BETTING PICKS COMPETITION 03/08/2022

[AlphaGambler]

*READ RULES*

The pciks you create must be between the odds of 1.50 and 2.50 and can only be odds set by these bookmakers:

 

• Bet365
• Pinnacle

You can only take these bet types:

 

• Team to win or Draw
• Over/Under goals (Game total)
• Both Teams to score

 

Players can submit 1 pick per day and in the course of 1 month have to submit a total of 10 picks in order to qualify for the competition.

• Bets/Posts must contain a written account of why the bet will win with 150 words minimum.

 

The Prize pool is tiered,

First Place will win 200€,

Second Place 100€,

Third place 50€.

You can check odds for your picks here:
http://www.oddsportal.com/ 
 

Post your picks in the comment below.

Good luck to all!

[PupperChan]

BOOM VS ONIC

 

BOOM:

This Indonesian team is ranked 4th in APAC and is considered quite inconsistent, there are times when they can create major upsets like their match against ORDER (ranked 1 in OCEANIA) and other matches but will lose games when they are favorites. Not many players like this team due to their EGO. With all their trash talk, it doesn't really age well when they lack the skills to back it up!

Currently playing really well recently but lost to ONIC a couple games ago with a 1-2. During that time, they threw rounds which really upset everyone and soon lost their fan's trust.

ONIC:

Also an Indonesian team ranking 3rd in APAC. This team is certainly much better overall and more consistent (Can't go wrong!). So far, ONIC also defeated ORDER by an 2-0 which nobody expected. They performed so well, a significant improvement from last season.

MY PREDICTION:

OVER 2.5+ Maps again. Although ONIC is better, BOOM can still hold their ground when it comes to defense and may break ONIC mentality with the momentum but they wont win this match...

[Arou]

Tennis Match: Aslan Karatsev vs Mikael Imer
Betting odds at pinnacle: 2.370 to win Mikael Imer

General characteristics, wins, losses, and coverage:

Coverage: hard.

Coverage speed: 5 out of 10

Karatsev's current rating: 36

Karatsev Victory Balance (2022): 14-19

Karatsev Victory Balance (hard): 7-5

Current Immer rating: 115

Immer's (2022) win balance: 11-15

Eamer (hard) win balance: 3-2

1)In his last six second-round matches, Karatsev has taken four losses.

2)Imer has seven wins in his last ten outings on U.S. courts.

3)In 2018, Karatsev lost 1-2 to Imer at Indore in Cherbourg.

4)Perhaps working with Boris Sobkin in the long run will allow him to return to a high level, but for now Karatsev is far from the best version of himself. The quarterfinals at the ground competitions of Bostad and Hamburg do not change anything either, because they were beaten by outform or extremely unstable opponents, and the play of the Russian himself leaves much to be desired. Especially his inability to control his emotions at the key moments of the game. It appears that we are faced with a lion cub rather than an Ossetian lion. In our humble opinion, in the current state we cannot break the series of failures with the Imer brothers. Especially the junior played surprisingly well against Andy Murray: he hit the court unaccustomedly often, not outside the court or in the net, and his skirting was excellent on important balls. At the odds, we'd venture to say that Mikael's win is a valueless one.

[ArvindDass]

Nowadays punters do not believe in Pliskova because of Broken arm and failure at the beginning of the season. 
But yesterday she beat Boulter, Boulter already beat Pliskova two times but Pliskova yesterday proved everyone wrong and shown everyone why she is legend in womens tennis. Yes there were a bunch of mistakes by Pliskova from set to set. I think that today she will play even better, with fewer mistakes.
Anisimova, yesterday she easily took the first set, but delayed the second. People thinks that she relaxed and played ease. I'm guessing Amanda's not in very good shape. Therefore playing over 21.5 games I think both will win 1-1 set each, and if it happens then the bet will be win.

My betting pick will be over 21.5 games 1.99 odds. 

