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How To Win The Football Pools – Perms Systems Software for UK Football Pools
Part 1: How The Football Pools Works.
Dear Football Pools fans,
Welcome and thank you for taking the time to read this article. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be writing about different aspects of the UK football pools. They will include:
· How the football pools works.
· Not the ‘Full Perm.
· Score draw Selection and Strategy.
If you’re anything like me and are really serious and want to know how to win the football pools or even if you’re new to it, and want fantastic Free Football Pools Perms Systems including PROVEN Football Pools Selection Systems to help you obtain those elusive Score Draws and WIN, then please do yourself a big favour and take 10 minutes to quickly read this page as you have definitely come to the right place.
Forget the National Lottery – doing the football pools is the traditional way to turn rags into riches.
The football pools have come a long way since 1918, when they were invented by a fellow called Jervis from Birmingham as a way of betting on the results of football matches. A handful of people paid pennies in the hope of winning a £2 jackpot.
The football pools is a form of pari-mutuel betting like the lottery. All of the money staked by each of the betting participants is placed in a “pool”. The organisers, and various others, take their share and what’s left is shared equally amongst the winners. In most cases, less than 30% of the full pool is actually returned to the winning punters. Unlike a bet placed with a bookie, the return on pools betting outlays can never be accurately determined in advance because the total number of participants is unknown, plus there can be quite a few winners with the same correct winning forecast. In such cases the bonanza is shared.
The main attraction of football pools betting is the fact that, unlike the lottery, it is possible to apply some “skill and judgement” to the prediction of results. For example, if the first match on the coupon is, say, Manchester United Vs Leeds, the chances of this match resulting in a score draw are far less than they would be if Manchester Utd were playing Arsenal. Therefore, we can eliminate this and other similar matches where the two teams have similar form.
Of course, the other main attraction of the football pools is the potentially huge prizes. Up until the mid 1940’s, the ‘penny points’ coupon (so called because each line on the coupon cost a penny) was the most popular type of pools entry. However, in 1946, the ‘treble chance’ football pool was introduced, and this now accounts for the vast majority of the money staked on the pools. Pools companies are able to operate all year round by making use of both British and Australian league football matches.
There are currently some 10 million people playing the football pools each week in the United Kingdom alone, and around £15 million is spent by the British public in the search for those elusive football matches which will result in a score draw.
Nowadays, a million pound jackpot is commonplace. The four main firms – Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters and Brittens – issue over ten million coupons every week. The biggest firm is Littlewoods pools, which gives out prizes of over £200 million each year, working out at £4 million a week. Since many of these entries are shared, it means that around 16 million people in the UK alone have a financial interest in the football results.
Part 2 (Not the ‘Full Perm) – coming soon.
1977 World Series of Poker
The 1977 World Series of Poker was the eighth annual World Series of Poker. It was held at Binnions Horseshoe. The number of preliminary events increased to 12, up from seven the previous year.
One of the most notable additions to the preliminary events was the $100 Ladies Seven Card Stud. The event was won by Jackie McDaniels, making her the first ever WSOP champion in a ladies only event. It was also the smallest buy-in with the smallest prize pool of any event in the history of the tournament. McDaniels walked away with a cash prize of $5,580.
The big winner from the preliminary events was Bobby Baldwin. He won both the $10,000 Deuce to Seven Draw and the $5,000 Seven Card Stud, landing him cash prizes of $80,000 and $44,000 respectively. Baldwin was in his late twenties at the time of the tournament, which was relatively young by poker standards in those days.
Doyle Brunson was the second-biggest winner from the preliminary events. He won the $1,000 Seven Card Stud Split tournament which was good enough for a cash prize of $62,500. Unheralded Louis Hunsucker earned the third-most money from the preliminary events. He won $34,200 in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament.
From 1975 to 1976, the number of participants in the Main Event increased from 21 to 22. That number increased substantially in 1977. There were 34 players who agreed to pay $10,000 to play in the No Limit Holdem Main Event at the 1977 World Series of Poker. Just six years earlier, at the inaugural Main Event, there were six entrants in the Main Event. With all 34 players paying the $10,000 entrance fee into the tournament, the prize for first place was at a hefty $340,000. No money was awarded to second- and third-place finishers.
The amount of players slowly dwindled down until there were three players left: Doyle Brunson, Gary Berland, and Milo Jacobson. When Jacobson was eliminated, Doyle Brunson had just one more adversary to take care of in his quest to become the first person to repeat as Main Event champion (Johnny Moss won the first two WSOPs, but there was no Main Event when he won the first one in 1970).
His opponent, Gary “Bones” Berland, was a tremendous poker player and Brunson could not afford to take him lightly. He stuck around on the poker scene for a long time, ending up with five WSOP bracelets and a third-place finish at the 1986 Main Event.
In one of the most amazing coincidences in poker history, Brunson was dealt a ten-deuce. Just one year earlier, Brunson had won the 1976 Main Event with the same hand. Brunson called Berlands all in bid after the turn card when he had a pair of 2s and a pair of 10s. The river card was a 10, giving Brunson the same 10s over 2s full house that won him the Main Event one year earlier.
Brunson won the mammoth cash prize of $340,000 and secured himself a spot in poker history as one of the greatest to ever play. In the decades since he won the 1976 and 1977 WSOP, the ten-deuce hand is still known as “the Doyle Brunson.”