howdy 'tardettes!
The Score Media and Gaming Incorporated
$SCR in Canada, $TSCRF in USA
So I have spent the last week looking for potential meme stocks as a personal project, trying specifically to avoid weedstocks or crypto. Again I am not a finance guy just like trying to guess the future and politics. AKA i am a retard. Anyways, as mentioned previously i want a meme stock in a popping/hot to talk about industry with about a year of 'fluff or good news' to prop up the stock price. Then i came across this post
https://old.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/ld8dsi/score_media_and_why_its_a_massive_candidate_for_a/
I am Canadian. I know Score Media and they were one of, if not the biggest sports tv channels before they sold that part of their business to Rogers a couple years ago (Rogers and Bell run our media in Canada) But they kept their website and phone application. Still the go to sports app for ppl in Canada and huge name recognition. I had no idea the gvmt was planning to vote to legalize single wagering sports betting. I know how big this market is as all my friends gamble on sports using bet365 which i think is based in the UK. This is the same gvmt who legalized weed federally and led that change in policy around the world. During Corona when deficits are high and the morale police in society are likely at all time low would Justin Trudeau turn down this source of $$? (also important to note for American friends, he currently has majority gvmt so should be able to pass anything he wants) Then when you find out Penn gaming is invested and this likely has support across the political aisle safe to say after seeing what is happened with DKNG my interest was PIQUED
anyways clearly the cons are that this stock is at a its all time high and i dont want to buy at the top of a pump. that said yolo and i threw $2k on friday. This stock is planning to list on NYSE in the future and the bet is that the law legalizing will pass which I personally believe is a no brainer but will have to do further research.
If this passes, and Penn just straight up buys them out and they list on the NYSE this thing could turn into a huge powerhouse. And, as the degenerate gamblers that we are, dont we really only care about getting into a MEME stock much earlier than the stampede??
Thoughts? Ideas for other MEME stocks? Lets get this hive mind going my tardorinossssss
**Update. To note, i see this play as very similar to the play up to legalization that some of you might remember back with some Canadian licensed producer. Investors are waiting on a vote/change in gvmt policy, the company is primed to take advantage of this new potential regulatory change, there is already a huge market guaranteed, and the TSX/canadian market specifically is used to this play and is uniquely primed to pump one of their own meme stocks (see either any weed LP, or shopify for this example)
**** Update the mods deleted my final update, even though i was just trying to bring some life to this sub and its not like i am some crazy promoter, my sub has 100 ppl lol. Sorry for providing content on your sub and trying to generate some life and take advantage of that opportunity we had after the GME thing went down. Instead, the count has stayed at 2500-2700 for a week with no posts or interesting conversation while others have thrived.
Please feel free to visit and join our experiment at /gamblingstocks
this is the link i tried to post here: https://old.reddit.com/retardbets/comments/lffews/get_rich_or_die_trying_series_part_3_is_the_the/

Yes, that's right. Only 3 months and 19 games into the start of the 2020/21 season, Stoke City F.C., founders of the football league and the oldest club currently in the football league, have already named 7 different goalkeepers in their 18 man matchday squad.
With only one of them having left The Potters in this time, it means Stoke City currently have 6 goalkeepers on the books registered in their first-team squad, more than any other team in Europe.
While this is only going to be the case for a maximum of two months as two of the men will be out of contract, I thought I'd still have just a quick look into the 7 men staking their claim for the Number 1 spot at the Staffordshire giants, and how they came to wind-up at the bet365 Stadium.
** 1. Joe Bursik**
The current keeper in the nets for Stoke at the time of writing, Joe Bursik is also, alebit arguably, the least qualified for the position out of the lot.
Bursik joined the club from the AFC Wimbledon Under-18's back in 2017 after 8 years in The Dons academy. From then, Bursik has enjoyed semi-successful loan stints at Hednesford Town, AFC Telford and Accrington. Bursik has actually already gone out on loan in the 20/21 season to Doncaster Rovers, making 10 league appearances for the Yorkshire outfit, before being re-called from the loan after injury to Angus Gunn
** 2. Angus Gunn**
Following on from Bursik, lets have a dive into the career of the man he replaced. Angus Gunn was born in Norwich, joining the club of the same name as a youngster, before quickly being snapped up by the Manchester City academy at 15 year olds.
Gunn would never get a chance to stake a claim with The Citizens and so sought a loan spell back to his boyhood club in the summer of 2017. After one season of the depthless hell hole that is Championship mid-table obscurity, Gunn sought a permanent move to a much stronger outfit than that at Carrow Road.
Southampton were quick to snap up the 22 year-old for an estimated fee of around £13.5 million. However, in the two years so far spent at St. Mary's, Gunn only managed 22 league appearances, ultimately leading him straight back into the bottomless trap hole of bench-warming in the Championship with Stoke
Coming in to replace Jack Butland on the Stoke bench, Gunn eventually finding himself quickly into the starting line-up after an injury to teammate Adam Davies saw Gunn come in in a 2-0 away loss to Swansea back in October.
4 appearances later, Gunn would himself be forced out for up to 8 weeks with an ankle ligament injury. Where his Stoke City position lies at the end of the season really comes down to how quickly Gunn can recover.
** 3. Jack Butland**
The one time England wonderkid that had every onlooker licking his lips back in 2013, Jack Butland's fall from international star to mid-table benchwarmer is as drastic as it is sad.
Signed from Birmingham back in 2013 from Birmingham City for a neat sum of £3.5 million, Butland would go on to register over 150 league appearances for Stoke, after several loan spells where Asmir Begovic was the Potters favourite under Mark Hughes, the Bosnian's move to Chelsea come in as the immediate number one in the potteries.
After several impressive season between the sticks, seeing him win the Fans Player of the Year twice and his stock rise dramatically, resulting in him being linked with the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, Butland suffered a fractured ankle in England's 3-2 win over Germany in March 2016.
The injury the end of Buland's season and subsequently his England Career. Butland hasn't made an international appearance since and a string of bad form spanning relegation with Stoke and two following seasons in the Championship, he lost the starting position to Adam Davies.
Butland has since moved to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2020, where he has yet to register an appearance at Selhurst Park and see his recovery from England halted by a positive COVID test. Honestly, this man hasn't caught a break since 2016, however when I asked him for a picture in Morisson's once he was a bit snippy, so yeah he deserves it.
** 4. Adam Davies**
And now, the man who dethroned Butland as the number one at Stoke City, Adam Davies is by far the best and most talented player of our 7. The twice capped Welshman, who was actually born in Rintein, Germany (not gonna blame you for not knowing that tid bit), signed for the club as back-up to Butland from Barnsley in August 2019, alongside fellow League One Team of the Season winner Liam Lindsay.
While Lindsay's career at Stoke has halted almost immediately, Davies has seen himself fully enforced as the Potters' starting 'keeper. Seeing himself come into the 2020/21 off the back of a tremendous end of last season which saw Stoke lose once in their last six games, Davies was on hot form.
Unfortunately, during his 12th league appearance for the West Midlands side, Davies suffered a torn cruciate knee ligament, ruling him out for an estimated 3 months. If not for this injury, Stoke would be nowhere near the level of 'keeper confusion that they are now, so in the end, it's all his fault (jk love you Adam, please get fit soon x).
** 5. Blondy Nna Noukeu**
By far the most mysterious and unknown member of this group, and likely the entire squad, very little is actually known of the 19 year old Belgian/Cameroonian shot stopper.
Noukeu has been called up by the Cameroon National Team so far this season, but has yet to register a career appearance in goal, and considering he was third choice at the start of the season and now finds himself ranked 7th in that list, that ain't changing anytime soon buddy.
Like, seriously, imagine being 3rd choice keeper, both ahead of you get injured, so the club finds four more people immediately before even thinking about you. That's harsh af man.
** 6. Niki Mäenpää**
The penultimate keeper in this seven will hopefully turn out to be the penultimate signing Stoke have to make this season. Mäenpää, who at 35 joins the club having been released by Bristol City at the end of last season, was intended to come in to play as support for youngster Joe Bursik.
Not even expected to ever even play for the first team, two days after signing for the club, Mäenpää suffered an injury during training, leaving him out until at least the New Year.
This left Michael O'Neill scrambling again, looking to sign yet another senior goalkeeper, with a game against Wycombe Wanderers in two days time.
** 7. Andy Lonergan**
This signing is the biggest coup of the season and no one even noticed it. The Club World Cup winning, Champions League winner, Premier League champion dropping down to the chamionship ON A FREE should be shocking news!
Nah, Andy Lonergan left Liverpool at the end of last season after no minutes ever gained at Anfield, but was given a Premier League winners medal by Jurgen Klopp, noting how his guidance really improved the quality of the the backup goalkeeping squad and signifying how the whole squad is as important as each. A touching gesture, but that's a bit of a kop-out mate, like giving the fat kid an MVP award at the end of the season because he didn't score an own goal all season.
BONUS 8TH KEEPER THAT I FORGOT ABOUT
If this story couldn't get any more ridiculous, I forgot about Stokes' 8th keeper, the England Under-18 international Nathan Broome!
Currently a member of the Stoke academy, Broome was called up by Kevin Betsy to represent his nation. Initially poised to take over as bench keeper to Joe Bursik, Broome has also picked up an injury and so also faces time on the sidelines.
So there you have it, a thorough run through of every goalkeeper currently fighting for a first team spot Stoke where all they have to do is recover quickly.
At time of writing, Joe Bursik is the starting keeper, while normally being considered Stoke's 4th choice, while Andy Lonergan remains on the bench, while being considered 8th in the list by Michael O'Neill. Something tells me this won't be over soon and soon we'll be getting Doris the Tea Lady in a pair of Puma goalie gloves from Sports Direct and training with the big boys down at Clayton Wood.
A man can dream.......

