[OT] Earning money with football accumulators

[Pheebs]

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This seems like gambling to me, correct me if I'm two wrong. I personally don't think gambling, however small the bet, should be seen as a way of earning money from home. Gambling can cause destruction to people's finances, family, mental health and lives in general. My worry would be that people start small, like this , and get pulled into bigger more risky bets as a result.

What do others think?

Yes, it's gambling.

I've been gambling for years. I spend a few quid each week and have won much more than I've lost overall. It takes a certain type of personality to become totally addicted to gambling and chasing the losses, but for the average person, it's just a bit of fun.

The key thing to remember is to never bet more than you can afford to lose. If you're going to be gutted at losing £1, £5, or £10, then simply don't gamble it. Also, if you lose, don't CHASE the money to win it back. This is when it becomes dangerous for those with addictive personalities.

As for this thread I think I'll join in and properly go for the little wins rather than lumping cash on an unrealistic 12 fold or something.

 

[ted]

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Really interesting thread.

Everyone finds their own style of betting. Some people I know do really well with high odd/small stakes bets which look really unlikely. That's football though & why we love it. Giant killing, last minute counter attacks against the run of play to steal a draw, a red card or an injury can change a game completely.

there was a point a while back I did really well with Both teams to score betting - some leagues can be really good for that - English Championship was great at one point. The odds on that seem to have dropped. The combined win/both to score bets offer good odds I'm sure though.

 

[muppetbaby]

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I like to start in the morning with, say, 50p on something quite likely to happen, for example I just now I've got 50p on over 1.0 first half goal line on the current Kashima Antlers v Guangzhou Evergrande game at 1.575 which will give me 79p back (currently 1-0, could cash out for around 60p but I'll let it run - at 1-0 the worst that'll happen now is a refund of my 50p). I'll then put that 50p or 79p on something at similar odds and so on throughout the day. Sometimes you lose, but you've basically only lost your initial 50p. If I get it up to a fiver, I start again with 50p.

I do accumulators at the weekend, but am terrible at cashing out. On Friday I was being offered around £8 off an 80p stake, I'd won all the games earlier and the last game, my selection was winning 1-0 with about half an hour to go. I decided to hang on and see if the cash-out value went nearer a tenner (I think I'd have got about £12 had I hung on until full-time), and the opposition scored twice in four minutes. D'oh! That's when I figured I should be thinking of it more as a strategy rather than gambling - I should have listened to Ray Winstone and "take the money and run" but I was a bit greedy thinking of an extra couple of quid rather than a profit of 10 times my initial stake, but I only lost 80p overall.

 

[qwerty]

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I like to start in the morning with, say, 50p on something quite likely to happen, for example I just now I've got 50p on over 1.0 first half goal line on the current Kashima Antlers v Guangzhou Evergrande game at 1.575 which will give me 79p back (currently 1-0, could cash out for around 60p but I'll let it run - at 1-0 the worst that'll happen now is a refund of my 50p). I'll then put that 50p or 79p on something at similar odds and so on throughout the day. Sometimes you lose, but you've basically only lost your initial 50p. If I get it up to a fiver, I start again with 50p.

I do accumulators at the weekend, but am terrible at cashing out. On Friday I was being offered around £8 off an 80p stake, I'd won all the games earlier and the last game, my selection was winning 1-0 with about half an hour to go. I decided to hang on and see if the cash-out value went nearer a tenner (I think I'd have got about £12 had I hung on until full-time), and the opposition scored twice in four minutes. D'oh! That's when I figured I should be thinking of it more as a strategy rather than gambling - I should have listened to Ray Winstone and "take the money and run" but I was a bit greedy thinking of an extra couple of quid rather than a profit of 10 times my initial stake, but I only lost 80p overall.

I've tried doing this. Following tip sites, I used to accumulate profit but eventually a favourite lets you down. Then those 50p's addd up.

 

[muppetbaby]

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I quite often bank my 50p half-way through, and I've built up a wee bank of teams I can usually count on for goals. The Czech U21 league is brilliant for goals. I rarely bet on a specific team to win or score though, usually just on there being a goal in a particular half or whatever.

