Black Friday

Ouch. The worst day's gambling I can remember for a long time. Pretty much all of November's hard-earned profits gone in one day. Its just misery upon more misery at the moment. Only two winners on the day, and a whole crapton of losers. The great irony of it all is that I very nearly didnt get my bets on today as I had to go to an office lunch so only had about 10 mins to place my bets. Shouldn't have bothered, would have saved myself about six hundred quid.

WTF is going on with the tipsters at the moment?!! I have had a bad week or two but I know some others who subscribe to some different tipsters who have had it even worse. Are we experiencing a freakish run of results or is it just coincidence that the tipsters have all hit trouble at the same time? Any opinions welcome because I am at a loss to explain it.

The theory behind this experiment, and potrfolio investing in general, is that you are spreading risk so not all the selections should do badly at the same time. But I guess in practice it's still gambling and as we all know, it can go horribly wrong at times.

Steve Lewis Hamilton has been simply woeful since I signed up to his service. Barely a winner over the whole period, a big negative ROI and his horses arent even getting close. I am reducing stakes on his selections with immediate effect. A bad day for Tipping Legends, I always worry on these "Specials" they do that they are recommending too many bets and would not tip so many horses if they didnt have this Special aspect to the service. Today was one of their worst days. They had an excellent November though so Im not knocking the service overall, just questionning the quantity of bets on their Specials.

A couple of small glimmers of hope for the weekend: Ogilvy and Appleby are both up there in the Aus PGA and I have a few e/w shouts in the SA golf.

Who was it who said "things can only get better?"...

Tipping Legends

Weird Al 2pts win @ 9/4 - WON £160
Clova Island 2pts win @ 9/2 - LOST -£60
Heads On The Ground 2pts e/w @ 11/2 - LOST -£120
According To Pete 1pt e/w @ 6/1 - LOST -£60
Gaora Lane 1pt e/w @ 12/1 - LOST -£60
Macaillou 1pt e/w @ 11/1 - LOST -£60
Admiral Bond 1pt e/w @ 7/1 - LOST -£60

Horse Betting Index

12.05 Cheltenham AWESOME GEORGE 3PT WIN @ 11/4 LOST -£75
1.05 Southwell ESUVIA 5PT WIN @ 13/8 WON £181
1.50 Cheltenham ACCORDING TO PETE 2PT WIN @ 6/1 LOST -£50
1.40 Southwell DESERT DUST 1PT E/W @ 11/1 LOST -£50
2.50 Southwell MOZAYADA 1PT WIN @ 10/1 LOST -£25
3.25 Southwell ASTROLIBRA 2PT WIN @ 7/1 LOST -£50
7.20 Wolverhampton STANLEY GODSPEED 2PT WIN @ 7/1 LOST -£50

Equine Investments

Desert Dust - 0.75pt win @ 7/1 LOST -£56

Steve Lewis Hamilton

Et Maintenant @ 14/1 LOST -£75
Solway Minstrel @ 6.6 LOST -£75

TOTAL FOR 11.12.09: -£585