3rd Test

If only I could have had a bet on someone missing a last minute kick. Oh well.

Every man and his dog is in uproar over Gatland dropping Brian O'Driscoll from the third test. I don't see where the problem is.

In the first two tests BOD has been penalised at the breakdown so much he has had to stay out of the rucks. He's also thrown two interception passes and in the last test he kicked away ball when the Lions were playing advantage which resulted in the Australians getting the ball back and ultimately scoring the winning try.

Had Roberts been fit I would imagine that BOD would have been in the first test and dropped for the second. I just hope that Jonathan Davies does something special to shut up the whingers.

Bets wise I'm going for the same as last week. Taking the draw at 20's with the handicap at Sky. Also on Folau to score first, this time, at 10's with Boylesport and also having a nibble on Lealilifano as man of the match at 16's on Ladbrokes.

Lets hope for another great game and hopefully the Lions come away, pride intact, today.

2nd Lions test

Last week went pretty much to plan. Halfpenny kicked well, Australia didn't. Sexton proved that with a decent outside half Oz are vulnerable. And the winger I picked to score was the only winger on the pitch who didn't. Fuck.

Onto this week and the Lions have made five changes. Phillips, who was poor in the first test, is dropped and Youngs comes in. Personally. I think he will do really well. Parling is in for the injured O'Connell which is a massive loss. Bowe replaces Cuthbert who can feel a little aggrieved having done nothing wrong in the first test. Vunipola replaces the injured Corbisiero and Lydiate starts at Blind side. Apart from POC's absence I'm not too worried by any of those changes.

Bets wise, Israel Folau at 9/4 with Ladbrokes to score a try anytime looks huge. He scored a wonderful brace last week and if he finds himself in any sort of space I can see him doing some damage. I've also had some of the 20/1 on Skybet for a draw with the handicap of Australia +3. Basically, Lions 23 - Oz 20 would equal a draw.

Can definitely see another close one, hopefully the game wont be won by a missed kick like last week but in all honesty, it probably will.

Laters.

1st Lions test

Can't wait for tomorrow.

Nothing like a Lions test to get the blood pumping. Must be amazing to actually be on the pitch.

Can't see anything other than a Lions whitewash. Wales run Australia close last Summer with Priestland at 10. I'm pretty sure Gatland could pick Tipuric at 10 tomorrow and he would do better than Priestland did last summer. If you take into account Pococks absence through injury then the Lions should have enough fire power to win.

I've had a few bets, Lions to win series 3-0, Lions to win tomorrow and over 7.5 Welsh players. I've also had Halfpenny for Man of the Match and Ioane, anytime try scorer.

The Ioane bet is down to Cuthberts defensive frailties. He seems to give one chance a game and always looks like he's flat footed when people run at him.

I might have a few more bets tomorrow, mainly try scorer bets and see if there is anything interesting I can do with Halfpenny total points. One things for certain, I'll be starting on the Cider quite early tomorrow.

Laters.

Summers arrived

Only in Ireland.

Moobs

Moobs sweating after a 30k bike ride in less than an hour. I know, I'm a fat bastard.

Xmas panto

I know it's a bit early but, Ken Barlow, Stuart Hall, Kevin Webster, Rolf Harris, Freddie Star, Jim Davidson. fuck me the prison panto is going to be great this year.

May the fourth

My cats are damn stupid.

I told them it was May the Fourth and now they're out the back garden fighting. Oh well, may the force be with you.

Wemberley, Wemberley,

I'm the not so famous Rubbish@poker and I'm off to Wemberley.

Now that the mighty Cardiff City have won their way to the promised land and there is no play off hell to sit through or no FA Cup nightmare or Carling Cup fiasco, what is a poor little Welsh boy to do. Do I really have to miss out on an annual trip to Wemberley. No I do not and here is why.

