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Who am I?
My name’s Mat and I am a professional gambler. My background is software engineering, in particular software testing, and before that physics culminating in an MPhys degree in Physics with Theoretical Physics from Manchester University. Unfortunately ill health pretty much forced me out of work in the summer of 2009 and I have been working hard on my gambling since.

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Getting Started
The earliest bets I can remember are an each-way on Nahthen Lad in the 1998 Grand National (racing prominently but fell at the 11th fence) and a couple of punts on Argentina v England in the World Cup of the same year. I think I had Batistuta to score first and England to win 2-1 and I put them on as separate bets rather than as a scorecast. Good job really as that match ended 2-2 with Batistuta opening the scoring with a sixth minute penalty so at least I got my first trip to the payout counter. Since then I remember having a few bets on the football of a weekend around the start of the millennium but I first started to keep records of my bets in the summer of 2003 so I tend to regard that as my Year Zero.

My betting is almost entirely done online these days. I can’t really remember the last time I placed a bet in a bookmakers. OK, when I go to a racecourse I tend to bet with the bookies or the Tote rather than betting online, although I do sometimes check the Betfair odds on my mobile just to see what’s on offer. A lot of my action goes through Betfair. That’s partly because they often (but not always) have better odds on offer but also partly because many of the horse racing bets I place are lay bets (backing a horse to lose) so I need to use a betting exchange.

I probably bet more than many other professional gamblers too. An average month will see me strike around 1000-1100 bets across a variety of sports but mainly on horse racing and football. I know there are pros out there who may not bet every week let alone every day like I do. They are the pros that wait for a good bet and place a large stake on it. That’s not my style for various reasons. I like the action I get from betting every day, and the idea of a single horse (or whatever) carrying a large amount of my cash damn near terrifies me. I prefer to spread my money around and have more horses/teams working for me. I am after a steady accumulation of profits (which is why I like lay betting as it has a high strike rate so provides me with regular winners) and like to spread my risk across multiple sports, systems and services so if horse racing (for example) is affected by the weather I have other sports I can work with to continue my quest for profit.

Magic Numbers
There are those that can take a racecard or a copy of the Racing Post or whatever and a little while later will have assessed the merits of every horse in a given race and come up with a probable winner. I have a lot of respect for those that can do that but it’s not my style. I can read form and interpret racecards, no worries, but my record at picking winners that way is not great.

I truly believe that the human brain can hinder thought processes as much as it enables them. It can raise so many “what if” questions that one soon gets so confused that the thought process is best abandoned. Take analysing a horse race as an example. You start with the first horse and note it has previously won over today’s distance, a good sign. But it has also been beaten nine times over the same distance. And the distance win came at a flat left-handed track and today’s course is a galloping right-hander. Plus the ground is heavy today and the horse’s win came on good ground. A different jockey is riding the horse today too. And the field is much larger compared to previous races the horse has entered. How many of these factors matter?

If the horse had raced a lot of times I would be happier analysing the form. Suppose it has raced 100 times over various courses and distances. Then you can start to form an impression of how well the horse perform on soft ground compared to good ground, how well different jockeys have ridden the horse, whether it is better on left-handed or right-handed tracks, whether it goes best after a long lay-off or whether it needs a pipe-opener before it’s ready to win again and so on. But horses don’t run that often and one is forced to base analysis on only a few runs. I am really not comfortable doing that.

My solution to this conundrum is numbers. I try to boil everything down to numbers. I can work with numbers, they are like an old friend and I am on very comfortable ground when I can view things as numbers. If something can be reduced to a numerical form then one can use those numbers to estimate odds of an event happening and can thus bet accordingly.

This approach means I often favour systems over tipster services. A system is basically a set of rules or filters that one can apply to some data to select suitable bets. For example, it may be that beaten favourites that lose by more than four lengths do better than the market expects in their next race. Knowing this I can scan the day’s racecards looking for beaten favourites, check the distance they lost by and if it is at least four lengths then I have found a bet. I don’t need to check the form of those horses this approach picks out, I can just back them blindly as analysis of past races has shown this trend to be profitable.

That’s a simple example, and I have no idea if beaten favourites that lost by four lengths or more can be backed profitably but you get the idea. For me it’s not about working through racecards analysing form, it’s about applying filters to the racecards and having the bets just drop out. All the hard work is in the analysis of past performances to identify these profitable filters.

Pro or semi-pro?
One question I have had to deal with from time to time is whether I am a professional or semi-professional gambler. It’s an odd question as surely the answer doesn’t matter that much. Being a professional is seen as being of a higher status than the semi-professional but other than that what’s the difference?

When I tell people I am a professional gambler I am sure they imagine I am risking huge sums of money and making a tidy profit off the back of it. Either that or they imagine I am an out of control wreck destined to lose everything. The second image is perhaps more prevalent in today’s society as when told what I do for a living people often ask “And do you make a profit?” Why would I do it if I wasn’t making money? I’m not an idiot!

The best way to describe my situation is probably something like I have a professional approach to my gambling, put in the hours of a professional but currently make a semi-professional income from my gambling. I will leave you to decide whether that makes me pro or semi-pro? I consider myself a pro as semi-pro implies I have a regular day job alongside my gambling which is not the case.

Why only a semi-professional’s income though? The reasons include risk aversity, portfolio imbalances and some good old-fashioned bad luck but I am working hard to address as many of these reasons as possible to take my betting to the next level.

Why am I writing this blog?
Now that is a good question. It’s almost entirely for my own benefit and most of the time I get what I want out of it whether you read it or not. It seems odd that I can have no readers but still be happy with my blog. That is because the process of writing and maintaining the blog is the release I need.

