Well its turned out to be a pretty good time to have a break for a few days with the blog as the results have taken a decided turn for the worse, just when you think its all hunky dory something jumps up to bite you on the backside in the betting jungle, when has it ever been any different!!
All my Grand Prix snooker outright picks that played in the first round exited at the first attempt, Mark Allen was absolutely awful in his match with Michael Holt and was trounced 5-1, Neil Robertson somehow contrived to lose to the Nugget 5-4 despite the latter's highest break being only forty-odd, Shaun Murphy had a nightmare run of the balls and lost 5-3 to Adrian Gunnell who had probably the highest number of flukes ever witnessed in a pro game and of course had already lost Barry Hawkins last weekend 5-3 to Joe Perry.
At least Judd Trump got a bye, but I already knew that and he got past an out of touch Perry last night 5-2 to reach his first ever quarter final, dont seriously see that he will be winning it though as he wasnt overly impressive himself.
The match betting hasnt gone too much better as I drew a blank with my first six (mostly outsiders) including three 5-4 reverses. Made the cardinal sin of jumping in on a couple of short ones though, backed Robbo at 1/2 after seeing Davis' 6-0 defeat to Selby in the Premier League despite the fact that the price was probably only around the right mark - and then even worse took 4/11 for Murphy to beat Gunnell after having a few pints at the snooker match, in a desperate bid to get a winner under my belt!
Of course both these latter instances came back to haunt me and put me further into deficit for the tournament, if only I'd let my own prices do the talking and kept strictly to the overlays I wouldnt be so far in arrears for this event!
Have since had winners with Parrott 13/8, Ding 1/2 and Davis 10/11 so hopefully on the comeback trail.
For todays bets have taken Cope 5/6, Fu 12/5 and Day 13/8.
Cope has a rematch of his World Championship meeting with Ebdon when he had it in the palm of his hand in the final frame and let it slip due to an unnecessary attempt to split a couple of reds when there were enough points on anyway, he finally went under 10-9 but must have a good chance of revenge against Ebdon who hasnt impressed too much this season.
Fu has a good record against Ronnie and has actually won more frames than the Rocket in all their meetings combined (6-6 with one draw in the last 13 meetings) so odds of 12/5 certainly looked attractive, plus O Sullivan looked rather below par in the early frames of his match with Liang Wenbo.
Going with Day mainly on the price, had him a bit shorter at 6/4 myself but will clearly need one of his best performances to prevail against the in form Jester. They have met twice in non ranking events and its 1-1 with each recording a 3-1 success.
The World Cup of Pool didnt produce any further bets but the USA defeated England in the final fairly comfortably to lift the trophy for the first time.
In tonight's live greyhound racing on Sky I see the cameras are venturing to the ultra sharp Sunderland trap which usually means alot of trouble at the first bend. Nevertheless, couldnt resist a bet on my old friend Bohebradda Mac at 10/11 in the sprint, he is drawn towards the outside which might help him get a clear run as he occasionally just missed a tick at the break before powering through at half way.
The Post are making an issue of him not having won in four visits here, but he has been runner up on every occasion, being beaten very narrowly in some of those runs despite not always getting the run of the race so no reason why he can't notch a success on the track for me.
Anyway, will be back in a few days
All the best,
Rick
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Good good good......
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