"Who Are Ya?"
Hello and welcome!
As promised yesterday, I will now introduce myself to you...
Now an independent writer for laytheodds.com, I was initially only betting on football for fun at school with my friends and generally did well. I must have been about twelve when my dad, an accountant for a large insurance company in London at the time, entered me in a World Cup prediction competition with about 50 of his colleagues. I came second and, with the top three sharing the £1250 total prize money, won a lot of money for myself. From then on, my dad often came to me on advice on correct scores and he won more than he lost.
As soon as I was old enough, I began betting in bookies myself and it all took on from there really. I've tried other sports apart from football, too, but wasn't anywhere near as successful, although at the time of writing, I'm looking more and more into horse betting and trading.
Fortunately I was never what you'd call a 'mug punter'. I understood the concepts of good money management, looking for the biggest price and the importance of finding value very early on. Time passed and I'd currently call myself a part-time punter, although I use the term lightly as I do a little trading on betfair and play poker (although I haven't played recently and have started to ease off). The other part of my income comes from journalism and football coaching, mainly working with kids in academies, although I actually resigned from my last coaching job little over a month ago.
Why? I wanted to spend a while doing things I want to... until my money runs out that is!
Previously to coaching and writing, I had fairly good, if short lived, success with acting and have just started looking into making money online.
When it comes to football, I follow the Spurs (dodgy start to the season, I know). I'll try not to ramble on about them too often, but it's inevitable I'll be using this blog as a medium to vent my frustration at Paul Stalteri's lack of ability, the sides woeful form or poor transfer decisions.
That just about doers it for the most part, more on the systems and what they'll entail, plus fundamental gabmling concepts we must all understand, if we're to be successful.
Just before I go, I'll leave you with a thought. I often help half a dozen people on a daily basis with questions related to gambling. A few days ago I had someone complaining that betfair is in fact NOT a true stock-trading-type marketplace, but has now become unreliable in terms of 'weight of money' trends that should occur due to the amount of traders operating at any given time. Do you think this is true, or is he simply lacking in trading ability?
I'll give my opinion will in the next post, which should be Sunday/Monday.
Have a good one,
Josh.
P.S. Come On You Spurs!!!