Yes, that's right. Only 3 months and 19 games into the start of the 2020/21 season, Stoke City F.C., founders of the football league and the oldest club currently in the football league, have already named 7 different goalkeepers in their 18 man matchday squad.
With only one of them having left The Potters in this time, it means Stoke City currently have 6 goalkeepers on the books registered in their first-team squad, more than any other team in Europe.
While this is only going to be the case for a maximum of two months as two of the men will be out of contract, I thought I'd still have just a quick look into the 7 men staking their claim for the Number 1 spot at the Staffordshire giants, and how they came to wind-up at the bet365 Stadium.
** 1. Joe Bursik**
The current keeper in the nets for Stoke at the time of writing, Joe Bursik is also, alebit arguably, the least qualified for the position out of the lot.
Bursik joined the club from the AFC Wimbledon Under-18's back in 2017 after 8 years in The Dons academy. From then, Bursik has enjoyed semi-successful loan stints at Hednesford Town, AFC Telford and Accrington. Bursik has actually already gone out on loan in the 20/21 season to Doncaster Rovers, making 10 league appearances for the Yorkshire outfit, before being re-called from the loan after injury to Angus Gunn
** 2. Angus Gunn**
Following on from Bursik, lets have a dive into the career of the man he replaced. Angus Gunn was born in Norwich, joining the club of the same name as a youngster, before quickly being snapped up by the Manchester City academy at 15 year olds.
Gunn would never get a chance to stake a claim with The Citizens and so sought a loan spell back to his boyhood club in the summer of 2017. After one season of the depthless hell hole that is Championship mid-table obscurity, Gunn sought a permanent move to a much stronger outfit than that at Carrow Road.
Southampton were quick to snap up the 22 year-old for an estimated fee of around £13.5 million. However, in the two years so far spent at St. Mary's, Gunn only managed 22 league appearances, ultimately leading him straight back into the bottomless trap hole of bench-warming in the Championship with Stoke
Coming in to replace Jack Butland on the Stoke bench, Gunn eventually finding himself quickly into the starting line-up after an injury to teammate Adam Davies saw Gunn come in in a 2-0 away loss to Swansea back in October.
4 appearances later, Gunn would himself be forced out for up to 8 weeks with an ankle ligament injury. Where his Stoke City position lies at the end of the season really comes down to how quickly Gunn can recover.
** 3. Jack Butland**
The one time England wonderkid that had every onlooker licking his lips back in 2013, Jack Butland's fall from international star to mid-table benchwarmer is as drastic as it is sad.
Signed from Birmingham back in 2013 from Birmingham City for a neat sum of £3.5 million, Butland would go on to register over 150 league appearances for Stoke, after several loan spells where Asmir Begovic was the Potters favourite under Mark Hughes, the Bosnian's move to Chelsea come in as the immediate number one in the potteries.
After several impressive season between the sticks, seeing him win the Fans Player of the Year twice and his stock rise dramatically, resulting in him being linked with the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, Butland suffered a fractured ankle in England's 3-2 win over Germany in March 2016.
The injury the end of Buland's season and subsequently his England Career. Butland hasn't made an international appearance since and a string of bad form spanning relegation with Stoke and two following seasons in the Championship, he lost the starting position to Adam Davies.
Butland has since moved to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2020, where he has yet to register an appearance at Selhurst Park and see his recovery from England halted by a positive COVID test. Honestly, this man hasn't caught a break since 2016, however when I asked him for a picture in Morisson's once he was a bit snippy, so yeah he deserves it.
** 4. Adam Davies**
And now, the man who dethroned Butland as the number one at Stoke City, Adam Davies is by far the best and most talented player of our 7. The twice capped Welshman, who was actually born in Rintein, Germany (not gonna blame you for not knowing that tid bit), signed for the club as back-up to Butland from Barnsley in August 2019, alongside fellow League One Team of the Season winner Liam Lindsay.
While Lindsay's career at Stoke has halted almost immediately, Davies has seen himself fully enforced as the Potters' starting 'keeper. Seeing himself come into the 2020/21 off the back of a tremendous end of last season which saw Stoke lose once in their last six games, Davies was on hot form.
Unfortunately, during his 12th league appearance for the West Midlands side, Davies suffered a torn cruciate knee ligament, ruling him out for an estimated 3 months. If not for this injury, Stoke would be nowhere near the level of 'keeper confusion that they are now, so in the end, it's all his fault (jk love you Adam, please get fit soon x).
** 5. Blondy Nna Noukeu**
By far the most mysterious and unknown member of this group, and likely the entire squad, very little is actually known of the 19 year old Belgian/Cameroonian shot stopper.
Noukeu has been called up by the Cameroon National Team so far this season, but has yet to register a career appearance in goal, and considering he was third choice at the start of the season and now finds himself ranked 7th in that list, that ain't changing anytime soon buddy.
Like, seriously, imagine being 3rd choice keeper, both ahead of you get injured, so the club finds four more people immediately before even thinking about you. That's harsh af man.
** 6. Niki Mäenpää**
The penultimate keeper in this seven will hopefully turn out to be the penultimate signing Stoke have to make this season. Mäenpää, who at 35 joins the club having been released by Bristol City at the end of last season, was intended to come in to play as support for youngster Joe Bursik.
Not even expected to ever even play for the first team, two days after signing for the club, Mäenpää suffered an injury during training, leaving him out until at least the New Year.
This left Michael O'Neill scrambling again, looking to sign yet another senior goalkeeper, with a game against Wycombe Wanderers in two days time.
** 7. Andy Lonergan**
This signing is the biggest coup of the season and no one even noticed it. The Club World Cup winning, Champions League winner, Premier League champion dropping down to the chamionship ON A FREE should be shocking news!
Nah, Andy Lonergan left Liverpool at the end of last season after no minutes ever gained at Anfield, but was given a Premier League winners medal by Jurgen Klopp, noting how his guidance really improved the quality of the the backup goalkeeping squad and signifying how the whole squad is as important as each. A touching gesture, but that's a bit of a kop-out mate, like giving the fat kid an MVP award at the end of the season because he didn't score an own goal all season.
BONUS 8TH KEEPER THAT I FORGOT ABOUT
If this story couldn't get any more ridiculous, I forgot about Stokes' 8th keeper, the England Under-18 international Nathan Broome!
Currently a member of the Stoke academy, Broome was called up by Kevin Betsy to represent his nation. Initially poised to take over as bench keeper to Joe Bursik, Broome has also picked up an injury and so also faces time on the sidelines.
So there you have it, a thorough run through of every goalkeeper currently fighting for a first team spot Stoke where all they have to do is recover quickly.
At time of writing, Joe Bursik is the starting keeper, while normally being considered Stoke's 4th choice, while Andy Lonergan remains on the bench, while being considered 8th in the list by Michael O'Neill. Something tells me this won't be over soon and soon we'll be getting Doris the Tea Lady in a pair of Puma goalie gloves from Sports Direct and training with the big boys down at Clayton Wood.
A man can dream.......

