What a lovely day

No, I'm not talking about the gambling, I'm talking about the weather. Looking out of the window early this morning you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in the south of Spain. Temperatures reached a high of 17ºc and I made the most of it by going to my part-time job in the afternoon on my bike! A bit of sun on the arms and some cardiovascular exercise. I've got a tight hamstring from Sunday's football match so will have to take it a little easy over the next few days.

Going back to the day's results:

Tipster:	Todays P/L:	Stakes:	ROI:	POINTS Total:
4PA	0.00	0.00	N/A	101.78
BLB	0.00	0.00	N/A	1.28
BLIP	0.00	0.00	N/A	4.42
CL	0.00	0.00	N/A	41.79
CNB	0.00	0.00	N/A	1.37
EI	0.00	0.00	N/A	63.52
FB	0.00	0.00	N/A	11.80
FE	0.00	0.00	N/A	22.57
FI	0.00	0.00	N/A	32.57
GVE	0.90	1.00	90%	9.34
LB	0.00	0.00	N/A	2.02
MGB	0.00	0.00	N/A	21.51
NB	-1.00	1.00	-100%	-22.87
NMP	-1.50	1.50	-100%	-14.72
PB	1.58	1.98	80%	20.55
SK	0.00	0.00	N/A	74.34
SKS	0.00	0.00	N/A	-1.06
STR	-4.00	4.00	-100%	-6.50
TRAM	0.00	0.00	N/A	-15.14
TRAS	0.00	0.00	N/A	-1.61
WIFLI	0.00	0.00	N/A	-1.50
WRT	0.00	0.00	N/A	9.42
AB	0.00	0.00	N/A	-2.38
MB	0.00	0.00	N/A	-8.99
Today:	-4.02	9.48	-26.07%
Active Tipsters Total:				343.51
All Tipsters Total:		7618.87	2.82%	211.32
Financial Totals:	This month:	£2,551.69	All-time:	£17,653.54
	This year:	£916.18

Not much happening, but good to see Pro Bandit go above the 20 PTS profit mark once again. Betfair did us a favour by paying out each way on Desert Strike as race numbers were reduced to seven, the bookies wouldn't have paid out. Geert Van Elsen with another easy winner in Cercle Brugge beating Charleroi 3-0 in the Belgium Jupiler league. I'm paying a monthly subscription for the tips from Bet Advisor, thought about taking up a yearly subscription but that would mean at least 2 months of receiving no tips during the summer months. I'll probably sign up again at the beginning of August/September, see how results are going and then make a decision on the years subscription.

It has been a pity to see both Neural Bets and Each Way Value offering refunds, but I guess we can't always have it our way. Each Way Value relies on the Massey Stats site which has been discontinued. From what I gather there are a few services out there that rely on the stats, but it just goes to show the risk involved when relying on a third party. Although highly unlikely a tipster service could literally just pack up and leave us, there are no rules and regulations anywhere to protect us subscribers. I suppose it's part of the whole gambling sector, so much risk involved. I'm still receiving the Neural Bets selections, hopefully the selections below 4.0 continue to be profitable.

In this game of win and lose I just wish there was a little less big losses  and big winnings. Yes, Saturday was great, and yes, yesterday was terrible, but today was just how I like it, just over a £100 banked.

This leads me onto a comment left by Alan. On yesterday's post he asked me what my monthly costs are, they are currently around £500. He also asked about my all-time costs. I won't be divulging specific information, probably because I'm a little embarrassed, but it's more than £10,000. Here are some of the larger costs incurred:
- Trading courses - £1,500
- Equine Investments - £2,500
- OnTheOche - £400 - including losses of £1,000
- Best Under - £310 - including losses of £700

- Its Lay Time - £320
- Lay The Psychic Way - £200
- Each Way Value - £249 (some of this will be refunded) - including losses of £1,500
- Herbie Fogg - £99 - including losses of £900

Let's add that all up:
- Subscription/courses - £5,978
- Losses from these services - £4,070
- Total Losses = £10.048
Quite substantial losses, but I can now say that I'm with some very good tipsters who'll hopefully carry on doing the business over the next months and years!

Until tomorrow