PRoC Betting Challenge 15/16

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Couple of hypothetical situations:

#1: Leicester v West Ham

Somebody bets as follows:

10 pts Draw at 3/1

10 pts West Ham at 3/1

10 pts West Ham/Draw Double Chance at Evens

10 pts West Ham +0.5 at Evens

#2: Cheltenham Gold Cup (6 runners)

Horse 1 is Evens. Horses 2-6 are 9/1.

Somebody bets 10 pts on each of Horses 2-6.

Our bettor is not breaking the rules, but are we happy with his strategy?

 

[Gary_Duff]

Would someone be able to sustain such a strategy over the course of a season though? A Leicester win or the fav winning the Gold Cup above would have taken a big chunk out of your bettor's bank there, which would take a long while to build back up using the same low risk, low reward tactics.

What's interesting about this thread is that you can keep track of various strategies and see how they pay off. For example Jeff betting big on odds on favs or me hitching my wagon to the DNB.

It might be interesting to see how someone taking the above approach fared.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Of course there's the risk and reward factor.

Personally, I wouldn't risk more than 10 pts on an event unless I had 200+ pts in the bank, or if I was just going for broke towards the end of season.

I just wanted to point out that there are ways to bend the rules, and figure out if we're ok with it, if the situation arises.

 

[CORKBHOY]

Any thoughts on any tweaks to the rules for the coming season?

 

[The Curious Lozenge]

happy with current rules here.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Yeah, keep on truckin'.

 

[The Curious Lozenge]

dan i owe you a sig. let's settle up.

i believe it has to be in big yellow letters too.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Whatever, bud. I don't care as long as pwnership is recognised. Flavour of the month, Gaz, is next.

It won't be a problem to me.

 

[CORKBHOY]

Regarding rules, what did we agree on in terms of frequency of bets?


We have we so for the coming season?

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