Tophatters World cup wallet

[tophatter]

Decided to treat mysely to a £100 bank for the world cup. I will post my bets on this thread with their stakes.

9/06/06

Germany v Costa Rico

First game matches are noitoriously tight in the world cup and anyhow I believe intenational football itself is a game where its not that easy to score lots of goals. Im banking on it been something lika a 1-0 or 2-0 game and am laying 3 goals or more.

Goals scored market

3 goals or more. LAY £5.00 @ 1.84 on betair

[tophatter]

:laugh

Thats a good start isnt it?

Attrocious defending by both sides.

[presto]

at least it's a good game to watch TH :)

[tophatter]

Yeah it is, and im only betting for fun to give me an intrest. If I finish the month with a profit of anything I will be happy.

[tophatter]

Strike rate: 0/1 = 0.00%
Current bank £95.80

10/06/06

Argentina v Ivory coast.

We have had the shock result today with T&T holding Sweden and i can't see Argentina not winning this. However Im not sure how easy it will be as Ivory coast could prove awkard opponents. Im going to play the halftime/Full time market and go for these two bets.

Argentina/Argentina £10.00 @ £2.82
Draw/Argentina £5.00 @ 5.4

[tophatter]

I thought that would be a bit of a tough game but Ivory Coast were even tougher than I expected. Got a return in the end anyhow and that is what matters.

Strike rate: 1/3 = 33.33%
Current bank £109.00
Pofit/(loss) = +£9.00

[John]

Nice one TH - that puts you in profit. :D

[tophatter]

Cheers John, traditionally I have always done badly in these summer football tournaments. I can remember a copa America game when I bet on Brazil to beat Ecuador I think - it was someone like that. It was a draw! I also backed France to beat Senegal last time out so Im well aware that tonight could have gone against me. Hope I can turn a profit in the next 4 weeks or so :)

[tophatter]

12/06/06

Australia v Japan

This game should be Australias but as it is their world cup debut Im going to play it a bit safe and lay Japan instead.


As Australia are known as a physical team and the Japanese are fast and fit, I wonder if an Aussie might go to ground and mistime a tackle more than once and so will have a wager on them picking up first card.

LAY JAPAN £5.00 @ 3.35

AUSTRALIA TO RECIEVE FIRST CARD £5.00 @ 1.9

[tophatter]

12/06/06

Czech v USA

Lay Czech Republic £5.00 @2.00


Back draw Half time £5.00 @ 2.22

[tophatter]

12/06/06

Halftime/fulltime

Italy/Italy £10.00 @ 2.68

Draw/Italy £5.00 @ 5.00

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First Card

Ghana £5.00 @ 1.85

[tophatter]

Strike rate: 3/10 = 30.00%
Current bank £105.80
Pofit/(loss) = +£5.80

[tophatter]

13/06/06

South Korea v Togo

South Korea to win £5.00 @ 2.04

[tophatter]

13/06/06

France v Switzerland

France clean Sheet - Back £5.00 @ 2.06

First Goal 0-10 mins Lay £2.00 @ 6.8

halftime/full time

france/france back £5.00 @ 2.8
draw/draw back £2.00 @ 5.6
draw /france back £2.00 @ 5.0

[tophatter]

That first half was terrible but good for me :)

All i need now is the match to stay as boring as it is and the swiss not scoring and I make a good profit :)

[tophatter]

13/06/06

Halftime/fulltime

Brazil/Brazil back £10 @ 1.97

Draw/Brazil back £5 @ 5.1

[tophatter]

Just need Brazil to win now for a good day.

[andyp]

Well done TH, superb predictions!

[tophatter]

Thanks Andy, was a good day :)

Strike rate: 8/18 = 44.44%
Current bank £125.20
Pofit/(loss) = +£25.20

[tophatter]

14/04/06

Tunisa v Saudia Arabia

Half Time Market

Back Tunisia £5 @ 2.48

[vegyjones]

I've backed the correct score!

I don't know what the correct score will be, but I have backed it! :D

[tophatter]

I was glad I did the halftime Market on Tunisa and not the full match :)

Strike rate: 9/19 = 47.37%
Current bank £132.60
Pofit/(loss) = +£32.60

[tophatter]

15/06/06

England v T&T

England clean sheet. back £5.00 @1.47
Half with most goals - lay 2nd half £5.00 @ 2.38

half/time/full time

England/England Back £10 @ 1.5

[tophatter]

I never learn, a disgustingly passionless display by England in the first half.

I can still make some money if they hold on for the nil-nil I guess but to be honest I would rather T&T went on to win now even though it would cost me more money because England have been amongst the least inspiring of the 32 teams at this tournament so far. ;fire

[tophatter]

Strike rate: 10/22 = 45.45%
Current bank £119.95
Pofit/(loss) = +£19.95

[tophatter]

17/06/06

Czech Rep v Ghana

Half/time full time

Czech Rep/ Czech Rep Back £5.00 @ 2.52

Halftime score

0-0 lay £5.00 @ 3.05

Half Time

[tophatter]

USA V Italy

Next Goal. USA Lay £2.50 @ 5.7

Over 4.5 goals lay £2.50 @ 9.8

To score - Lay Totti 5.00 @ 3.3

[tophatter]

All going to plan - they guy getting sent off for Italy really done me a favour because they subbed totti for a defensive player :)

I just have to hope there is not 3 more goals in this game. If Italy score Im sure they will shut up shop so that is probably the best thing to happen for me.

[tophatter]

Strike rate: 13/27 = 48.15%
Current bank £129.95
Pofit/(loss) = +£29.95

[tophatter]

18/06/06

Japan v Croatia

First Goal

Lay 0-10 mins £5 @ 6.00

[tophatter]

Well that was a nice eay fiver won :)

I do like these markets on betfair, lots of bets like that to be had when laying.

[tophatter]

Australia v Brazil

Over 4.5 goals lay £2.50 @ 6.6

Half time score

0-0 lay £2.50 @ 3.9

First Card

Back Australia £5.00 @ 1.64

[tophatter]

Not going to have a bet on the France game. Not a bad day with just the lay on the Brazil 0-0 halftime going astray.

[andyp]

TH, you where going well with this thread... how come you stopped?

[tophatter]

I dont know really Andy I got to the last 16 stage and found my time was short. I never post anything up I dont have a bet on myself and I never got round to thinking about the games seriously enough in the last couple of weeks to put money on them.

What im going to do tomorrow is put my profit on Italy winning the world cup. Not an itialian win, bewcause it might take more than 90 mins but I think them will end up with the world cup in their hands.

If they win it will have been one of the rare occassions I come out of a football tournament with a profit, if they dont I will have lost nothing.

[andyp]

Great call mate.. well done! :wiggle: