Holding That Fort

With no NBA, it wasn't a surprise that November was my worst November ever, dropping it into fifth place in the Best Month League (I like my tables). December is likely to be a struggle to, but at least the NBA cavalry is on the way while I attempt to hold the fort with NFL, football, and small pickings from college basketball while throwing away money at the NHL. It may be a cool game, but it wasn't a winner for me last month. Nor, incidentally, were the tables in Las Vegas, where the game of Craps lived up to its name as I dropped a few hundred dollars in record time. I've played through the night there in the past, turning $200 into over $2,000 on one occasion, but this visit will not go down in the books as one of my finest from a financial perspective. Craps is a lot of fun though - it's just more fun when you win.

Two requests yesterday, one asking to join the Friendly Tipping League (request approved, just send me the details for next weekend) and another for a place on the blog roll. I'm a trusting sort of chap, and went ahead and added it thinking I'd check it out later. Then I see Cran The Trader's post written after he had also received a similar request. Seems that this might not be the innocent sounding "new blogger from the trading world!" blog that I assumed.

When I took a look at the blog, I read this: (the numerous spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors are left in place)

After being approached from several wannabe traders, i came up with the idea of setting up some type of mentoring scheme. I would like to teach beginner/intermediate traders the ins and outs of trading betfair.Lessons will be given, you will get to see me trade live, and from this you will pick up tips as you go along. During each trade i will be talking through what im doing, il be stating why im entering a particular trade, and why im exiting.

The focus will be mainly on inrunning trading, but pre-race scalping will also be heavily involved. You will get to see the daily routine of a professional betfair sports trader. Il soon be creating some videos of me trading, which you will have access to.

If you are struggling to make profits on betfair, i can teach you how to win consistently.

If you are interested please email martindaniels_1983@hotmail.co.uk

I wouldn't bother if I were you. "After being approached from several wannabe traders..." Really? Shouldn't it be 'by several wannabe traders'? You would think that Mr. Martin Daniels (aka BetfairMagician, marts_uk, RacingExpert, SportsTrader) must be quite famous in the online betting community, (with all those names, he actually is infamous rather than famous!) yet his blog was started on October 18th this year, and is comprised of a total of three posts. The opening post included this:

I feel my knowledge is now that of an advanced bettor. I don't make huge amounts of money, yet, but thats where we all strive to be right?

Well, right, but mentors are usually people who have achieved some success in their area of expertise, not just people who are experienced at failing.

Through the weeks i will be posting screen shots and uploading videos of my weekly profit/loss aswell as my best and worst trades of the week. From January 2012 im going to set myself a profit target for the year but until then im taking things slowly and cautiously.

There is one screenshot, showing a profit of £180.34. You might expect a "professional Betfair sports trader" to have evidence a little more convincing than that, but isn't it also rather odd that someone who is "professional" one minute, changes his tune the next, admitting that he "doesn't make huge amounts of money, yet".

Anyway, it was a great sales pitch and once Mrs Cassini's approval is received, I shall be signing up. She has one or two questions. I only hope that by letting you all in on this secret, I haven't missed out on one of the limited places available. Oh well, that's the kind of generous man I am. Good luck if you sign up - you'll need it.

Incidentally, I also removed the link, not because of all the above, but because the cheeky devil hadn't even had the decency to include "probably the most well known, well respected and certainly well read trading blog", (that's this one), on HIS blog roll! If you really want to check it out, you can find it in the comments on the last post.

Finally, after being approached from several wannabe Craps players, I came up with the idea of setting up some type of mentoring scheme. I would like to teach beginner / intermediate Craps players the ins and outs of playing Craps. Lessons will be given, you will get to see me bullshit live, and from this you will pick up tips as you go along. During each trade I will be cursing through what I'm doing wrong, I'll be stating why I'm entering a particular bet, and why I'm exiting.

The focus will be mainly on in-running Craps, as pre-roll scalping will not exist. You will get to see the daily routine of a professional Craps player. I would soon be creating some videos of me playing, except that the casinos don't like cameras, so bad luck.

If you are struggling to make profits at Craps, I can teach you how to lose less. Stop playing. I don't make huge amounts of money, yet, but that's where we all strive to be right?

If you are interested send me an e-mail - and money. Thanks.