Winning twenty bucks

So in case you were wondering, I won! I got the Arsenal-Tottenham match corrent, as you know, and then Newcastle United beat West Bromwich Albion 3-0, so I got that corrent as well. Then the Sevilla - Barcelona game got postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. In Pro-line rules, if a game is postponed your odds revert to 1:1, and your prediction is counted as "Correct". So with odds of 1.5:1 on the Newcastle match, and odds of 3.3:1 on the North London Derby, I can go to the shop tomorrow and collect about twenty dollars on my 4 dollar bet ! That might not seem like a lot of money. It's not. That's not the reason I bet on football. I do it to test my "soccer smarts". I'm always predicting the outcome of games, and I'm always saying after the fact that I knew that would happen. Well, it's a different ball game when you put your money where your mouth is, isn't it? I like to put a few bucks on some outcomes as a sort of reality check; to see if I really am as clever as I make myself out to be.

So far, my pro-line record is 1-1. Basically, after two wagers I'm thirteen dollars ahead of the game. The lesson is that even though I get most of my predictions right (I've only gotten one game wrong, out of the six I've wagered on), I'd better not quit my day job.