£100 - £1000 Xmas Challenge
I now have £150 in the fighting fund and it’s time to lay down some bankroll management rules to try and ensure that I don’t go bust within the first month. Given my compulsive nature when it comes to gambling if I didn’t enforce some restrictions I’d be straight down the casino lumping it all on 32 red at the roulette table.
So here are the main Bankroll Rules I will be following….
- As I’m going to be trying out various forms of gambling over the course of this challenge I think it is important that I never expose more than 10% of the bank at any one time. i.e. for each particular gambling challenge (poker, lottery, horse-racing, golf etc..) only 10% of the bank can be used as a total to place any bets.
- With all single bets at 1% of the bank (but a minimum of £2). Except for horses running from my list of horses to follow (revealed later in this post) which will allow a 5% bank stake
- This last rule can be broken if an increased stake can be used to claim a Free Bet Offer.
- All bets will be notified on this blog in the ‘100 to a Grand’ link (left hand side of the screen) before being struck
and that’s basically it. Back to business…
I now have a second trick up my sleeve as I have deliberately held off opening a Racing Post Poker account so I could avail myself of another stack of free cash for this challenge.
Unlike most other poker sites the Racing Post give you 25% of your initial deposit immediately you sign up and another 75% of this deposit when you have played a certain amount of games. We can forget the 75% as I probably won’t be playing enough on their site to qualify for it but by depositing £100 into their site I have got £25 to try my luck at the tables.
Of course there is a slight catch with this in that you can’t withdraw any Bonus winnings until you have wagered 50x the bonus amount but the £100 we use to make the deposit can be withdrawn and it gives me £25 to play some poker. If I restrict myself to playing small stakes games I may even be able to make it last long enough to reach the level where we can withdraw it. Either way it’s a no lose option and we may even make something out of it.
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Don’t forget that any money I make during this challenge I will be giving away to one lucky reader. If you want to be in with a chance of scooping it all then here’s how you can do it…..
I’ll be setting a series of challenges to whittle down all the readers who want to enter until we are left with just 1. The first challenge will be for the Lottery Main Draw on Saturday 22nd August and you simply have to decide if the bonus ball will be an odd or an even number.
If you think it will be ODD simply send an email with your name in the subject line to odd@nag-nag-nag.co.uk
If you think it will be EVEN then send an email with your name in the subject line to even@nag-nag-nag.co.uk
NOTE: The draw date is 22nd August.
All those who guess correctly will be through to the next challenge.
PLEASE: Only 1 entry per person. (To stop those who try to guess both odd and even: if more than one entry is received you will be disqualified). All entries must be received by 7pm 22nd August 2009. The challenge runs to 24th December. Any prizemoney will be paid 1st January 2010. My decision is final.
Obviously, once the competition has started you won’t then be able to join in so get those emails in quick to make sure you’re entered. It’ll only take a few seconds. Good luck.
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LIST OF HORSES
A major part of my serious betting is done by backing horses from a list I compile throughout the season noting down horses to follow. A couple of examples this year were Dubai Dynamo, Postman, Som Tala and of course Laterly last Saturday. They make this list for any number of reasons and while not all of them win straightaway most do eventually manage to find the winners enclosure. There are currently 14 horses on my list and I will be revealing them over the next couple of posts along with the reasons why I think they should be followed.
I’ll put them all on the Horses to Follow page which you can access by clicking the link on the left hand side of this post.
There was a new horse added to my list from Sandown the other evening and he is set to run Sunday at his favourite track. He was desperately unlucky in running that night and he’ll be a very strong fancy at the weekend. I’ll let you know his name on Sunday morning but until then here are the first 4 from my list…
FLAPJACK. 2yo maiden from the Richard Hannon yard. He doesn’t stay 7f and he’s nowhere near the best horse in the stable but if he were to run in a low class nursery over 5 or 6f I think he could pick up a race.
WEBBOW. 7yo handicapper from the Nigel Tinkler yard. He never seems to run a bad race and though he looks exposed there must be a big handicap in him before the end of the season. He goes on any ground but is best suited by a mile with a bend in it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s entered for a race at York next week.
GLOWING PRAISE. 3yo gelding from the Ed McMahon stable. He won very easily in a handicap at Leicester but has been a beaten favourite in his last two starts since that win. You can excuse him both as he didn’t go on the soft in the first of those runs and last time out the jockey forgot to take the blindfold off him as the stalls opened. Doh! He could pick up a nice mile handicap if the going is not too soft.
MORES WELLS. Trained in France now but there isn’t a better handicapped horse in training than this one. I fancied him strongly at Royal Ascot but he got hampered and hung badly before finishing a creditable 5th behind Perfect Stride. This horse has some incredible form in the book and should he come back over to these shores to contest a handicap I’ll be plunging in to get my money back. The softer the ground the better.
I’ll be back on Sunday with a few more including hopefully a nice bet for later that day.
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The festival trends offer is still available and includes 5 races for just £1.
3 are being run tomorrow and there’s also two ante-post races for York next week. Don’t forget we’ve highlighted the last 3 big race Saturday winners in our guides Sirvino 16/1, Conduit 13/8 and Genki 14/1.
Can we do it again in the Great St Wilfrid? I’d like to think we can..
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Good luck,
Gavin.