{"id":468,"date":"2009-03-29T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:56:20","slug":"i-am-a-gambler-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/i-am-a-gambler-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a gambler &#8212; for fun :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatodds.co.za\/\">Greatodds<\/a> is a sport&#8217;s betting site and a while ago I decided to have some fun with it.&nbsp; Now they have 1000&#8217;s of different bets one can do and it will probably take me a year to understand what is going on so I take the simple route.&nbsp; I have invested a small amount (very small &#8211; one round of golf cost me more) and place some bets about once a week or when I see something that take my fancy.&nbsp; Mostly it is betting on who the winner will be between 2 competing teams like the Super 14.&nbsp; Here is my track record so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marius.za.net\/blog\/images\/screenshot_012.png\" rel=\"lightbox[468]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marius.za.net\/blog\/images\/screenshot_012.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blue bar is how I did in the individual bets.&nbsp; The 3rd one is when I got it right in predicting Retief winning in America that week.&nbsp; So far I had 2 winning bets and 2 losing bets.&nbsp; The orange bar shows how I am doing overall .. currently I am down about 25%.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of playing the lotto week in and week out, I took that bit of money and have some fun with it.&nbsp; Ok, I will not get stinking rich by winning a jackpot but at least I have fun playing and who know&#8217;s where it will end.&nbsp; As they say, maybe a little bit everytime will end up being a big lot :).<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/greatodds\" rel=\"tag\">greatodds<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sports\" rel=\"tag\">sports<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bet\" rel=\"tag\">bet<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gambling\" rel=\"tag\">gambling<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lotto\" rel=\"tag\">lotto<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=56fb306b-1301-866b-88c7-059f5624207f\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greatodds is a sport&#8217;s betting site and a while ago I decided to have some fun with it.&nbsp; Now they have 1000&#8217;s of different bets one can do and it will probably take me a year to understand what is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/i-am-a-gambler-for-fun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  I am a gambler &#8212; for fun \ud83d\ude42<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,11],"tags":[337,338,335,339,336],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ek","category-entertainment","tag-bet","tag-gambling","tag-greatodds","tag-lotto","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}