Before we get into the regular weekly update. Please do me a favor and take 5 seconds out of your day to head to the Change.org petition and put in your name and email address. If we can get to about 500 supporters, it will show that at least 1% (at a minimum) are affected by bookies banning winners. My audience is small, so the real number is potentially much higher. It will literally take you shorter than it has to read this paragraph and will give me some solid ground to push our case. Or we can all do nothing and be happy with how things currently work. Sign it now.
A second winning week. A tiny win, but I’ll take it. I went over the $1 million bet mark for the year this week. I think I will bet in-between $5-8 million this year. With Finals footy on and me still not betting Soccer, it was a fairly low turnover week. Some very healthy profit would have been made if both the Swans and Dogs could kick straight. One thing I have noticed is that I have no urge to set up my Soccer portfolio for the year. I have paid the subscription fees for the tipsters I will be following, but have done nothing else (and not placed any bets). I’m actually tossing up whether to bet on Soccer at all this year. The work load and the negative return over the years doesn’t offer much appeal right now. I’ll have a serious think about it over the weekend, but a more relaxed spring and summer do sound pretty tempting.
The ABC 7:30 report ran a story about how the bookies actually target problem gamblers instead of trying to help them. It’s a good segment and worth a watch. The general public have no idea how the big corporates work, they might get slightly annoyed by all the ads on tv, but would be shocked at how they operate, so we need to get more stories like this one out there.
Onto this weeks results and apart from my own personal bets which netted $3,650 profit, Sportpunter was the only active tipster. AFL lost $1,300 but both games were very close to going my way and making a healthy $15,000. NRL had a poor week with a $3,000 loss and MLB made a small $2,000 profit.
Dailyprofit members broke even with Sportpunter picks, but the Value and Risk free stuff made a fortune. I posted an article yesterday written by Josh about how good it was. With Finals footy, the NFL and Spring carnival coming up, the bookies are working extra hard for punters to come back to their site and bet with them. I say make hay while you can, because incentives might be on the chopping block if new legislation passes.
A nothing week really for the bets and I expect this upcoming week to be the same. It’s actually helpful being so quiet as I have a chance to work on my other projects. I hope you had a profitable week, don’t forget to go and sign the petition and do your tiny bit to make sure you can get a bet on in the future.
Total Profit for the week was $1,318.53
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Stats Year 6
Total bet amount: $1,003,963.00
Profit/Loss: $(4,385.02)
POT: -0.44%
Bets Placed: 823
Won: 285
Lost: 384
Half Payout: 12
Refunded: 142
Winning %: 42.6%
Total profit per day: $381,673.12 / 1903 = $200.56
Total Turnover: $22,889,995.30
Total ROI: 1.67%
AFL H2H $80,410.00 $(5,505.47) -6.8%
week profit/loss: -5320
AFL Line $275,594.00 $12,252.43 4.4%
week profit/loss: 4033.28
NRL $72,761.00 $(1,355.31) -1.9%
week profit/loss: -3015
MLB Totals $375,973.00 $(3,839.67) -1.0%
week profit/loss: 1954
Jason Kelly $4,590.00 $(4,515.00) -98.4%
week profit/loss: 0
Betswot $2,925.00 $(236.80) -8.1%
week profit/loss: 0
Odds Pushed Out $11,500.00 $351.00 3.1%
week profit/loss: 0
Personal $175,053.00 $(5,832.06) -3.3%
week profit/loss: 3665.25
Mistake $2,500.00 $2,563.25 102.5%
week profit/loss: 0