Regular readers of the Bet Diary will be aware that over the years I have developed into being a firm advocate of NOT taking betting on holiday. Far better to make sure the time away serves its purpose of refreshing and relaxing completely without any stressing over getting bets on and seeing how they do. I started to go that way when the kids were young. What muppet deliberately eats into family time during time that is supposed to be all about family?
My two are older now – 20 and 18 – so they don’t (quite!) need as much supervision as they once did! They both came away with the missus and I last week though, possibly the last time we travel as a family for a while. But this time I did take my laptop with me, simply as I hadn’t had chance to finish writing an article that I needed to get done. I thought for half an hour, I could sit by the pool, get done what I needed to get done, sipping a glass of something chilled before taking another dip in the pool. That’s not work, is it?
So as it happens, during siesta time post-lunch each day, everyone was dozing and sleeping off the food, bar me. So I thought I’d spend ten minutes getting the Weekly Golf Value bets down, along with the Sys Analyst bets as Glorious Goodwood was on. I didn’t muck about trying to get the minimum price in the way I do when I’m at home. With the time difference between where I was and England, I just opened Smarkets, stuck the bets on about ten minutes before the first race, and in literally five minutes it was done. It was so easy in fact, I thought I may as well do the same through the holiday.
In a way that rarely happens, I was rewarded handsomely. Lucas Glover was a winning bet for WGV (I got 85 on him) and Sys Analyst tipped up some nice winners and donated a healthy profit too! Happy days. And for the sake of five – ten minutes a day on the laptop, when no-one else was doing anything than snoring peacefully, I was able to treat everybody to a really nice lunch on the last day. Isn’t it nice when Lady Fortune smiles rather than snarls?
