Day 6/7 Kenny

I forgot to put a bet on yesterday - oops!

So that means I must put a bet on at 5-1 or greater.

I've went with Spurs 2-0 vs West Ham for £4.06 at 15 something returning over £50 profit!

Highly unlikely - but still - It'd be awesome if it happened!

Day 5

Had a quid on 2-0 Man Utd, no good.

Balance is £10.21. Will have the bet wrapped up if Pacman wins early tonight.

Day 5 - Torrid

I put a £5 double on Liverpool and Stenhousemuir. OF course its no good, bringing my balance to £4.06 and a desperate situation.

Day 5.....back in business

Just the one bet for today and after starting the day on just £7.63 I knew I needed to make it count. My bet was £5 on over 3.5 goals in the Barcelona-Valencia match. Final score 4-0 Barca scooping me £7.66 and taking my balance to £15.33 and hopefully the top spot back after relinquishing it yesterday.

My Birthday Bet - Scott

It's my birthday so obv not got time to stidy anything cos drinking and shit so looked at the next market and picked the favourite....

19:50 Wolverhampton - Win Market BACK 9 Rag And Bone 2.59 £1.00

Kenny Day 4

For some reason I was only able to put a minimum of £1 on this treble:

1. Montpellier (19:00 Montpellier v Guingamp - Match Odds)

2. Troyes (19:00 Dijon v Troyes - Match Odds)

3. Fc Eindhoven (19:00 Fortuna S. v Fc Eindhoven - Match Odds)

anyway - Its 17-1 so lets hope it comes in shall we?

Day 4....... on the verge of tilt?

OK so I thought having a nice lead I would easily extend that by backing On Raglan Road in the Sandown 2.00 for £4 at 1.72 to win an easy £3. I should know better than to back a horse of Howard Johnson, a trainer with the most expensive yard of horses in the country, yet only one top class horse. Hasten to say the old dog Junior beat him and away went my £4. I then placed 50p on Quaddick Lake in the Sandown 3.40 at 24.0 but that one is still probably running as we speak!

So my next move and last bet of the day takes me to Germany for some Bundesliga action:

Tsg Hoffenheim to beat Bayern Munich at 5.80 for £2. (also putting some of my own cash on this)

The Troop's £10 Betdaq Challenge

Anyone nipping onto the blog over the last few days will be wondering what the hell is going on. Basically we're having a mini sports betting challenge where we start with £10 and have 2 weeks to win it alllllll! See here: http://thescooptroop.blogspot.com/2008/12/scoop-troop-betdaq-10-challenge.html

It's nearing the end of day 3 and everyone seems to be doing ok - well no one is bust yet!

Challengers edit this post with your end of day 3 balance in a league table styleeee!

-will should be ahead as his bet won.

1. Will £14.17
2. Scott £12.21
3. Kenneth £10.06
4. Dom 1.50

Wills Day 3 pick

After yesterdays tilt effort by Scott succeeding the pressure is on me to up my balance. Therefore today I placed a whopping £4 on Hamburg to beat Slavia Prague at 2.52. As it stands they are 1-0 up with 15mins to go. in which case my balance would be up to around £14. If not I'm down to £4 and scraps. Word out.

Scott - Day 3

Reference 522595618
Event 19:45 FC Copenhagen v Rosenborg
Market Match Odds
Selection BACK Rosenborg
£0.50 @ 6.8

Over (2.5) ((I/R) A Villa v MSK Zilina (Latest 1-2) - Under/Over - Goals (2.5)) - (Not settled)
Over (2.5) (19:45 Valencia v Club Brugge - Under/Over - Goals (2.5)) - (Not settled)

£1.50 Double

Kenny's Day 3

Seeing as though I'm in 2nd place at the moment, I think its time to get adventurous with a high odds bet:

(copy + pasted from BetDaq)

Reference 522538058
Event 19:45 Mansfield v Oxford Utd (Setanta)
Market Correct Score
Selection BACK Mansfield 1-0

Potential Profit £4.00

Dom's Day 2

Sorry I didn't get chance to post my selections up this morning. In truth, my picks were a bit rushed, I was tired last night and only had a quick skim and I got up late this morning, so I didn't have time to find much better. I took the worst of it odds-wise on a couple of them too.

Here's another shot at my Day 1 summary:

Here's what I had today:

19:50 Kempton - Casual Style - £0.87 @ 3.75 - Lose £0.87

I liked the look of this, though I know it's not usually sound to follow favourites at Southwell on the AW. I went for an 87p stake, I can't remember why. Watching th erace, it seemed to have a decent turn of foot but some other horse ran across it. It didn't seem brave enough then to go between the increasingly narrow gap. Given how comfortable the winner looked, I dunno if it would have got there or not, but I think it may have excuses.

Man Utd HT/FT - £1.25 @ 2.55 - Win £1.94

Was getting a little concerned about this, but Tevez broke the deadlock on 36 minutes, to a sigh of relief from me. He went on to get three more in a 5-3 win. Scoop!

