Holland To Beat Wales?

[alan23]

holland are evens worth it? they ****** up in qualifying and wales have qualified. the dutch will want to bounce back and no offence(to wales) prove that they are the better out of the two.

what do you think

oh and on that note why are we 9/2 to beat spain

[ichkeria]

Firstly, I'm not sure Holland ARE better than Wales.
Doesn't sound like worth bothering with to me
If England are 9/2 on to beat Spain it's because they've taken a lot of bets on them. Odds are rarely anything to do with actual probability

[ichkeria]

Sorry I thought you meant 9/2 on. I would have thought that was a better bet in that case :-)

[alan23]

"Odds are rarely anything to do with actual probability" agree totaly anything can happen.

i just feel


us(england) spain,germany,italy,france , holland etc and i know its not all about history, are in my eyes the elite im not saying comparing this as a banker like say germany to beat san marino

but evens for holland to beat wales c'mon no offence to any welsh ABs

[Svejk]

I wouldn't bet on friendly's.

[ichkeria]

For one thing the game is in Wales, and for another, well, svejk is right: it's a friendly. Friendlies are games where anything could happen, but usually nothing does :-)
If I was you I'd go with 9/2 against England to win in Spain if you must

[alan23]

svejk mulled that one over and your right i think the bookies reflect that in their odds

[alan23]

well looks like i missed out there

[ichkeria]

I sincerely hope you didn't take my advice: England lucky to get nil and their goalkeeper blaming the pitch!! 9/2 mean odds indeed!

[alan23]

ichkeria no did not bother would be £300 better off now though if i did aaaahhh but then again it works the other way round.i actually started watching the wales game when they were 2-1 down and cheering when they scored and made it 2-2 cos i did not do the bet. ten minutes later robben on the break and i knew straight away. gutted

did not see the england game were we really sh/te?

[Ken4155]

Odds have everything to do with what the bookies see as the actual probability. They weigh up the pros and cons of what may, or may not happen, long before an event and set their prices accordingly; how else are initial markets formed. It is only when punters start weighing in with their hard-earned/ill-gotten that the market fluctuates. And i would suggest that the fact that England have not beaten Spain away since 1968 explains their attractive 9/2 odds of doing so, tonight - the bookies doing what they do best, reeling in the gullible. In fact, counting tonight's match, we haven't registered a single goal on our last 4 visits. Like Svejk, i don't bet on friendlies - quickest way to the poorhouse.

[alan23]

ken it was just me and my quick quid gambling ways i watch in play odds and look at betting odds comparison sites so know how the bookies work try to stay away from them because of the roulette machines

[ichkeria]

Hi Alan was watching N Ireland v Latvia - which was probably as one sided as Spain England. You prob would have got poor odds on a home win :-)

[alan23]

so was it a good outcome for you ich?

[ichkeria]

Yes but I wasn't betting. N Ireland's first win in a friendly since 2008 !

[alan23]

yeah .n ireland were 3/4