Betting Exchange Place Markets - Wise Up And Win
By Martin Bailey
How To Use The Betting Exchange Place Markets To Your Advantage
Introduction
In article one, I introduced you to the Betting Exchange
concept and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose).
Now in this article, I'm going to introduce you to another
unique and powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place
Markets.
What Are Betting Exchange Place Markets?
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you
to bet on a selection to be 'placed'. Eg. a horse to finish 1st,
2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is
that these place markets are completely different to the well
known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional
bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it to
be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and
therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in
a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been
certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been
confident that it will win...
Traditional Each Way Betting
Take the following example. A horse named 'Im gonna be placed'
that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1
(5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in
a 10 runner field.
With a traditional bookmaker, your options are:
1) Take a chance on it winning and place a win single on it.
E.g. £10 at 4/1
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total
stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place
element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules. On
our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is
if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very
nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit
and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd
or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1
you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With
option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still
lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the
other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting
Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 - 2.00 (evens) on this
horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet on
at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long as
the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse finishes
outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
I'm sure this has got you thinking and you can probably see the
power in this straight away!
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection
process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when
backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These
longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively
short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
Place Market Important Notes
A few important things to note about place markets:
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO
NOT go "In-Running" when the race starts but this is true of
the traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a
number of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8
runners, the betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places.
This is different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their
odds on the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT
they only pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is
shortened to less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will
still offer place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st
or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting
exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet
on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the
form of the market, you will often find that this offers more
value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is
perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges.
You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In
other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a
selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a
betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place
markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the
outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
Trading On The Place Markets
As the place market prices are much lower than the outright win
market prices, they also offer a great place to learn the skill
of TRADING without much risk to your balance! Betting Exchange
trading is simply the process of betting on price movements for
guaranteed profits. E.g. Back a horse at 4.0 and then Lay it
later at 3.0 for a no risk bet or guaranteed profit regardless
of the outcome!
Betting exchange trading will be covered in detail in a future
betting article.
Summary
Place markets should be used as part of your betting armory.
They offer you the chance to make money frequently with long
winning streaks being very common. This helps to build your
confidence as well as your betting bank!
Bookie Each Way bets are not always poor bets but in the vast
majority of races, the odds are stacked firmly in the favour of
the bookmakers. They simply love punters taking EW bets on these
races as they know its their bread and butter. A small
proportion of races where the market is formed in a certain way
do offer the punter very good E/W value but that's for a
different day...
Well that's it for part 2 of my betting exchange articles. In
part 3, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange In-Running
markets.
About the Author: Visit http://www.the-secret-system.com now
for more free betting and gambling related information by
Martin Bailey.
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Betting Friend
Online Sports Betting
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anthony_LeMaire]Anthony LeMaire
Have you tried online sports betting yet? If you haven’t then you’re missing out on the convenience and ease of placing your bets from the comfort of your own home. People all over the world are finding that online sports betting is the way to place their bets in a totally secure environment where account information and privacy are fully protected. It doesn’t matter if you like to bet on one sport or many, a good sportsbook will have the options that you want available. Whether you like to bet on team sports such as football and basketball, or individual sports such as horse racing or tennis, you can do it through a top rated sportsbook.
You’ll also find that your online sports betting will be more successful with the information provided by a good sportsbook. You’ll get much more than just the current betting odds and betting lines. The decisions you make in your online sports betting will be based on all the information available about teams and individual athletes. This information is then analyzed by experts who will give you their betting recommendations. This will help you decide what team to bet on and how much to bet.
Take professional football as an example. There are many different factors that can have a potential impact on the outcome of a game. These include injuries to key players, individual match-ups of opposing players, and even game day weather conditions. When you do your online [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sports betting with a good sportsbook you’ll know that all of these factors have been considered. So sign up today with a sportsbook and enjoy your sports betting more than ever.
