ANDY MURRAY lost out to Rafa Nadal in the semis yesteday and today the Spaniard takes on Gael Monfils for the Monte Carlo Masters title.
Nadal won the event eight years in a row from 2015 and and is hot favourite at 2-7 with Coral to regain the crown this afternoon.
Monfils, who has just two wins in 13 meetings with Nadal and has lost all four head-to-heads on clay, is a 3-1 chance at bet365 for glory and 6-5 at William Hill to win a set.
At the F1 Chinese Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton's hopes look doomed as he starts last on the grid and is 11-1 at Paddy Power, with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg taking pole and 1-2 at totesport for a third successive victory.
The NBA play-offs are also under way and tonight's matches include LeBron James – who has never lost in the opening round – leading the Cleveland Cavs charge against Detriot Pistons.
There's also the likes of cycling and World Championship snooker among the sporting highlights so let's hear your tips and chat and good luck with your bets.
Hoping for better results today. 2 games to get stuck into again.
Game 1 Punjab vs Pune
Under 28.5 Fours – 4/5 Coral – 1.5pts
Under 12 Sixes – 10/11 Bet365 – 2pts
Top Match Run Scorer – A Rahane – 5/1 Skybet – 0.5pts
Maxwell Under 34 Performance Pts – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt
Match pts staked = 5pts
Match pts returned = 0pts
Game 2 Bangalore vs Delhi
Top Delhi Batsman – De Kock – 13/5 Bet365 – 0.5pts
Top Bangalore Batsman – AB de Villiers – 10/3 Bet365 – 0.5pts
S Watson 42+ performance pts – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt
Over 16.5 Sixes – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt
1st innings top scoring 5 overs (16-20) – 7/2 Paddypower – 0.5pts
Match pts staked = 3.5pts
Match pts returned = 0pts
Win Double – Pune & Bangalore – 12/5 Skybet – 1pt
Daily pts staked = 9.5pts
Daily pts returned = 0pts
Total pts staked = 36.25pts
Total pts returned = 27.73pts
@downtoon On the pune/rcb double and if rcb bat first will be taking overs on whatever the runs line is set at
Sorry chaps, my boxing tip (posted Friday) fell one short for the second week running. So close to a 10/1 winner after coming inches from a 17/1 the week before.
Errol Spence did what Manny Pac couldn’t do and stopped Chris Algieri in the 5th. I had it down as Spence to win on points.
Next week I’ll nail one of these….stick with me ?
Lost points on the footy yesterday, got it back on baseball.. On the nba play-offs today.
Same here mate, lost our overall on the footy but did well on the UFC and came out with a nice profit overall. ?
Morning gents, I’m still about.. just didn’t like any of the playoff games yesterday.
Tonight however, i do.
Miami Heat -4.5 (Bet 365) – 1.5 Points.
Good luck.
Sorry it’s late but I’m going for this nba double…
Celtics +9.5
Thunder -5.5
Exactly evens, good luck all!
*WON* good start to the play offs
Hi all Bangalore 4/9 best now 2 pts as stated on earlier post backed them outright at 3/1 and said gunna back them each game to level stakes and see how I go .up to now 1 bet stakes 2pt returns 3.06 pts .?
Will be on the batsman bets downtoon ?
Indians o7.5 hits @ 1.68
Maxwell finally turns up to the ipl (and promptly takes out two bets…). Pune bowling looked toothless for most of their innings.
Looks like we’re all hoping for some bombs in the 2nd game, especially from RCB, AB & de Kock.
Downtoon think Pune were 15 /20 short partly because du plessis seemed ill and took a while to get goin especially late in innings with hindsight maybe should have retired hurt
MLB Bets For This Evening
4 Fold @ 5.4/1 (£10) skybet
Over 3.5 Washington Nationals Runs
Over 3.5 St Louis Cardinals Runs
Over 3.5 Chicago Cubs Runs
Over 3.5 Kansas City Royals Runs
6 Fold @ 19.46/1 (£5) skybet
Indians ML
Blue Jays ML
Nationals ML
Cardinals ML
Cubs ML
Royals ML
Nba play off bet number 2, I’m going to keep a tally of how I do this play off series and keep track of my wins/losses
Cavs -4.5
Heat ML
Evens with 365, good luck all!
**play off record
Bets 1
Wins 1
Losses 0**
More intriguing results today with performances telling us more than the results in my opinion. Agree with nflfan re: Pune and du plessis and in the 2nd game some questions starting to appear around the once untouchable Gayle? Out for a duck today having been more famine than feast in his last 10 T20 matches. Fantastic batting performances from Kohli (as ever) and de Kock with his ton.
As for the bets, once again, these early matches are providing useful insight for the later rounds (it’d just be handy if they did so without going against my pre-match logic!) ;)
Game 1 Punjab vs Pune
Under 28.5 Fours – 4/5 Coral – 1.5pts LOST
Under 12 Sixes – 10/11 Bet365 – 2pts WON
Top Match Run Scorer – A Rahane – 5/1 Skybet – 0.5pts LOST
Maxwell Under 34 Performance Pts – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt LOST
Match pts staked = 5pts
Match pts returned = 3.82pts
Game 2 Bangalore vs Delhi
Top Delhi Batsman – De Kock – 13/5 Bet365 – 0.5pts WON
Top Bangalore Batsman – AB de Villiers – 10/3 Bet365 – 0.5pts LOST
S Watson 42+ performance pts – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt WON
Over 16.5 Sixes – 10/11 Bet365 – 1pt LOST
1st innings top scoring 5 overs (16-20) – 7/2 Paddypower – 0.5pts LOST
Match pts staked = 3.5pts
Match pts returned = 3.71pts
Win Double – Pune & Bangalore – 12/5 Skybet – 1pt LOST
Daily pts staked = 9.50pts
Daily pts returned = 7.53pts
Total pts staked = 36.25pts
Total pts returned = 35.26pts
Small interest.
Blake Griffin (LA Clippers) Over 30.5 PR&A @ 5/6 @ Betfair/Paddys – 2.4 points
Tomorrow.
OKC Thunder -6
Atlanta Hawks ML
41/50 @ 365 – 5 points
IPL (18/04/2016) Hyderabad vs Mumbai
Top Hyderabad Batsman – D Warner – 11/5 Paddypower – 1pt
Top Bowler Double – M Rahim & M McClenaghan – 14/1 Stan James – 0.5pts
Over 10.5 Sixes – 5/6 Betway – 1pt
Over 27.5 Fours – 19/20 Coral – 1pt
Highest Individual Score – 55-70 runs – 6/4 Stan James – 1pt
Match pts staked = 4.5pts
Match pts returned = 0pts
Total pts staked = 40.75pts
Total pts returned = 35.26pts
GL all