Week 1: Update on Ban Jay Desai

Total Staked £1,010.15, Total Returned £1,514.62 = Profit £504.12 (49.9% Return)

After the first two days, I thought this was going to be another failed attempt by some mug punter who believes he can beat the layers. With a cheeky 50% profit this week, it’s quite the contrary, albeit, a heck of journey left and next week I may have to revert back to the mug punter comment. I did some brief research about how to get banned by a bookmakers. What did I find? Nothing useful. Who actually wants to get banned by a bookie? Imagine not being in it to win it? Well, oddly, I’m still game.

I did, however, find a very precise article about how to avoid being banned by your bookmaker. Surely I just need to mirror this? It talks about bet sizes, bet timing, following big movers, betting on low profile events, specialising and general profitability. If I want to repeat the Coral experience I’ll need to take all of this on board… http://articles.submityourarticle.com/David-Duffield-8265/Bookmakers-115052.php There a couple here I think I can latch onto. Who will I target first? Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. I am going to focus putting the big moves on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley going forward. I will endeavour to make sure that Rosie takes me up on any horses from a gambling or high profile stable that go blue across the board on oddschecker.

Marisa Miller will not have me on her radar yet, but I’ve given her a couple of cheeky nudges with Zarkandar and Gorgeous Goblin. £317 return from £35.

Cheltenham is within touching distance and although I have £1500 in Ante Post bets already the boys and I are sitting down next week for some form crunching and pot betting (a.k.a the elusive retirement fund). The favourites are looking strong and if Long Run, Sprinter Sacre, Hurricane Fly, Big Bucks, Quevega and Sizing Europe all bolt up, I’m looking at £30k windfall. After Binocular and Zarkandar tore up this weekend I am slightly nervous about The Fly's chances, and Long Run, well, I still think Kauto is the only threat there and that will all be dependent on the old boy’s wellbeing. Clearly I will need to start laying some of these off to prevent any loses! I am getting excited, just a shame won’t be in a Cheltenham Box again!