However, today is my birthday, and I knew that I was going to be largely unavailable for the afternoon games as I was going to be out and about having a few drinks. That was a big blow to those chances of increasing the pot.
So we started on £80.38. First game which I looked at was Bristol Rovers v Swindon. I fancied the Pirates to nab a win and the early part of the game showed them well on top. I was in no mood to waste time and when odds hit after 25 minutes, I was on it.
I got up to make myself a well earned sandwich, and I heard the Bet365 crowd-cheering- soundbite which denotes a goal being scored. Billy Bodin had put Rovers in front just a few minutes after the bet was placed. Up and running, and up to £88.42!
I was keen to continue and in doing some research was looking to get on a game in the Italian youth league. The Campionato Nazionale Primavera Group C league had seen just one 0-0 game played out all season with teams having played around 14 games each so far. Roma youth were obviously a cut above, having won 11 of 14 games so far and there games featured an average of around 4 per game. Cagliari youth were struggling and this should've been a routine win for Roma.
I would have to wait for the 38th minute before I could place the bets at odds of 1/10. Again, we would barely have to wait for the bet to land. However, as seems to be the way with many of my bets, the unfancied team won it for me, with Cagliari scoring in the 43rd minute. They would eventually lose 5-1 though. My only concern though was that we were now at a tantalising £97.27.
The 3pm games started and in between me getting ready to go out and some indecisiveness on my part, the chances were missed to increase the tally for the day.
But I wasn't done. I wanted one more. But it would create an almighty scare.
Whilst I was out I managed to clock the Lazio v Chievo game in Serie A. approaching half time and at 0-0 still, the stats showed that Lazio were dominating massively. I checked out a few things as best I could. I knew main man Ciro Immobile was suspended, and Balde Keita was injured, so they were depleted up front, but should still be beating Chievo who were massively out of form.
The odds were 1/4. This would be a huge call. I've said I should be avoiding these risks. but really, I saw a goal in the game purely due to Chievo being so poor, having lost their last 5 games.
I went for it. All in.
Checking my phone with hardly any signal and ignoring the people I was with, I kept seeing the shots count rising. But still no breakthrough. No matter, 30 minutes to go...
20 minutes...
10 minutes...
Oh god...
5 minutes to go! Lazio had had 9 shots on target and 21 shots off target and 10 corners! I cursed myself. Immobile being out was key, of course it was! Why did I risk it?!!
90 minutes were up. I'd had it. Game over. Just as we were making some real big gains as well.
And then...play was suspended on a Chievo attack...
Surely not...! IT WAS!!! At the death Chievo had snatched an unlikely winner for both them and me! I was almost delirious with joy!! Our pot jumped up massively to £121.59 and we hadn't just broken the £100 barrier, we had smashed through it!!
I decided to quit while I was ahead for the day, which also turned out to be a big let off as I probably would've gone in on the AFCON game between Senegal v Cameroon which finished 0-0!
All we can do is hope for more good fortune tomorrow, but today has seen a profit of £41.21 which is massive gains for the pot.
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