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[Houchens Head]

What do I expect ?

Yeah maybe you are right, on this forum I should have expected that some dick head would try and turn a conversation on lottery into an argument.

Dickhead? Me?

 

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[stupot07]

I won!!!! £2.80

 

[Otis]

Was that for 6 numbers and a bonus ball?

 

[Gaz]

If he's got £100 to just fritter away like that he should have got his butler to go and put the numbers on for him.

Grow up Otis.

 

[SkyBlueUkeman]

Just checked.

I didn't win. Shocker.

 

[Otis]

Grow up Otis.

Dear me, it was a joke. :facepalm::facepalm:

 

[Gaz]

Dear me, it was a joke. :facepalm::facepalm:

Again.

Grow up.

 

[Covstu]

Still haven't checked my tickets but would not spend more than a fiver and even that would be too much. I dont m d e odd couple of quid but anything more is silly, it's like the people who put a tenner on a 80-1 shot and expect it to win! There is a reason for the vast odds and smacks of desperation.

 

[Otis]

Again.

Grow up.

Touchy little bugger aren't you.

 

[Otis]

Still haven't checked my tickets but would not spend more than a fiver and even that would be too much. I dont m d e odd couple of quid but anything more is silly, it's like the people who put a tenner on a 80-1 shot and expect it to win! There is a reason for the vast odds and smacks of desperation.

:thinking about::thinking about::thinking about::thinking about::thinking about:

Grow up!!

 

[Sick Boy]

Why is 'gaz' so obsessed with that couple as well?

 

[Houchens Head]

Touchy little bugger aren't you.

Think he's a bit depressed coz he lost £100 on the lottery!
:jerkit:

 

[Otis]

If losing made me that angry I wouldn't have put the money on in the first place.

 

[Sick Boy]

He must be pretty loaded to put that much on though.

 

[Otis]

But apparently hasn't got a butler.

 

[Real]

He must be pretty loaded to put that much on though.

I bought 5 tickets for Friday's draw, with no return, oh well.

Over the years I've seen different friends and acquaintance's do fortunes. I saw an ex boxer from Coventry go £23,000 down one night in the casino, and end up winning £800.

Another friend of mine did £40,000 between the afternoon in the betting shop and by 4am in the casino. He was a bit naughty, hence being in a position to earn huge sums, but if he had a grand in his pocket he gamble a grand, if he had £20,000 he'd do £20,000. He'd be worth at least £2million if he wasn't a punter, but he's currently residing at her majesties pleasure and he will come out to no money.

I was in Blackpool last January with my cousin. We had a night out where too many Jäger's were drank, he went to the casino. He got over 4grand in front, before giving it them all back, and the money he had on him, which was about £1500.

Mug punters, that's why I take bets rather than gamble myself.

 

[Otis]

Were all their names Gaz too?

 

[Grendel]

Terrorist Alert!!!

This thread has been hijacked by A.T.O (Andy Thorn Out). We are a fringe group on a mission to turn every thread into an anti-thorn thread until our objectives of removing Thorn from our football club are achieved.

 

[Gaz]

Think he's a bit depressed coz he lost £100 on the lottery!
:jerkit:

Wouldn't get depressed as I only gamble what I can afford to lose.

So what's the real issue here then, Is it that someone else can afford to gamble £100 away and you don't like it.

Really don't understand your obsession.

 

[Otis]

It's just a bit of ribbing.

Personally, even if I was really well off I still wouldn't put more than a fiver on. In fact, if I was well off I wouldn't even bother with it.

People aren't obsessed. They are just ribbing you cos you lost £100. You can see that surely?

 

[rob9872]

I bought 5 tickets for Friday's draw, with no return, oh well.

Over the years I've seen different friends and acquaintance's do fortunes. I saw an ex boxer from Coventry go £23,000 down one night in the casino, and end up winning £800.

Another friend of mine did £40,000 between the afternoon in the betting shop and by 4am in the casino. He was a bit naughty, hence being in a position to earn huge sums, but if he had a grand in his pocket he gamble a grand, if he had £20,000 he'd do £20,000. He'd be worth at least £2million if he wasn't a punter, but he's currently residing at her majesties pleasure and he will come out to no money.

I was in Blackpool last January with my cousin. We had a night out where too many Jäger's were drank, he went to the casino. He got over 4grand in front, before giving it them all back, and the money he had on him, which was about £1500.

Mug punters, that's why I take bets rather than gamble myself.

You don't consider taking bets a gamble then? If you look at the Betfair results and you'll note that average odds starting prices pretty much represent their true worth and hence why it's such a hard game to make money on from either side of the fence, with the only real winners being the site themselves who take the commission.

Gone are the days when tissue prices were tentative as the markets are now pretty much set by the punters on Betfair and the other boys follow suit. Without inside info or luck, most are simply guessers.

Even the main chain betting shops struggle to turn a profit and are really there as breakeven (covering ovgerheads) with the profits coming from the virtuals on screen, lotteries and the bot terminals now in every shop.

 

[Houchens Head]

He must be pretty loaded to put that much on though.

EDIT: He must be pretty stupid to put that much on though.

 

[Real]

You don't consider taking bets a gamble then? If you look at the Betfair results and you'll note that average odds starting prices pretty much represent their true worth and hence why it's such a hard game to make money on from either side of the fence, with the only real winners being the site themselves who take the commission.

Gone are the days when tissue prices were tentative as the markets are now pretty much set by the punters on Betfair and the other boys follow suit. Without inside info or luck, most are simply guessers.

Even the main chain betting shops struggle to turn a profit and are really there as breakeven (covering ovgerheads) with the profits coming from the virtuals on screen, lotteries and the bot terminals now in every shop.

Of course it is, but I've made a good living at it over the years. There have been occasions when I've been stung, but I lay off any bets that will cost too much.

Most are simply guessers, and most punters tend to guess wrong, as you say, it's a gamble on both sides, but I know which side I prefer to be stood.

 

[Covstu]

But apparently hasn't got a butler.

Now who needs to grow up!

 

[Otis]

The butler? He's a small fella?