"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[kinboshi]

http://timharford.com/2012/01/why-have-house-prices-stayed-so-high

[Bully87]

Safety Awareness

Today I have had to attend a Driving Safety Awareness course well when I say have to it's more of a doing it instead of taking the 3 pts option. Driving back from DTD in November I was a bit tired and must have nodded for a mili second and got caught n the static camera at the Fortune of War roundabout (for those that know it it's not a true roundabout) doing 46 in a 40 so not having had any points in the past 15 years decided to pay an extra £35 than the points and fine route and attend the course. I was more annoyed at not having stopped 10 mins earlier when I started to get tired as using this road every week I would never under other circumstances get caught speeding here.

I arrived early and had a coffee looking around the room at everyone else and was dressed in my suit as back at work this arvo before we were called through for our 4hours of pain.  I first of all thought we would be treated like naughty school kids and one of the trainers definately gave this feel but it was not so bad and despite the old guy next to me with eye brows that made Norman Lamont look tidy, bemoaning why he was caught and that it is the constant changes in speed on the roads that causes the accidents I can honestly say I came away from the course and took something from it!!

Obviously I can never promise that I wont speed again as that is impossible but definately feel I shall have a greater self discipline with driving in the future.

Confirmed. Watching a rerun of the M5 pileup in the 90s was pretty gross.

Also, confirmed I was youngest there by least 10 years, and the younger drivers are the danger on the road...

[Eso Kral]

http://timharford.com/2012/01/why-have-house-prices-stayed-so-high

Interesting read and very true imho, obv most of my readers are looking for some degen and maybe think this should have been posted on Tikay's or Dog's diary but nice touch Boshi bringing a bit of educational cureent affairs over here!!   

[Eso Kral]

Safety Awareness

Today I have had to attend a Driving Safety Awareness course well when I say have to it's more of a doing it instead of taking the 3 pts option. Driving back from DTD in November I was a bit tired and must have nodded for a mili second and got caught n the static camera at the Fortune of War roundabout (for those that know it it's not a true roundabout) doing 46 in a 40 so not having had any points in the past 15 years decided to pay an extra £35 than the points and fine route and attend the course. I was more annoyed at not having stopped 10 mins earlier when I started to get tired as using this road every week I would never under other circumstances get caught speeding here.

I arrived early and had a coffee looking around the room at everyone else and was dressed in my suit as back at work this arvo before we were called through for our 4hours of pain.  I first of all thought we would be treated like naughty school kids and one of the trainers definately gave this feel but it was not so bad and despite the old guy next to me with eye brows that made Norman Lamont look tidy, bemoaning why he was caught and that it is the constant changes in speed on the roads that causes the accidents I can honestly say I came away from the course and took something from it!!

Obviously I can never promise that I wont speed again as that is impossible but definately feel I shall have a greater self discipline with driving in the future.

Confirmed. Watching a rerun of the M5 pileup in the 90s was pretty gross.

Also, confirmed I was youngest there by least 10 years, and the younger drivers are the danger on the road...

Wouldnt say all the younger drivers are but it was a defo eyeopener, interestingly most people on the course were my age or older only 4/30 in their twenties. I would imagine we are the group that drive 10-15% over the limit on certain roads and that dont pose a massive danger but need re-education!!

GL today bud use my chips well 

[Eso Kral]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

[Girgy85]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

[Eso Kral]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

If you cannot score vs Burton you should start supporting Walsall!!

[Girgy85]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

If you cannot score vs Burton you should start supporting Walsall!!

Yea but will Burton score against us?

[Eso Kral]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

If you cannot score vs Burton you should start supporting Walsall!!

Yea but will Burton score against us?

If Burton dont score against Bradford you should start supporting Walsall!! 

[Eso Kral]

Topped up another £130 on at 4/6 with laddies after seeing team news in the Blackpool game so now £310 @ 4/6    betfair currently  1.51 to lay

[Girgy85]

Today's Bets

Blackpool  £180 at 4/6 with Ladbrokes after intersting pm and confirmation from Redarmi that he is on

Ascot placepot £43.20   selections  3+6  /  1+3+4  /  1+2   / 4+11 / 4+7  /  11+12+15

Goals betting £30  over 2.5 goals   Barnsley/Birmingham/Burnley/Carlisle/Wycombe/Gillingham/Northampton/Shrewsbury

Both teams to score £40  Everton/Stoke/Bristol City/Charlton/Bradford/Crewe

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg

If you cannot score vs Burton you should start supporting Walsall!!

Yea but will Burton score against us?

If Burton dont score against Bradford you should start supporting Walsall!! 

HOOOOOOOOOOOOLD

[Girgy85]

Toasty life Mr AK.

Blackpool 2-1 90th min

[Eso Kral]

Toasty life Mr AK.

Blackpool 2-1 90th min

Yeah could have been sweeter though as Sheff Utd failing to score costs £1358 in the both teams to score bet   
More pleased for a Crab I know who invested a wee bit more than me!!

Crabs run good!!

[Girgy85]

Toasty life Mr AK.

Blackpool 2-1 90th min

Yeah could have been sweeter though as Sheff Utd failing to score costs £1358 in the both teams to score bet   
More pleased for a Crab I know who invested a wee bit more than me!!

Crabs run good!!

yea ul on sheff utd

[Eso Kral]

Had a pretty decent weekend all in all punting and life wise!!

Upon leaving the office on Saturday I decided to swin against the tide slightly and back overs in the Bolton v Liverpool match which came in and then invested some profit in the following events over the weekend

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Sigh on the upload but it consists of a winning trade of about £30 on a spanish match, a winner tipped by Redarmi on the boxing thread, £200 placed on Man utd @2.9 which was laid off to get stake back at 1.1 with injury time to come and then 2 losing bets on the NFL games last night giving a total profit of £296.80 after comm from bf to go with the £93.47 profit from post footie on Saturday as detailed itt

Current P+L
Sports betting +£577.74
Goals betting -£256.25
Football +£210.67
Horses +£866.71
Poker +£1060.28
2012 P+L +£2459.15

Obv I dont like after timing so posted BF account since 5pm saturday, had a nice day yesterday with Petra and Max and did some family/DIY stuff before watching the sport from 4pm yesterday afternoon..