First Saturday

I'm not fussy about what I bet on, but the best luck I've had is when I've been able to argue in favour of a bet from a number of angles. I'm just waiting for the payout on Freddie Flintoff for Sports Personality and what makes it best for me is not the money, though that'll sustain my gambling for some time to come, but the fact that I argued and explained it to a lot of people: the Ashes was the (only) major sporting event of the year and if England won (about 3-1 at the time) then a cricketer was a certainty, of whom Flintoff was a certainty, so the 16-1 was such an obvious and overpriced bet. The biggest worry was that his celebratory binge might put people off, but I'm sure most will forgive him that in the context. When he's picked the award up, maybe some people'll be thinking that I talk some sense some times.

So, I thought, in a constant effort to improve my betting, if I try and write up some of my bets and betting thoughts then I'll have to make sense of them to myself first, and hopefully not keep making the same mistakes, or keep doing the right things.