, culminating with the Ebor on the Saturday. Not sure that else there would be doing, but the key this week would be to keep disciplined and make sure I don’t waste any of my limited betting bank on stupid ill thought out bets.

 

Looking at my figures at the current time from the start of the blog my profits are +£610

 

The Weekend

Friday

 

Hurrah it was the start of the weekend, and although there were no actual bets on the day it was a busy one for placing advanced bets for Saturdays early priced racing.  There was one bet of my own, picked up from the Sporting Life weekender as well as 4 bets from Ben Linfoot’s value bets column from the Sporting Life website.  In order to make the best prices I ended up putting these on in the Crown, Cheadle as a started the weekend with a couple of well earned pints.

 

Ben Linfoot

 

£17.5 e/w Bondesire (15/1) = -£35

£12.5e/w Polski Max (16/1) =+£75

£35e/w Tatilsu (11/1) = +£71.25

£30 win Plazon (15/2) = -£30

 

Total = +£81.25

 

Own/Weekender

 

£30e/w Outdo (11/1) = +£412.50

 

Saturday

 

I was feeling a little the worse for wear on Saturday morning, and unusually for me didn’t wake until 9.30 am, although we did get up at 6am for a rehydrating coffee and to feed the greyhound. Fortunately I didn’t have much to do on the day, except watching the first United match of the season and dragging myself into Manchester  for a few early evening beers. It wasn’t really that busy on Saturday itself with only a couple of additional bets on the horses, one from Nick Mordin and just the one bet today from Tipping Legends. I am also following the Scottish football bets, and there were 4 bets from this service. I was still monitoring the Asian handicap football service which was showing some encouraging early signs. To maintain my new professional approach I’d decided not to follow any of the bets live, preferring to catch up with results in the evening.

 

Nick Mordin

 

£20e/w Dandino (7/2) = -£10

 

Tipping Legends

 

£35e/w Camborn (12/1) = -£70

 

Scottish Football Bets

 

£40 Queen of the South(Evens) = +£40

£40 Raith(Evens) = +£40

£40 Elgin(Evens)= -£40

£40 Peterhead(Evens) = +£40

 

Total = +£80

 

 

 

Day 3

A pretty busy day today with a few small bets from Tipping Legends and a fancy of my own at Salisbury. The golf also starts, so fingers crossed for a decent start for my selections. I am also currently trialling Asian Handicap football service, but just paper trading at the moment as the majority of bets are in obscure leagues and its quite hard to actually get the bets on.


My horse for today was Captain Cat, a horse that did me a huge favour when winning in the all weather championships. The trainer Roger Charlton, has kept this one back for a good opportunity, and although up in class today in a Group 3.


Todays bets;


Mine - Captain Cat £20e/w @ 11/2 = +£137.50


Tipping Legends


5.05 Sal - Norse Star - £15 win  @16/1 = -£15

7.25 Chep - Ivanhoe - £15 e/w @ 5/1 = -£30

 Our Folly £15 e/w @ 7/1 = -£30

7.55 Che - Hopigetlucky - £15 win @ 20/1 = NR

4.10 Bev - Waterclock -£15 e/w @ 10/1 = -£30
 Kirkman - £15 win @ 5/2 = -£15


Small profit of £17.50 on the day, not much but better than a loss.

Day 2

Great start to the project with Tiger Lilly staying on very strongly to land a nice bet for me. I said that I had a feeling that Tipping Legends would finish the season strongly, and this was a fantastic start. I’ve followed the Jeremiah Catskill fronted service for a few years now, and although there are poor runs, like at the start of this season, overall you are going to make money using the service. Cheltenham this year was a particularly brutal time for the service.

 

The Darcy information wasn’t great again, and having been heavily backed at early prices, the horse drifted on course before running pretty poorly.  I might give this guy one more chance, but probably no more than that.

 

No horse bets today but decided to following the sporting life’s golf tipsters, there haven’t had a winner for a while, which probably means one is due.

 

Johns – SL

Made in Denmark

£6 e/w Mark Forster @ 50/1

£5e/w Hanson @ 125/1

£5e/w Pepperell @ 80/1

£7e/w Hatton @ 80/1

Total stakes = £46

 

Ben Coley-SL

Wyndam

£5e/w Stefani @ 80/1

£10e/w Stanley @ 50/1

£10e/w Laird @ 50/1

£30e/w Simpson @18/1

Total stakes=£110

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 1

Having had much thought my strategy for the rest of the year has been formed.  The main focus will be on keeping a disciplined approach to my punting, which an important part of which will be not watching any live horse racing where I’ve had a bet on. For me watching live brings emotion into the equation and then the potential for trying to win any losses back or increased bet sizes after a good winner. I’ll also be recording my bets, something which in the past has always been a struggle, especially after a bad spell. This should enable me to determine the strengths and weaknesses of my strategy and of course my overall losses but more hopefully winnings.

 

I’ll be starting this today, and will update my overall position weekly.

 

Today there were actually a couple of bits of information to get us started, a bet from Tipping Legends, who after a ropey start looks to be really ending the season strong, and a bit of information from a potential contact I am trialling from the Paul Darcy stable.

 

£22.5 e/w Tiger Lily @17/2 6.55 Notts (Tipping Legends)= +£220

£40 win Anastazia @11/4 5.25 Notts (Darcy) = -£40
 

Fingers crossed for a good start to my new strategy.