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Have you tried online sports betting yet? If you haven’t then you’re missing out on the convenience and ease of placing your bets from the comfort of your own home. People all over the world are finding that online sports betting is the way to place their bets in a totally secure environment where account information and privacy are fully protected. It doesn’t matter if you like to bet on one sport or many, a good sportsbook will have the options that you want available. Whether you like to bet on team sports such as football and basketball, or individual sports such as horse racing or tennis, you can do it through a top rated sportsbook.
You’ll also find that your online sports betting will be more successful with the information provided by a good sportsbook. You’ll get much more than just the current betting odds and betting lines. The decisions you make in your online sports betting will be based on all the information available about teams and individual athletes. This information is then analyzed by experts who will give you their betting recommendations. This will help you decide what team to bet on and how much to bet.
Take professional football as an example. There are many different factors that can have a potential impact on the outcome of a game. These include injuries to key players, individual match-ups of opposing players, and even game day weather conditions. When you do your online [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sports betting with a good sportsbook you’ll know that all of these factors have been considered. So sign up today with a sportsbook and enjoy your sports betting more than ever.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Betting Friend
Betting Exchange Place Markets - Wise Up And Win
By Martin Bailey
How To Use The Betting Exchange Place Markets To Your Advantage
Introduction
In article one, I introduced you to the Betting Exchange
concept and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose).
Now in this article, I'm going to introduce you to another
unique and powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place
Markets.
What Are Betting Exchange Place Markets?
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you
to bet on a selection to be 'placed'. Eg. a horse to finish 1st,
2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is
that these place markets are completely different to the well
known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional
bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it to
be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and
therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in
a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been
certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been
confident that it will win...
Traditional Each Way Betting
Take the following example. A horse named 'Im gonna be placed'
that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1
(5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in
a 10 runner field.
With a traditional bookmaker, your options are:
1) Take a chance on it winning and place a win single on it.
E.g. £10 at 4/1
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total
stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place
element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules. On
our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is
if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very
nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit
and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd
or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1
you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With
option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still
lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the
other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting
Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 - 2.00 (evens) on this
horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet on
at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long as
the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse finishes
outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
I'm sure this has got you thinking and you can probably see the
power in this straight away!
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection
process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when
backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These
longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively
short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
Place Market Important Notes
A few important things to note about place markets:
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO
NOT go "In-Running" when the race starts but this is true of
the traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a
number of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8
runners, the betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places.
This is different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their
odds on the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT
they only pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is
shortened to less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will
still offer place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st
or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting
exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet
on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the
form of the market, you will often find that this offers more
value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is
perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges.
You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In
other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a
selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a
betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place
markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the
outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
Trading On The Place Markets
As the place market prices are much lower than the outright win
market prices, they also offer a great place to learn the skill
of TRADING without much risk to your balance! Betting Exchange
trading is simply the process of betting on price movements for
guaranteed profits. E.g. Back a horse at 4.0 and then Lay it
later at 3.0 for a no risk bet or guaranteed profit regardless
of the outcome!
Betting exchange trading will be covered in detail in a future
betting article.
Summary
Place markets should be used as part of your betting armory.
They offer you the chance to make money frequently with long
winning streaks being very common. This helps to build your
confidence as well as your betting bank!
Bookie Each Way bets are not always poor bets but in the vast
majority of races, the odds are stacked firmly in the favour of
the bookmakers. They simply love punters taking EW bets on these
races as they know its their bread and butter. A small
proportion of races where the market is formed in a certain way
do offer the punter very good E/W value but that's for a
different day...
Well that's it for part 2 of my betting exchange articles. In
part 3, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange In-Running
markets.
About the Author: Visit http://www.the-secret-system.com now
for more free betting and gambling related information by
Martin Bailey.
Source: http://www.isnare.com
By Martin Bailey
How To Use The Betting Exchange Place Markets To Your Advantage
Introduction
In article one, I introduced you to the Betting Exchange
concept and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose).
Now in this article, I'm going to introduce you to another
unique and powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place
Markets.
What Are Betting Exchange Place Markets?