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The weekend and Cheltenham

The weekend was a bit of a washout. Watford losing cost me greatly along with Atletico Madrid who managed to lose at home for the first time in 13 games. Cardiff City last night screwed me of another £100. Cardiff can be layed at 1.41 to win the Championship which seems like good odds. They are not playing well and haven't for some weeks now. Apparently, they had one shot on goal last night which came in the 93rd minute. Not exactly the sort of form you want to win the league.

Had a decent first day especially in the first race. William Hill sponsored the supreme novices hurdle and for reasons best known by them went best price on the first five at a quarter the odds each way. I'm guessing they were looking for first time customers and also people punting heavily in their shops on the first race and staying in there all afternoon. I follow this site which, if you're interested in Horse Racing, you would be mad not to.

Their Horse Racing tipster, a certain legend called Mr Neil Channing, expertly called three of the first five home for a decent profit. This was followed up by some long odds each way bets that came flying in. Honestly, if you want to have a few winners this week then join this site immediately.

I'm on Ponte Alexandre today and you can get 2/1 with William Hill as I type this. Also on Maile de Bievre in the Queen Mother but that was placed last week when there was three placed. Today there is each way on the first two which probably makes it a no bet.

All the best guys.

February re cap

February wasn't too bad.

San Fransisco 49'ers was my big bet but with views starting to sway towards the Ravens I layed off a whack of my bet. Could have been a lot better but I managed to come away with a bit of green.

I made a steady profit throughout the month, although not Earth shattering amounts, with my Lucky 15/31 horse bets. Had a couple of three figure days but mostly the odd twenty quid here and there.

Football went well. Turned £10 into £300+ twice and also came close on a few outrageous bets. Had a correct score lucky 31 which would have had four up for £00,000's if the games had finished at 85 minutes and had another first half over 1.5 goals lucky 31 which was only let down by fucking Celtic. That would have been a decent four figure winner.

Still think I'm getting close to a big score on the horses and football. Maybe this month.

Poker has been a wash out. Haven't played since February 1st. Lost seven SNG's on the spin and lost interest. Fuck it. Might load some tables up tonight.

So there you have it. Any thoughts?

Good weekend

As the title says, it's been a good weekend. Wales won which is always a decent sign and then these landed-

If only all weekends were like this.

When your luck is in

Went to Les Croupiers on Friday night for the £20 freezeout which in now a rebuy. The fact you could rebuy made it play more like a hyper turbo with people going all in by level two with fuck all. I tried to make a couple of moves but with people getting it in light and missing every flop I was leaking chips quicker than Usain Bolt being chased by a pride of Lions.

I finally managed a double up when my flush got there against a smaller one and by the end of the rebuy period I had an average stack size. Nothing seemed to be going my way though and an hour later I was sitting at the cash tables after having to fold a few decent hands when I had missed everything and finally getting it in with bottom set against a bigger one.

When I joined the cash table there were three seats I could have sat at. I chose one for no ther reason than I could see the Television better, Within half an hour the two people who sat at the remaining seats were up over £500 in one and £200 in the other whilst I was down £50. This was playing £1 £1 NLHE. After rebuying for another £100 I managed to dust it all off when I thought I had the best hand with KQ on a Q82 flop and the guy who was up £500 took it all with the magical 82o. When your luck is in.

Deciding to call it a night I strolled past the roulette and had a cheeky tenner on a few numbers. One came in so I sat down and fired at a few more. After a while an Indian guy placed three ten pound chips on 0, 23 and 30 and 23 came in. I know because that was one of my numbers. The Croupier gave him £350 and he walked away leaving his tenner still on 23. Fuck me silly if it didn't come in twice more. So there I was sat with a couple of hundred which just about made me even for the night and opposite me, sat in front on no one in particular is £700. I decide to cash out and on my way to the cage I see the Indian guy and tell him he has £700 sat on the roulette table. I watch him walk over and pick it up and there's no fist pumping or anything just a wry smile. I guess when your luck is in you just get on with it.

