MMA Betting

[Ben_Hutch]

I know there are few threads that pop up about betting on up-coming MMA events, but this ones more general.

For those of you who bet on MMA what's the most you've ever bet and what's the most you'd be willing to bet?

I fancy putting on a couple of bets on UFC 110 but don't want to go over the top especially considering MMA can be such an unpredictable sport. However there are a few accumulator bets that could bring back pretty decent returns which are tempting...

[Shaun.R.]

you should try putting bets on before the events. thats always a good start

[Grake]

i had an accumulator on with all 7 of the televised fights,
it was £3.50 for a £45 return, bloody Marquardt was the only one that let me down and he was ment to be the dead cert

[Jimmy Boogaloo]

bloody Marquardt was the only one that let me down and he was ment to be the dead cert

I think most people expected him to win, thinking Marquardt was about as good as it gets - outside Anderson - at 185.

Sonnen/Anderson, eh? Who'd have thunk it?

[Jimmy Boogaloo]

you should try putting bets on before the events. thats always a good start

total facial, LaFleur, total facial

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[Ben_Hutch]

you should try putting bets on before the events. thats always a good start

My bad, I meant UFC 110

I'm thinking of putting £100 on Valasquez, Stevenson and Bader which brings in just over £400. Add Jon Jones and Anthony Johnson into that and £100 brings back £720.

[Grake]

i wouldn't be able to handle losing £100, it would take me weeks to get over it

[Zanmato]

the most i've ever put on was £20 but i usually stick to 1,2,5 or 10 pound bets

£100 is silly money, especially betting on Velasquez over Nogeuira - not a chance in hell

there are too many upsets and variables in MMA for a 5 fight accumulator to come in, even if you pick 5 dead certs, one of them is going to fuck it up for you, which is going to be pretty devistating when you're talking about £100..

[Grake]

i have had a accumulator on the last 10 events at least (minimum 5 fights) and not won any, have been 1 result off a few times but never won, £5 is the most i have bet though

[Ben_Hutch]

the most i've ever put on was £20 but i usually stick to 1,2,5 or 10 pound bets

£100 is silly money, especially betting on Velasquez over Nogeuira - not a chance in hell

there are too many upsets and variables in MMA for a 5 fight accumulator to come in, even if you pick 5 dead certs, one of them is going to fuck it up for you, which is going to be pretty devistating when you're talking about £100..

I know £100 is a lot but obviously the more you bet the more you win, I guess it'll depend how lucky I'm feeling closer to the event.

I'm picking Cain over Big Nog because he's such a good wrestler and I can't see Big Nog getting any chances to win. If Cain is struggling on the feet he'll take it to the ground and I don't think he'll give Nog the opportunity to sub him.

I've only bet on MMA once and it was I think an 8-fight accumulator, I put £40 on and all of the fighters won, I got about £450 in returns so accumulator's can definitely pay off.

[Muttley85]

My bad, I meant UFC 110

I'm thinking of putting £100 on Valasquez, Stevenson and Bader which brings in just over £400. Add Jon Jones and Anthony Johnson into that and £100 brings back £720.

i toyed with the idea of betting Velasquez but decided against, definately not counting out big Nog. Rothwell beating Cro Cop is the one i really like on 110.

these are the things im eyeing up at the moment

21 Feb 03:07 Filipovic, Mirko vs Rothwell, Ben 20/33 6/5
22 Mar 04:00 Jones, Jon vs Vera, Brandon 1/3 2/1
22 Mar 04:20 Johnson, Anthony vs Howard, John 2/7 9/4
13 Feb 19:00 Cleverly, Nathan vs Brancalion, Antonio 1/9 33/1 5/1
12 Mar 19:00 Brook, Kell vs Bienias, Krzysztof 1/12 33/1 6/1
Champions League 2009/2010 To Qualify For 1/4 Finals Selection Price
Stuttgart To Qualify 9/2
Barcelona To Qualify 1/8
Champions League 2009/2010 To Qualify For 1/4 Finals Selection Price
Inter Milan To Qualify 11/8
Chelsea To Qualify 8/15
20 Mar 20:00 Klitschko, Wladimir vs Chambers, Eddie 1/9 33/1 5/1
17 Apr 19:30 Kessler, Mikkel vs Froch, Carl 4/6 22/1 11/10
19 Apr 22:00 Sosnowski, Albert vs Harrison, Audley 8/11 25/1 EVS

there are a lot of things in there and Rothwell is pretty much the only underdog so will likely trim it down till i get odds of about 4 or 5 to 1 and put 50 or 100 on there depending on how much i feel like risking.