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you
to bet on a selection to be 'placed'. Eg. a horse to finish 1st,
2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is
that these place markets are completely different to the well
known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional
bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it to
be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and
therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in
a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been
certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been
confident that it will win...
Traditional Each Way Betting
Take the following example. A horse named 'Im gonna be placed'
that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1
(5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in
a 10 runner field.
With a traditional bookmaker, your options are:
1) Take a chance on it winning and place a win single on it.
E.g. £10 at 4/1
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total
stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place
element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules. On
our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is
if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very
nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit
and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd
or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1
you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With
option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still
lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the
other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting
Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 - 2.00 (evens) on this
horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet on
at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long as
the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse finishes
outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
I'm sure this has got you thinking and you can probably see the
power in this straight away!
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection
process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when
backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These
longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively
short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
Place Market Important Notes
A few important things to note about place markets:
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO
NOT go "In-Running" when the race starts but this is true of
the traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a
number of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8
runners, the betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places.
This is different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their
odds on the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT
they only pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is
shortened to less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will
still offer place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st
or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting
exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet
on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the
form of the market, you will often find that this offers more
value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is
perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges.
You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In
other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a
selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a
betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place
markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the
outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
Trading On The Place Markets
As the place market prices are much lower than the outright win
market prices, they also offer a great place to learn the skill
of TRADING without much risk to your balance! Betting Exchange
trading is simply the process of betting on price movements for
guaranteed profits. E.g. Back a horse at 4.0 and then Lay it
later at 3.0 for a no risk bet or guaranteed profit regardless
of the outcome!
Betting exchange trading will be covered in detail in a future
betting article.
Summary
Place markets should be used as part of your betting armory.
They offer you the chance to make money frequently with long
winning streaks being very common. This helps to build your
confidence as well as your betting bank!
Bookie Each Way bets are not always poor bets but in the vast
majority of races, the odds are stacked firmly in the favour of
the bookmakers. They simply love punters taking EW bets on these
races as they know its their bread and butter. A small
proportion of races where the market is formed in a certain way
do offer the punter very good E/W value but that's for a
different day...
Well that's it for part 2 of my betting exchange articles. In
part 3, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange In-Running
markets.
About the Author: Visit http://www.the-secret-system.com now
for more free betting and gambling related information by
Martin Bailey.
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Monday, July 23, 2007
Betting Friend
Betting NCAA March Madness
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anthony_LeMaire]Anthony LeMaire
One of the most exciting times for sports gamblers is betting NCAA March madness. It is also very challenging because there are many factors that come into play and some of them may not have been around earlier in the season. When betting NCAA March madness you have to consider that many of the teams involved haven’t played each other in the regular season, so it’s difficult to know how they match up. A team that was favored all year in games in its own conference may find itself an underdog in the tournament, and of course the reverse can also be true.
If you’re betting NCAA March madness you’ll want to get as much expert help and advice as you can. The experts at a good sportsbook can be a great help in this regard because they have access to information that may be hard for you to find on your own. For example, these experts will know about even minor injuries to key players and how they might impact a team’s performance. The experts examine individual player match ups and the records of the teams against the point spread. A team may win most of its games, but seldom beat the spread. This can be a significant factor in betting NCAA March madness.
Another factor in betting NCAA March madness [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sportsbook is the history of the teams in tournament play. The players on a team that has made the tournament for the first time in many years will have players who lack experience and may be very tight in their first game. On the other hand, the players on a team that is a regular in the tournament may have no such problems. Don’t hesitate to rely on the experts.
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One of the most exciting times for sports gamblers is betting NCAA March madness. It is also very challenging because there are many factors that come into play and some of them may not have been around earlier in the season. When betting NCAA March madness you have to consider that many of the teams involved haven’t played each other in the regular season, so it’s difficult to know how they match up. A team that was favored all year in games in its own conference may find itself an underdog in the tournament, and of course the reverse can also be true.