Good evening my fellow degenerates.
Two years ago there was a sportsbook survey that I stumbled upon. You can find the results Here . I think these results gave a decent idea of the users here, and I figured it'd be good to get an update on that.
If you would like to fill out the survey, the link is Here
Last time there were 500 respondents, so if we can get to that number, that'd be sick. This is my first survey I've ever created, so if there's any issues, feel free to let me know.
Also, please do upvote this for my karma so this stays relevant for sportsbook . I will share the results at the end of this week, just in time for Sunday football :)
EDIT:
So I've made a few edits. In order to see the nice data sets, you can't have it as short answer. Otherwise, it's a wall of text to sift through. I can make it a piechart into google forms, but even then, due to the uniqueness of answers, it's a wide array of colors. I still have all the individual answers shown, but it's about 30 differnet colors in one chart.
Instead, I've made it another multiple choice, with the top answers being the first four choices & then the option of other. So, without further ado, here are your finalists.
For the sports team / player that gives most grief this gives us : Rockets (by a wide margin lol), Cowboys, Clippers, & 76ers. (Flyers, Arsenal, Titans, Colts, Falcons, Islanders all have 3)
For the Capper question : We have Bob, Chasingpayments, YBK, Sidekick, Myself, and None.
For the Sportsbook question: Bovada, Draftkings, Fanduel, Personal bookie, bet365
I still have the array of colors, but hopefully this makes it look a little cleaner. Regardless, you can still see the individual answers if you hover over the graph.
As of right now, we are currently sitting at 1000 responses! This community has truly grown. Some of my favorite answers are : Meat popsicle for gender, Jarrett Culver not staying home for grief, and Jameis Winston & has bad eye sight.
Lastly, I will also give the spreadsheet that I exported it to so we can all view.
Thanks again for everyone's participation
One last edit : As per the 36 responses, here is the link to my bitcoin wallet Here

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Date: 29/08/2020
Kick-off: 3pm UK time
Pre-match odds (bet365): Brighton & Hove Albion 5 | Draw 3.8 | Chelsea 1.7
Clean sheet probability (bet365): Brighton & Hove Albion 20% | Chelsea 38%
​ Match fact: Chelsea haven't lost to Brighton in their last 6 meetings (5W, 1D)
Brighton host Chelsea at the Amex, the first match to allow fans (2,500 of them) back into stadiums as a test after the Coronavirus pandemic. Fans are expected to be slowly allowed back to stadiums from October 1st. The Brighton stadium was selected for the test due to its strong transport links, wide concourses and spaced out seats at the stadium.
Brighton also host Chelsea at home for the first game of the season on September 14th (KO 8pm on Sky Sports), so this match could provide a sneak peek as to what we can expect in a couple weeks. However, as with all friendlies, make sure not to read into the result too much.
​ Brighton debuts: Lallana, Veltman, White
Lineups:
Brighton
Ryan (GK), Veltman, White, Webster, Dunk (C), March, Bissouma, Alzate, Lallana, Maupay, Trossard
Subs: Walton (GK), Sanchez (GK), Bernardo, Duffy, Burn, Stephens, Lamptey, Gross, Molumby, Connolly, Mac Allister, Jahanbakhsh, Gyokeres, Sanders.
Chelsea
Kepa (GK), James, Clarke-Salter, Christensen, Alonso, Kante, Kovacic, Loftus-Cheek, Ziyech, Werner, Hudson-Odoi
Subs: Caballero, Baxter, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Ampadu, Maatsen, Castillo, Gallagher, Baker, McCormick, Peart-Harris, Lawrence, Vale, Giroud.
​
Timeline:
MATCH START
'4 GOAL for Chelsea, Werner (0-[1])
HALF TIME
'49 PENALTY MISSED - Maupay
'90 GOAL for Brighton, Gross ([1]-1) - penalty
FULL TIME
​
Scorers: Werner ('4), Gross ('90)
Assists: Hudson-Odoi ('4)
​
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For those who are already familiar with our website - cornerprobet - are well aware of the functionalities of our inplay alerts system (which we like to call it Bot system) and I will do a post here explaining on how you can build inplay alerts pretty much as you want. With out website the options are endless and I will briefly explaining some of them. Also make sure to check the first comment as I will show how you can try it over the weekend - aka 3 days trial.
Before we start, please note that this Bot system is only one tool that is available on our website. I will only go through the main options, otherwise this post would be huge.
#1 One big thing with our Bot system is the ability for you to customise on how you want your message to be like - example, you can choose that you want all the stats live or only the information of shots on, last corners/goals or how many dangerous attacks there are. Also, you can set the option to receive the alert with the bet365 link, for those who work there.
#2 If you are into corners, do not forget to set the option "Open Corner Market" as by having it activate, you will only receive alerts from matches which have the corner market opened.
#3 Write a message on your bot so you do not forget why you have received an alert.
#4 Other main option within the first part of building your own bot is to set if you want to receive alerts only when the Favourite team is losing/draw. The awesome on this is that you can set the result you want and the odd of the favourite yourself - so imagine if your favourite are teams between 1.01 and 1.50, you can set it; or if you want to give a broader option, you can also set your favourite team as having odds to win pre-live betwen 1.01 and 2.15
The first part of building your Bot is similar to this picture: https://i.imgur.com/zVEtkoJ.png
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So.. What if you could choose what data you want to use - Pre-live Analysis data (e.g. Over 2.5FT %) or Live Stats? Well..... You can with our system. You can mix both or only use live data.
#1 Pre-Live Analysis Stats: once you click this option, you will be able to choose the Pre-live data based on the analysis of the match. The options available are Goals and Corners.
a) Goals: by opening this sub-tab, you will see 4 different categories: Over Goals - if you want to use the website's prediction for Over 0.5HT Goals %, Over 1.5HT Goals %, Over 1.5FT Goals %, Over 2.5FT Goals %, among other; Average Goals - in here you will have the percentage of goals per interval (Goals 0-15%, Goals 31-HT% etc etc); Interval Goals - similar to the previous one but in here you can use the absolute numbers of Goals Scored, Goals Conceded and/or Total Goals per interval; Other Pre-live Stats: in this last sub-category you can use the website prediction for BTTS, Team to Score a Goal, Team to Win, etc.
b) Corners: similar to the goals section, you will have 4 different categories: Over Corners - if you want to use the website's prediction for Over 1.5HT, Over 2.5HT, Over 3.5HT, Over 8.5FT, Over 9.5FT etc.; Average Corners: you can use the data for Half Time/Full Time Average; Interval Corners - similar to the goals, in here you can use the website's prediction for data in %, Favour or in Average. This is one of the most used tabs to those who create bots for corners as, for instance, you can set the percentage for late corners HT or Full Time and combine this with the data in favour - or, of course, with live data to make your bot more accurate; Races - if you like this, you can also use the website's prediction for Races to make your own bot.
-- Note: a very cool new feature we have added is the fact that you can set how you want this pre-live to be used. This is, you can decide if you want to use this data as Average between Teams, if you want only one Team to pass the value you have set or if you want Both Teams to pass the value you set. Again, options are endless.
This part is similar to this one: https://i.imgur.com/4FaH7al.png
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#2 Live Stats: the most used section to when you build a bot and you get the reason why - in this section, you can use the data of what is going on during the match. The available data are: goals, corners, yellow cards, red cards, dangerous attacks, attacks, shots-on target, shots-off, total shots, pressure index (EXCLUSIVE from our website), Ball Posession and Goals Chance (equation using corners + shots-on + shots-off).
1) We have updated this Bot system and - again - the options are endless when you use the live data. You get to decide on how you want to use the live data. Giving an example with Dangerous attacks:
a) You can set if you want the value to pass in the match ("Total Home + Away")
b) You can set if you want the value to pass only for the Home Team OR the Away Team.
c) You can set if you want the value to pass for Both Teams - For instance, if you set the value to 40 dangerous attacks "Both Teams", you will only receive alerts from matches when both Home and Away team individually have values higher than 40 dangerous attacks.
d) "Any Team" - if you want to make a bot dedicated to a favourite, this is your option to go. In fact, if you do not care if it is the home or away team, choose this option. As similar to the "Favourite team is losing/draw", by enabling this option you can set the odd you want the team ot pass the value you set.
e) "Difference Home-Away", "Difference Away- Home", "Difference Favourite-Opponent", "Difference Opponent - Favourite": use these options if you want to set differences between teams. For instance, you can set and receive alerts to when the Home Team has 40 dangerous attacks more than the Away Team.
d) A final option within the live data is the fact that you can set an Interval of Time for your value to pass on. For instance, with our system you can set to receive alerts when there are 30 dangerous attacks between the the 46-70 mins. And yes, if you got it right, you can set the interval time AND set the team you want the value to pass on. This is, you can receive alerts only when the Home Team (or any other team) does 30 dangerous attacks between the 46-70 mins. As I said several times, the options are endless.
--- This part looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/2FBD2I5.png
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Aaand that it's! No sorry, that is "not it" as there are more and more options to discover :D As I said and as you have by now understand, with our system you can create Bots as you want. The options are endless. It is up to your imagination to decide what Bot you want to make. And so, it does not matter what market you work on, you can create bots to help with your inplay analysis.
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In the first comment below I will share you on how you can get a free trial for this weekend and how you can receive alerts from the pre-configured system.

