Bnp Paribas & Sony Open - Money For Nothing Tournament

[Innordinate]

already joined...wth not...its fun..nerve racking a bit and I enjoyed tennis in school...natural talent - lmao

 

[anthony]

If it has a 100 members by years end, I'd be happy. I would expect more... though I aim low with websites, and let the world surprise me. Google is painful the first year of running a website... and when it delivers the majority of your traffic, hence I aim low in year one.

 

[Innordinate]

gives you some more work anyways.

 

[anthony]

Gives me more time away from here actually. :D

 

[Innordinate]

lol
Thats always a good thing... I'm finding here to be harder to be around.

Kind of tired of sob stories and victims.

 

[anthony]

All four have been paid out for the money for nothing, BNP Paribas, both men's and women which start in the next 48hrs. The women's begins Wednesday, the men Thursday, California time.

Game play is normally 11am onwards local time.

Remember, $50,000 per tournament, must bet it once each round (minimum), can do more if you're online as settlement is done and others are open in the same round. Must keep the total amount all together, including winnings as a single bet with nothing added or subtracted. You must comment on the bet placed that this is your money for nothing round bet, even if betting multiple times, so it can be tracked.

If you get above $1m at winning the finals, you keep it. If not, I subtract the total amount (winnings included) from your account.

Very simple rules. Keep it together, comment on your bet to identify, minimum once per round.

And remember, you're going to have to take risks to probably get you over the line with this. Betting on favourites won't do it. Do the math before placing your bet, research your two players and find the one who you think can pull-off the underdog win.

You will get a minimum of 7 bets based on round structure (4 rounds + QF + SF + Final). You can grab the draws from BNP Paribas yourself as released and updated: [DLMURL]http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/Scores/Draws.aspx[/DLMURL]

 

[Innordinate]

Thank you.

 

[anthony]

Every seeded player for the WTA has been given a bye into round 2. So round 1 won't be 64 matches as would be expected, but round 2 will be 32 complete.

 

[anthony]

To help anyone along to maintain their betting strategy for timing games on who they're going to be on, allowing game time, settlement and then re-bet, you can use something like http://www.oddsportal.com/tennis/usa/wta-indian-wells/ to help you.

The above is for the WTA, the ATP is http://www.oddsportal.com/tennis/usa/atp-indian-wells/

Basically, go to the top right and set your local time, then all game times are changed to your time automatically. Odds Portal constantly update game timings as they get closer, then on the fly, based on what games go longer. It isn't perfect, obviously, but it allows you to setup a rough strategy.

They're just releasing odds for the WTA round 1, which I'm getting listed. Right now there are no specific timings, though they will get listed as BNP finalise their court times. Tennis is normally all within 12 - 24hrs before, no sooner.

Please note: There will be listings appear at all hours when I'm awake, which is how odds companies pretty much do it... and I am limited to await them. You need to be sharp, maybe have a list of who've you've bet on, who you haven't, for the first couple of rounds which are quite large.

If you bet well and form a good strategy in the first two rounds, even third round, you could bet on more favourable winners and probably make the $1m goal, because you're multiple betting in each round. The more bets you can get in, the less risk you need take.

 

[anthony]

I won't hide my strategy... so here are some tips.

Firstly, the female tournament is much easier than the mens tournament. The reason is because the women don't often have fast serves, so their games are fitness, accuracy and strategy. There are easy sites that help you do most of the work, such as [DLMURL]http://www.matchstat.com/AllFixtures/[/DLMURL] which to the right of each game allows you to compare the players head to head. Also use the wta and atp websites themselves to view world rankings, their latest wins to determine how they're going, etc.

The men are a lot more difficult, because even the shittiest player can be fit and hit hard, thus those games are very much harder to pick because both are slamming the ball at speeds the females are mostly serving at, let alone their serve speeds often nearing 200kph. It comes down to who is often the most accurate and has the less faults in their game.

I will be aiming to bet atleast 4-5 times in round 1 in order to try and meet the goal. If I win that long... which would be luck in itself, then a few more in round 2 and so forth. The more you bet in the first two rounds, the less risk you take if you make it through.

Anyone in the US, the games are played in your time pretty much. Australia is ultra lucky, because games start at 5am our time, finishing late afternoon.

Please watch for games that may be closed, to reopen as game times move. I will try my best to keep them updated on when they're played, incase you can get an extra bet on them.

 

[anthony]

I would wait until the dates and times are allocated correctly to each game, before betting your money for nothing $$$. Nothing worse than betting it to only be stuck with a game in tomorrow, as you have to declare it when laying it.

 

[KP the nut]

Anthony, can I follow your lead :cool: