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Poker the Winner at the Cheltenham Fessie!
The winner of the first race at Cheltenham today - "Poker de Sivola!
So if any poker players are amongst those who take no notice of the "experts" & back on the basis of "I liked the name", or "it was the grey one" or somesuch, they got off to a good start.
Poker related names in the next, the 2.05, which is a Novices Hurdle, include....
Finions Rainbow. As in "rainbow" flop.
Rite of Passage Well "pass" & "passage" are sort of close....)
Peddlers Cross. As in "nut peddler".
Baily Rock. As in, err, a rock.
Odds & info are HERE
Any chance of TWO "poker" relatad names on the bounce?
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had it to win @ 14/1 which was posted in the shed happy days have also got bennydip2's tip for the Queen Mother dtw
In the 2.40, there are one or two candidates.....
Diamond Harry. Suit.
Citizen Vic. The Vic Card-Room.
Chasing Cars. For those draw chasers.
Not sure I can include "Burton Port", unless I make a typo & call it Button Port?
The full details are here
got an e/w double on these two....
Its called a tricast if u perm them together it will be 6 bets.
Next up is one of THE most famous & traditional NH Races of the year - "The Queen Mother". Not THE Queen Mum, but "The Queen Mother Champion Chase". Arguably, the 2nd most prestigious race on the NH Calender, after the Gold Cup.
Poker selections are.....
Master Minded. As in MasterCash.
Kalahari KING
Oh Crick. After John Mccririck, our SPT guest a week or so back.
I reckon we could beat the so called "experts" like this!
In the trappy Fred Winter at 4.40, (God help me, I remember Fred whe he was a jockey!), we could have.....
Open Day
Causeway King
Loch Long
Weapons Amnesty (took 9/1)
Spirit River (took 12/1)
Hit the post with paddytheplasterer as well...but not complaining.
It's full odds to a quarter of the stake, or full stake to a quarter odds. So more like £10 @ 7/2 = £35 + stake of £10 = £45, x 7/2 = £157.50 + £45 stake = £202.50, roughly. Or maybe I'm wrong, & I'll get me coat......
you are right tikay, why? becuase my odds calculator says you are.
its 2250.00 for the win
and
202.50 for the place
One of these days I ought to do a few blogs about my horse-racing, gambling & bookmaking background, & my passionate interest in racehorse breeding & bloodlines. I think I have over 1,000 books on that basket of topics, & was a Member at Prestbury & Newmarket for donkeys years, until the drunkards ruined the Fessies.
I set out to buy a betting shop once (they used to be called "LBO's") & so to prep myself, I took a "Settling" Course with Wm Hill, which I was nailed on to pass, as I'm geekily competent at mental arithmetic.
A 55% exam mark got you a "Pass", 65% got you an interview for a job as a Betting Shop Clerk, & so on, up to 80%, where they guaranteed you a job as an LBO Manager.
I scored 99.2%. And was devestated - because, unlike English, in Maths-based stuff, 100% is possible & in my case, I expected nothing less.
I appealed, & asked why only 99.2%, they said "what?, nobody has EVER scored more than 85%, & you are complaining about 99/2%!". (There are reasons I won't bore you with as to why & how I was so geekily good at mental arithmetic in those days, though not now, I fancy).
So, the question I got slightly wrong?
You had to work out the return on a 10p each way Patent, with ATC going onto an "unnamed joint fav, each-way". (Which was permitted in those days, though not now I suspect).
The ATC part was a 6 runner race, & the selection dead-heated - for 2nd! Nightmare. And to top it off, there was a 15p in the pound Rule 4....... lovely.
These days, I guess they just key it all into a computer.
Anyway, happy days, & excuse the chirp, you spiked my memory. Don't do it again please, or you'll set me off again.
just had 2nd winner of the day Big Zeb (bennydip2's tip) thought this mite count as there's a player called zebbedee who i've played loads of times on cash dtw