Profitable Punting Errors

SLIPPERGOLDEN · June 2016

Yesterday I made an error when placing a bet via my Tablet. I never use the phone and I much prefer using the PC. After cursing my Tablet I was very pleased a short time later when the error won me $600.

Others must have stories related to this scenario.

paraletic · June 2016

an error almost won me a small fortune but I cancelled the ticket after putting it thru the machine.

I was at Ascot on Melb Cup day (the year American won) and the bet was $60 win on Grand Jardin...................................... I remember looking at the ticket and going "do I keep it?" and decided to cancel.

Farkin thing $hits in an a price I don't want to remember

the moral of my story is - if I make a mistake I usually cop it in the A pipe

thefalcon · June 2016

come on para, give us the tote odds.... ;)

FreoHitman · June 2016

paraletic said:
an error almost won me a small fortune but I cancelled the ticket after putting it thru the machine.
I was at Ascot on Melb Cup day (the year American won) and the bet was $60 win on Grand Jardin...................................... I remember looking at the ticket and going "do I keep it?" and decided to cancel.
Farkin thing $hits in an a price I don't want to remember
the moral of my story is - if I make a mistake I usually cop it in the A pipe

$42 give or take a few cents ;)

Jordan · June 2016

I never cancel a bet when i stuff it up as it usually bloody comes in !

JayJay · June 2016

1, 7 and 11...this is from 50 years ago when you went to the tote window and told the operator your bet. "$2 the quinella (50 cent units) on 1 and 11 please"? says young JayJay.. pockets the ticket, cheers home number 1, curses number 7 for cutting him out.....furtive glance at the ticket prior to binning it ...hang on ...ticket reads 1 and 7 ....you bewdy. Cannot remember the name of the 1 or 11 horse but Number 7 Presto Prince M.E.(Mick) Taylor forever implanted in the memory bank. 66/1, quinella paid $207 (times 4)...now that (in those days) was a result. First and only time.

RIO · June 2016

Rushed into Gloucester Park to get onto one that I'd been told during the week was a shu in for a place...early 80's and threw all i had onto it..33 places, not a dollar on the win. Comes in and pays $11+ for a win and $2.80 the place........walk up to collect my winnings, feeling pretty chuffed to be doubling my spending money for the week, when they start counting out the 50's. I'd accidentally put 33 wins on.....Straight to the beau rivage room for a feed and **** up!!!!!

paraletic · June 2016

FreoHitman said:

paraletic said:
an error almost won me a small fortune but I cancelled the ticket after putting it thru the machine.
I was at Ascot on Melb Cup day (the year American won) and the bet was $60 win on Grand Jardin...................................... I remember looking at the ticket and going "do I keep it?" and decided to cancel.
Farkin thing $hits in an a price I don't want to remember
the moral of my story is - if I make a mistake I usually cop it in the A pipe
$42 give or take a few cents ;)

The story goes deeper than that. I had Kempys son on my right saying "never cancel a ticket" and i thought "wtf does he know" so i cancelled it. Dont forget it was Melb Cup day so lines were big, it was easier just to keep the ticket than line up again.... But no.

Come super saturday that year, another mate reckons "read the stewards report on grand jardin". Something about the trainer after its last win anticipating further improvement. I just couldn't back it, too painful. Alas, it wins again.

That horse is forever etched in my memory.

therealkramer · June 2016

Backed Rodean a few starts after she 'won' the Blue Diamond. Had $300 for what i thought was a win. As she ran into third place I looked down at my ticket and noticed I'd backed it for a place instead. Ended up paying 2.70 so it was a welcome $500 'mistake'. I suppose I would have been livid if she'd won but I'll take it.

