TAKING the bookies to the cleaners-Your best punt...

[scooter1]

Trap 6 at Hove Corals, last race on a Saturday night a few years back. On a stag do we all chipped in, totalled about £300. It must have been about 6/1 and we took a trackside bookie for just over 2 grand including our stake. No form was studied, we just agreed on trap 6. The guy looked thoroughly pissed off when we sent the stag down dressed as Bo Selecta Scary Spice to collect the winnings

 

[TonyW]

A few years back, John Part had just won the Las Vegas darts classic yet Bet 365 still had him 50-1 for the World Championships in the December/January. They paid for my Christmas that year.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

A mate of mine once crashed his car into a vehicle driven by a dodgy geezer in the racehorse training business. He tried to plead not guilty to a charge of careless driving, so had to turn up to a magistrates court hearing. He was found guilty, but the other driver helped him out by giving him the inside information about a horse that was running the next day, after a series of - how shall we say? - surprisingly disappointing performances. My mate easily covered his fine with a winning bet at 40/1. And the rest of us all did rather nicely out of the information.

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

Sunderland to beat Newcastle 3-0 away last season.

Got 100/1 on Betfair exchange. £5 on. Thank you very much

All because I had a strange feeling!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Won about £1500 on the Albion in the double Championes season, multiple bets, some win only, some each way, all at a big fat 25/1

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Amazed the name Darren Ferguson hasn't come up yet.

 

[Ernest]

Amazed the name Darren Ferguson hasn't come up yet.

Exactly for every nugget of information there are 100 Billy Bullshitters tipping rubbish on here.

 

[Stat Brother]

The trick is to only be bullish about sports the majority know diddly about.

 

[atfc village]

A few seasons back Weymouth v Rushden ,Weymouths squad had walked out on the Friday Night.They fielded a Team of youth Players ,Rushden were at 2pm on the Saturday still 9/2 at the bookies £200 on Rushden who won 9 0 happy days.

 

[atfc village]

So it was - though it was 3-1 not 2-0. From memory I think Wayne Rooney made his debut as one of the 11 subs.

Franny Jeffers scored that night for England before squandering his career away.

 

[Ernest]

The trick is to only be bullish about sports the majority know diddly about.

Absolutely, you've hit the nail on the head.

 

[melias shoes]

2009 Grand national Mom Mone 100/1. £10 on it.

 

[pastafarian]

if you are after an educated punt and can count to at least 3
watch the odds for "in play" cricket,sometimes they fluctuate massively and you can quite often get all options covered.Works much better for a 20/20 game than a test.

 

[mlg57]

Got a free £40 bet a few years ago when I joined William Hill, so I put it on a 40-1 outsider and it won!!! £1600 for £0 stake, superb!

 

[darters74]

Had a £5.50!!! double on Newcastle to win the Championship (5-1) and Notts County to win League 2 (14/1) a few years back - paid £495.

Once had £200 on Chelsea to win away at Wolves when Wolves went up to the Premier League at 8/15. Chelsea won 5-0 but when John Terry's goal was disallowed after 9 mins I was cr@pping myself. My highest ever bet apart from that is £20. Just thought the price was way too good to miss out on.

Years ago when I used to bet minimum stakes on 1st goalscorers, I saw one weekend someone I'd never heard of at the time called Gabriel Zakuani had scored the previous week for Leyton Orient and he was still 50/1 with bet365 1st goal for their next game. After I'd put £2 on, I then read he was a 17yr central defender! But he came up trumps for me!

 

[armchairclubber]

Backed Nairo Quintana after some impressive early season form this year @125/1 ew for the tdf

 

[The Optimist]

My best odds win was 66/1 on at least 5 goals (or possibly 6) being scored in a game between Wycombe and Brighton at Adams Park. It was our second game there that season and Wycombe were leaking goals in all their games.

I know a guy who won about £10k on Milan Baros being top goalscorer at the Euros.

 

[Sheebo]

A few years back, John Part had just won the Las Vegas darts classic yet Bet 365 still had him 50-1 for the World Championships in the December/January. They paid for my Christmas that year.

Beat Kirk Shepherd (how he got there I'll never know) in the final I believe...

 

[227 BHA]

Got the Albion at 25-1 the day Bobby signed before the bookies realised what we'd got back in the Championees season. Winnings paid for our season tickets for the following year plus £50 over which we put back on and we all know what happened the following season!!!
Never backed us again til last season when I lost £40 so I reckon I'm still about a grand up on the bookies as I never bet on anything else not even the national.
Back on this year with £20ew at 16/1 and a tenner on Ulloa at 20's so hoping to make it 3 out of 4

 

[spig100963]

£2 on McShane / 1-0 scorecast @ 285/1. Shared with a thread on here before the game, and taken up by half a dozen others, including Turkey and afters.

And an extra £1 @ 40/1 just on the FGS.

I have the video of that goal and have watched it a few times. Still not convinced it was not an own goal. So you may have been luckier than you first thought.