Last Yr cup final i had £10 for Bailey first try scorer @ 50/1 he went over too but went to video ref and not allowed, new then it was going to be one of them days !

That's the attitude I have too.

My brother-in-law once put £1 each way on a 200/1 outsider in the very first race and the bloody thing won!

Stuck £150 of it in his back pocket, played with the bookies money for the rest of the day. Laughing. Unless you're a professional gambler, you've got to just write off however much you can afford to bet with and count it as a cost of the day. Losing hurts less that way!

I won £80 on Aspinwall being first try scorer when Stains played the Giants at Twickers, and £50 on Monaghan being MoM when Warrington turned the Giants over.

I don't like to bet when Leeds are playing. Last time I did, I had money on Sheridan being MoM (he always played out of his skin in CC games for some reason) and he had a fine game, only for bloody Rivett to score 4 tries.

Been to one race meeting in my life. It was up at Thirsk or somewhere equally bleak as they had put a big screen up to broadcast a State Of Origin game live in the days well before Sky started broadcasting them.

It was in the days when Mark McGaw and Andrew Ettingshausen were turning out for the Blues. Watched the SOO, even stayed on and watched the 1st race on the card but that was enough for me.

Been there done that. Thanks but no thanks.

2009 Grand Final I spent a tenner on bets.

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and a straight fiver on a Leeds win.

Can't remember how much I won. Less than you'd think. Wasn't much more than £100, but still. That's what you call a good day at the office.

Went to Ripon & into Knaresborough last Sat with SWMC. Went with £140 and came home with £90. That was an enjoyable day.

Haydock earlier in the year saw me lose £100.

The missus and I went to Ripon last weekend on a whim - £6 in to the centre bit (don't know what it's called), a couple of quid each on the first 4 races and won fekk all. This included me betting on two horses and the missus betting on two different horses in a 5 horse race and we still fekkin' lost!!!

Went home after that - not really a betting man me.

[Keith Swiftcorn Mode]

Bit like Super League then?

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My biggest win was £340 off a tenner when Cockney Rebel won the 2000 Guineas a few years back. I was in Cardiff at Millenium Magic at the time. That was a good weekend.

Ahh yes. I picked the first four out, but told my Gran to go on Blue Shoes and I didn't back it.

Pepper lane was the biggest win with £3 on it, should read the Other Sports Betting Thread, it was tipped on there.

WTF?

Are you psychic?

Yeah. So psychic that I decided never to do it again.

Party of eight of us on a lads day at the races a few years ago, eight races, five quid each in the kitty given to the one lad who said he knew all about racing form and stuff...

Our horse won in the first race so we added about £40 to the kitty, we didn't win anything else for the rest of the day so for the last race we had our £5 kitty money plus the £40 win, easy decision, split the £40 eight ways and put the original £5 on the last race - free day out.

No said our racing tipster idiot, theres only three horses in this last race and one of them is a dead cert, he will walk it (literally although we didn't know it at the time), I'll put all the £45 on it and we'll get a little bit back, not a lot, but it all counts for the beer kitty later on that night.

We argued but he did it anyway.

The last race was a short 7 furlong affair, it was over and done with in seconds and to me it looked as though only two horses had finished, "Go get our winnings and lets get to the pub" we told our racing tipster idiot, he just pointed to the finish line where, a full five minutes after the other two horses had finished our "dead cert" was now walking across the line with the jockey walking beside it, in fact the f'kin jockey crossed the line before the horse did and I swear he was laughing, the horse that is, not the jockey.

You also won't be surprised to note that when we turned to the betting ring all of the bookies had packed up and done a runner, its almost like they knew what was going to happen...

My best win was £428 off a 10p each way lucky 15 (£3) can't complain!