If you’re betting NCAA March madness you’ll want to get as much expert help and advice as you can. The experts at a good sportsbook can be a great help in this regard because they have access to information that may be hard for you to find on your own. For example, these experts will know about even minor injuries to key players and how they might impact a team’s performance. The experts examine individual player match ups and the records of the teams against the point spread. A team may win most of its games, but seldom beat the spread. This can be a significant factor in betting NCAA March madness.
Another factor in betting NCAA March madness [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sportsbook is the history of the teams in tournament play. The players on a team that has made the tournament for the first time in many years will have players who lack experience and may be very tight in their first game. On the other hand, the players on a team that is a regular in the tournament may have no such problems. Don’t hesitate to rely on the experts.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Betting Friend
My First Year With My "Friend" Herpes Or How I Was Re-Born A
Modern-Day Leper
By Christopher Scipio
It was 1990, I was 24 years old and I didn’t think my life
could get any worse. I had just finished college and my
financial situation was worse than dire. The country was in the
midst of an economic depression. A long dismal winter had just
given up the ghost and to top it all off I was in the middle of
a horrific break-up with a vengeful girlfriend.
Of course it was pathetically naive of me to think that life
couldn’t get any worse and life wasted no time proving that
fact. My relationship with this beautiful, vivacious, urbane
woman had begun most promisingly. We had courted very
romantically by letter and phone for six months before ever
getting together. I was still at University when we first met
and we were separated by a distance of about 1200 miles. We
started off as friends and the love between us grew slowly with
all the optimism and passion expected with us both being in our
twenties. Sadly, what was so wonderful by distance was a
nightmare close up. When my classes ended and I flew down to
move in with her it took no time at all for things to go very
very wrong. Our sex life was hot despite the fact told me she
had Herpes. She told me that she could tell when she was
getting an outbreak and as long as we refrained from having sex
at those times, it was cool for us to have a natural unprotected
sex life. I believed her, and she certainly sincerely believed
that to be the case as well. She had only very recently gotten
the disease herself from a man she had casually slept with and
who didn’t tell her he was infected.
We got along in bed much better than we ever did out of bed.
The tall beautiful fair-skinned princess and her Tall, Black
dread-locked artist. The sad fact was that we didn’t get along
at all. Instead of creating harmony we created war. And I must
say that I am to blame for much it. I was at a time in my life
where my tolerance for certain things was very low and I was
very angry about how the world was treating me and I certainly
didn’t enjoy the treatment I was receiving from my beloved- but
I definitely contributed more than my fair share to the discord.
Once we were in the same space together the chemistry between us
was bad, bad, bad. The relationship ended after a mercifully
short time leaving us scattered, raw and dumb-founded.
Two days after the notorious breakup we were reunited by a
particularly cruel twist of fate. Less than 48 hours after
swearing I would never see her again I was sitting beside her
in the waiting room of a hospital. She was looking at me with a
combination of guilt, sadness and white-hot enmity. I didn’t
know how to feel or what to say to her. I was floating around
out in space trying to get a grip on the situation.
You see dear readers I was in the midst of what I would later
find out to be my first Herpes outbreak. It has started out as
an itchy irritation on my foreskin but had quickly turned into
a raging swelling colony of tiny lesions and I was overwhelmed
by pain and all the flu-like symptoms typical of first
outbreaks. I had no idea what was happening to me. I do
remember hoping at the time that it was anything but Herpes or
AIDS. I would have even considered syphilis or gonorrhea to
have been preferable. The doctors said they couldn’t tell what
it was that I had and had insisted that my ex-girlfriend of two
days come in with me so we could both be tested at the same
time.
Even though we both hated each other at the time- and I’m sure
she still does today, I remember feeling sorry for her. I knew
even then that if it proved true that she had given Herpes to
me, she would have been devastated too. So there we were with
all those mixed emotions dreading the worse and hoping for the
best.
Of course the doctor’s tormented us by making us wait about a
week before the test results would be back. They had taken a
swab of my lesions and sent it off somewhere. When the phone
call eventually came in the news was good. I had tested
negative for Herpes. The doctors said they still didn’t know
what it was that I had, that possibly it was just an infection
of my foreskin from having rough sex. I was over the moon with
relief and wasted no time in calling Her to tell her the good
news. For one brief moment we actually had something positive
to share together. That test result was a big reprieve for both
of us. Sadly, and once again ironically, it turned out only to
be a reprieve for one of us.
