As you may have known had you read my last Bet Diary missives, I was away last week. I had no intention to bet whilst enjoying a holiday, but even if there was a decision to make about this, circumstances took that choice away. We were up in Scotland and for most of the week stayed in a lovely little cottage not far from St. Andrews. The property was advertised as having WiFi. Well officially, it did, but to be quite honest the WiFi was so slow as to render it completely useless. Seriously, the old dial up internet was quicker, back in the day. The laptop went away for the week, and you know what, that was no bad thing. No technology, but plenty of Single Malt from the local distillery!
Anyway, I had plenty of time to ponder on the portfolio; where I’m at this year, what’s gone well, and what hasn’t. The fact is, by far the best performing sector overall has been golf. Golf Insider has found the going a little heavy, but Weekly Golf Value has been on fire and PGA Profit has hit the heights at times too. Current ROI for my golf betting lies at 27.6% and I have to be happy with that.
The long term track record of Golf Insider lends confidence in the belief that its day will come again. There’s no need at all to tinker with anything to do with Weekly Golf Value, but it’s been interesting to see PGA Profit start to provide tips for the European Tour over the past couple of months or so. I’d been pondering the feasibility of following these European Tour bets since PGA announced that he would be offering them (and tipped a winner in his very first week of doing so, if I remember correctly), and last week I decided I would set up a separate bank and jump in. Of course the way of these things being what they are, last week saw a 25/1 winner and two further golfers place for a 100+ point profit overall in Europe in the week I couldn’t get a bet on if I really wanted to! Sod’s Law, I guess.
Still, it’s very promising indeed, and with my now looking to start using the Exchanges more for the PGA Profit tips, this feels like the right time to dabble.
More tomorrow, when I’ll turn attention to the Sports portfolio.
