Guess who’s back? Back again? Bible Bashing Bookie Basher is back. Tell a friend. Okay, okay, it may not have the same ring to it, but you get the gist. I had a good feeling that I was going to have a good weekend and it certainly turned out that way. £66 profit in a week i reduced my stakes is bitter sweet. I won, but I could have won a lot more. Here’s a breakdown of my results:

The week didn’t get off to the best of starts with a loss in the Brentford vs City correct score prediction. This was a fire and forget trade. I had the scorelines of 2-0, 3-0, and AOH covered, but City just couldn’t score a second goal to bring in a good green for me. But no hard feelings. At least I carried on my ‘bet on City to win’ trades, which came in and reduced the loss a little.

For the Liverpool vs Luton match I laid Liverpool. And to be honest I was a little disappointed in myself for not being a bit more proactive in this trade. When Luton went 1-0 up, I was in line for £140 if they won or drawn the game after taking my liability out. Now, thinking about it, I should have thought to myself “what’s the most probably outcome?”. This should have alerted me to possibly putting £100 on Liverpool to win, who were at odds of 2.20 at that time. This would have meant a big profit on Liverpool if they won, and a smaller profit of £40 if they didn’t. A big win-small win situation. I’m kicking myself thinking about, but I was too concentrated on Luton getting something out of the game instead of looking at all options available. In the end I came out with 39p. Disappointing.

The games played on Saturday (24th Feb) I posted a blog about once I placed the trades. Fortunately they faired well. It was quite a strange situation, as I thought the Brighton vs Everton match was dead after Everton went 1-0 up and Brighton went down to 10 men. However, the United vs Fulham match was looking good as it was 1-1. The two scenarios seemed to switch over in an instant, as Brighton scored and so did Fulham, meaning the Brighton-Everton 1-1 trade was on, and the United-Fulham trade was dead in the water. Thankfully this meant a good profit. I also did Man City to win in their game against Bournemouth which also came in. Again, this trade is part of my ‘bet on City to win’ strategy which I’m looking at keeping up until the end of the season.

On Sunday another trade came in as Wolves won 1-0 against Sheff Utd. My trade on Chelsea to win the League Cup faltered. I placed this in extra time after Liverpool started putting their youngsters on as I did think it was good odds and I thought Chelsea’s experience might have pulled them through.

My only regret in all these trades, which I also mentioned in my Saturday blog post, was the fact that I reduced my trading stakes to £10 as opposed to my typical amount of £25/£20. This cost me a lot of money. I did feel more comfortable psychologically, but I know this massively damaged my profitability. I’ll probably do a separate post regarding this, but there is a lesson there for others to learn from. If you have done your back testing, and you have your bank sorted, trust your system and try to keep to the stakes you originally set out to use.

Anyway, here’s my weekly P&L table, with a lovely graph to give a visual representation of my progress:

Right – that’s pretty much it from me. I’m hoping to keep up the profits by trading what’s in front of me, and trying to keep a disciplined mindset. I hope you all have a profitable week ahead if you haven’t already. I may post something on Friday or at the weekend. Until then, may the Lord be with you. Always!