Won £60 with Bale scoring the third goal for Wales. Free sky bet £10 at 6-1. For a first time (and cautious) better I'm very happy!☺ Please post your best successes.
Had a few 40/1 and 50/1 bets. Won £425 on Spain v Turkey with Morata to score first and Spain to win 3-0. £12.50 @33/1 so £425 return. My girlfriend picked the bet, so she has some uses
All those successful bets - it's a wonder there are any bookies left in business...
Yeah well, he didn't ask for losses. Maybe he should have! It would be illuminating (for us and them) to ask people to post up their accumulated losses each year.
Me, I go to the gee-gees maybe once a year. Set myself a maximum bet per race, usually a tenner and just treat it as the costs of a day out. It means I lose £60 per meeting!
But I also see buying shares as gambling. I've had some terrible loses on that! But not only am I way up overall I get the dividends and don't lose all the money before bailing out. (Well, not often.) My best "bets" (both still active) were £7k now worth £53.8k and £1.5k now worth £17k.
My biggest ever win was five years ago on the horses, a Buick/Dettori ante post double netted me just over £6,100 for a £10 wager .. BUT over the years like most 'gamblers' I am slightly down .. the enjoyment far outweighs the 'pain' of losing as I never wager more than I know that I can afford to lose
EDIT: Incidentally, this was an online bet .. 2 hours after the win and my withdrawal of funds, the bookie concerned closed my account ... but far too late for them of course (:>)
Couldnt forget about it all day so put £10 on Spurs beating Inter Milan 3-1 with van der Vaart scoring 1st (the 'Taxi for Maicon' game) in the CL at 50/1. Pavlyuchenko scored the 3rd in the 89th minute. My heart nearly stopped in injury time when Bale put him through again.
Dont think I've won anything since apart from the odd £50-60 here and there.
My biggest ever win was five years ago on the horses, a Buick/Dettori ante post double netted me just over £6,100 for a £10 wager .. BUT over the years like most 'gamblers' I am slightly down .. the enjoyment far outweighs the 'pain' of losing as I never wager more than I know that I can afford to lose
EDIT: Incidentally, this was an online bet .. 2 hours after the win and my withdrawal of funds, the bookie concerned closed my account ... but far too late for them of course (:>)
Exactly right Lincs. For me it's just a bit of interest. Only bet what I can afford to lose and never ever chase a win to cover a loss.
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12,000-1 to a 5p stake = £600
Webster and Mills - both 40-1 first goal scorers.
Most on a football accumulator was £1230.
On a first goalscorer £20 on Gary Rowett first goal scorer in the 2nd half @40/1.
sMe, I go to the gee-gees maybe once a year. Set myself a maximum bet per race, usually a tenner and just treat it as the costs of a day out. It means I lose £60 per meeting!
But I also see buying shares as gambling. I've had some terrible loses on that! But not only am I way up overall I get the dividends and don't lose all the money before bailing out. (Well, not often.) My best "bets" (both still active) were £7k now worth £53.8k and £1.5k now worth £17k.
EDIT: Incidentally, this was an online bet .. 2 hours after the win and my withdrawal of funds, the bookie concerned closed my account ... but far too late for them of course (:>)
Couldnt forget about it all day so put £10 on Spurs beating Inter Milan 3-1 with van der Vaart scoring 1st (the 'Taxi for Maicon' game) in the CL at 50/1. Pavlyuchenko scored the 3rd in the 89th minute. My heart nearly stopped in injury time when Bale put him through again.
Dont think I've won anything since apart from the odd £50-60 here and there.