Anyone here worthy of being followed for soccer?

sean1 · Jun 8, 2010

I'll probably just bet a bunch of dogs and ties but am wondering if anyone here has a consistent good soccer record?

Sean

X-Files · Jun 8, 2010

Here...not much activity. This site is primarily focused on US sports.

Rolltide in the soccer forum, for one, has been suggested.

roundrobin11 · Jun 9, 2010

soccer is my best sport. i had a thread going for a while in the soccer forum and maintaing consistent winning units. had no time to post so i stopped. i will be posting for the world cup, and i am particularily strong at international soccer. i follow the qualifiers for the world cup and i follow team selections, and everything very closely. chose to follow if you wish

bigtex · Jun 9, 2010

I will follow your thread since I like watching the World Cup games. good luck on your picks.

Santo · Jun 9, 2010

If you want to bet the world cup I would recommend you spend your time looking at props / smaller markets rather than betting the match-ups, which I suspect will be pretty efficient (even geographical variation is effectively gone these days with so many arbitrageurs).

tyme9999 · Jun 9, 2010

probably will be some high favorites

X-Files · Jun 9, 2010

Some peeps are thinking England is/will be overvalued, hence a good fade.

Don't ask me why, i have no clue.

basesAREloaded · Jun 9, 2010

sean1, if you can't find anyone you fancy, your initial thought of dogs and ties receives a strong vote +

CowboyT · Jun 9, 2010

roundrobin11 said:
soccer is my best sport. i had a thread going for a while in the soccer forum and maintaing consistent winning units. had no time to post so i stopped. i will be posting for the world cup, and i am particularily strong at international soccer. i follow the qualifiers for the world cup and i follow team selections, and everything very closely. chose to follow if you wish

And I can vouch for this guy. I watched his thread awhile back. I just had not much to add. But he seems to know his shit.

roundrobin11 · Jun 10, 2010

just started my thread. put up some props. hope i can bring u all some $$$$!!

thanks for the encouragement cowboyT

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=778007&p=7933814#post7933814

sean1 · Jun 11, 2010

Props are clearly easier.

So far so good on dogs and ties

wilheim · Jun 11, 2010

Soriano12 has shown some early promise at this level and IMO is worth checking out during the next month.

Link to some recent posts by Soriano12 - Judge for yourself.

http://www.therxforum.com/search.php?searchid=34614

Play from Soriano12 for tomorrow Saturday, June 12th.

Like I said in a different thread, I'm not sure what to do with England yet...but I like ARG -1 -125 against Nigeria, I'm not really high on the Nigerian squad and African teams are generally lacking some defense and goalie skills and ARG has lots of offense.

Best of luck to all, wil..

joebatters · Jun 11, 2010

get thread....I'll be following you guys. Good luck to you. I like soccer but I don't know shit about it. Definitely get caught up in the ecitement. .
Even better to have a little action on it. GL

Soriano12 · Jun 12, 2010

wilheim said:
Soriano12 has shown some early promise at this level and IMO is worth checking out during the next month.

Link to some recent posts by Soriano12 - Judge for yourself.

Thanks for the kind words, but if you really want to follow my picks proceed with caution since I wouldn't consider myself a soccer expert (at least from a betting standpoint).
So take it fwiw: I'll start off tomorrows games with "Sth. Korea clean sheet" --> YES +185 (intertops f.e. also has this bet +175):
Waited too long to play the under 2 for the game, now U2 is too much juice for me: I expect Greece to play extremely defensive minded once again and normally Sth Korea, without a really good playmaker, should struggle to break up that defense. But then again Sth. Korea is a team with pretty fast players and the Greek team is pretty old (and slow) and struggled in both games against Switzerland, who in my opinion are the only team, that Greece played the last couple of months, with a playing style remotely comparable to Korea (although KOR has a better defense).
Greece has struggled to score against decent teams and Korea showed their good defense, when they f.e. just allowed 1 goal against Spain and in their scoreless friendlies against ECU+JAP. Greece didn't score at home against Paraguay in their final exhibition match and Korea has a good organised defense. Only thing that's giving me a slight headache are corner or free kicks by Greece since the Korean team is considerably smaller than their Greek counterpart.

carparts1000 · Jun 12, 2010

i love watching soccer . but would love to start winning at it. making money watching a sport you love. that's not gambling that's entertainment.

X-Files · Jun 12, 2010

carparts1000 said:
i love watching soccer . but would love to start winning at it. making money watching a sport you love. that's not gambling that's entertainment.

That's a great combo. It makes watching it even more enjoyable.

I'd bet following Soriano for the WC will be profitable.

joebatters · Jun 12, 2010

Soriano12 said:
Thanks for the kind words, but if you really want to follow my picks proceed with caution since I wouldn't consider myself a soccer expert (at least from a betting standpoint).
So take it fwiw: I'll start off tomorrows games with "Sth. Korea clean sheet" --> YES +185 (intertops f.e. also has this bet +175):
Waited too long to play the under 2 for the game, now U2 is too much juice for me: I expect Greece to play extremely defensive minded once again and normally Sth Korea, without a really good playmaker, should struggle to break up that defense. But then again Sth. Korea is a team with pretty fast players and the Greek team is pretty old (and slow) and struggled in both games against Switzerland, who in my opinion are the only team, that Greece played the last couple of months, with a playing style remotely comparable to Korea (although KOR has a better defense).
Greece has struggled to score against decent teams and Korea showed their good defense, when they f.e. just allowed 1 goal against Spain and in their scoreless friendlies against ECU+JAP. Greece didn't score at home against Paraguay in their final exhibition match and Korea has a good organised defense. Only thing that's giving me a slight headache are corner or free kicks by Greece since the Korean team is considerably smaller than their Greek counterpart.

Nice job! Thanks.

Soriano12 · Jun 12, 2010

Will start of tommorows games with Slovenia to win (+132 at pinnacle right now) and Slovenia to win with a clean sheet (+250 at pinnacle).
Algerias defense is crap, they allowed 2-3 goals to almost any decent opponent, while Slovenia has shown some decent offense and scored at least once in almost every game, most of the times even twice or more, especially against weaker opponents.
Slovenias defense is solid and Algeria was shut out almost any time they didn't play some bad team like UAE. I will take that "win to nil" just smaller because Slovenia even allowed NZL and Qatar to score in their friendlies, but then again these were just friendlies where it didn't matter if they won 3:0 or 3:1 while today every goal might make the difference between elimination and advancing to the next round because of the tiebreaker rules.
I might even take a very small shot at correct score 3:0 (25:1 odds)...

Soriano12 · Jun 13, 2010

Soriano12 said:
Will start of tommorows games with Slovenia to win (+132 at pinnacle right now) and Slovenia to win with a clean sheet (+250 at pinnacle).

Well, sometimes you win bets, you should have lost...Slovenia was absolutely horrible, can't remember a game they played that terrible: no pressing, horrible ballhandling, bad passing game....

TheSaint · Jun 13, 2010

Soriano12 said:
Well, sometimes you win bets, you should have lost...Slovenia was absolutely horrible, can't remember a game they played that terrible: no pressing, horrible ballhandling, bad passing game....

great call nonetheless :toast: