The Gambler

Where are they now?

The Sports Trader? The Betfair Trader? Berts Horseracing Blog? Life of Brain? Punt.com?

Why oh why have they all deserted me? Have they gone to a better place? Have they left the planet? What do they know that I do not?

Talking of whiches? Who is the funniest man on the planet? It is I. No-one else amuses me, so it must be me.

Come on you lot. Make me laugh. Do something funny. Like disappear. No swearing. At least Lord Lucan was a laugh. You lot are just boring.

Have a nice day. :-).

BLOG OFF.

If no-one else can be bothered to put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard then should I make the effort. You think I do this for my own entertainment? I do it to make your sad sorry lives a bit more bearable. The thought of BOTS moving luggage round Heathrow Airport, and him with a degree in "lifting things" fills me with dreadlocks.

As for those sad gits that do update their blogs and tell me they have just won two pounds and thirty four pence or just lost twenty seven halfpennies, give it up. Get a life.. Get a girlfriend. Get a job. Get off up of your bottom. No-one is interested in whether you lost your pocket money or not.

Anyone else want insulting? Gimme a shout. I'm your man.

Bog off the lot of you. Not even a comment.

Star Date 25-02-09 just after 6.10am.

Ch-ch-ch-chk like that noise they make on 24 when something important is about to happen like an advert.

We interrupt this post for a brief commercial.

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Ch-ch-ch-cke-chk-ch-ck-che-ck back to 24

Jack Bauer fed up of saving the world has decided to write my blog this morning.

We only have five minutes.

Wise that jack? 

We always only have five minutes.

Suddenly Doctor Who turns up.

Make mine a Cider and Blackcurrant.

We are surrounded by Daleks.

I feel compelled to engage them in a philosophical discussion. A sort of dialektics. Instead we have a quick game of three card brag. They go away crying as I exterminated them. They can't even shuffle, let alone cheat.

Yesterday. Cannot remember. We had dinner. Watched TV. Went to bed. Then these bloody daleks turned up and Jack ch-ch-ch-chk-ch-chk-ch turned up and started to try and run my life. Fortunately he only stayed five minutes.

Another bloody spaceship lands in the garden. This time I think it is the star ship enterprise. This is all getting out of hand.

How did that music go?

Today well it looks like I might have a few problems to deal with. Captain Kirk and his mates for breakfast. Loads of dead daleks all over the floor, and bleeding Jack Bauer and Doctor Who. I wish they would all go away and leave me and my brain to play games with each other.

Nannoo nannoo. Bye for now,

Hello.

Yesterday met a buddy in the morning.

Came home.

Watched a bit of tennis and stuff like that.

Popped out for early evening beer.

Made dinner.

Watched documentary about that well know gambler John Aspinall. Quite interesting.

Mrs G. was home late and she got up at some unearthly hour this morning. Hope to see her this evening at some point. Don't know where she gets the energy from. As they say "if you want something done, ask a busy person". She even moves quickly. I get tired just watching.

Today. God knows. Apparently it will be quite warm, but it's grey and miserable. Might pop out for a while. We shall see.

More tennis on later and football tonight. Inter to beat United?

That will do for now.

The blog is beginning to get a struggle.

This morning. Up early. Seemed to spend most of the morning sorting out dates with Mrs. G. Bit of planning, etc... Bath and brunch. Few more jobs. Walk. Pint. Pub full. Christening Party. They had booked another restaurant 40 people 30 quid a head, but when they turned up, the owners said " sorry we forgot". Oops one business just about to go under. Local pub came to rescue and knocked out a buffet. Very good atmosphere. Kids seemed to enjoy it as we have swings and a trampoline in our local pub garden. I just sat in garden soaking up sun. Nice day.

Came home. Helped make dinner. Watched a bit of football. That's about it. Desperately trying to do my blog before we start watching TV at 8PM.

Yesterday more of the same. Lunch down the Cross Keys. Very Good. Bit sun-burnt. Chelsea beat Villa 1-0. Rest of day bit blurry. Dinner. TV. Etcetera etctera.

Friday. Oh that is stretching it. Got involved in lunchtime conversation. Missed bus. Chinese meal. Slight disagreement with Mrs G. about the timing of the arrival of the chinese meal, but all sorted now.