I've stopped relying on tip sites and have my own particular teams I like to bet on now.

(also, I realise it's basically just gambling and you have to take the losses, which is why they're only ever small ones)

 

[robertogreenio]

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I've been doing the football accumulator almost every weekend for years - normally choose up to eight teams and never more than a pound stake.

Thanks for the tip on less teams will be looking into that maybe 50p on two sets 8)

 

[Jon]

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Right my 3 £1 lines for this weekend are

Line1
Swansea v Everton
6/4
Swansea

Sunderland v C Palace
11/5
The Draw

Tottenham v Aston Villa
6/10
Tottenham

Line2
Swansea v Everton
23/10
The Draw

Sunderland v C Palace
17/10
C Palace

Tottenham v Aston Villa
6/10
Tottenham

Line3
Sunderland v C Palace
19/10
Sunderland

Swansea v Everton
6/4
Swansea

Burnley v Arsenal
10/3
Draw

Am ready with that cashout button

Anything upwards of £3 is a positive!

 

[qwerty]

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You should add your returns next to the lines

 

[Jon]

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Let's see this weeks bets [member=318]Peter0_o36[/member]

 

[Pheebs]

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Tottenham - 8/13
Southampton - 11/20
Arsenal - 4/7
Everton - 21/10

Stake - £2
Potential returns - £24.39

 

[Jon]

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See I tend to always go for the lunchtime kick off game . Then I know if I have lost out early on and don't have to worry about it during the afternoon lol

 

[Peter0_o36]

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So here goes....

Line 1
Southampton @ 4/7
Southampton v Hull

Tottenham @ 8/13
Tottenham v Aston Villa

Arsenal @ 4/7
Burnley v Arsenal

Line 2
Swansea @ 31/20
Swansea v Everton

Middlesbrough @ 4/9
Middlesbrough v Rotherham

Ipswich @ 1/4
Ipswich v Blackpool Pending


Line 3
Arsenal @ 4/7
Burnley v Arsenal

Swansea @ 31/20
Swansea v Everton

Southampton @ 4/7
Southampton v Hull

Best of luck!

 

[Jon]

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Well my 3 bets all are falling apart a the scenes already lol

 

[Jon]

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phew - Swansea now drawing

 

[Jon]

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well 2 of my lines are out

1 left

Need spurs and palace to win now

 

[Peter0_o36]

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Swansea just taken two of my line out too

 

[Peter0_o36]

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I hope that you're all grateful to Jon and I for demonstrating the perils of gambling

Jon - Think we can take the thread down without anyone noticing? :-[

 

[Jon]

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oi - i've still got one line alive at the moment!

 

[Boom Boom]

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I've been doing football accumulators for a few weeks now and over the last 2 weeks I have made a fairly decent profit

It wasn't always like this

When I first decided to get into making £1 bets on the outcome of numerous games it was very much using a splatter gun approach.

My risk vs reward approach was completely out of whack. I was betting on 5 or 6 game results at a time without realising that the chance of that happening is very, VERY slim.

It was only after chatting to [member=573]Pheebs[/member] who has been doing this for a number of years that he taught me to keep to the number of games you are betting on to around 3, 4 at the max. You have a much better chance of winning and it makes use of the cashout feature that a lot of sites like BetFair etc use.

Pheebs taught me that if your cashout is decent mid game. So say I bet £1 on 3 games and my accumulator at its max would pay out £25 and it's currently sat at the start of the second half at £18/£19 that it's OK to press cashout. You've made WAY more than you have invested and you live to fight another week.

I tend to spend £4 a week on this, just on 4 £1 bets of 3 or 4 games. I try and stick 2 obvious wins in there and one that has a slightly less chance of
happening but will up the odds if I go for it.

Anyone else do accumulators to earn money online?

It always seems a long shot to me. However, someone I know places the same bet each week for his team to win 3-2 and ever since I have known him he has made money on each season.

 

[Jon]

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well all 3 of my lines lost

I could have cashed out and took a profit but stupid me I help onto the end and lost all £3 lol

onto next week