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Hello everyone, I literally created an account here just to write this message for everybody to take caution of this site called AstroPay (which I doubt anyone will actually use it except me, the dumbass). So basically I would like to deposit to Pinnacle, and the payment method available in my country is only AstroPay, ecoPayz and Bitcoin. I was pretty curious to check out AstroPay because I was thinking, well if a big book like Pinnacle accepts it, nothing can goes wrong right? And that is where I am wrong!
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I registered at AstroPay and trying to make a deposit of 100$ in which I will deposit later to Pinnacle, and the only option available is through bitcoin at that moment, so I purchased some bitcoin at remitano and proceed to transfer the amount required to buy the so-called "AstroPay card", at first I wasn't worried because I know sometimes bitcoin transaction takes awhile so I waited... 1 hour.... 3 hours.... and now 24 hours have passed. I tried to lookup their customer service and surprisingly a "big" company like AstroPay doesn't even have a livechat or call! Only email! Very funny. So I've decided to email them trying to describe my problems and asking why is it taking so long.
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Now here's the part where it pissed me off the most, as a payment option company they asked me to send a payment proof of my transaction, like wtf can't you just check it through your side? But is okay I will cooperate so I've sent all the details required, the blockchain link, the proof that I've sent the exact BTC to the address mentioned by AstroPay. After that, every reply I get from the customer service is just a COPY-PASTE message that they require a NEW PAYMENT PROOF! They don't even bother to TRY to fix your problem, they literally just don't give a shit to your transaction, moreover it's a bitcoin transaction so I am pretty sure I am getting scammed here without a doubt... Since there's no way I can chargeback or anything.
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I've made the worst decision of my life, now don't make yours. Thank you for reading! Please if possible comment anything down below and make this post go viral until it gets the attention of AstroPay, then maybe I can get 100$ back (even thou the hope is low)

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Double Record Overall: 20W-21L : -6.8 Units Profit
July: 8W-13L : -17.71 Units Profit
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🕧20:45 Inter Milan vs Fiorentina @1.44 Over 1 goal, Each team at least 1 card
-Inter Milan have seen on Average the fourth highest amount of goals in the league at 3.24 per game -Fiorentina have seen an average of 2.59 match goals -Inter Milan see an average of 3.24 goals in their 17 Home games -Fiorentina See an average of 3 goals in their 16 away games -Both teams have scored 23 of Inters 34 games -Both teams have scored in 22 of Fiorentina 34 games -Inter Milan have only failed to score in 2 games in the league all season -Inter have seen 87 yellows and 7 red cards in 34 games at an average of 2.9 per Game (if we use Bet365 rule of 2 cards for a red) -Fiorentina have seen 89 yellows and 6 red cards in 34 games, once again average 2.9 if we stick to the above formula
🕧20:45 Sampdoria vs Genoa Over 1.5 Match Goals, Each team at least 1 card @1.4
-Sampdoria average 2.97 goals a game, 2.75 at home -77% of Sampdoria games Over 1.5 Goals, 71% at home -Genoa average 3.13 goals, 3.35 away -82% of Genoa games Over 1.5 Goals, 88% away -Last 13 Sampdoria games Over 1.5 Goals, Last 6 at Home -Last 11 Genoa games Over 1.5 Goals, Last 6 away -Last 7/10 H2H Over 1.5 Goals, Last 6/7 H2H when Sampdoria at Home -Last 6 Sampdoria games Over 2.5 Goals, Last 3 Total. Last 6 Genoa away games Over 2.5 Goals -Sampdoria scored 2 or more in their last 3 games
-Sampdoria average 2.91 Team cards, 2.82 at home -97% of games Over 0.5 Team Cards, 94% at home -Genoa average 2.97 Team cards, 3 away -94% of games Over 0.5 Team Cards, 94% away -Sampdoria had a card in the last 9/10 games, 9/10 at home -Genoa had a card in their last 9/10 games, 9/10 away -Both teams had a card in their last 5 H2H -Referee averages 5.56 yellows a game, 0.75 Reds. Given both teams a card in his last 17 matches.
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With Cheltenham Festival coming up, I thought I’d put together a comprehensive guide and overview for what is THE most profitable time for matched bettors.
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So whether you have been doing matched betting for a while or you’re completely new to the concept, with a bit of luck this post should be interesting/useful.
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Just a quick disclaimer. Throughout this guide I will be referencing Heads&Heads, however, this is not a promotional piece. The advice below can be used and applied to whichever service you happen to be with. There will be an offer at the bottom of this guide. Ignore it if you are not interested, I won’t be offended – the important thing is we all smash Cheltenham while it is still so profitable.
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Firstly, why exactly is this such a profitable time for Matched Bettors? Well, simply put, the Cheltenham Festival is one of the world’s biggest horse racing events. As such, all the bookmakers will be falling over themselves to ensure punters place their bets with them rather than their competitors.
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Why Cheltenham is a Big Deal
Cheltenham Festival is one of the busiest times of the year for bookmakers with projections of around £500 million to be placed in bets over the 4 days of racing. There are a total of 28 races to bet on giving an average of around £17,850,000 bet on each race. Punters at the Festival and around the country betting online jump on early ante-post markets and last minute bets. The rise of mobile betting in recently years has given bookmakers a new way to connect with customers and now it’s easier than ever to place a bet wherever you are.
With so much money involved in betting on races at Cheltenham, bookies fight for customers in the run-up and during the festival. One way bookies entice customers to bet with them over a competitor is to run special promotions for the races. These can be in the form of free bet offers, money back specials, extra places, best odds guaranteed and more. Punters looking for the best value in their bets should take advantage of these enhanced offers while they are around as they can result in increased returns and minimised losses. All of this plays into the hands of matched bettors like us, who can take advantage of the value without incurring risk.
If you are holding back on completing welcome offers before Cheltenham, then you should know that several bookmakers run enhanced offers throughout Cheltenham. Some of the more popular ones being Betfair, SkyBet, Ladbrokes, Coral and Betfred.
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6 Steps For Tackling Cheltenham
With all the offers and potential profit flying around it can become a little overwhelming. The best place to start is by simply practicing the basics - and that is our first of six steps for getting ready to tackle Cheltenham.
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Note: I will update this post with the key offers closer to the time.
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1. Practice Makes Perfect
When it comes to matched betting you can never get enough practice! You may think you understand every reload strategy there is. However, when the offers come as quickly as they do during Cheltenham, practice can be the difference between getting into breaking the £1,000 profit mark and missing out.
So, make sure that you have familiarised yourself with and practiced the popular horse racing offers before Cheltenham. These include 2nd to SP Fav, 2nd place refund, 4/1 winner, fallers insurance. Simply doing a Saturday’s worth of horse racing reload offers will tick a lot of these boxes.
If you would like to understand the concept a little more, we recommend going to the Training Section of Heads&Heads and looking at the guides under the sub-heading, ‘Offer Strategies’.
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2. Be Organised
This can be best summed up as - make sure that your money is where it needs to be before the end of the weekend prior to Cheltenham (7th & 8th March).
Additionally, try to have completed the majority of the welcome offers for the major bookmakers. The key bookmaker to have ready is Bet365 – their Horse racing offer during the festival is massively profitable.
Set up a separate PayPal for faster withdrawals.
If you've not got a massive exchange balance, then on this rare occasion we recommend boosting its size using your own funds. Of course, because you’re matched betting the only risk is the tiny qualifying loss per offer, which you should be used to by now. The last thing you want is to be missing out on offers and not making the most of the available profit.
Try to get some bets on the night before if the odds matches are strong. Know which offers are available on which races and know what offers you want to go for on each race.
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3. Go Easy Early
Do easy low stake reloads (Free bet on a loss, 2nd place, 2nd to SP favourite, etc) the night before if possible or early morning. The Exchanges will have a lot of liquidity, even hours before the races – meaning that you will not need to worry about unmatched bets when laying.
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4. Odds Boosts & VIP
Look out for the boosts and make a note to check the Heads&Heads forums facebook group hourly for any updates on potential boosts. These will come thick and fast, but if you are quick, you can create some pretty incredible profit margins.
Additionally, make sure you check your email over the 4 days. There will be plenty of bookmakers handing out ‘tailored’ offers to their VIP members. VIP has a loose definition in the eyes of the bookmaker, so you’re likely to get a lot more of these than you think and they are often very lucrative.
If you want Heads&Heads to check a VIP offer before you attempt it, just post on the forum or message us on Live Chat.
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5. Enjoy It
Sounds cliché but don’t let it stress you out. Making money is great but taking the week off work and then running yourself into the ground all week isn't worth it. Matched betting is a side earner – something to enjoy and be done in your spare time to earn you some extra cash. It should not feel like a job.
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6. A Small Exchange Balance Is No Excuse!
Is it worth taking part with a really small bank like £500'ish?
Even if you just did the offers that guaranteed a profit, you’d still make around £250 and this would not require a massive exchange balance. So yes, it is absolutely still worth it.
What If I Am Gubbed by Most Bookmakers?
This is a very common question and not an unreasonable one either. After all it is incredibly frustrating to have your account with a bookie gubbed. This is even worse when a huge event like Cheltenham is coming up.
Honestly, it will restrict your ability to make money, but it is still possible to make a profit from Cheltenham.
Extra place strategies are worth looking at. This is made possible because Extra place betting doesn’t rely on you using free offers. So, if the bookie has only restricted your use of free offers then this is your best option. Furthermore, if you are restricted from getting reload offers by a bookmaker, you should still be able to take advantage of odds boosts. So, keep an eye out for these on the Heads&Heads Forum.
Anything I Should Be Looking Out For?
One issue to be aware of is that of the smaller bookmakers offering very generous odds. If an offer looks too good to be true then you should be careful. This was particularly true a couple of years ago, when a lot of smaller bookies offered really good odds and then refused to pay out people’s winnings.
This problem is unlikely to occur again (happened in 2017), with bookmakers under the spotlight by legislators like never before. In addition, if you have an account with the bookmaker prior to Cheltenham starting, then you’ll be slightly more trusted by the bookie and thus they will honour your pay-out.
Should You Book Time Off Work?
Are you planning to take time off work during Cheltenham? This could be a great idea. As well as watching the races on TV, you can stay up to date with all of the offers during the day. However, we want to stress that taking time off work is by no means 'required' to make money during this week.
That said, speed will be key for so many of the opportunities during the festival. You may only have a small amount of time to place your bet or lose the opportunity. Being at home will, of course, make this a lot easier.
However, not everyone can take all 4 days off. So which days should you prioritise?
Simple answer really. The first day – Tuesday (10th March).
The reason for this is that the first day sees more offers available than any other single day. The bookies tend to start off strong and tail off towards the end.
Cheltenham Schedule
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Day 1 (Tuesday 10th March 2020)
13:30 -The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
14:10 - The Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase
14:50 -The Ultima Handicap Steeple Chase
15:30 - The Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
16:10 - The Mares’ Hurdle
16:50 - The Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase
17:30 - The National Hunt Challenge Cup
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Day 2 (Wednesday 11th March 2020)
13:30 - The Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle
14:10 - The RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase
14:50 - The Coral Cup
15:30 - The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase
16:10 - The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase
16:50 - The Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
17:30 - The Weatherbys Champion Bumper
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Day 3 (Thursday 12th March 2020)
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13:30 - The Marsh Novices’ Chase
14:10 - The Pertemps Network Final
14:50 - The Ryanair Chase
15:30 - The Stayers’ Hurdle
16:10 - The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate
16:50 - Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle
17:30 - The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup
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Day 4 (Friday 13th March 2020)
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13:30 - The JCB Triumph Hurdle
14:10 - The Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle
14:50 - The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
15:30 - The Cheltenham Gold Cup
16:10 - The St. James’s Place Foxhunter Challenge Cup
16:50 - Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Handicap Chase
17:30 - Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle
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Our Predictions
Now, predictions may seem a bit useless as we are matched betting. However, knowing who the experts favour to win can help you pick a horse. So, for example, if an offer was triggered if your horse lost, you'd want to be sure you were avoiding those favoured to do well. So, use the below to help inform some of your decisions when completing Cheltenham reload offers.
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Epatante
Epatante has caught the eye of punters during the early betting for the Champion Hurdle and, at the time of writing, rates as one of the strongest race favourites of the week. We likely have not seen the best of this horse.
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Benie Des Dieux
Benie Des Dieux is quoted for a few Cheltenham races this spring but traders at major bookmakers are confident she will run in the Mares Hurdle. If she does, bookies expect her to win the race with a bit to spare.
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Envoi Allen
Envoi Allen is priced as the standout horse in the Ballymore Novices Hurdle and traders believe he will take all the beating. A loss here will rate as one of the biggest upsets of the week. He won each of his first seven starts.
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Defi Du Seuil
Defi Du Seuil can be found quoted in the Champion Chase antepost betting and the early money has been promising. He has won 13 of his first 18 and those stats aren’t to be taken lightly, certainly not by backers.
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Tiger Roll
Tiger Roll is a fans favourite but have we already seen the best of Tiger Roll? As it stands Tiger Roll is the antepost favourite to win the Cross Country Chase and is a short price at that.
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Every Cheltenham offer will be posted on the Reload section. It is also worth keeping up to date with the Cheltenham Forum thread – here the best offers of the day will be discussed.
If you are interested in giving matched betting a go or Heads&Heads a go I’ve posted a discount code below. As I mentioned at the start of the guide, you can either use it or not. The main thing for me will be people find one or two useful bits of info in this guide.
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Discount:
£2 for 60 days of Premium membership to Heads&Heads.
Discount code: BUILDUP
Click the link to have the code automatically applied:
https://headsandheads.co.uk/sign-up?discount=BUILDUP
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Timetable template for Cheltenham: https://headsandheads.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Cheltenham+Timetable+-+template.xlsx
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The most important thing is to get involved!
Best of luck and happy profit hunting!