To her credit she had been upfront with me. At the time I
really had no idea what the implications and risks were. I was
however prepared to take the risk, I just had no idea that this
would literally be a very ironic last interaction in what had
been the worst relationship both of us would ever have in our
lives.
I went on with my life and forgot all about Herpes. But Herpes
didn’t forget about me, not for a second. I got another
outbreak two months later and then another one a month later.
It was angry as hell and I stormed into a different hospital
demanding to know what was wrong with me. At this hospital the
doctors were more competent and took one look at my penis and
told me that it was obvious that I had Herpes. They confirmed
this with their own cotton swab test- there was not blood test
for Herpes in Canada available at this point in history. They
told me that false negatives were common for Herpes because if
there wasn’t enough virus present on the skin at the time of
the test, then you would get a negative result even though you
had Herpes. They told me there was nothing they could do for me
and that I would have this disease for life and that my sex life
would never be the same. I wanted to call my ex-love and blast
her for what had happened. And even though she at the time was
wrecking vengeance against me by trying to destroy my career
and telling everyone who would listen how badly I had treated
her, I didn’t have the heart to throw this in her face. So I
have never told her that she gave me Herpes and I’ll never tell
her.
I do not possess the power to describe the world of pain and
shame the eventual diagnosis of Herpes would thrust me into. In
many ways I felt like my life was truly over. I felt dirty in a
way that I had never experienced before. Just saying the word
Herpes sent a chill thorough my whole body. The doctors were
cold and unsympathetic. I couldn’t discuss this with anyone in
my conservative West-Indian family even though we were
otherwise close. I didn’t have anyone to talk to. Strange
fatalistic fantasies went through my mind all day long, day
after day. The mere thought of having to tell someone that I
had this thing made me want to run for the cover of enforced
celibacy.
I felt cursed like some Old Testament character. Sure I had
been an asshole, not unlike most men my age, but I had
definitely not been enough of an asshole to deserve to be
punished by the Gods this way. This was definitely overkill in
all meanings of the word.
My first realization after being able to admit to myself that I
had Herpes was that it was forever. No matter what I did or who
I became I was never going to be a “whole” person. That I was
“marked” for life. That I had joined an outcast caste. I was
one of the many modern day lepers- those sad morally challenged
people with Herpes. I was a victim and I sure didn’t like the
feeling. What a burden to have to carry all the rest of my
life.
Yes, I was now one of them. But I had no real idea of what
being one of them really meant. To find out would take years
and many experiences both liberating and devastating.
Why am I telling you all of this? Part of it is narcissism to
be sure. It’s human nature to want your story preserved
somewhere in the ether and this is my way of making sure that
some people know what happened to me and how I felt about it.
But the larger part of my motivation is for my own
rehabilitation. I refuse to be a victim to this disease and to
society’s mean, irrational fear and loathing of those of us who
are stricken with sexually transmitted diseases. I wasn’t living
a high-risk lifestyle- I got my herpes in the context of a
monogamous relationship. But even if I had been doing high-risk
activities, I in no way deserve to be scorned or ostracized
because of it. The worst place to be when you have Herpes is in
the closet. If you want to feel like a leper and allow others to
treat you like one, be my guest, but I am determined not to live
like that. Instead of being imprisoned by this disease, I’ve
decided to free myself. I am no longer afraid of saying the
word and letting people know that I am one of “them”. I have
Herpes but Herpes doesn’t have me. I am at peace with the virus
and the virus is at peace with me. I am at peace with my place
in this world and I have discovered the joy of encouraging
others to liberate themselves from the stigma.
In part two of this Story- “Nine Years in the Wildness: My
Personal and Professional Quest for a Holistic Herpes Treatment
Plan, I will chronicle how I transitioned from being a victim of
Herpes to being a Holistic Herpes Treatment Specialist and a
Herpes spokesperson. I was able to turn the biggest negative in
my life to one of the biggest positives in my life and the
journey is just beginning. We are truly living in a Herpes
Nation with 60% or more of the general population in North
America having either type one or type two Herpes.