Dale · June 2016

Not really an punting error, more a human error. A reasonably high ranking banking mate of mine who earns a **** load had his first time to the races about 5 or 6 years ago to pinjarra. He done the usual, how do i fill a ticket in, whats a trifecta etc. And a mutual friend of mine in our group casually says he has a runner in race 5. Good enough for him so with new found confidence he places his first bet on his own. Shows it to me on his return. $100 wins on the horse. So i look up to have a look $88 the win $15 the place on the tote...... Gets up by 2 lengths. Now here is the kicker. This guy was so happy to have won $880. Over the moon he was. Having never collect a ticket before, he leans over and says "can you collect this ticket for me, i dont know what to do" ...................Tick tick tick... I handed it all over.

therealkramer · June 2016

Dale said:
Not really an punting error, more a human error. A reasonably high ranking banking mate of mine who earns a **** load had his first time to the races about 5 or 6 years ago to pinjarra. He done the usual, how do i fill a ticket in, whats a trifecta etc. And a mutual friend of mine in our group casually says he has a runner in race 5. Good enough for him so with new found confidence he places his first bet on his own. Shows it to me on his return. $100 wins on the horse. So i look up to have a look $88 the win $15 the place on the tote...... Gets up by 2 lengths. Now here is the kicker. This guy was so happy to have won $880. Over the moon he was. Having never collect a ticket before, he leans over and says "can you collect this ticket for me, i dont know what to do" ...................Tick tick tick... I handed it all over.

A banker you say? Oh dear ;))

rustyh · June 2016

:)] :-?

Banker?

100 x $88 = $8800

;))

therealkramer · June 2016

rustyh said:
:)] :-?
Banker?
100 x $88 = $8800
;))

Checks and balances in the banking industry are total bs. I once had $2500 withdrawn from my account by someone in another state simply because the wrong account details were entered. One glance at the account name and account number would have been all it took. I didn't even get an apology and I had to detect the mistake myself. [-(

hash · June 2016

probably one of my biggest wins I've missed out on when I cancelled a ticket was in 2006 when El Segundo won the Underwood, I had field field for second and third in a trifecta, keeping in mind this was before flexi betting, half a unit would have cost me a bit over $200 so I cancelled the ticket and trimmed up the second leg and had field for third to spend only 100 odd

El Segundo won, Polar Bear ran second at 50/1 and another roughie paid similar running third and the trifecta pays close to 12 grand, worse thing was that I had more than enough on me to pay for the bet at the time

hash · June 2016

Race:		6	Win	Place	Show
1st	5	EL SEGUNDO	6.20	4.20	5.60
2nd	8	POLAR BEAR		27.10	13.50
3rd	9	MOLOTOV			37.90
$2 Exacta			5-8		285.10
$2 Quinella			5-8		134.50.
$2 Trifecta			5-8-9		4666.30

hash · June 2016

I could have swore the trifecta payout was atleast 5 figures... not sure where these tote odds come from

for anyone interested though, this is the link to the site if you want to look up the odds or divis for past races

hash · June 2016

http://www.australianracing.com/pages/results_archive/54.php

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RIO · June 2016

Burn that link Hashy.......why blemish a good story with the truth....I'm going to believe the 12k, and when we sit down and have a few beers if you tell it again and its 14k...I'll still believe you ;)

hash · June 2016

haha love your work rio

I was in QLD on holiday in an RSL club in Bundy, it was a five figure result I'm certain of it on uni-tab it was

hash · June 2016

got a good collect 4 years later though and I didn't miss this one.

in 2010 on Saturday arvo in the last at Belmont I boxed up majority of the FD in a quartet, had no idea on the form on race so it was a rushed bet, spent $110 for a small % and Vizard won the race with Hayley Deiner riding @ 20/1 and 3 other roughies filled the placings (Fleming Son an odds on fav ran near last and the quartet paid 113k

^:)^

thefalcon · June 2016

you punting acumen astounds us all, hash.

the last bloke on here who trumpeted is now doing porridge....fraud.....

L-)

everready · June 2016

Bloke I know was going to put his 4horse always quartet on melb cup on Monday night on way home from work to beat the cues on cup day .He
relised he had left his wallet in his locker at work when got to TAB. listening to preview on radio on way to work they said because of the rain they were receiving at Flemington one of his selections Grey Songs chances were demising so he took it out n replaced it with Shes Archie quartet pays 220k he bought a modest house in the burbs!

hash · June 2016

the falcon said:
you punting acumen astounds us all, hash.

the last bloke on here who trumpeted is now doing porridge....fraud.....
L-)

"us all" ?