Thursday was similar. My buddy turned up late afternoon, and we did a few jobs, putting up mirrors, etcetara, etcetara. Had to buy him a pint by way of thanks, which was mistake as pub full of buddies. Eventually extricated myself but it put me about an hour behind. All sorted.

Wednesday. Can you remember what you were doing Wednesday? I don't think I can.

Something about England nearly won cricket, but not quite, or was that Thursday? Phew.

Was going to write some stuff about all the sport coming up in the next few weeks/months but there is so much it seems like an impossible task,

Dubai Tennis tomorrow morning. European Cup Football all week. Chelsea to stuff Juventus. Cricket on Thursday. Golf on Sky WGC Matchplay. More football at weekend. Six Nations. Gis a break. Sports Nuts will be in seventh heaven. And then before you know it Cheltenham, Grand National, start of the flat season, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all. That's enough for now. Catch you all tomorrow. 

Catchup.

Yesterday Lovley day. Beautiful weather. That was probably summer.

Will post later as too busy again.

Gosh is it Saturday already?

What happened to Thursday and Friday, not to mention Wednesday.

Anyway it's Saturday today, and the day has started taking over already, so I shall have to update later.

Sun is shining. 12 degrees. Too nice to spend time blogging. Have a great day.

It's a Wednesday.

Good Morning. Well it's not really. It's grey, misty and looking a bit drizzly.

Yesterday morning. Set up new laptop.  Had a bit of lunch. Watched a bit of cricket. Spent most of rest of day assisting Mrs. G in my new found role as P/T Admin/IT assistant. Keeps me out of trouble. Another day without beer. The run is now three. Feel a lot better for it. Today will make four. Tomorrow might be a bit more of a challenge. May have to go to London.

Today few little jobs to do this morning. Bit of cricket this afternoon. Then a few more little jobs to this afternoon. Will probably stay in all day. Might  brighten up later. Could even go out for a short walk. Living in the country is different from the town. The weather seems to affect you a lot more in the country. No problem. Just settle down and get on with some jobs.

England doing quite well in the cricket. Will probably carry on batting till lunch and beyond and then declare. I see no reason bar the weather and the fitness of their bowlers why they cannot win, but the price of 1.49 is probably quite an accurate picture of their chances. Give me to something to watch in the background this afternoon.

Then dinner TV and bed. Bye for now. Apologies if blog is a bit boring today. It's not always easy to find something amusing or interesting to say. Perhaps if someone could make me a bacon sandwich, I could spend more time trying to find something funny to say, but I cannot so I shall to call it a day. BFN. :-).

Tuesday.

Have not blogged for a couple of days.

Sunday did not feel 100%. Part of the problem is I hate Sundays. They used to be my busiest trading day. Since giving up trading, I just don't know what to do with myself. When the weather improves, there will be more options available.

So Sunday I just watched loads pf sport and moped around the house. No appetite even. Only ate a bowl of cereal all day. Monday felt slightly better. Soup at lunchtime and sausages for tea. Watched more cricket in the afternoon. Plus side no beers for two days. Watched University Challenge and then Moses Jones. Did not really enjoy Moses Jones. Too violent and slightly morbid. Not exactly cheering TV.

This morning got up about 8am. Feel a lot better although this cloudy weather is a bit depressing.

Waiting in for a delivery. Then this afternoon more cricket. England in a good position to win this one. can they take 20 wickets in three days. I don't see why, but I am not sure I would bet on it a this point.

The cricket should entertain me for the next few days, although I may have to go to London on Thursday.

Trading Tips.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BetTrader

This might be of interest to some readers.

Personally I would not recommend this sort of trading on horse races.

It has one or two flaws which I have experienced over the years.

The market can move against you resulting in sudden losses.

This can lead to chasing.

It ends up getting incredibly boring. You probably have to watch ATR all day which is also incredibly boring, tedious and irritating.

This boredom can lead to gambling.

Before you know it you are betting to relieve the boredom.

If you are doing this in-running you are destined to lose bigtime.

And the purpose of the exercise is to make a couple of quid which would hardly buy you a pint of XXXX.

There has got to better ways of wasting your life.

Apart from this, it is an excellent effort by Adam to pass on his knowledge via "You Tube".

But be very careful before you try it yourself.

For small stake you can probably make a few pennies, but if you increase your stakes, you become a "player" rather than a "trader", and you end up gambling, losing, chasing and destroying your life.

Apart from that it is OK. :-).