I'm Going To Be A Dad!

Daily P/L: £72.37
Monthly P/L: £759.56
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You may remember earlier this month I said I had other things going on that were taking up alot of my time, well here's the news. Fatherhood is on it's way for the first time and I'm chuffed to bits! Okay, so it wasn't in the plan as I'm due to get married next August, but some things are more important so the wedding bells will have to be put on hold until the little one gets a bit older. Nicola my Fiancee is only 12 weeks so I know it's early days but I can't help get excited - I'll have somebody else to explain the wonders of Betfair to apart from the dog!
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England v India - 2nd ODI
What a great day for cricket - baking blue skies and 16,000 supporters crammed into Bristol's County Ground set things up beautifully and the players didn't disappoint as the match turned into a run-fest! After I'd rushed home from work and booted up the PC India were extremely well placed at 243-3 with a full 9 overs left. Even though there had been murmurs about how good a batting pitch this was I was sure that any score over 300 wouldn't be chased down so the question was "would India score 57 off 54 balls?" My answer was a resounding "yes" even if the batting line-up was a little inexperienced. They didn't let me down and the 330 target they gave England to win was always going to be a huge ask but the market didn't reflect this. At the change of innings India were available to back at around 1.43 - a mammoth price especially as England would be batting under floodlights. BigBadBunyip declared on the Betfair forum that this was "the best bet of all time" and I was finding it hard to disagree. So what happened next? Well, Agarkar fell asleep for 5 overs and his bowling allowed England to get off to a flyer. They knocked up over 70 runs from the first 10 overs and were now trading at 1.79 favourites -what a flip-flop! The market was panicking and I was losing money as I hit stop loss after stop loss. Even though my view on the final outcome remained the same the market had gone bonkers and showed no faith in the Indian bowling attack. Enter stage left Chawla and Powar. These two spinners managed to turn things back around and as vital wickets began to fall the run rate started to move upward and England had it all to do. It was at this point I made my profit and in the end it was an amazing effort that England only lost by 9 runs. I was exhausted but content - another £72.37 could be added to the pot.
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