I mentioned a couple of posts ago if anyone thought if a few pictures I had seen were real or not. I guess this one wasn't.

Wonder what the next thing will be that we are going to see on the top of that hotel?

Later.

So today

has been a good day.

Also had Huddersfield at 9's on Betfair. If only it was always this easy.

Weekend washout

Weekend was absolutely wank. From Wales getting handed their arse by Ireland to the 49'ers not getting it done in the Superbowl I managed to punt one loser after another. Onwards and upwards.

Can't work out if these are real or not? Let me know what you think.

This is supposed to be on the roof of the seven star hotel in Dubai. There doesn't appear to be any netting around the court. Makes it a long walk to get your ball back.

Swimming pool balcony's. Seems like a real dangerous and stupid idea or is that just me?

The Hoff in a Welsh shirt? Is that why we've gone shit so quickly?

Answers on a post card please.

WTF, I've been playing Poker

My old Computer blew up last year, probably in September but I cannot quite remember exactly when. So it was with heavy heart I trudged down to an indie computer shop and bought a new system. Fast forward five months and the gayest poker mincer on the planet whose blog is now invite only for some fucking reason runs a comp on RTR and I have to ship him $20 on Stars for it. That's when I realised I hadn't downloaded one single Poker site on my new computer.

After loading up Stars and trying a thousand possible combinations of what my Username and password could be I finally deposit £25 and ship him the dollars. A week later and the $19 I had left has now been spun up to $104 playing £3 and $7, 45 man turbo SNG's.

If I carry on at this rate I'll be a millionaire by October.

Here's a few hands I posted on RTR which I thought were quite interesting in a Steve Davis kind of way. Feel free to add a comment or even better, sign up with Raise the River if you already haven't and post on there. Hands 1 and 2, hand 3 and hand 4.

I'm quite happy with the way I'm playing at the moment, getting it in good and not tilting when the beats hit. I think the $7 games are quite good but the $3 ones are a coin flip in the later stages. Either that or I'm running good in one and shit in the other.

Whilst I'm on the subject of Poker, the APAT Worlds are on in March and a few of the RTR boys will be there. If you fancy going then here's the thread.

Will be back later to edit a few Football bets. Superbowl on as well this weekend so I'm guaranteed a decent win from that.

Laters.

Here's my bets for today.

On Watford and Rotherham over 2.5 goals for £25.

BTTS accy Newcastle, Fulham, West Brom, MK Dons and Stockport

Over 2.5 accy Fulham, West Brom, Ipswich, Watford, Rotherham and Stockport.

Lucky 15

The Bear trap 3.45 Fos Llas
Renoyr 1.00 Wetherby
Tweedledrum 2.45 Wetherby
Plein Pouvoir 3.00 Sandown

Lucky 15

Reading 2-2
Dusseldorf 1-1
Yeovil 1-1
Ross County 1-1

If the last one comes in then I'll be a happy man no matter what happens in the Rugby today.

Racing - it's all fixed.

I was in Chinatown in Cardiff today and happened to walk into the local bookies. Not being funny but how the fuck do you pick winners in these races. Talk about fixed.

Needless to say I did my bollocks. Never again.

Cloning, time travelling and human chameleons

Who knew these things were possible?

Well I knew about Dolly the sheep clone but hadn't realised we were cloning humans until this week. Even more surprising though was who was doing it. Not scientists or governments but Tottenham fuckiing Hotspur. That's right, the poor relations of North London, the great unwashed sexual deviants have taken a jump over the greatest team in the World (Arsenal) and have started cloning their players.

Obviously they haven't cloned any old player. Not even Spuds are stupid enough to take the field with eleven Adebayor's but what damage are they going to wreak when they get eleven of these on the field?

The first picture is the Mercurial Gareth Bale and the second is supposedly called Kenny McEvoy an Academy player. We're all doomed when they get the other eight clones on the pitch.