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The teams are in, all the regular posters are at the match so this is going to be a quiet as fuck match thread, but who cares it's FOOOOTBAAAAAAALLLLL.

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People who remember the names of bit-part loan players will of course remember Bristol Manager Lee Johnson, who played a magnificent and memorable 4 games for the Rams in 2010 under Nigel Clough. Fans of players who try hard but don't really achieve much will also remember Andreas Weimann and Kasey Palmer.
Onto the brass tax: THE TEAMS

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Presumably 4-2-3-1 but I don't have a fucking clue.
GK: Kelle 'somehow now number 1' Roos LB: Scott 'Not Better Than Forsyth' Malone CD: Richard 'The Motherfucking Beast' Keogh© CD: Matthew 'Fikayo Tomori' Clarke RB: Max 'WTF I'm not a right back' Lowe CDM: Tom 'I'm lucky to still be here' Huddlestone CDM: Kristian 'You're lucky to have me here' Bielik LW: Mason 'I want to put a joke here about how lucky his is to be in the team, but I just like him' Bennett RW: Tom 'Todays Scapegoat, brought to you by 32Red' Lawrence CAM: Keiran 'Mason Mount' Dowell ST: Martyn 'I'm' Waghorn(y)

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Ben Hamer Florian 'Cool name' Jozefzoon Jack 'People will say should have started' Marriott George 'Not Thorne' Evans Curtis 'Used to be good' Davies Jason 'Prospect' Knight Lee '100% scoring record' Buchanan

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Some guys I have never heard of plus Kasey Palmer Andreas Weimann.
Match happenings brought to you by some betting company:
1944: The teams are out, Radio Derby is on 1945: AND WE'RE OFF 1946: Bristol have the first attack and Kelle clears. 1950: Bit boring so far. Sorry. 1952: I'm actually having some webbonet issues sponsored by PaddyPower. Updates might be sporadic. 2005: My stream is running 5 god damn minutes behind, which is obviously the most important thing, but also Weimann has scored for Bristol *sad face* DERBY 0-1 BRISTOL Lawrence nearly scored one time, so there's that. 0-2. Fuck off. I'm ordering a pizza. Half time 0-2. This is shit, innit. In other news, Jake Buxton has scored for Burton. Jozefzoon comes on for Malone... okay? Looks like a formation switch to 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 if you're a pessimist. Marriott once again says "I probably should have started." 1-2.

I had so much fun going putting together a short list yesterday morning, that I spent a couple of hours in the evening going through the longer list of 75 donors, cross referencing with entries in Companies House. The general concept is to highlight businesses and their owners that people may want to avoid using or support because of their funding of Brexit.
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I wouldn't have been able to accomplish this so quickly if powerbase.info hadn't already done the hard work in identifying the donors.
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I was surprised by what I found. So here goes:

