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Irish Diamond wrote:Got an accumulator on Holland, Cameron and a Ghana-Aussie draw.

Also a couple of quid on Eto'o grabbing a brace.

Going well so far, although I can see tonight being a bore draw.

woody wrote:

Irish Diamond wrote:Got an accumulator on Holland, Cameron and a Ghana-Aussie draw.

Also a couple of quid on Eto'o grabbing a brace.

Cameron has already won...................and formed a coalition government :lol: :lol:

Interesting choice of colour there.

1-0 Cameroon and it's Eto'o as well. Go ID!

I wish I had had money on New Zealand..............WHAT A GAME!

So folks how are all your 'multi facetted' bets coming along?

I've had a couple of let downs, but on the whole pretty much on track to outdo my last two (Last World Cup and the last Euros)

Rafa winning today at Wimbledon, Brazil, France, Italy and Argentina all gone home - Pity about England, that could have doubled any pay outs. Cameroon bless them, helped as well. So three more moves in this chess game, two at the World Cup and one at Silverstone next weekend. Which ever way it goes the 'safety pot' looks ok..... the heart over head pot (the long shots) looks a little less cast in stone.

woody wrote:So folks how are all your 'multi facetted' bets coming along?

I've had a couple of let downs, but on the whole pretty much on track to outdo my last two (Last World Cup and the last Euros)

Rafa winning today at Wimbledon, Brazil, France, Italy and Argentina all gone home - Pity about England, that could have doubled any pay outs. Cameroon bless them, helped as well. So three more moves in this chess game, two at the World Cup and one at Silverstone next weekend. Which ever way it goes the 'safety pot' looks ok..... the heart over head pot (the long shots) looks a little less cast in stone.

Care to tell us what you've predicted? ;)

Irish Diamond wrote:

woody wrote:So folks how are all your 'multi facetted' bets coming along?

I've had a couple of let downs, but on the whole pretty much on track to outdo my last two (Last World Cup and the last Euros)

Rafa winning today at Wimbledon, Brazil, France, Italy and Argentina all gone home - Pity about England, that could have doubled any pay outs. Cameroon bless them, helped as well. So three more moves in this chess game, two at the World Cup and one at Silverstone next weekend. Which ever way it goes the 'safety pot' looks ok..... the heart over head pot (the long shots) looks a little less cast in stone.

Care to tell us what you've predicted? ;)

No, not going to temp fate on the last three. However, as many of these bets were placed over a year ago, with some win money getting split on wins for the 'safety pot' and the other percentage going into the playing money pot.

I had Rafa to win Wimbledon and hoped Spain could do the same (still ongoing with little top ups as events took over)but wasn't that confident to use heavy money.

I predicted Cameroon first to pack their bags, with FRANCE & ITALY getting bounced early. England was hopefully a banker instead of the wanker. I also predicted that Argentina & Brazil would not get to the final (thats opposed to going home early)

Players wise I predicted Messi & Torres wouldn't score more that two for the tournament. I nearly got ALL four finalists would be European (bugger). Rooney I had down for over six (Thanks Wayne). I still have the Golden Boot Winner in my sights and final score plus British GP winner.

This time I seem to have miss predicted a few, but made up for those losses with better odds on the 'off the wall' ones

The early bets were reasonably small, but as both pots started to fill at different rates, it allowed me to SPECULATE on some of the smaller stats like amount of penalties, corners sendings off etc

Its made it great fun, especially when England went home

Not a bad tournament, had Slovakia and South Korea get through to the round of 16 at huge prices, and let them stick rather than trade off, for the dream (both suffered only one goal defeats, and SK could have easily won and then beat Ghana!).

Uruguay still going for me, but my bigger bets on the Argies and Brazil were a let down. Never thought Argies would win because of their defence, but I didn't take Germany seriously enough, Brazil I thought would win it all, and on them I was wrong. Chile also made it through, but their open style was too open.

My only regret was having a saver on Italy and not Germany. Was a straight-up choice between the two, and without Ballack, I bought into the nonsense that the talented Germans would not have enough experience, forgetting that it is the DNA for them to do well.

Made a good wedge going against the French pre-tournament (Uruguay for the group) but put most of that back laying Japan against bloody Cameroon. South Korea to beat Greece also was easy enough.

Overall, not bad, but could do with Uruguay causing a shock on Wednesday!

It's been a bit 'meh' for me. Slightly up but as I always find with major tournament betting I get bored quickly and rarely put any on after the quarter-finals. The tennis and MLB has been much nicer to me recently.

I had a nice price on US to qualify and a small bet on them to top the group plus I heavily backed them to beat Algeria and that goal was a very nice addition. Ghana qualifying annoyed me though, I was on no African team to qualify. Oh and I'm still pissed off that I didn't think about backing Klose as top scorer since he always score in WCs, went for Higuain instead and that was looking ok until Germany bent them over and had their way with Argentina. My last standing bet is Uruguay to beat Holland, however without Suarez I think it'll be a difficult task. It's more a 'hope' bet than anything else.

Thats done my roll up a power of good!