 

[steveo]

MLB 

Toronto VS Tampa 

The Toronto Blue Jays (58-45) will look to finish off a sweep of a two-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays (54-49). Today these 2 teams put up good pitching defence and with a combined ERA of 6 runs i feel this game will be a under game. Kikuchi (4-5 with a 4.89 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 70 innings pitched) gets the start for the Blue Jays, his 18th of the season against Jalen Beeks, The 29-year-old has pitched to a 2.36 ERA this season with 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 3 walks per nine across 25 games. Games involving Tampa Bay have gone over the total set by oddsmakers in 50 of 103 chances this season so that means its basically 50/50 on the over under bu with these pitchers i believe it will be a low scoring game same as last night were they went 7 inning with out either team scoring.

Pitchers - Yusei Kikuchi-Toronto-(70.0IP)(4.89ERA)(1.50WHIP)(42BB) 

                                 VS

                  Jalen Beeks-Tampa-(42.0IP)(2.36ERA)(1.12WHIP)(14BB)

Prediction- Game to go under 8 runs at 1.95 (pinnacle) - the jays only scored 10 runs the last 3 games and tampa has also only scored 10 runs in the last 3 games i feel the bats are not on and the game will be low scoring.

[milorph]

BIG vs OG (CS ACADEMY MATCH)

Big and OG are considered one of the child teams of their bigger counterparts. BiG is the favourite for they are on a 8 win streak and is completely dominating every single team coming their way, THE only team that doesn’t throw and stays on track.

It would be baffling if BiG were to lose against OG. 
OG is inconsistent and had loss to many teams before like Young Ninjas 2 times 4-0 and KJIACCHblE. BiG won against these two teams with ease...

BIG TO WIN

[Sumit]

Match between Denis Kudla and Reilly Opelka

=> Reilly Opelka win 1.53 odds (bet365) 

Denis Kudla has already managed to play one match at the tournament in Washington and defeated Michael Mmoh Denis lost the first set but then managed to make a comeback and won. As for hard courts, Denis was not very impressive. I remember earlier he passed the first ball much more effectively, yesterday all this was not. Mmoh already had 8 break points, then Opelka can deliver Kudla even more problems. Reilly Opelka can beat anyone on hard. This season, he has repeatedly defeated the top players on this surface, so you can expect good results from him in Washington. Opelka's main trump card is his serve. He has a huge height and, having 211 cm, he delivers incredible power and if the first ball passes, then even Djokovic is there, it is unrealistic to receive it consistently.

[Garf79]

Similar bet to yesterday's one that lost but this time Brazilian football, Sao Paulo V's Ceara. Yesterday I had Millwall to beat Cambridge at very similar odds and Millwall are a division above Cambridge and the same situation in tonight's game, Sao Paulo are in a better league position than Ceara and the two teams face off in Copa Sudamericana tonight, Sao Paulo have the home advantage and are 4 places higher in the table. After last nights loss I do not have a lot of confidence in this but the bookies are pricing Ceara at 5.00, so my pick for today is Sao Paulo to win @1.72 on Bet365.

The home advantage often plays a big part in football outcomes and the bookies certainly have Sao Paulo as strong favorites, I think this should be a comfortable win for the home team and it will be a decisive victory.

[Joshthomas]

This will be my pick for the competition. I will choose the match between Jack Sock and Maximme Cressy. First, I will tell you my tip, then I will explain the preview of the match and the reason behind picking the bet. My betting pick is Maxime Cressy to win 1.61 odds which is available on Pinnacle

1. Sock yesterday won because, if you watch the match, Goffin was injured - pain in the arm. Of course, Cressy lost the last five games on hard, but in general his style is quite suitable for hard. 
2. Cressy didn't play in fact for only 2 weeks - quite a normal period to keep fighting form. 
3. Also, breaking Cressy, as always, will not be easy. Cressy serving is powerful.

4. I only hope that the tournament is big and this will help Cressy with the motivation to win. According to the current form of Sock, I am betting on Cressy.