• Silver Cross, they make baby stuff, prams etc. https://www.silvercrossbaby.com/ (Alan Halsall, £30k donation)
• Construct Equip, plant hire in the midlands. https://www.construct-equip.co.uk/ . Gladys Bramall a BNP supporter gave £600k. Gove promised to return the donation but never did https://www.politicshome.com/news/europe/eu-policy-agenda/brexit/news/76420/michael-gove-vote-leave-could-hand-back-%C2%A3600000-ex
• Bruichladdich whiskey. A pity because this is tasty stuff. John McTaggart gave 10k. He also owns Nadler Hotels Group https://www.nadlerhotels.com/ and the Waterford distillery https://waterforddistillery.ie. He has a new rum coming to market soon as well http://caneco.gd/. He holds New York real estate investments in this company http://mactaggartfp.com/ (589 + 576 + 261 5th Avenue, 183 Madison Avenue, 50 Orange Street)
• Rubiks Cube. The guy who makes all the money from these isn't Erno Rubik, it's David Lytton Kremer, via his toy company Seven Towns. https://www.seventowns.com/ . £200k donation is not trivial.
• Next plc. Simon Wolfson gave £50k and he's CEO. His dad was also CEO, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale. Father and son were both made life peers by the Conservative Party. Some people think that hereditary peerages weren't a thing anymore, but they are in this family.
• Heals Lighting. William Hobhouse is the CEO. https://www.heals.com/lighting.html. He chucked in £20k to vote leave.
• Terry Adams Inc. A Kentucky based construction firm specialising in retail and commercial. £500k!! http://www.terryadamsinc.com/Company.asp
• Dixons, Currys, Pc World. Stanley Kalms put in £30k and he's life president of these businesses. I found this gem on him - British Jewish author Tony Lerman, formerly of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research has written about feeling uncomfortable with views expressed by Kalms on Islam. Lerman recalls a meeting on 17 November 2006: There was only one 'interest' that European Jews needed to pursue in Europe, he [Kalms] said: Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. What JPR should be doing is fighting Islam, showing complete support for the two people who had stood up to Islam - Tony Blair and George Bush. Most Muslims didn't want to integrate, he said. Ultimately they would line up behind the fundamentalists. After making disparaging remarks about Islam he asserted that the problem was what Muslims were doing in their schools, in their madrassas and in their mosques cannot be controlled.
• Berkeley Homes. £12k donation via St James Group
• Albert Wiegman £28k. He's a partner in Langholm Capital, so you could avoid their brands - Tyrells Crisps (now German owned), Dorset Cereals, Purity Soft Drinks, WoolOvers (online knitwear), Just Retirement. Also in Finland they have Farmos, and Lumene Group, and in Denmark Cane Line / Sika-Horsnaes
• Annabels Nightclub in Mayfair. It's named after Annabel Goldsmith £25k. I doubt redditors are in the market for high end hookers in London, but if you are find them some place else.
• You want to avoid pubs in Norfolk? I give you Gunton Arms and Suffield Arms, owned by art dealer Ivor Braka £30k
• Getting fit in Maidstone? Don't go to Mote Hall / Maidstone Leisure Centre £10k. Controlled by Richard Stewart Ashness . He also owns https://www.jardox.com/ who make flavours for food brands.
• Legal & General Investment Management - Dame Helena Morrissey heads this up https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-managenews/helena-morrissey-and-alex-darwall-join-group-backing-brexit/a1093670
• Hiscox Insurance. Robert Hiscox £50k. He's also chair of swindon museum and art gallery trust, kenneth armitage foundation, paolozzi foundation. Rich people like to support poor artists, t'was ever thus.
• Shipping stuff in Autralia - don't use Seaway £15k. http://www.seaway.com.au/shipping-agencies/. Lady Carolina Sweeting has at least 75% of the business. here she is introducing her baby to pope francis https://www.ashmi.org/cf_enotify/view.cfm?n=1722 . Here's her link to seattle nwpatrons - also see the looted artefacts http://www.nwpatrons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Winter-2015-final.pdf. Her husband owns Latis Homes, https://lat.is/ , and lives in Gibraltar, presumably for tax reasons.
• HR Smith, - https://www.hr-smith.com/hr-smith/about make a variety of aviation and search and rescue products for civilian and military use. £50k via Techtest.
• Reliance Security Group Brian Kingham £15k - Reliance Securtity Group https://www.rht.co.uk/

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That's all I 've got for now. The Midlands Industrial Council is worth a further look http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6051200.stm. The tricks that are used to hide donations are very crafty. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10591950/43-million-given-to-Conservatives-by-members-of-exclusive-Cameron-dining-club.html
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I might have a crack at the remain funders soon. http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Brexit_%E2%80%98remain%E2%80%99_donor
Bet365 put in £250k, so waste your money on sports betting there rather than at IG Index.
Buy your fights from Trailfinders £1m!!
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Finally, I'm happy to make corrections. In fact I would be delighted to because I'm not trying to put out anything that is not true - anything that's wrong in this list (or my previous one) throws shade over the other bits.
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• corrected Bluichladdich. It's now safe to drink because it's owned by the French!
• Remain backer analysis is defo in the works. I've gone through all the backers on infobase, but this one needs a bit of careful thought. Remain backers split into 2 camps in general - rich Tories who gave small amounts to the conservative remain campaign (to stay in David Cameron's good books I imagine), and others who backed the non-affiliated remain campaign.

