I have come across an interesting riddle which is worthwhile mentioning on Soccerwidow… This mystery was presented by a Dr Slicer approximately two years ago in the Betfair Community Forum and still causes headaches for many people!
Dr Slicer describes that he found the ‘holy grail’ or a ‘no-lose strategy’ and since then he has not lost a single football bet which is suitable for his formula. The riddle is simple:
Placing 2 bets before kick off:
First bet: Laying 0-0 half time result
Second bet is guaranteed to lose should the first bet win
If the first bet loses a third bet is placed during half time and an adjustment of the second bet may be needed.
However, it is not revealed what bets 2 and 3 comprise.
The whole strategy with a calculated staking plan guarantees a profit between 9 to 12% per match. One more little thing: The matches must have a clear advantage for the home team. Whoever finds the answer will have found the holy grail 🙂
Here are a few links to some of the forums where this mystery has been discussed with many suggestions and thoughts, but without solutions:
- Slicer’s Bet Attack (The Original)
- Slicer’s World Cup Thread-Final ever thread and postings
- Community Betfair
- Punterslounge
Although in many forums it is said that this is a hoax and not possible… My opinion is that it is most certainly not a hoax. One must think ‘outside the box’ in order to find the identities of bets 2 and 3.
HINT: Don’t limit your thinking to the correct score market only and it’s not only the 0-0 full time result which is guaranteed to lose should the first bet win. Reverse engineering is needed to solve this riddle!
Can anyone find the solution?
Your Soccerwidow
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About the Author
Furthermore to my previous posts, I am now making a comfortable living out of the betting markets. I have had to tweak my system over the last few months and it now makes me an average of 12% return per game. It’s not 100% though….more like 92%.
hello brother,
i know you are doing great with this strategy.
please i beg of you to carry me along . i’m loss in the process. can you please forward to me in detail of the sample of the game and the calculation you use for the 3rd bet.
looking forward to hear from you sir.
thanks.
Hi Soccer Widow,
You said; “Bet365 had this kind of combination bets accepted at the time of writing the article.”
You’re probably right. Last night I did the Second Bet as suggested by you on 8th February ’12 and Bet365 refused my ‘Multibet’. All bets were in RED and only allowed as single punts.
Solution to this is for punters to go to Oddschecker.com and under Tools download Dutching Calculator. Oddschecker will then tell them how much to bet on each outcome.
Enter these figures into Bet365 (or any other bookie) to get the return required.
Good luck
Silver Surfer :o)
I wonder why Rasmus never returned…
You will find a lot of threads on a lot of forums regarding Slicers bet.
OK, let’s examine what this is all about?
1. Slicer enjoyed winding people up and took great pleasure in knowing people were wasting their time and actively encouraged them to waste even more of their precious time.
2. Various spammers and con men rose up to entice the gullible to part with their money. And there were many suckers who were actually begging for their money to be stolen from them.
3. If there were such a system, would any one sell it? And would it work after becoming public? Answer: NO
4. If there were such a system then it could be applied to any team game involving to half’s consequently sending book makers out of business in double quick time.
5. Are there really any gamblers still searching for this elusive system? If so you clearly have learning difficulties. Search the forums and you will see all the fools before you that have been sucked in by Slicer, and Slicer masquerading as other people selling his “system”
Any betting systems incorporate at the very best, simple mathematics.
This is not a riddle, but another article full of nonsense. Anyone who is able to do simple maths calculations such as their 10 X tables will realise this.
Cant be done. The ‘Slicer Holy Grail’ strategy is a prime example (a good one at that) of phishing at its best.
Do you not think for one moment, with all the intellectual minds around the world who use Betfair, that they would have come up with a strategy? The way the odds are calculated make it near impossible to have a “no lose strategy”.
It sucks a lot of people in though 😉
Very interesting reading, but no one has the same thoughts lika I do.
I will share my approach when Roma – Genoa is finished tonight.
Very exciting !
Hi Rasmus, good luck to you!
Please check out the German version of this article (https://www.soccerwidow.com/2011/10/legen-0-0-halbzeit/ Babelfish or Google translator will do an automatic translation). There was quite a lively discussion and I have also published a solution to this riddle. However, there are probably many more strategies.
It would be great if you would share your approach here.
After many hours of thinking I have finally found the solution 😀
My calculations indicate that I can guarantee myself a profit between 10 to 20% per match.
I can’t lose ! I will do a test on tonights match between Roma – Genoa.
I don’t think there is a solution. The closest i’ve found is greening up in play in a similar way.