 

 

 

USGA AND Weekend Review

After much excitement my USPGA bets resulted in a 5.5 point profit, as McIlroy showed lots of bottle to win his 3rd consecutive tournament and his 2nd major of the  year in gritty fashion. It seems such a long time since that Rory collapse in the Masters.


Ironically after a tiring day including a difficult drive home from Yorkshire and an early start at work the next day I didn't watch the back 9 holes. It was such a relief therefore on Monday morning to see that the bet had been landed. A very nice start to this blog, and kind of made the thought of work a little more palatable than usual.


As I said previously I didn't have any additional bets over the weekend, and typically 2 of the tipsters I am monitoring/usually back had decent Saturdays. Ben Linfoot of the Sporting Life's value bet snared a 16/1 winner from 4 bets, whilst Tipping Legends had a profitable day with 3 winners as well. That's how it is though, and I enjoyed the weekend rest from punting as I visited a few of my old haunts in Wakefield for a few years.

The Weekend

Nothing much doing really this weekend except the bets already placed on the golf. It has been busy for the last couple of months so I'll be taking a break from betting for a couple of weeks.


Some times I can feel when I am due a bad spell and I can kind of feel that it is the case for me now, so I need to take a little time out to recharge the batteries. Otherwise I could see some heavy losses. Hopefully I'll get some returns from the golf, which hasn't started too bad for me.




Anyway, have a great weekend, and by all means post some comments on what you read.

USPGA Part 2

Just a couple of additional bets on the USPGA today which are;


2pt Gary Woodland top 3 finish @ 3/1
0.5e/w Gary Woodland top USA @ 33/1


As I said yesterday there won't be much activity after this weeks golf, as I take stock and build up towards the big York meeting towards the end of August 2014


The main thing I need to work on, are my sources of information and some kind of sensible staking strategy. In some respect this project is a little like me being a funds manager, investing in tips rather than stocks, and spreading my funds amongst several sources of information rather than different shares

USPGA Golf Bets

For the USPGA I decided to go with Keith Elliott's bets, for me a proven tipster in the Majors and one would brought me a couple of nice winners over the previous 18 months in Mickelson for last years Open and Duffner for last years USPGA. No winners from this years majors thus far, but he did tip up Fowler at 12/1 for top American in the Open. I wouldn't get every week on the golf, it takes too much money up, and to be honest Elliott hasn't done great in the week to week stuff, but the majors usually show me a nice profit.


Bets - Outright - USPGA


 3 points Mcllroy @5/1
0.5e/w Leishman@40/1
0.5e/w Matsuyama @50/1
0.25e/w Reed @ 80/1
0.5e/w Walker @ 50/1


Total points invested = 6.5 points.


Another decision I'd made on a busy day was to take a break from horse racing until the York festival on 20th August 2014. This weekend it was the horrendous Shergar Cup and there wasn't a great deal the weekend afterwards either. My strength has always been the big festivals and hence it was an easy decision to take a couple of weeks off, which would also give me time to work out a strategy.

Football Ante - Post

I don't usually like to bet my own teams, but I cannot ignore the prices on offer about Manchester United for this seasons Premier League. With a proper manager in charge this season in LVG, and at last a quality central midfielder in Ander Herrera, I think that the 5/1 available is massive. Another positive is no European football, and a promise from the Glazers that there won't be any early season money making friendlies to make up the European shortfall. The signs are already good with a great preseason tour in the US, with LVG looking likely to get the best out of last seasons underperforming players, Ashley Young looking a revelation as a wing back. Further signings aren't guaranteed, but if they come would be the icing on the cake.


3 points e/w Man Utd  - Premier League @5/1


On the same basis I'd take an interest in Wayne Rooney to win the golden boot, especially given that 9/2 favourite RVP is unlikely to start the season. Rooney has been prolific in preseason and the 14/1 is massive each way value.


3 points e/w Wayne Rooney - Golden Boot @14/1


Tomorrow I'll be looking to give my USPGA Golf bets...

Back again - August 2014

After probably 2 years away from the game, I've decided to bring back the Part Time Punters blog in 2014. Similarly to before I'll be blogging my punting life with a bit of background as to how my life goes as well.


I am from Yorkshire, but live in Manchester with my wife and Greyhound, I work as a Traffic Engineer, which isn't too bad, but my passion is for gambling. To be honest I've had mixed results though the years, and to be brutally honest its mainly been bad. I follow tipsters as well as backing my own tips.


At this stage my main punting is going to be on the bigger sporting evens, including the big race meetings, as the day to day racing tends to always lead to big losses for me. In sporting terms I love to have a bet on most sports, including Golf, especially the majors, snooker, darts and cycling.


Ok then, this week, looks mainly to be focussed on the last golf major of the year, the US PGA from Valhalla, with my information coming from a mixture of tipster Keith Elliott, and Paul Coley from Sportinglife.com. Horse racing looks relatively poor to be honest, although I currently follow Ben Linfoot, who usually tips up a couple of selections on a Saturday or at big meetings. I also use information from Tipping Legends (not been great this year) and Narrowing the Field. I am use you'll pick up the thread as we move along, hopefully in a positive way. Well, that's all for now, more posts to follow, on my renewed quest to leave the rat race and become a pro punter..