Researching bookies boosted bets. Are they really value or just a way of getting you to part with your money
The Punchestown Festival gets underway today and as SkyBet seem to want to give money away on their boosted bets of late I thought it rude not to take them up on one of their boosts in the 15:40 where they are paying out on 7 places instead of 4 if there are 18 or more runners. The boost is Scholastic placing at odds of 2.0 This is entirely an impulse bet and can’t do any worse than that damned Melbourne team not even being able to score in the second half earlier!!!
Week 6 was infinitely better than week 5 with a clean sheet as far as the qualifying bets go
Bet 1 Was Leeds v Liverpool on Monday 19th April and was BTTS “Yes” placed In-Play 22 minutes into the game at odds of 2.0 – Won £5.00
Bet 2 was a “Half Time/ Full Time” Bet in the Aston Villa v Man City game which again was placed at 2.0 on “Away/Away” which also won £5.00
Bet 3 was a SkyBet Special where they boosted Mo Salah to have 1+ shots on Target from 1/8 to Evens) – he scored in 3 minutes flat – Another fiver>
Bet 4 was tense. The Soccer Saturday Price Boost featured Watford, Barnsley, and Norwich all to win boosted from 5.0 to 7.0. Barnsley held on after scoring after 2 minutes right up until 98th minute where Rotherham had an unprecedented 16 shots of which 7 were on target. Never has my finger hovered over the cash out button as much 😰😱 My nerve however held and paid off with a £30.00 Profit
Bet 5 went back to good old nearly reliable BTTS “Yes” in the Reading v Swansea game getting 11/10 (2.1) making me another £5.50
This gave me a total Profit on the week as £50.50
On Sunday I stuck £5.00 on to get a matched free bet on the Man City v Spurs game just before half time at odds of 4.0 (3/1) and as everyone knows Tottenham failed to turn up to the game – £5.00 loss but an extra £5.00 free bet
Bet 1 it should be noted was a “Game of two halves” where SkyBet will give a £5.00 fre bet if you bet £5.00 cash in-play
So in summary £15.00 in free bets added this week and a Total profit of £45.50 for the week making a campaign total profit of £32.22 when I take previous losses into account.
For those of you who are just joining this series of bets I am placing 5 bets per week of £5.00 with SkyBet at odds of 2.0(evens) or better to earn a £5.00 free bet each week to use in next years Cheltenham festival. I already have £75.00 and this is just the start of week 7.
Bet No 1 this week is an In-Play bet of £5.00 at odds of 2.2 in the Sydney v Melbourne Victory game this morning. Sydney scored first in 6 minutes but there was no other score upto half time. Melbourne have had 2 shots on target so far and time is running out. With luck they will net the ball in the second half. With the exception of the Melbourne City game they have scored in the other 3 of the last 4 away games as they have scored their most away goals in the second half in the last 15 minutes of the game.
Back to Australia this morning and its Newcastle Jets being Hosted by Western Utd
BTTS “Yes” will be the bet and Newcastle have already scored but it was in their own goal after 12 minutes (Bit clumsy that)
So after 56 minutes the odds have reached 1.95 just a couple more minutes ……
After 60 minutes the odds have reached 2.10 so stuck my quid on
Newcastle now have 30 minutes to score at the correct end !!
They have scored in 7 out of their last 8 games and have scored in all of their last 4 away games – confidence is high.
Contrary to what I tweeted last night I will not be placing the final bet on the carabao cup this afternoon as I am working nights and would have had to wait up to place the bet in play to get the odds. I have however placed the qualifying bet on the Reading v Swansea game at 2.10 in play at a stake of £5.15 (the 15 p is just to tidy my account balance up and round it to a nice round figure 😁)
As I write this Reading have just scored – half way there already 👍🤞🤞💰
Moving on from my outstanding victory in Australia I have dared to wait 5 minutes into the Reading v Swansea game as I believe that both teams will score.
Dumped my entire account balance on BTTS “Yes” 😁🤑🤑
Starting with just 21p in my account after a couple of bad investments I was watching the Wellington Phoenix v Adelaide Utd game and decided that “beat the drop” was weighted in Paddy Powers Favour so I will be doubling or busting. At half time with the score at 0-0 and a lot of “requestabets” featuring BTTS took the plunge and staked my whole Bankroll on BTTS “Yes” at 2.4. 😁
SkyBets Soccer Saturday Price Boost is bet 4 this week with Watford Barnsley and Norwich all to win
Watford host Millwall today and have a 100% home “Win to Nil” record from the last 4 games and have accrued 53 pts from their 21 Home games. In contrast Millwall have earned themselves just 31 pts from the same number of away games. When playing Millwall at home Watford have won 4 out of the last 5 games only drawing 0-0 in November 2012.
Barnsley are at home to struggling Rotherham and will be pushing to get a play-off place and a win today will see them level on points with Bournemouth. Having won 5 of their last 8 games this shouldnt be too much trouble for this in-form side. Rotherham’s abysmal form has seen them lose 5 times from their last 8 games pretty much sealing their relegation. Barnsley have won all 3 of these two sides previous meetings in the championship league winning 4-0 in the only home fixture and conceding a total of just 1 goal in all three games.
The only away side in this treble is League winners Norwich City who are being hosted by 8th place Q.P.R. If Norwich win today it would be their 8th consecutive away match without defeat, and having scored in 81% of their 21 away games they have only lost 4 games all season 3 of them being to teams in the top 5 of the league.
This boost has been available for some time but I have been waiting for the team sheet to come out.
Salah has an average of 3.6 shots per game and an average of 1.5 shots on target per game achieving at least 1 shot on target in 12 of his last 13 starts.
As a follow on to the post earlier (Virgin Bet Fives of the Week Specials.) I have summarised the players and bets to see what, if anything, would have been Won!
Player 1
Adama Traore
Shots 3
Shots on Target 0
Goals 0
Player 2
Jarrod Bowen
Shots 3
Shots on Target 2
Goals 0
Player 3
Edinson Cavani
Shots 1
Shots on Target 1
Goals 1
Player 4
Mo Salah
Shots 2
Shots on Target 0
Goals 0
Player 4
Alex Lacazette
Shots 2
Shots on Target 0
Goals 0
The total Shots on target by all Players was 3
The total Goals by all players was 1
The bets were as follows
“Fives of the week to each score one or more goal” 150/1 – Lost
“Fives of the week to each have one or more shots on target” 4/1 – Lost
“Fives of the week to each have one or more shots on target” 100/1 Lost
“Fives of the week to score over 2.5 goals Combined” 13/10 – Lost
“Fives of the week to score over 4.5 goals Combined” 13/2 – Lost
“Fives of the week over 8.5 Shot on Target Combined” 7/4 – Lost
“Fives of the week over 10.5 Shot on Target Combined” 5/1 – Lost
Not a single winning bet out of the 7 available
I will be watching out for this weeks email and do a bit of research this week and post it before the first relevant game.
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