I'm sure your the only one that astounded by it falc 8-|

I bet there multiple people that can read my two posts and relate to them, majority just choose not to share it...

care to share yours from back in the day when you used to bet with pennies and a sixpence......... :P

JayJay · June 2016

Pennies and sixpences ...now your talking my language. My first ever collect was at the Bentley TAB next to the Boomerang Hotel...funnily enough, there was an SP shop behind "Joe" the Barbers"...you had alternatives in those days...conned the manager (Trevor) into accepting my 10 shillings (2 units) a place on Yamagee (D.C Harper) and it ran 3rd and paid 5 Pounds 11 and sixpence the place. How long has this easy caper being going on thinks about a an 11 year old JayJay, money for jam this betting caper. And folks, therin lies the story of life haha. Not in the same league as some results on here but I did buy a new pair of shoes with change left over to splash out at the school tuckshop. Glory days.

thefalcon · June 2016

one of my many bad experiences...had a tri and q/tet on a middle distance race, DRM rode the winner.."whisky" something. ron franklin, who ran 4th protested against DRM..it was upheld. was gutted.

punting is a mugs game, we all must agree to that. I used to be quite a mid-range punter...100 or 200 e/w when I used to bet "on the nod". always settled on time but the penny dropped, thought "this cannot go on" so cut my punting right back...now a max. of 50 e/w, maybe 100-200 if I really like the horse...not on every race, maybe now and again.

if you really want to know some mind blowing wins ask me about the dot com boom but I've forgotten most of them as there were so many.

i'm not THAT old, hash, all of my punting was in dollars...

;)

just punt within your means..treat it as a hobby, not a means to wealth or you'll finish up like our old mate, doing time.

thefalcon · June 2016

jay, i'll tell a trot story...I am NOT a trotting punter....except....one summers night, when the trots were on sat. night, had a s*it of a day at the track and somehow got conned into going to GP. far too many beers and a chico roll for dinner and endeavoured to "get it back". got further into the red .things were grim.....lucky told me a certain horse was a "cert"...it was even money, I think jack retzlaff drove it. I had 2 grand on it with a bookie that will be unnamed....he said the only reason he let me on was because he knew my dad and the money would be OK.

the horse absolutely bolted in..won by the length of the straight.

woke up next morning in a sweat, fair dinkum was shivering with remorse....I won just under 100 bucks on the day.

if it lost the car would have had to go and would have been in the s*it with the old man.

i'll tell the story about the old man and the horse he had with Bill Page...later.

hash · June 2016

^^^ that's a true punters story right there!
never give in spirit, always have confidence, chase your losses haha.. I'm glad it worked out for you falc.. I've done similar things and the result has gone my way I'd say 50% of the time and when it doesn't those are the days you can easily walk away and not even think about having another punt.... Until the next pay cheque clears :))

sonny · June 2016

Hi Jay Jay, My wife's father ( Earle Castledine was the proprietor of the Caltex Garage across the road from the Boomerang.

RIO · June 2016

sonny said:
Hi Jay Jay, My wife's father ( Earle Castledine was the proprietor of the Caltex Garage across the road from the Boomerang.

So much misspent youth in the Boomerang back room, playing pool, and runnign around to the TAB!!! Woke up early one Sunday morning in the ball room restaurant, had to wait for staff to arrive to let me out. Was in no condition to take advantage of a few hours at the bar with no one there!!!!

JayJay · June 2016

Yep Sonny, remember it well. Hope he had good security and Machine Gun towers. The 'boomer" was a bloodhouse in its day ..very lively on a Friday Night. I remember when a bloke got his ear bitten off one night in the Public Bar.....lively little suburb was Bentley. As a very small kid, I used to bag up manure from local horse stables in Bedford Street for pocket money....bought my first Malvern Star bicycle from my initial work in a stable...and its been downhill ever since haha. Nah, not really, wouldn't change a single thing...I just lament at the lack of characters around these days....rogues and villains were part of a much gentler and funnier landscape ...I reckon if Arthur Daley and Terry had lived in Wa, Bentley would have been their prime hang out.

sonny · June 2016

My wife lived next door to Judy Kelly who became Mrs Kersley,,

G'day Punter!

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