Profit after 12 bets: £-5.13
I’m now a fiver down, but if I’m honest I actually expected to be further in the pit at this point – having risked £24 (12 £2 bets) and given my own betting record, losing only a fiver is probably at least as good as I would have been with my own picks. Onwards!
A bit of variety for this League One fixture – instead of backing the home team, this time the bot has gone for the draw.
We’ve been to Brazil, Russia, Spain – this time we’re off to France.
A narrow win for the favourites in a bad-tempered game. It actually turns out Atletico were such low odds because the market the bot picked was a DRAW NO BET market, not normal Match Odds. Still, 57p profit is 57p profit.
Profit after 10 bets: £-4.70
Bit of a hiatus due to busyness, but let’s get back to the action. Oh no, another heavy odds-on home favourite? Bring it on…
Backing a home favourite again, this time in sunny Russia. Despite the football-heavy selection so far, I am at least getting a tour of the world’s football hotspots.
Easy win for the favourites, netting me a mouthwatering 29p after commission.
Profit after 8 bets: £-3.27
Shortest odds I’ve had so far, in this Brazilian football match. Surely Sao Paulo won’t let me down like McClaren did?
No big surprise. I’m actually thinking of writing another bot that does nothing but lay odds-on favourites in horse racing win markets.
Profit after 7 bets: £-3.56
Back to the horsies today, and a heavy favourite at Lingfield. I have zero faith in odds-on horses and won’t be even a tiny bit surprised if it loses. Fingers crossed though!
OK, more football – in Portugal this time. I think it’s time to either loosen the liquidity requirements or bias against football and horse racing otherwise this is going to become a bit repetitive. Hell, even a bit of Australian Open action would be a welcome change.
Bet 4 and we return to football, and the heady heights of France’s Ligue 2. This match is low-profile enough that I can’t find any info about it, but it looks like Nimes lost the corresponding fixture last year. Kick-off is at 7pm.
Another horsie bet. I suppose it’s inevitable that random selections of highly-liquid markets are going to favour horses and football since they are Betfair’s biggest sports, but if I get almost nothing else I will loosen the liquidity requirements a little, or bias the bot slightly against certain sports.
Hey, profit after just the second bet! Didn’t expect that. I didn’t watch the race live but I watched the market on my phone and it looked like an exciting one – Seventh Sign seemed in contention for most of the race, then faded out to odds of 5.0, then came right in to around 1.03 before drifting again, then coming back in. Must’ve been a real back-and-forth battle, which ended in a photo finish – tension! When the market reopened Seventh Sign was around 1.4 favourite during the steward’s enquiry, and was declared the winner.
Profit after 2 bets, net of commission: £1.46
Second bet is a horse racing one, on the favourite in the 12:50 at Newbury. Of all sports I am especially terrible at picking winners at the gee-gees, so I’ll be most amused if this one comes in.
