Mug Punter Club – Part 2 – How to avoid the Club online
I BET you thought I overlooked online casinos. No way! I needed to show how easy it was to slip into the Mug Punter Club in offline gambling, despite the safety net of regulation developed over...
View ArticleIrish Invasion – Must be the Cheltenham Festival
AS ‘The Voice of Racing’ – Sir Peter O’Sullevan – once said: ‘To end the meeting with a small fortune, you have to start off with a big fortune’. He was, if my memory serves me right, referring to...
View ArticleThe best ideas are the simplest – What odds Betfair?
THEY say the best ideas are always the simplest. So I got to thinking about whether, in another life, I might have invented the internal combustion engine or television or even the light bulb. Not so...
View ArticleThere Is Only One Race – The GRAND NATIONAL!
THERE was the ‘Race of the Century’ when Grundy and Bustino locked horns for the King George and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot in 1975. And there’s the ‘Race that stops a Nation’ – the...
View ArticleThe invention of political betting
RON POLLARD, Ladbrokes’ legendary odds-maker, claimed he invented political betting. He said so in his irreverent and entertaining autobiography, ‘Odds and Sods, My Life in the Betting Business’,...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Backing 2 Year Old Thoroughbred Racehorses
I FINALLY met up with The One-Armed Man, something Dr Richard Kimble, better known as David Janssen, failed to do in 120 episodes of the classic American television series The Fugitive. Kimble, some of...
View ArticleDerby Defining Moments
SOMETIMES one’s life is defined by those moments you can simply never ever forget. You know the sort of thing I mean. Where were you when… JFK was shot; JR was shot; John Lennon was shot; man landed on...
View ArticleCricket Bets, Bats and Gambling
PEOPLE have gone to prison or been fined huge amounts for insider share dealing – the ultimate white collar crime. But as far as I know, neither Dennis Lillee nor Rodney Marsh served any time at all...
View ArticleRoyal Ascot Fashion, Fillies, Festival & The Queen
THEY’RE trained to the minute; their skin glistening in the summer sunshine. Some are perfectly poised; others are sweating profusely as they jig around the paddock. Some are a bit on the leg; others...
View ArticleWimbledon, You Can Not Be Serious! Or Can You?
WITH Wimbledon just around the corner, I thought it might be worth turning the attention of this online gambling blog’s regulars to the world’s most famous tennis tournament – and, more specifically,...
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