I always dreamt of time travelling when I was a kid. Who would I go back to meet? Would I travel all the way back to the beginning of time? See the Dinosaurs? And then when I was older it was more about going to the future and more specifically, looking at the next days football results.

Well, someone has managed to do just that and here's the proof.

What you are looking at there is a £250 (I haven't missed out a decimal point) correct score accumulator???

Another description would be that is a picture of £250,000 because that is what that slip is worth.

Who puts such a lumpy bet on a correct score accumulator? The only person I can think of is someone who already knows the results. Well played Mr Time Traveler, any tips for today?

Finally, Human Chameleons. This picture is proof they exist.

Laters.

Snow, more snow and Lance.

Been a quiet few days.

The snow has decimated horse racing and I haven't felt the love for anything else.

Had a nine team Acca busted when Barca decided to lose whilst in mourning for Pep signing for Bayern. Fuck knows what Robben is going to do now he has to pass the ball more than once a half?

Had a couple of singles, Leeds and Sochaux, which triple my £20 starting bet.

Also had the 49 'ers win on Sunday night which was great news for the Superbowl bet. Really wanted the Falcons to beat New England but as always, be careful what you wish for.The Falcons looked really good whilst San Fran struggled. Betfair has seen them hold steady at 1.6 ish which is pretty good news so I've layed a part of my bet off. I've still got the lions share of the winnings on San Fran but I may trade in running if Atlanta look like winning.

Had a cheeky little bet on Treviso against the Ospreys. The bet looked dead and buried until the Italians run in two trys in the last five minutes.

Other than that I haven't been up to much.

Watched Lance Armstrongs interview with Oprah. To be honest I can't see what the fuss is about. Personally I think the guy is a legend. I only ever rode my bike once whilst on drugs and I hit a dog and fell into a canal. Lance won seven Tour De Frances whilst ripped off his tits. Fair fucking play.

Anyhow, looks like Bradford just got to Wembley. Think the entire Villa squad should get drug tested for losing that tie.

Laters.

Horses for courses

Especially when you shop at Tesco's although you would have to be extremely unlucky to pick a Dessert with horse meat in.

Heard that Liverpool have sold Andy Carroll to Tesco's for an undisclosed fee.


I've had a tenner each way, first three win, on top scorer in the African Cup of Nations, I've gone for Zambian captain Chris Katongo at 33/1, Betfred now offer 40/1 if you fancy it. I will probably have another nibble later. He was joint top scorer last year and is also their penalty taker.

Picked a scoreline on all the FA Cup games last night with a view of trading in the last ten minutes of each game if that score was current. Was going to have 1-1 but changed my mind to 2-1 at the last minute. Only one game had that score though three of them would have been 1-1. Very small loss.

Today's horses (tomorrows main course) are:

Colour Squadron 1.20 New
Imperial Leader 1.55 New
Mountainous 2.25 New
Violin Davis 3.00 New

I've also got the latest betting on the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Will probably post later with some footie bets.

Weekend round up

I know, so hard to believe right?

All my little bets lost on Saturday but my one big one, the over 2.5 goal double came in for £150 profit and then San Fransisco 49'ers did Green Bay for my Super bowl bet. They now travel to Atlanta and are currently 3 point favourites.

Headed down the pub for Super Sunday and had a cheeky £50 on Man Utd at 1.97. Can't believe they went off at nearly evens against Liverpool. Am gutted I didn't put more on.

Bad couple of days on the Horses. Saturday saw a tenner loss and today I failed to get a single winner on my Lucky 15. Still think there's a big winner due soon.

Had £10 on Les Miserables to win best picture at the Oscars at 14's. Worse films have won and this is currently showing and fresh in the memory.

That's it for now, hopefully a better day on the gee gees tomorrow. I must stop following Chopras advice.

And now for the most important piece of info you need to know, Hanks back.

Love Californication.

Laters