[Ben_Hutch]

The Rothwell fight is a very hard one to predict, you just don't know what you're going to get with Cro Cop these days. His striking is no doubt good, but Rothwell isn't exactly the worst striker in the world.

I wonder what his gameplan would be? Is he a good enough wrestler to take Cro Cop down? I know he layed ontop of Arlovski in the first round of their fight and looked good doing it, I just wonder if he can do the same against Mirko? And if he can then will he be able to do it for all 3 rounds without being caught at least once?

Another thing, can you put contradicting bets on paddypower or bet365? What I mean is would you be able to put these 2 accumulator bets on the same website?

Valesquez, Stevenson and Bader all to win
and
Big Nog, Stevenson and Bader all to win

Or would they not let you do that as you have both Cain and Nog to win?

[Muttley85]

The Rothwell fight is a very hard one to predict, you just don't know what you're going to get with Cro Cop these days. His striking is no doubt good, but Rothwell isn't exactly the worst striker in the world.

I wonder what his gameplan would be? Is he a good enough wrestler to take Cro Cop down? I know he layed ontop of Arlovski in the first round of their fight and looked good doing it, I just wonder if he can do the same against Mirko? And if he can then will he be able to do it for all 3 rounds without being caught at least once?

Another thing, can you put contradicting bets on paddypower or bet365? What I mean is would you be able to put these 2 accumulator bets on the same website?

Valesquez, Stevenson and Bader all to win
and
Big Nog, Stevenson and Bader all to win

Or would they not let you do that as you have both Cain and Nog to win?

Cro Cop is completely shot for me, hasnt shown any life in the last 3 years or so....i see Rothwell smothering him then Crop Cop looking for a way out if he makes it through the 1st round.

yes you can put contradicting bets up if you want. bet365 is good because its usually the only one in the UK that does strikeforce and Dream too but they only have the odds up a few days in advance, stan james only do the UFC these days but have fights up till the end of march at the moment. looking forward to hearing the odds for Gomi-Florian.....gonna be a cakewalk for Florian, Gomi is almost as shot as Cro Cop.

[bjjguy123]

If i had £100 to throw down...

Bisping 6/5
Cain EVS
Rothwell 11/10

Odds are from WilliamHill and the return is £924

[Ben_Hutch]

Muttley85 - You're probably right about Cro Cop, it's just that his striking looked decent against Al Turk, that's the only thing thats giving me worries, I know Al Turk isn't exactly known for having great stand-up but still, when you're putting money on things it always seems to make you less confident lol.

I can't see Florian having great odds tbh, they'll probably be something rubbish like Jon Jones' latest odds of 4/11 which are just terrible!

BJJ - Bisping is a risky one for sure, especially considering he recently got KO'd and Wanderlei had Franklin rocked on a number of occasions in their fight. Could put Bisping in a separate accumulator bet for less money though and hope for the best.

[SirFapsAlot]

I follow and gamble on the horses a lot, and have the odd flutter on the UFC. The main rule is only gamble what you're prepared to lose. Once you're past that limit you've set, you find yourself getting stupid and trying to win back what you've lost, and it's a bad scene lol

[FlippinEck]

I usually put a wee bet on the UFC... First time I bet I stuck £1 on a few fights, 1 fight let me down for £100... I won £125 from UFC 105 betting on most of the brit fighters which was alright, only stuck about a fiver on that I think it was... I dont stick more than a tenner in my account at a time... its football betting thats really annoying me right now... If I dont know who to pick, I usually check a LOT of prediction sites and see whos names are popping up the most

[Sammo27]

I do accumulaters all the time and they hardly ever come off. I've been 1 fight off a 7 or 8 fight accumulater more than once. Got a 5 fight come in on Strikeforce the once thats it so my advice is don't bet over 50 on an accumulater unless ur more than willing to lose it.

[Cantstopmenow]

I love gambling in the MMA online Betting Pools.

Cheap way to bet on all the televised fights and how the fights end.

Makes the UFC's 100x more exciting.