Watford vs Spurs Over 2.5 - £1.26 @ 1.82 - Win £1.03

This was nailed on, for me. Most of the last few meetings between these have been ridic high scoring, Watford are awful at the back and through the team, Spurs have a dodgy goalie... if Spurs hadn't have been so wasteful today, it could have been like the Man Utd scoreline. I nearly took over 3.5 at a big price and am glad I didn't, as it needed a late goal for Spurs to secure a 2-1 win.

Commission: 6p

Balance at the end of day 2: £8.42

Hopefully these pics will work this time.

Day 2 - Scott

End of Day 1 balance: £6

Only one bet today for me....

19:45 Standard Liege v Sampdoria - Match Odds BACK Standard Liege 2.44 £6.00

Gonna ship it all.

Kenny - Day 2

After failing to win against burnley, I may never back arsenal again.

Balance at the start of Day 2: £8

Todays bets: £2 Double on Man Utd (win) AND Under (3.5 goals) Tottenham v Watford.

If this fails I'll have to start 50p betting. A win will see me over the £10 mark.

The leader of the packs day 2 selection

I had a good look at todays racing and nothing really struck me as a good bet except the below:

2.05 Fairyhouse- Merry Cowboy - £1 @ 7.6

My balance before this bet was £10.39.

Possibly some football picks to follow later.

Tonight's winners for the winner

19:45 Burnley v Arsenal (Sky) - Asian Handicap (+1) BACK Arsenal (-1) 2.49 £3.00

19:45 Stoke v Derby - Correct Score BACK Stoke 1-0 8.2 £0.50

19:45 Burnley v Arsenal (Sky) - Half-Time/Full-Time BACK Arsenal - Arsenal £0.50

The adventure begins

Ok so you will have all got the smacktalk texts from me last night and I mean business. I plan on playing sensible for the first couple of days but may end up throwing in a £5 bet by Friday if results don't go my way.

I have placed a 50p bet on Arsenal to win 2-0 at 9.5 as my first bet.
For my second bet I have £1 on Under 2.5 goals in the Stoke - Derby Game.

Will post my balance tommorow once the winnings for the above are both paid in ;-)

Challenge Accepted

I've got my £10 in - and it isn't lasting long!

a £1 bet on trap 2 at Perry bar was unfortunately no good.

My saving grace might be if Arsenal win today, I'll finish at £9.84
If they don't - I'll be £2 down!

£10 Challenge - Dom's Day One

And they're off!



I had a little look at the racing last night, there's not a huge amount on but one took my eye at a good price. Spic 'n Span in the opening race of the day, the 11.50 at Southwell, looked huge at 6.3 so I broke out the ATR video archive. I wasn't hugely impressed with the front two in the market, Maid Of Ailsa and North South Divide and Spic 'n Span has some C&D place form, though is yet to win. As the place and e/w terms weren't available last night, I stuck 50p on to win and woke up to discover that a withdrawal had left my odds reduced to 5.86, but that's not so bad considering you can only get 3.9 as I type! I have decided not to back it to place, as it's hardly worth wasting one of my three bets, especially given the market move.

I also knew that Arsenal travelled to Burnley for the Carling Cup, as I changed the football display in the window at work yesterday :D I opted to put 4-0 to Burnley, which is 33/1 with William Hill, but I won't be backing that in the challenge. I will be half-rolling it on the Arsenal win though, as they had way too much for a Sheffield United side that was admittedly missing a couple of key players, but that was essentially full strength. I feel we're better than Burnley and it scans that the Arse shouldn't have a huge problem, even at Turf Moor.

For my third bet, I've gone for an early tilt at glory, with a £1 (min bet with Betdaq multiples) treble:

Satwa Street (14:00 Lingfield)
Titan Triumph (15:00 Lingfield)
Arsenal to win (19:45 vs Burnley)

The odds on that? 20.72!

Good luck, ladies.

Scoop Troop Betdaq £10 Challenge

I will be joined by fellow Scoop Troopers Will, Ken and Dom in a small sports betting challenge to run for 2 weeks which should be pretty comedy. Rules and details below. If I miss anything or make mistakes then someone point them out asap.

1) The challenge will run from 00:01 on the 2nd of December and conclude at 23:59 on the 15th of December.

2) All players must deposit £10 into Betdaq. Betdaq has been chosen over Betfair as the min bet on Betdaq is 50p compared to Betfair's £2.

3) Each player must place between 1 and 3 bets on each day of the challenge on any of the markets available on Betdaq. Players who do not bet on a certain day must bet their remaining balance the following day on something 5/1 or bigger.

4) The aim of the challenge is to make as much profit from the initial £10 as possible.

5) Prizes: The person with the largest balance on Betdaq as at 23:59 on the 15th of December will be declared the winner. The winner wins 100% of the remaining players' Betdaq balances.

6) Players must post evidence of their balance and bets as much as possible.

Game on bitches!!!