Leicester City (pronounced Les-ter), or the Foxes, are a relatively insignificant team. They are often fighting for a mid-table place in the Premier League, just as often slugging it out in lower leagues.
The way the league works is simple: 20 teams play against each other, at home and away, adding up to 38 matches in total. You get 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss, and the team with the most points at the end of the season wins. Unlike in American sports, there are no playoffs in the Premier League. This means that a team can't make it to the playoffs, then catch fire and take the trophy home. No one wins the Premier League by luck or by going on a hot streak at just the right time. They win by being consistently the best over the course of a year. It's not at all unusual for an underdog team to get off to a great start, before eventually dropping down the table as their good form inevitably wears off. It's a long and psychologically grueling season, and it's difficult to keep up the same level over a year, especially once star players get injuries. Over the course of an entire season, the top teams rise to where they belong. A team can easily finish last despite beating the eventual champions. Imagine if the Miracle on Ice players had to play in a league over an entire year - would they finish above the Soviet Union? A title-winning team needs not just to have star players, but also a sufficiently deep squad so that other top quality players can step in when the stars are injured. This is why "little" teams simply do not win the league.
In addition, the Premier League is ruthlessly capitalist. Teams that finish poorly don't get first pick of promising young players, but are instead severely punished with relegation (more on that in the next paragraph). There are no salary caps. The teams with the most money buy up the best players, and those that win trophies and enter elite competitions like the Champions League get huge cash prizes, and attract even more top players, perpetuating the cycle of inequality. Top teams also have the best trainers, the best physios, the best facilities, the best talent scouts. There is a huge disparity in resources and quality between the top teams and the bottom ones, and no real mechanisms to even things up. The same teams almost always finish in the top 4. From 1992-2015 only five teams won the Premier League. The last time a team won the league without having won it before was 38 years ago.
Finishing in the bottom 3 positions (out of 20) is not just humiliating; it's utterly disastrous. It means being relegated to a lower division, which means a subsequent loss of TV money, less fans coming to the stadium since they won't get to see any games against "big" teams and players, and an inevitable loss of that team's best players, who don't want to settle for playing in the lower divisions, and whose salaries the club probably can't afford with the reduced income. Meanwhile, the top 2 finishing teams from the lower division secure automatic promotion, while those who place 3-6 will go to a playoff to decide who will clinch that third promotion spot. The promotion and relegation system makes the stakes incredibly high, and a team that has been relegated may struggle years to go back to the top flight, if they ever make it back at all.
Ok, back to Leicester. An 18th-place finish in the 2003-04 season saw Leicester relegated to the Championship (the second division of English football). The next few years they would struggle to retain their position in the Championship. After a poor 2007-08 season, they sank even lower to League One (which, confusingly, is the third division of English football).
They would climb their way back out of League One at the first attempt. The following season, Leicester were widely touted as favourites to win promotion back to the Premier League, but the next three seasons would prove disappointing. In 2013 they finally barely snuck into 6th place, high enough to secure a place in the play-offs for a promotion spot, but lost in absolutely incredible fashion to Watford.
It was the semi-final of the play-offs, a two-legged tie. Leicester saw out the first match in a 1-0 win. Next they had to go to Watford to see out the tie. Watford fought back on their turf, and as the match was winding down the score was 2-1, meaning that on aggregate they stood tied at 2-2. Extra time, and perhaps a penalty shootout beckoned. Then, with just a few seconds left on the clock, Leicester were awarded a penalty to book their spot into the final. What happened next... I will not even describe. Do yourself a favour and watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWSc3-NACSY
Following this heartbreak, Leicester would come back stronger, finishing in first place in 2013-14, securing automatic promotion after 10 years out of the top flight.
Their first season back started promisingly, with a few initial decent results, most notably a stunning 5-3 win over Manchester United. Then misery followed, and after months of terrible results Leicester sat rock bottom with only 9 matches left to play. It looked certain that the door back into the Championship stood open after just one season with the big boys.
Incredibly, Leicester managed to win 7 of their last 9 matches to secure probably the most miraculous escape in Premier League history, finishing the season safely in 14th place.
Scandal struck the club during the summer. A sex tape of three Foxes players having an orgy in a Bangkok hotel room with some Thai women leaked out. The players shouted racist abuse including "slit eye." One of the players happened to be the son of Foxes manager Nigel Pearson. Leicester's Thai owner was not amused, and Pearson and the three players were subsequently let go. The inspirational manager who had dragged Leicester out of the Championship and led them to that miraculous escape would not be there to guide the ship the following season.
No one was particularly impressed with Pearson's replacement, Claudio Ranieri. He had not managed any Premier League team since Chelsea in 2004 – back in 2004 he was shown the door by new billionaire investor Roman Abramovich, who felt Ranieri wasn’t a sufficiently glamorous manager and brought in Jose Mourinho. Ranieri had since had mixed success with various Italian teams, and his most recent job was manager of Greece – a job that ended in disgrace after just a few months, following a humiliating defeat by the Faroe Islands (yes, that place with a population of 50 thousand which is not even a country). In retrospect, there was a precedent for what Ranieri was about to do with Leicester - in two seasons at Monaco he led the club out of the French Ligue 2 (less confusingly, the second division in France) and the next season finished in second place with 80 points, the highest points tally ever achieved by a team in the French league without winning. Still, he had been unbelievably unimpressive at Greece.
Things did not look good for Leicester. Ranieri was the odds-on favourite to be the first to lose his job. Their squad was made up mostly of unknown players and a few scraps from the table of bigger clubs, including Robert Huth and Danny Simpson, discarded from Chelsea and Manchester United, respectively, for not being good enough (Huth, in fairness, had since made a name for himself as a rock-solid defender at Stoke, but he seemed by now to be past his prime). Their most expensive signing of the summer was N’Golo Kante, brought in from French team Caen - not exactly a blockbuster signing. With this context, it's easy to understand why, going into the 2015-16 season, Leicester were favourites for relegation.
Leicester came flying out in their first match with a 4-2 win over Sunderland, and went undefeated their first 6 matches, the only Premier League team to do so. After a 2-5 spanking at home by contenders Arsenal, their hot streak appeared to be over, and the universe seemed to be back in order.
Undeterred, the Foxes would continue flying. They played extremely energetic, rapid, and deadly counter-attacking football. They were well organized at the back, with all the players knowing their jobs, doing them well, winning the ball and getting it quickly into one of their devastating counter-attacks, sprinting across the pitch like a pack of wild, well, foxes. And three previously unknown quantities – N’Golo Kante, Riyad Mahrez, and Jamie Vardy, started pulling off astonishing performances. As they continued winning week after week, the pundits picked up on a fascinating statistic: 28-year-old goalscorer Jamie Vardy was about to become a record-breaker. But first, more about Vardy. If you thought this was an impressive rags-to-riches story up until now, you haven’t heard anything yet.
Jamie Vardy dreamt of being a professional footballer, but at the age of 16 he was released from the youth academy of Sheffield Wednesday, a team now playing in the Championship. He wasn’t cut out for it. Nevertheless Vardy kept playing semi-professionally for minnows Stocksbridge Park Steels, a team in the seventh tier of English football. He would spend 7 years there, working 12-hour shifts at a factory to support himself and playing on the weekends for £30 a match. At one point, after being charged with assault (according to Vardy, he was sticking up for a deaf friend that was being picked on), he had a 6pm curfew enforced and had to wear an ankle bracelet. Sometimes he had to be subbed off an hour into a match so he could jump into his dad's car to avoid breaking his curfew.
After some impressive displays, he was signed by Halifax Town, a team then in the sixth tier. He finished as the league’s top goalscorer and helped his team win promotion before signing for Fleetwood Town, now in the fifth tier. Again he finished top scorer, and again he helped his team win promotion. His impressive performances got him a call from Leicester. Finally, in 2012, at the age of 25, when most players would expect to have a few years of experience behind them, Vardy could call himself a pro.
Vardy’s first season was poor, prompting criticism from sceptical fans: what the hell was Leicester thinking, signing a player from three divisions below? However in the 2013-14 season he started showing what he could do, and his 16 goals helped Leicester to get back into the Premier League. Early on in the next season, he turned in a man-of-the-match performance against Manchester United, scoring one goal and setting up the other four in that 5-3 win. Along with the rest of his team, he would fail to make much of a mark for the rest of the season, but came to life at the crucial moment, playing a key role in Leicester’s miraculous escape.
Like Leicester, Vardy got off to a blistering start to the 2015-16 season, scoring in the first match of the season. Failing to net in the next two games, he then scored again in the fourth match. And in the fifth. And in the sixth. Twice in the seventh. He scored again in the eighth. Twice in the ninth. And in the tenth. By the twelfth match of the season, Jamie Vardy, who five years earlier worked in a factory, was the top goalscorer of the most competitive league in the world, and he had now scored nine games in a row.
The Premier League record for goals scored in most consecutive matches, 10, had been set in 2002 by Manchester United legend Ruud van Nistelrooy, one of the greatest attacking players since the new millennium. Could Vardy match the great van Nistelrooy?
Could he ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUKsTmDjEb0
Having equaled the record, there was one more challenge left: could he BEAT it? Well, what better opposition to go for it than against Manchester United themselves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot80PrLmkv0
By the way, did I mention that Vardy did all of this with a broken wrist?
At the end of 2015, Leicester made history: they were the only team to ever go from being bottom of the league on Christmas Day one season to top of the league on Christmas Day the next season. Meanwhile, Ranieri got his revenge over Abramovich and Mourinho: Leicester City's victory over Chelsea on December 14 was the final straw in an incomprehensibly dreadful season for defending champions Chelsea. Jose Mourinho, the glamorous manager brought in all those years ago to replace the unfashionable Ranieri, was fired from his second stint at the club that catapulted him to true stardom.
Thanks for playing, Leicester, everyone said. But it’s time for the fairytale to end. Surely these plucky underdogs would start to feel the pressure, would fall apart at some point?
Last weekend was the true test. Leicester faced title favourites Manchester City. Manchester City, until very recently, were a club mired in mediocrity, having undergone a long decline after some golden years in the late 60s. In 2008, the club was purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group, a private equity company owned by Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family. Overnight, this once middling team was one of the richest in the world. A slew of huge money signings brought a wealth of talented players, finally translating into first place success in the league in 2012 and 2014. Manchester City are for many a symbol of everything that is wrong with the hyper-capitalist world of football: all you need is a billionaire investor with a blank check, and the success will come.
Just to put the gap in resources into context between these two teams: Leicester’s starting line-up cost a grand total of £22.5 million to put together. Last summer, Manchester City brought in Raheem Sterling for a reported £49 million.
That’s right: ONE of Manchester City’s players cost more than TWICE AS MUCH money as Leicester’s ENTIRE first team put together.
Surely, surely, order would be restored?
Well, Leicester hadn’t read the script. http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/02/06/manchester-city-vs-leicester-city-highlights-full-match/
It was vintage Leicester: good organisation combined with terrifyingly fast counter-attacks. They went to the richest team in the country, and they didn’t just beat them. They carved them apart, repeatedly, in front of their fans, on their own turf. And they did it in a thrilling, entertaining way that was an advertisement to everyone about why this sport is so great. Player-of-the-season Riyad Mahrez was at his scintillating best, bamboozling the Manchester City defence with a brilliant goal. N'Golo Kante was huge in midfield, charging down the ball and starting counter-attacks. Robert Huth, the Chelsea reject, was a beast at the back and bagged himself two goals.
Leicester now sit five points clear on first place. They are well over the halfway mark. No one is talking any longer about when they will fall away. They are odds-on favourites to take the whole thing. If they do, it will be an unbelievable accomplishment. This weekend, they travel to London to take on contenders Arsenal, one of only two teams who have beaten them (the other being Liverpool) early in the season. Whatever happens, it will be thrilling.
EDIT: LEICESTER ARE CHAMPIONS. UNBELIEVABLE. Since more people are being linked to this post I've added a couple more explanations on how the league system basically works, for those that know very little, and corrected a couple factual inaccuracies (yes, Manchester City fans, you are absolutely right, Leicester and Man City did not have a similar amount of titles before 2008, sorry about that).
Also bet365 has 100/1 odds on Leicester winning the Champions League next season. It's not quite 5000/1 but it might be worth putting a quid on it.
My inbox has not been silent at pretty much any point during the last few months. The replies I've most enjoyed getting have been the "I don't usually watch this sport but this season I'm watching every game." Welcome to the greatest sport in the world.
I'm still getting over this. If you had told anyone a year ago that Wes Morgan would be one of the top defenders of the season, or Kasper Schmeichel one of the top goalkeepers, you would have been ridiculed. If you had started raving over Riyad Mahrez (now officially Player of the Season), you would have gotten a one-word response: "who?"