[CashSportsPools.com]

I lost a huge accumulator during the Rampage Vs. Forrest fight...all we needed was Rampage to win (thought it was a lock) since every other fight had come in.

It was extra sick because I was actually at the fight, and it sent the rest of the night into a drunken spiral :rolleyes:

Anyway, we're offering UFC 110 on our site. We'll hopefully have a promotion for cagewarrior users out in a day or so...something like the cagewarrior user that makes the most will get a bonus.

And yeah, I'd never count big nog out...

[Cantstopmenow]

I lost a huge accumulator during the Rampage Vs. Forrest fight...all we needed was Rampage to win (thought it was a lock) since every other fight had come in.

It was extra sick because I was actually at the fight, and it sent the rest of the night into a drunken spiral :rolleyes:

Anyway, we're offering UFC 110 on our site. We'll hopefully have a promotion for cagewarrior users out in a day or so...something like the cagewarrior user that makes the most will get a bonus.

And yeah, I'd never count big nog out...

I play on your site. Went 5-0 for UFC 109. Coture by submission was easy money.

[Cantstopmenow]

Anyone else playing these pools on cashsportspools?

Just got my picks down!! Going to get PAID!!

[Ben_Hutch]

After experiencing the wrong side of gambling I've decided that putting a lot of money on MMA is a stupid idea :D

I've put a £20 accumulator on Stevenson, Bader, Bisping & Valesquez which brings in £180 if they all win.

[Wendle]

After experiencing the wrong side of gambling I've decided that putting a lot of money on MMA is a stupid idea :D


Better to learn the lessons on small bets, there have been some major shocks in MMA bouts that none of us expected, but that's the beauty of the sport.

I gamble quite a bit and have won some decent amounts, but at the same time I've lost quite a bit too. Winning £200 doesn't seem like a large amount, but it feels huge when you've just lost £200.

Chasing losses is the worst thing a gambler can do. By the way, it's normally the supposed "dead certs" where you lose the most money (because you tend to put more money on them).

[Grake]

Keith Jardine @ 6/5
Keith Jardine v Ryan Bader
Cain Velasquez @ 10/11
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira v Cain Velasquez
C. B. Dollaway @ 15/8
C. B. Dollaway v Goran Reljic
Chris Lytle @ 4/7
Chris Lytle v Brian Foster
Krzysztof Soszynski @ 1/2
Stephan Bonnar v Krzysztof Soszynski

£5 - £140 return

[Grake]

Keith Jardine @ 6/5
Keith Jardine v Ryan Bader
Cain Velasquez @ 10/11
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira v Cain Velasquez
C. B. Dollaway @ 15/8
C. B. Dollaway v Goran Reljic
Chris Lytle @ 4/7
Chris Lytle v Brian Foster
Krzysztof Soszynski @ 1/2
Stephan Bonnar v Krzysztof Soszynski

£5 - £140 return

fucking techno viking

[Ben_Hutch]

fucking techno viking

I was right on that fight! but wrong on 2 others so may as well have been wrong :(

[sol_dave]

After experiencing the wrong side of gambling I've decided that putting a lot of money on MMA is a stupid idea :D

I've put a £20 accumulator on Stevenson, Bader, Bisping & Valesquez which brings in £180 if they all win.

what happened regards the wrong side?

[Ben_Hutch]

what happened regards the wrong side?

I was £100 up on roulette, stopped, but then got cocky and decided to try and win some more, I lost the £100 I'd just won, took another £100 out of the bank to try and win it back and ended up losing that too plus a little bit more that I already had in my wallet.

Oh well you live and learn!

[Ben_Hutch]

If you put a £25 accumulator on:

Aaron Simpson to beat Leben
Lil Nog to beat Griffin
Rampage to beat Rashad
Sam Stout to beat Jeremy Stephens
Semtex to beat Koscheck
Shogun to beat Machida
Hughes to beat Gracie
Quarry to beat Rivera
Pearson to beat Siver
Okami to beat Linhares
Florian to beat Gomi
Jim Miller to beat Mark Bocek
Ben Saunders to beat Jake Ellenberger
Palhares to beat Drawl
Matt Brown to beat Ricardo Almeida
Alves to beat Fitch
Mir to beat Carwin
Kongo vs. Buentello
Dos Santos to beat Gonzaga
and
Jon Jones to beat Brandon Vera

then you get £104,494 returns :)

....or you could stick a cheeky £1 on it and you get over £4,000 in returns.