About the Author: Christopher Scipio is a homeopath and
herbalist with over twenty years of experience. For the past 14
years he has been a holistic viral specialist specializing in
the holistic treatment of herpes. His approach which he has had
the benefit of proving in his clinic and private practice is
simple, effective and without side effects.
http://www.natropractica.com - http://www.herpesnation.com
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Modern-Day Leper
By Christopher Scipio
It was 1990, I was 24 years old and I didn’t think my life
could get any worse. I had just finished college and my
financial situation was worse than dire. The country was in the
midst of an economic depression. A long dismal winter had just
given up the ghost and to top it all off I was in the middle of
a horrific break-up with a vengeful girlfriend.
Of course it was pathetically naive of me to think that life
couldn’t get any worse and life wasted no time proving that
fact. My relationship with this beautiful, vivacious, urbane
woman had begun most promisingly. We had courted very
romantically by letter and phone for six months before ever
getting together. I was still at University when we first met
and we were separated by a distance of about 1200 miles. We
started off as friends and the love between us grew slowly with
all the optimism and passion expected with us both being in our
twenties. Sadly, what was so wonderful by distance was a
nightmare close up. When my classes ended and I flew down to
move in with her it took no time at all for things to go very
very wrong. Our sex life was hot despite the fact told me she
had Herpes. She told me that she could tell when she was
getting an outbreak and as long as we refrained from having sex
at those times, it was cool for us to have a natural unprotected
sex life. I believed her, and she certainly sincerely believed
that to be the case as well. She had only very recently gotten
the disease herself from a man she had casually slept with and
who didn’t tell her he was infected.
We got along in bed much better than we ever did out of bed.
The tall beautiful fair-skinned princess and her Tall, Black
dread-locked artist. The sad fact was that we didn’t get along
at all. Instead of creating harmony we created war. And I must
say that I am to blame for much it. I was at a time in my life
where my tolerance for certain things was very low and I was
very angry about how the world was treating me and I certainly
didn’t enjoy the treatment I was receiving from my beloved- but
I definitely contributed more than my fair share to the discord.
Once we were in the same space together the chemistry between us
was bad, bad, bad. The relationship ended after a mercifully
short time leaving us scattered, raw and dumb-founded.
Two days after the notorious breakup we were reunited by a
particularly cruel twist of fate. Less than 48 hours after
swearing I would never see her again I was sitting beside her
in the waiting room of a hospital. She was looking at me with a
combination of guilt, sadness and white-hot enmity. I didn’t
know how to feel or what to say to her. I was floating around
out in space trying to get a grip on the situation.
You see dear readers I was in the midst of what I would later
find out to be my first Herpes outbreak. It has started out as
an itchy irritation on my foreskin but had quickly turned into
a raging swelling colony of tiny lesions and I was overwhelmed
by pain and all the flu-like symptoms typical of first
outbreaks. I had no idea what was happening to me. I do
remember hoping at the time that it was anything but Herpes or
AIDS. I would have even considered syphilis or gonorrhea to
have been preferable. The doctors said they couldn’t tell what
it was that I had and had insisted that my ex-girlfriend of two
days come in with me so we could both be tested at the same
time.
Even though we both hated each other at the time- and I’m sure
she still does today, I remember feeling sorry for her. I knew
even then that if it proved true that she had given Herpes to
me, she would have been devastated too. So there we were with
all those mixed emotions dreading the worse and hoping for the
best.
Of course the doctor’s tormented us by making us wait about a
week before the test results would be back. They had taken a
swab of my lesions and sent it off somewhere. When the phone
call eventually came in the news was good. I had tested
negative for Herpes. The doctors said they still didn’t know
what it was that I had, that possibly it was just an infection
of my foreskin from having rough sex. I was over the moon with
relief and wasted no time in calling Her to tell her the good
news. For one brief moment we actually had something positive
to share together. That test result was a big reprieve for both
of us. Sadly, and once again ironically, it turned out only to
be a reprieve for one of us.
