Went to the races today and they were called off (probably a blessing in disguise in hindsight) so it was a phantom meeting and I was a punter on fire - picked the eyes out of what a few good judges tipped and had 7 bets of which the first 6 won and the 7th (Morphettville r6#1 Magnifique Soleil was home for all money and got done on the line) - needless to say some muppet went the early crow and got him beat!!! The muppet was me.....
Anyway, I left the races and went to the local beer factory as didn't trust myself with a fist full of fifties getting bored at the track and that plan worked fine until I started on the North Queensland lager, aka Bundy. I was super keen on one in the first at the Geelong trots called Schnappy driven by master reinsman Patsy Caraffa who duly saluted to put more in the kick so it was time to put the cue well and truly in the rack or so I thought!!
Met up with the boys from the player's trip and they went missing early after the big weekend so I was left to my own devices with plenty of ammunition but being cognisant of that I tried to give the races a wide berth and that was the case - or so I thought!!
Back in my bad boy punting days, I would always wake up with a few tickets like Mandurah r12#5 $120 a win and not have even heard of the dog but thought I was over that but I got home tonight and found myself about $3500 light on what I should have in cash so I empty out all my pockets and find that I have 4 TAB tickets from around the nation including betting on the barkers. MG R8#6 x $240 a win was one of them so I dubiously checked the results and it won paying $2.80 but I seriously had no idea so was pure madness (must have won easily though lol). The cream of the crop though was a ticket for $3000 @ $1.03 Australia to win the medley relay in the swimming - wtf?? I can vaguely remember trying to deposit the money into my phone account and the girl had no idea how to do it so I can barely recollect thinking the next best thing was to put it on a moral and Australia did win all 4 individual races that comprise the medley relay so was akin to bank interest. Fkn 3k on a swimming bet ffs!!
The scary part is that I won about $600 on the bets in my pocket but quite easily could have slaughtered a few thousand.
Thought I was over doing garbage things like that but is a lesson learned with no damage done thankfully.
Bloody 4 in the morning QLD time, Tassie starts in 12 hours and haven't done nearly enough form study. Don't like the meeting much at all to be honest but still should put more time in.