What you could do is keep that bet and add a few variations into the mix, e.g have fitch to beat alves rather than the other way round, if you did £1 on 10 or 20 variations of the original bet then you'd only end up gambling £10 - £20 and could well see yourself a few thousand pounds up!

Then again, this is reality and gambling never works as well in reality as it does on paper :(

[Ben_Hutch]

£5 on...

Shogun to beat Machida
Semtex to beat Koscheck
Kimbo to beat Mitrione
Rampage to beat Evans
Franklin to beat Liddell
Barry to beat Cro Cop

gets you £256 in returns....pretty nice!

[Mattchoo]

£5 on...

Shogun to beat Machida
Semtex to beat Koscheck
Kimbo to beat Mitrione
Rampage to beat Evans
Franklin to beat Liddell
Barry to beat Cro Cop

gets you £256 in returns....pretty nice!



All good bar Kimbo, can see Mitrione gassing and deciding to lay his fat arse on him for most of the fight.

Im not brave enough to bet on Daley just because im scared Koscheck might do something crazy and use his brain, take him down and win every round. Its giving me nightmares.

[bean]

£5 on...

Shogun to beat Machida
Semtex to beat Koscheck
Kimbo to beat Mitrione
Rampage to beat Evans
Franklin to beat Liddell
Barry to beat Cro Cop

gets you £256 in returns....pretty nice!

Who do you use to bet Ben? I have a spare fiver so might have a go.

[Ben_Hutch]

Who do you use to bet Ben? I have a spare fiver so might have a go.

I use http://www.paddypower.com/bet but http://skybet.com/ is equally as good.

[Zanmato]

I'm sick of MMA betting and the small odds/me constantly losing but Shogun as an underdog, and Cro Cop in the same boat look like good bets. I reckon Koscheck will win but Daley at 7/4 seems quite enjoyable too.

[ross90]

£5 on...

Shogun to beat Machida
Semtex to beat Koscheck
Kimbo to beat Mitrione
Rampage to beat Evans
Franklin to beat Liddell
Barry to beat Cro Cop

gets you £256 in returns....pretty nice!

Is this on an accumulater Ben?

I might stick a few bets on, but Im a friggin noob and dont know how :confused: it looked like they had a help thing on sky though.

[Zanmato]

BUMP

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPORTS&disp_cat_id=&ev_class_id=172&ev_type_id=13488&ev_oc_grp_ids=319030&bir_index=

Anyone think Scott Smith at 5/2 against a hobbyist who he's already knocked out seems like very generous odds!? I know he was being out-worked before the knockout but that still seems very good compared to the usual 11/10 4/5 type odds you usually get for MMA. I'm tempted by it, but I'm a shit better (betor? ..gambler) so I'm hesitant to do it. I'll condemn him to a loss by putting money on it.

[Nathan_Court]

BUMP

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPORTS&disp_cat_id=&ev_class_id=172&ev_type_id=13488&ev_oc_grp_ids=319030&bir_index=

Anyone think Scott Smith at 5/2 against a hobbyist who he's already knocked out seems like very generous odds!? I know he was being out-worked before the knockout but that still seems very good compared to the usual 11/10 4/5 type odds you usually get for MMA. I'm tempted by it, but I'm a shit better (betor? ..gambler) so I'm hesitant to do it. I'll condemn him to a loss by putting money on it.

quite good odds that i may stick a 10er on him with ods like that

[londonpride]

I use http://www.paddypower.com/bet but http://skybet.com/ is equally as good.

do they encourage underage gambling? ;) :D

[Ben_Hutch]

do they encourage underage gambling? ;) :D

Very funny!!!

Just put a £5 accumulator on Franklin, Barry, Griffin and Wilks to win tonight.

[TheUnfitOne]

I'm going to put my winnings from the England Match (2-0 £36 or 3-0 £56) on Franklin, Barry & Griffin accumulator

^^like the confidence eh ? ^^

[TheUnfitOne]

I'm going to put my winnings from the England Match (2-0 £36 or 3-0 £56) on Franklin, Barry & Griffin accumulator

^^like the confidence eh ? ^^

arse-biscuits!