Some of you may well have been followers of Richard Wildman and his very interesting Bet Trading: £100 to £100,000 blog.
You will be saddened to hear that he has passed away after an almost year long battle against cancer. My condolences to his wife Sam and young children children Rebecca and Harry.
It's news like this that makes one realise how unimportant winning and losing is in the whole scheme of things.
Live, laugh, love.
About Me
- Cassini
- I have had a life-long interest in sports and after studying Pure Mathematics with Statistics at secondary school, have been fascinated by odds and probability. The first system I came up with was a simple one - back the favourite and double up after a loss until a winner. Simple enough in theory, and I told my Dad about it. Not being a betting man himself, he ran it by some of his colleagues, and came home to tell me that it wouldn’t work because a long losing run would mean that the bank would be empty. Then there was always the possibility that the winner would be returned at odds-on, meaning that the total returns would not match the outlay. Not what a ten year old wants to hear! Only slightly daunted, I then went on a search for the Holy Grail, the secret to riches that I knew was out there somewhere. Finally in 2004 I stumbled across an article about Betting Exchanges and four years later I was able to make a steady profit.
I was very sorry to hear this sad news.
ReplyDeleteMay he rest in peace.