Archive for March, 2009
Let the Madness Begin
March Madness is officially started! We almost had our first upset as Cal State-Northridge, a 15 seed, gave second seeded Memphis a scare.
I did lay Memphis when it was really looking like they could be given an early exit. I did back them at a better price. It looked like CSU Northridge was settling [...]
Obama Picks North Carolina
U.S. President Barack Obama has filled out his March Madness Bracket. He has selected Lousville, Pittsburgh, Memphis and North Carolina to play in the Final Four in Detroit April 4-6th. You can read more on ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney09/news/story?id=3991183
Good Luck with your brackets!
Parlay System Update
In several posts I have mentioned a Parlay System I have been using for the World Baseball Classic. In my last post on this subject I had a couple parlay bets on this game
Venezuela won this game 3-1 so the Netherlands (+3) was good with the under.
I made the same two parlays for this game [...]
Betfair Trading: Nets vs. Clippers
Steve Novak’s buzzer beating three gave the Los Angeles Clippers a 107-105 win over the New Jersey Nets. It capped a wild finish as the Nets had battled back trailing by 14 late in the second quarter to lead by 3 with 7.3 seconds left. Baron Davis made two free throws for the Clippers and [...]
Mickelson outduels Watney
Phil Mickelson won the WGC CA Championship at Doral Sunday. It was mainly a two horse race coming down the home stretch with Mickelson coming out on top over Buick Invitational winner Nick Watney.
With the win Mickelson now moves into 2nd in the World Golf Rankings, behind only Tiger Woods.
There were times I felt [...]
NBA Betfair Trading: Nets vs. Blazers
Brandon Roy took over in the second half to lead the Portland Trail Blazers back from as much as an 11 point deficit in the second half. The Trail Blazers, who have just six home losses, beat the New Jersey Nets 109-100.
The score looks more lopsided than the game was thanks to late Nets’ [...]
Parlay System
The Parlay System for the World Baseball Classic is working great!. You can read more about this system in each of these posts:
World Baseball Classic Underway
Advantage Play!
Wednesday’s games went 2-for-3.
Puerto Rico beat the Netherlands 5-0 so that was the one that lost. Venezuela won 5-3 over the United States, therefore Venezuela was good with [...]
NBA Betting on Betfair
I came up with a couple wins on Wednesday night’s NBA games on Betfair. First, trading on the Celtics versus the Heat was a good game to trade on Betfair. Over $700,000 (CDN) was matched. Miami won the game 107-99.
You can see my trades on this game below. The main source of my profit on [...]
CA Championship from Doral
Tiger Woods is ready to go in this weekend’s WGC event. With Woods playing it means that odds on the other players in the field go up. Lets take a look at some value bets.
Sean O’hair: At 70.0 (on Betfair) this is great value. O’hair is playing some good golf right now. He has three [...]
NBA Betfair Trading: Knicks versus Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks held a 65-56 halftime lead but couldn’t hang on as the New York Knicks came back to win 120-112. The Knicks were led by Larry Hughes and Nate Robinson who had 39 and 32 points respectively.
With the Knicks up three points with less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter I [...]