Sports trading roundup

The Betfair Trader / The Betfair Trader / 06 November 2007 / Leave a Comment

The Betfair Trader talks us through his betting on NFL, cricket and snooker over the last few days

Monday, November 05, 2007
Sports trading roundup

Result since last update: £656.31

Well that's been a fairly busy 24 hours trading. Been involved in trading NFL, cricket and snooker since yesterday evening and am more than pleased to come out of it all with a sizeable profit. A good start to my new £101,000 challenge anyway. :-)

Won't go into individual event details on the NFL. Was involved in 4 games for as little as a play or two to more or less the whole match. Bit of a disaster on the big game of the night. Dropped just over £400 on the New England win over Indianapolis. More than made that up on the Dallas at Philadelphia game and picked up around another £100, mainly on the San Diego at Minnesota match.

The Vikings match turned out to be pretty awesome after a dull start. Rookie Adrian Peterson rushed for an NFL record 296 yards in the match, taking his season total to a league leading 1006 yards. While in the same match we were also treated to another NFL record when Antonio Cromarite made a 109 yards failed field goal return for a touch down and in doing so recorded the longest ever play in NFL history. Amazing stuff.

Had a look in on the 1st ODI between India and Pakistan too picking up around £450. Pakistan batted first and never really looked like they'd scored enough. Their 239 was certainly defendable but India never really looked in doubt once the chase was on and it became a question of simply waiting for them to knock off the winning runs so I could have a well earned break from trading.

This afternoon I had a very quick look in on the snooker and the Matthew Stevens v Martin Gould match from the Northern Ireland Trophy. Built up some green on Stevens over a couple of frames and then just levelled out and got on with some proper work. Turns out Gould made a great comeback from 3-0 down to win 4-5. Pretty sure Stevens traded at 1.02 while I was watching so wouldn't be suprised if some small fortunes were won and lost on that.

Anyway, bit tired so going to relax for the evening. May do the NFL later but it is on very late. The cricket trading schedule gets busy again from Thursday so need to finish off looking into those games at some point too.

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