how can I turn £10 into £11 ?

[VectraMan]

Count your fingers backwards on one hand, 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6 - plus 5 on the other hand is 11!

11 fingers!

I don't know how it works but I always thought I had 10 fingers?

Fantastic. I wish I'd thought of something like that and posted it before you.

Oh wait, I did.

[Doggy Styles]

Count your fingers backwards on one hand, 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6 - plus 5 on the other hand is 11!

11 fingers!

I don't know how it works but I always thought I had 10 fingers?

Not if you are from Norfolk.

[Sysman]

One from the days when we had pound notes and before fancy counting machines, you could cut pound notes and then stick the bits together so that in the resulting bundle each note was only 9/10 of the width of a proper one. Hey presto - eleven of them.

Something like that, anyway. And the serial numbers wouldn't have matched.

[Doggy Styles]

Hi,

How can I turn £10 into £11?

Easy. Put it on Arsenal to win away at Newcastle at 11/10.

Oh, hang on...

[DimPrawn]

Take the £10 to a casino, put £1 on a bet with roughly 50/50 odds, e.g. Roulette red.

If you win, off you go, £1 up.

If you lose, double your stake and bet again.

If you win, you've bet £1 + £2 and won £4 so off you go £1 up.

If you lose, double your stake and bet again.

If you win, you've bet £1 + £2 + £4 = £7 and won £8 so off you go £1 up.

Chances of a (roughly) 50/50 losing result happening 3 times consecutively about 1/8 so the scheme has a 7 in 8 chance of success.

Start with a bigger stake to increase your odds even further. I don't see what can possibly go wrong with this scheme.....

I can!



Bailiff is outside in the rain at the moment.

[stek]

There is one way, betting arbitrage. I had it explained to me and it made perfect sense but when I come to describe to others it comes out as total bollocks. Well, here goes;

You search for bets on unfancied, boring contests, say for example on the outcome of Peterborough vs Lincoln footy or something and collect all the odds from the various bookies.

You'll find that cos it's lower league, no-one's really bothered about setting the odds totally consistently and you'll find that sometimes for example one bookie has Peterborough to win 1 to 5 and another has it 1 to 6. So you bet on all possible outcomes but taking the best odds where they're in you're favour. So if you stake enough you can make 10 quid into 11, or break even, but you can't lose, as there is no betting tax nowadays.

The only flaw is that I've got the above wrong which is very possible, must get my mate to write it down and that if you do do it, it's a lot of work searching for the odds, placing the bet etc, or the bookie pulls the odds at the last minute, all for a 5/10% gain. But if you have the cash, and the time, might be better than 0.5% interest in the bank of whatever...

[RichardCranium]

But if you have the cash, and the time, might be better than 0.5% interest in the bank of whatever...

My father-in-law can look at the Racing Post and within three minutes will say "Nothing worth betting on" or pick 1, 2 or 3 horses. He is always disappointed when there is nothing to bet on, which happens about twice a week.

When he picks horses, they either win, or do not run at all for some reason. He is very rarely wrong.

All it took for him to learn how to do this was single-minded dedication, 60 years of study, all his spare time in the bookies or at the race track, most of his wages, the housekeeping, his children's Xmas & birthday present money, his Forces pension, his private pension, three marriages and his inheritance.

Piece of piss.

[DimPrawn]

Hi,

How can I turn £10 into £11?

Open a Ulster Bank's Easy Access savings account. It pays interest at 0.01%.

Deposit your £10, sit back and wait...........and wait........and wait.......

[realityhack]

All it took for him to learn how to do this was single-minded dedication, 60 years of study, all his spare time in the bookies or at the race track, most of his wages, the housekeeping, his children's Xmas & birthday present money, his Forces pension, his private pension, three marriages and his inheritance.

Piece of piss.

Obviously not a laughing matter for his nearest & dearest - but the way you phrased that was classic. Post of the day.

[stek]

My father-in-law can look at the Racing Post and within three minutes will say "Nothing worth betting on" or pick 1, 2 or 3 horses. He is always disappointed when there is nothing to bet on, which happens about twice a week.

When he picks horses, they either win, or do not run at all for some reason. He is very rarely wrong.

All it took for him to learn how to do this was single-minded dedication, 60 years of study, all his spare time in the bookies or at the race track, most of his wages, the housekeeping, his children's Xmas & birthday present money, his Forces pension, his private pension, three marriages and his inheritance.

Piece of piss.

It's not Jack Duckworth is it?