With Cheltenham Festival coming up, I thought I’d put together a comprehensive guide and overview for what is THE most profitable time for matched bettors.
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So whether you have been doing matched betting for a while or you’re completely new to the concept, with a bit of luck this post should be interesting/useful.
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Just a quick disclaimer. Throughout this guide I will be referencing Heads&Heads, however, this is not a promotional piece. The advice below can be used and applied to whichever service you happen to be with. There will be an offer at the bottom of this guide. Ignore it if you are not interested, I won’t be offended – the important thing is we all smash Cheltenham while it is still so profitable.
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Firstly, why exactly is this such a profitable time for Matched Bettors? Well, simply put, the Cheltenham Festival is one of the world’s biggest horse racing events. As such, all the bookmakers will be falling over themselves to ensure punters place their bets with them rather than their competitors.
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Why Cheltenham is a Big Deal
Cheltenham Festival is one of the busiest times of the year for bookmakers with projections of around £500 million to be placed in bets over the 4 days of racing. There are a total of 28 races to bet on giving an average of around £17,850,000 bet on each race. Punters at the Festival and around the country betting online jump on early ante-post markets and last minute bets. The rise of mobile betting in recently years has given bookmakers a new way to connect with customers and now it’s easier than ever to place a bet wherever you are.
With so much money involved in betting on races at Cheltenham, bookies fight for customers in the run-up and during the festival. One way bookies entice customers to bet with them over a competitor is to run special promotions for the races. These can be in the form of free bet offers, money back specials, extra places, best odds guaranteed and more. Punters looking for the best value in their bets should take advantage of these enhanced offers while they are around as they can result in increased returns and minimised losses. All of this plays into the hands of matched bettors like us, who can take advantage of the value without incurring risk.
If you are holding back on completing welcome offers before Cheltenham, then you should know that several bookmakers run enhanced offers throughout Cheltenham. Some of the more popular ones being Betfair, SkyBet, Ladbrokes, Coral and Betfred.
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6 Steps For Tackling Cheltenham
With all the offers and potential profit flying around it can become a little overwhelming. The best place to start is by simply practicing the basics - and that is our first of six steps for getting ready to tackle Cheltenham.
Note: I will update this post with the key offers closer to the time.
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1. Practice Makes Perfect
When it comes to matched betting you can never get enough practice! You may think you understand every reload strategy there is. However, when the offers come as quickly as they do during Cheltenham, practice can be the difference between getting into breaking the £1,000 profit mark and missing out.
So, make sure that you have familiarised yourself with and practiced the popular horse racing offers before Cheltenham. These include 2nd to SP Fav, 2nd place refund, 4/1 winner, fallers insurance. Simply doing a Saturday’s worth of horse racing reload offers will tick a lot of these boxes.
If you would like to understand the concept a little more, we recommend going to the Training Section of Heads&Heads and looking at the guides under the sub-heading, ‘Offer Strategies’.
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2. Be Organised
This can be best summed up as - make sure that your money is where it needs to be before the end of the weekend prior to Cheltenham (7th & 8th March).
Additionally, try to have completed the majority of the welcome offers for the major bookmakers. The key bookmaker to have ready is Bet365 – their Horse racing offer during the festival is massively profitable.
Set up a separate PayPal for faster withdrawals.
If you've not got a massive exchange balance, then on this rare occasion we recommend boosting its size using your own funds. Of course, because you’re matched betting the only risk is the tiny qualifying loss per offer, which you should be used to by now. The last thing you want is to be missing out on offers and not making the most of the available profit.
Try to get some bets on the night before if the odds matches are strong. Know which offers are available on which races and know what offers you want to go for on each race.
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3. Go Easy Early
Do easy low stake reloads (Free bet on a loss, 2nd place, 2nd to SP favourite, etc) the night before if possible or early morning. The Exchanges will have a lot of liquidity, even hours before the races – meaning that you will not need to worry about unmatched bets when laying.
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4. Odds Boosts & VIP
Look out for the boosts and make a note to check the Heads&Heads forums facebook group hourly for any updates on potential boosts. These will come thick and fast, but if you are quick, you can create some pretty incredible profit margins.
Additionally, make sure you check your email over the 4 days. There will be plenty of bookmakers handing out ‘tailored’ offers to their VIP members. VIP has a loose definition in the eyes of the bookmaker, so you’re likely to get a lot more of these than you think and they are often very lucrative.
If you want Heads&Heads to check a VIP offer before you attempt it, just post on the forum or message us on Live Chat.
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5. Enjoy It
Sounds cliché but don’t let it stress you out. Making money is great but taking the week off work and then running yourself into the ground all week isn't worth it. Matched betting is a side earner – something to enjoy and be done in your spare time to earn you some extra cash. It should not feel like a job.
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6. A Small Exchange Balance Is No Excuse!
Is it worth taking part with a really small bank like £500'ish?
Even if you just did the offers that guaranteed a profit, you’d still make around £250 and this would not require a massive exchange balance. So yes, it is absolutely still worth it.
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What If I Am Gubbed by Most Bookmakers?
This is a very common question and not an unreasonable one either. After all it is incredibly frustrating to have your account with a bookie gubbed. This is even worse when a huge event like Cheltenham is coming up.
Honestly, it will restrict your ability to make money, but it is still possible to make a profit from Cheltenham.
Extra place strategies are worth looking at (on Heads&Heads Training). This is made possible because Extra place betting doesn’t rely on you using free offers. So, if the bookie has only restricted your use of free offers then this is your best option. Furthermore, if you are restricted from getting reload offers by a bookmaker, you should still be able to take advantage of odds boosts. So, keep an eye out for these on the Heads&Heads Forum.
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Anything I Should Be Looking Out For?
One issue to be aware of is that of the smaller bookmakers offering very generous odds. If an offer looks too good to be true then you should be careful. This was particularly true a couple of years ago, when a lot of smaller bookies offered really good odds and then refused to pay out people’s winnings.
This problem is unlikely to occur again (happened in 2017), with bookmakers under the spotlight by legislators like never before. In addition, if you have an account with the bookmaker prior to Cheltenham starting, then you’ll be slightly more trusted by the bookie and thus they will honour your pay-out.
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Should You Book Time Off Work?
Are you planning to take time off work during Cheltenham? This could be a great idea. As well as watching the races on TV, you can stay up to date with all of the offers during the day. However, we want to stress that taking time off work is by no means 'required' to make money during this week.
That said, speed will be key for so many of the opportunities during the festival. You may only have a small amount of time to place your bet or lose the opportunity. Being at home will, of course, make this a lot easier.
However, not everyone can take all 4 days off. So which days should you prioritise?
Simple answer really. The first day – Tuesday (10th March).
The reason for this is that the first day sees more offers available than any other single day. The bookies tend to start off strong and tail off towards the end.
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Cheltenham Schedule
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Day 1 (Tuesday 10th March 2020)
13:30 -The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
14:10 - The Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase
14:50 -The Ultima Handicap Steeple Chase
15:30 - The Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
16:10 - The Mares’ Hurdle
16:50 - The Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase
17:30 - The National Hunt Challenge Cup
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Day 2 (Wednesday 11th March 2020)
13:30 - The Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle
14:10 - The RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase
14:50 - The Coral Cup
15:30 - The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase
16:10 - The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase
16:50 - The Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
17:30 - The Weatherbys Champion Bumper
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Day 3 (Thursday 12th March 2020)
13:30 - The Marsh Novices’ Chase
14:10 - The Pertemps Network Final
14:50 - The Ryanair Chase
15:30 - The Stayers’ Hurdle
16:10 - The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate
16:50 - Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle
17:30 - The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup
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Day 4 (Friday 13th March 2020)
13:30 - The JCB Triumph Hurdle
14:10 - The Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle
14:50 - The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
15:30 - The Cheltenham Gold Cup
16:10 - The St. James’s Place Foxhunter Challenge Cup
16:50 - Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Handicap Chase
17:30 - Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle
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Our Predictions
Now, predictions may seem a bit useless as we are matched betting. However, knowing who the experts favour to win can help you pick a horse. So, for example, if an offer was triggered if your horse lost, you'd want to be sure you were avoiding those favoured to do well. So, use the below to help inform some of your decisions when completing Cheltenham reload offers.
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Epatante
Epatante has caught the eye of punters during the early betting for the Champion Hurdle and, at the time of writing, rates as one of the strongest race favourites of the week. We likely have not seen the best of this horse.
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Benie Des Dieux
Benie Des Dieux is quoted for a few Cheltenham races this spring but traders at major bookmakers are confident she will run in the Mares Hurdle. If she does, bookies expect her to win the race with a bit to spare.
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Envoi Allen
Envoi Allen is priced as the standout horse in the Ballymore Novices Hurdle and traders believe he will take all the beating. A loss here will rate as one of the biggest upsets of the week. He won each of his first seven starts.
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Defi Du Seuil
Defi Du Seuil can be found quoted in the Champion Chase antepost betting and the early money has been promising. He has won 13 of his first 18 and those stats aren’t to be taken lightly, certainly not by backers.
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Tiger Roll
Tiger Roll is a fans favourite but have we already seen the best of Tiger Roll? As it stands Tiger Roll is the antepost favourite to win the Cross Country Chase and is a short price at that.
Every Cheltenham offer will be posted on the Reload section (on Heads&Heads). It is also worth keeping up to date with the Cheltenham Forum thread (on Heads&Heads) – here the best offers of the day will be discussed.
If you are interested in giving matched betting a go or Heads&Heads a go I’ve posted a discount code below. As I mentioned at the start of the guide, you can either use it or not. The main thing for me will be people find one or two useful bits of info in this guide.
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Discount:
£2 for 60 days of Premium membership to Heads&Heads.
Discount code: BUILDUP
Click the link to have the code automatically applied:
https://headsandheads.co.uk/sign-up?discount=BUILDUP
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Timetable template for Cheltenham: https://headsandheads.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Cheltenham+Timetable+-+template.xlsx
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The most important thing is to get involved!
Best of luck and happy profit hunting!