I was greened up with 2 football games I was working with yesterday and I decided to go back in to increase the money on the table and ended up losing half of the bank.

One of the ideas behind this site is that I tell the truth about how it is going and yesterday was a poor day by anyone’s  standards. There are lessons to be learned from it and  hopefully you can benefit from the details.

Basically I got greedy and decided that I should get more. I should have been happy with the returns that were already there and I tried to push it with football games that were not the best to begin with. The Braga vs Naval wasn’t so bad although the liquidity was lower than the Premiership games or Champions league. But The Northern Irish game between Linfield and Derry I should have left it when I had a small locked in profit there. It was made even worse by the fact that I could see how the goals were happening, normally I follow the scores on one of the livescore sites but This game didn’t make it above the radar. Strange really that it should be  on Betfair as an InPlay  game and not on the other sites.  The game I would have preferred to work with was the Betis vs Sevilla game, but I couldn’t even see it in Betfair at all and it was the Copa del Rey too.

OK thats lesson one -  Chose the games better.

Lesson two is don’t get greedy. There were moments when I could have cut my losses and instead of losing 3o euro I could have only been down by 9 euro. That would have been acceptable, more or less. At 85 minutes into the game I thought I could leave the bet in place and the game would finish at 1-1 and at the end of the day I would be down only 2 or 3 euro. Didn’t Braga get one more goal in the 89th minute and spoil my plans. Also when I was making my choice ant 85 minutes I could have greened up and had money off the game although only small.

There you go I’ll take the hard lessons and you can learn from them too.

At least I did have some consolation for the day in a couple more sales of affiliate software and one photo in Fotolia. One the day as a whole I am up but for Betfair I am down by 30 euros. Never mind I will build it back up again – Like I already have done twice.