To her credit she had been upfront with me. At the time I
really had no idea what the implications and risks were. I was
however prepared to take the risk, I just had no idea that this
would literally be a very ironic last interaction in what had
been the worst relationship both of us would ever have in our
lives.
I went on with my life and forgot all about Herpes. But Herpes
didn’t forget about me, not for a second. I got another
outbreak two months later and then another one a month later.
It was angry as hell and I stormed into a different hospital
demanding to know what was wrong with me. At this hospital the
doctors were more competent and took one look at my penis and
told me that it was obvious that I had Herpes. They confirmed
this with their own cotton swab test- there was not blood test
for Herpes in Canada available at this point in history. They
told me that false negatives were common for Herpes because if
there wasn’t enough virus present on the skin at the time of
the test, then you would get a negative result even though you
had Herpes. They told me there was nothing they could do for me
and that I would have this disease for life and that my sex life
would never be the same. I wanted to call my ex-love and blast
her for what had happened. And even though she at the time was
wrecking vengeance against me by trying to destroy my career
and telling everyone who would listen how badly I had treated
her, I didn’t have the heart to throw this in her face. So I
have never told her that she gave me Herpes and I’ll never tell
her.
I do not possess the power to describe the world of pain and
shame the eventual diagnosis of Herpes would thrust me into. In
many ways I felt like my life was truly over. I felt dirty in a
way that I had never experienced before. Just saying the word
Herpes sent a chill thorough my whole body. The doctors were
cold and unsympathetic. I couldn’t discuss this with anyone in
my conservative West-Indian family even though we were
otherwise close. I didn’t have anyone to talk to. Strange
fatalistic fantasies went through my mind all day long, day
after day. The mere thought of having to tell someone that I
had this thing made me want to run for the cover of enforced
celibacy.
I felt cursed like some Old Testament character. Sure I had
been an asshole, not unlike most men my age, but I had
definitely not been enough of an asshole to deserve to be
punished by the Gods this way. This was definitely overkill in
all meanings of the word.
My first realization after being able to admit to myself that I
had Herpes was that it was forever. No matter what I did or who
I became I was never going to be a “whole” person. That I was
“marked” for life. That I had joined an outcast caste. I was
one of the many modern day lepers- those sad morally challenged
people with Herpes. I was a victim and I sure didn’t like the
feeling. What a burden to have to carry all the rest of my
life.
Yes, I was now one of them. But I had no real idea of what
being one of them really meant. To find out would take years
and many experiences both liberating and devastating.
Why am I telling you all of this? Part of it is narcissism to
be sure. It’s human nature to want your story preserved
somewhere in the ether and this is my way of making sure that
some people know what happened to me and how I felt about it.
But the larger part of my motivation is for my own
rehabilitation. I refuse to be a victim to this disease and to
society’s mean, irrational fear and loathing of those of us who
are stricken with sexually transmitted diseases. I wasn’t living
a high-risk lifestyle- I got my herpes in the context of a
monogamous relationship. But even if I had been doing high-risk
activities, I in no way deserve to be scorned or ostracized
because of it. The worst place to be when you have Herpes is in
the closet. If you want to feel like a leper and allow others to
treat you like one, be my guest, but I am determined not to live
like that. Instead of being imprisoned by this disease, I’ve
decided to free myself. I am no longer afraid of saying the
word and letting people know that I am one of “them”. I have
Herpes but Herpes doesn’t have me. I am at peace with the virus
and the virus is at peace with me. I am at peace with my place
in this world and I have discovered the joy of encouraging
others to liberate themselves from the stigma.
In part two of this Story- “Nine Years in the Wildness: My
Personal and Professional Quest for a Holistic Herpes Treatment
Plan, I will chronicle how I transitioned from being a victim of
Herpes to being a Holistic Herpes Treatment Specialist and a
Herpes spokesperson. I was able to turn the biggest negative in
my life to one of the biggest positives in my life and the
journey is just beginning. We are truly living in a Herpes
Nation with 60% or more of the general population in North
America having either type one or type two Herpes.
