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It started with €20 on Sergio Aguero for top scorer. Paddypower sucked me in with their clever advertising and promotions. I was hooked because of the free bet offer for every time Aguero scored a goal. Read the first part of the story here . That brought us up to about November. The story continues below. At the start of November Paddy Power launched a new App. And its everything that they say it is, quick and shiny - but that's not relevant here. There was a flurry of promotions in November to go with the launch. They ran my favourite horse promotion on one meeting every day in November and sometimes on three meetings in one day. With all this promo cash I made enough to buy a new sofa. One day I came in with 13 winners. One of my best days 13 winners, mostly favourites but finished off nicely with a 9/2 free bet pulling in an extra €112.50. Another I had all the winners in Plumpton: According to my strategy I had every 3/1 and lower backed at p...

Hungary qualified tonight and with that result Ireland (if they qualify - 8/13 on Paddy Power) will be in Pot 4 for the EURO 2016 Group Stage draw. We will face three teams theoretically superior. So how will the Pots look if Ireland do qualify. Let's make the assumption that both Ukraine and Sweden who are ahead in their ties also qualify. Pot 1 France (host) Germany Spain England Portugal Belgium Pot 2 Italy Russia Switzerland  Austria Croatia Ukraine * Pot 3 Czech Republic Sweden ** Poland  Romania Slovakia Hungary Pot 4 Turkey Ireland *** Iceland Wales Albania N. Ireland * If Slovenia qualify then they join Pot 4. Turkey are promoted to Pot 3 and Czech are promoted to Pot 2. ** If Denmark qualify ahead of Sweden it won't change anything - they will slot into Pot 3 in the swedes place. *** If Bosnia qualify instead of Ireland then our hearts will break.

It started with Sergio Aguero for top scorer. For a €20 bet paddy power were offering a €2 free bet for each time he scored. It got me thinking that I could make my money back on the free €2 bets over the season (it would only take one 10/1 winning outcome). I could and should be in a position that I break even or make a small profit even if Aguero didn't finish top of the charts. I progressed onto other offers, a similar one for the GAA All Ireland Championships and the Rugby World Cup. Free bets offered on the Premier League games and at certain horse racing meetings daily. All the time breaking even or close to it with my real money bets and winning big here and there on my free bets. My emphasis was keeping risk to the minimum (betting on favourites all the time and very short odds like 1/2). The big wins on the free bets built up €35 here, €50 there. The winnings cancelled out the small losses made on betting on favourites and then some. I slowly let m...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed these New App Power Plays that Paddy Power has been running this week, to launch their new mobile app. I missed the first day which saw Harry Kane enhanced from 4/6 to 3/1 to score any time versus Aston Villa. And he did. But I did get on the enhanced specials the next day and the days after, and the one after that! Ronaldo to score any time from 8/11 to 3/1 - €10 loss . Man Utd and Man City to both win from 3/1 to 6/1 - €60 profit . Lewandowsky to score from 8/11 to 2/1 - €20 profit . Bayern and Chelsea to win from 7/5 to 7/2 - €35 profit . Liverpool and Tottenham to win from 10/3 to 5/1 - €50 profit . Harry Kane to score first vs Anderlecht from 7/2 to 5/1 - €50 profit . For a total profit of €205 in three days. On the app at the moment is Rooney to score against West Brom at 5/2 from 4/5, and apparently these enhanced offers are going to continue for 30 days. These are crazy odds and with a simple heuristic I guess th...