Opening weekend, in more ways than one

After various evenings down the pub, numerous pints and even more rants, I have decided to place my head with it's considerably noisy mouth on the chopping block and write my pearls of sports betting wisdom down for all to see...well, all three people who will probably read this! This blog will concern sports from  football to horse racing, NFL to rugby league and everything in between...... well, not badminton or handball but you get the idea.

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This is the big opening weekend, not just for the blog but also for the new NFL season and the Super League play-offs two of many sports which this blog will feature. My aim is to look for the best tips for your weekend's punting pleasure, both in terms of its chance and also the price. I will give myself 20 units to bet with, 1 unit could be as much or as little as your occupation or Government handout allows, just a way of keeping track of my profit (fingers crossed!).

So, that's enough of the nitty gritty.  Let's have a gander at the weekends action.

It's play-off time in the Super League, and there's one team which has crept in at the 11th hour.  You better believe it, the boy-o's from North Wales have done it, quite incredible. After finishing stone cold last in 2009 Brian Noble and his men did enough at Wrexham last week, with some help from the Saints to pip Castleford to 8th spot.  Now they travel to the Galphram to face the Huddersfield Giants, who faired poorly in last years play-offs. I am not particularly confident that the Crusaders will be advancing any further, however it will be a lot closer than Mr P Power or Mr W Hill think and I will happily take a +14 handicap on Crusaders @10/11 and double it up with Hull FC -4 @ 5/6 to give me a decent looking 2.5 double

1st Bet: 

Hull FC -4

Crusaders +14

5 points on Double @ 2.5

Now I go across the pond in search of Yank inspired betting diamonds. Yes it's over the top, yes it stops every 15 seconds for a Dominoes Pizza add and yes there are a lot of men in tights but all that aside it can be profitable on occasion. The outstanding value on the opening weekend of the NFL has to be America's Team the Dallas Cowboys @ Washington on Sunday, they are 10/11 to win by more than 4(-3.5 handicap), when you consider the cowboys are 3rd or 4th favourites for the Superbowl and Washington are 33/1 it has to be worth a few pretty pennies.

2nd Bet:

Dallas -3.5

5 points on single @ 1.91

After the dull shadow which is the International break is over, we return to bask in the sunshine of the Barclay's Premier League. The bookmakers, it seems have a tendancy to forget that Tottenham are a top 4 side when they are away from home, they were priced 6/4 in week 2 to beat Stoke which I was more than happy to take. They travel to the Hawthorns on Saturday and are priced at an incredible 11/10 against a West Brom side who look susceptible to any team with top 8 expectations,  7 points the win  I say.

3rd Bet:

Tottenham to win 

8 points on Single @ 1.91

I will place all my selections in a 2 point accumulator to make it 20 points altogether

4th bet

Hull FC -4

Crusaders +14

Dallas -3.5

Tottenham (WIN)

2 points on accumulator @ 14.1

And that's that, first blog done, 20 points stake and hopefully some returns!

Adios for now.