About the Author: Christopher Scipio is a homeopath and
herbalist with over twenty years of experience. For the past 14
years he has been a holistic viral specialist specializing in
the holistic treatment of herpes. His approach which he has had
the benefit of proving in his clinic and private practice is
simple, effective and without side effects.
http://www.natropractica.com - http://www.herpesnation.com
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Friday, July 13, 2007
Betting Friend
Betting Online College Basketball
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This information can make you more confident when betting online college basketball. The information you’ll get includes more than just the latest betting odds and betting lines. You’ll know how key injuries to a player may affect a team’s performance and how individual players match up against each other. You’ll also know how teams have done against the point spread in the past, and this can greatly influence your betting online college basketball. This is particularly important when it is time for the NCAA tournament.
You know that when you’re betting online college basketball you can rely on the recommendations of the experts at a good sportsbook. This is because they have collected all of the important data and analyzed every aspect of the games. You can significantly improve your chances of successful betting and a top sports book will pay your winnings promptly. There is no more convenient and secure way to bet on college basketball, so sign up with a [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sportsbook today. You’ll soon be glad you did.
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When betting online college basketball you can do it from the comfort of your own home and place your bets any time you want. If you’re doing your betting with a top rated internet sportsbook you’ll have a totally secure account where you can make your deposits and your privacy will be fully protected. You’ll also have access to the inside information the experts use to make their recommendations on the sportsbook.
This information can make you more confident when betting online college basketball. The information you’ll get includes more than just the latest betting odds and betting lines. You’ll know how key injuries to a player may affect a team’s performance and how individual players match up against each other. You’ll also know how teams have done against the point spread in the past, and this can greatly influence your betting online college basketball. This is particularly important when it is time for the NCAA tournament.
You know that when you’re betting online college basketball you can rely on the recommendations of the experts at a good sportsbook. This is because they have collected all of the important data and analyzed every aspect of the games. You can significantly improve your chances of successful betting and a top sports book will pay your winnings promptly. There is no more convenient and secure way to bet on college basketball, so sign up with a [http://www.hollywoodsportsbook.com/]sportsbook today. You’ll soon be glad you did.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Betting Friend
Offshore Betting
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anthony_LeMaire]Anthony LeMaire
Sports betting enthusiasts are finding that the quickest and easiest way to place their bets is with offshore betting sites on the Internet. There are many offshore betting sites to choose from and some are better than others. The best sites provide a safe and secure environment for your sports betting. You can be sure that your account is secure and your privacy protected. You can also be sure that your winnings will be paid promptly.
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The experts at these offshore betting sites will help you with recommendations to help you decide which team to bet on and how much to bet. The final decision is always yours; there is no pressure on you to bet on a particular team, or even to bet at all. Best of all is the convenience. You can place your bet when you want to from wherever you want to. So find a good offshore site, relax, and enjoy the best in sports betting.
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Sports betting enthusiasts are finding that the quickest and easiest way to place their bets is with offshore betting sites on the Internet. There are many offshore betting sites to choose from and some are better than others. The best sites provide a safe and secure environment for your sports betting. You can be sure that your account is secure and your privacy protected. You can also be sure that your winnings will be paid promptly.
The best offshore betting sites also provide a variety of safe ways for you to make your deposits and offer sign-up bonuses and other incentives to keep you happy and coming back to play. For sports betters a good offshore betting site will also provide all of the information you need to make intelligent bets that have a good chance of being successful. This includes the latest betting odds and betting lines as well as up-to-date data on team and individual match-ups. There is also the latest information on injuries to key players, any trades or acquisitions made by the teams, and even the predicted weather conditions for games.
The experts at these offshore betting sites will help you with recommendations to help you decide which team to bet on and how much to bet. The final decision is always yours; there is no pressure on you to bet on a particular team, or even to bet at all. Best of all is the convenience. You can place your bet when you want to from wherever you want to. So find a good offshore site, relax, and enjoy the best in sports betting.
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