Kingsley Bartholomew Tells Us Why You Shouldn’t Take Multis, and How the World Pool is For the Big Punters
This podcast by professional punter Kingsley Bartholomew is well worth a listen by punters large and small.
Belle on Drivers and Favorite Out Betting
Yep too slow was what I thought too Mind you I’ve always reckoned Dixon could lose a few pounds…….fat or muscle it’s not doing him any favours……..especially against the lithe bodies of Herbie and the other young gun drivers who also lean back to reduce the wind resistence and take a touch of weight of […]
Proof Positive That the World Pool is a Dud
The much vaunted World Tote Pool is a dud. All you need do is look at the odds in the four-horse Might And Power Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday to understand the truth of that statement. Treasure The Moment started at $1.65 with Ladbrokes and Neds. It went off at $1.30 on the World Pool. […]
Larry Gets Rolled At 20-1 On – Is it Any Wonder All Horse Players Die Broke?
If you thought Treasure The Moment being beaten at odds-on in a 4 horse field at Caulfield on Saturday was a shock, then you hadn’t seen anything yet. You had to head out an hour west to the trots to see the real deal in the super surprise stakes. Leap To Fame was chasing ten […]
Reece Walsh is God – Or Why Every Footy Punter Should Sleep Through the 1st Half of the Grand Final
Due to an internet banking problem (Maggie had changed the password and I didn’t know what the new one was) I was left sans dough to load up the betting accounts for a crack at the Grand Final yesterday, so figuring that the teams were so evenly matched that the game was too close to […]
Betting companies keep millions stolen from investors by ‘VIP’ gambler
By Steve Cannane of ABC Investigations, Mayeta Clark and Rory Callinan Aimee and Nick Mazza lost a quarter of a million dollars to online bookmakers without placing a single bet. Two years ago, the Mildura couple were approached by Anthony Del Vecchio, a financial adviser with Freedom Finance in Melbourne, who offered them an investment opportunity through high-interest term deposits. […]
Another Two Ways For a Punter to Do Their Dough – Add ‘Em to the List
Just when you think you’ve seen it, you see this. It was the favorite. It got worse. Despite doing everything he could to throw the race away the favorite won. Hung on by a nose it did. The win didn’t last long. It galloped over the line while the other lapped it. That’s a relegation […]
The Day of the Boof – Mark Currie Carves Them Up
Toowoomba trainer Mark Currie realized a long-held dream this afternoon by winning the Weetwood Handicap at his home track with Tavs, and then made it a feature race double when Cryptolini took out the Toowoomba Guineas. Both were outstanding training performances. Tavs, a NSW restricted grade galloper when he joined the Currie stable, was first-up […]
What the Punt Giveth, the Punt Taketh Away
This bloke’s got this freak $20 five-leg multi going for nearly 30 grand. He had Staggs to score the 1st, 2nd or 3rd try. Kotoni obliged. Then he had Walsh, Mariner and Weekes to score tries. Reece, Deine and Kaeo all went over for tries. Four legs down, one to go. And its the craziest […]
How Not to Win Your Future Mother-In-Law’s Heart
Luke Anderson was a stable hand aged in his early 20’s. He’d been one since he was 17. Working in and around racing probably wasn’t the wisest choice of career for the bloke. You see Anderson was a gambling addict. A pulsie (as in compulsive gambler); a punt junkie; a desperate; a broker. He used […]