The life of a professional online gambler can be a fairly lonely existence if truth be told. Without the radio streamed through my PC I would go mental for sure. I know a few other gamblers well enough to be able to email them to share a moan about results and so on but generally speaking I suffer the highs and lows alone. Don’t get me wrong, I have friends and family around me but I don’t think any of them really understand what I do well enough to offer any sort of support when it may be required. So I have this blog instead. It allows me to gripe when things go against me, I can celebrate when things go right and I can generally natter about how things are going. If any of you want to chip in with comments do feel free though.

I have always found that writing things down helps focus my own mind. I think the brain has to arrange the subject matter into such an order than when written down it makes sense and in doing that it helps straighten things out. So as well as being cathartic this blog will help get my head straight and thus help my bottom line. At least that’s the plan…

Why drownintheriver?
It’s a poker thing. In Texas Hold’em the fifth and final community card – known as the river – can make or break your hand. And all too often I have seen hands broken by that damn river card and with that broken hand goes the pot I had been looking forward to dragging down. Thus my hand could be said to have drowned in the river. I adopted that sentiment for this blog as it just seemed to sum things up perfectly.

Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova (Russian: Аполлина́рия Проко́фьевна Су́слова; 1839–1918), commonly known as Polina Suslova (Поли́на Су́слова), was a Russian short story writer, who is perhaps best known as a mistress of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky,^[1] wife of Vasily Rozanov and a sister of Russia's first female physician Nadezhda Suslova.^[2][3] She is considered to be the prototype of several female characters in Dostoyevsky's novels, such as Polina in The Gambler, Nastasya Filipovna in The Idiot, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment,^[4] Lizaveta Nikolaevna in The Possessed, and both Katerina and Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov.^[5][6][7] Suslova has often been portrayed as a femme fatale.^[8] Fyodor Dostoyevsky called her one of the most remarkable women of his time.^[7]

Her own works include a short story Pokuda, published in Mikhail Dostoyevsky's Vremya magazine in 1861, Do svadby (1863),^[7] and the autobiographical Chuzhaya i Svoy, published in 1928.^[9]

Early life[edit]

Polina Suslova was born in Panino, Nizhny Novgorodguberniya.^[10] Polina's father, Prokofiy Suslov, was a serf of the Sheremetevs, but was able to succeed as a merchant and manufacturer. He decided to provide proper education for his daughters, Polina (a diminutive form of the given name Apollinaria) and Nadezhda. The girls had a governess, and a dancing teacher.^[7]

Polina attended a finishing school, and when the Suslov family moved to Saint Petersburg, she attended the Saint Petersburg State University. She enjoyed the political struggle, the demonstrations, and students' meetings. She was sympathetic to the radical views of that time, especially regarding women rights.^[7][11]

Lyubov Dostoyevskaya in Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter described her as a young provincial woman, whose 'rich relatives were able to send her enough money to live comfortably in Saint Petersburg. Every autumn she entered the University as a student, but she never actually studied or passed any exams. However, she attended lectures, flirted with the students, … made them sign petitions, participated in all political demonstrations, … sang La Marseillaise, scolded the Cossacks and behaved provocatively.'^[12]

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Relationship with Fyodor Dostoyevsky[edit]

In 1861, Suslova attended the classes taught by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, already a renowned writer, whose lectures were very popular among young people. At that time, Dostoyevsky was 40, and she was 21. Daughter Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (who was born several years later, well after the affair had come to an end) opined that Suslova 'spun around Dostoevsky and tried to please him in every way, but Dostoevsky did not notice her. Then she wrote him a love letter'.^[12] Another version is that Suslova brought her writings to Dostoyevsky and asked for advice. Her story was bad, but Dostoyevsky was attracted to a beautiful young girl and promised to teach her writing.^[13] Yet another explanation is that Dostoyevsky had read Suslova's story, liked it and wanted to meet the author.^[14]

The relationship was difficult and painful for both sides, but mostly for Dostoyevsky.^[8] He was exhausted by work, poor health, and increasing financial distress.^[15] Suslova was imperious, manipulative, jealous,^[7][16] and she constantly demanded that he divorce his 'consumptive wife' Maria Isayeva.^[11] Dostoyevsky later noted that she was 'a sick selfish woman', whose 'selfishness and self-esteem were colossal' and who did not tolerate any imperfection in other people. After Maria's death in 1865, he proposed to Suslova, but she declined.^[17]

Unlike Dostoyevsky's second wife Anna Snitkina, Polina Suslova rarely read his books, did not respect his work, and regarded him as a simple admirer. Dostoyevsky wrote her once: 'My dear, I am not inviting you to a cheap essential happiness.' After their breakup, she burned the compromising papers, including their letters. In 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky married Anna Snitkina.^[18]

Later life[edit]

Vasily Rozanov met Suslova when he was a schoolboy, and she was already over thirty years old. He fell in love at first sight.^[7] Rozanov had known her as the former mistress of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was enough to spark his interest, because Dostoyevsky was the writer whom Rozanov admired most.^[19] Rozanov made only a brief entry in his diary: 'Meeting Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova. My love for her. Suslova loves me, and I love her very much. She is the most wonderful woman I've ever met.' They had an affair for three years, and married in November 1880.^[4][7] She was 40 at that time, and he was 24.

They parted in 1886.^[4] Their life together was a torture for Rozanov, as evident from his personal correspondence.^[7] Suslova made public scenes of jealousy and flirted with his friends at the same time. Rozanov's daughter, Tatyana, stated in her memoirs: 'Suslova mocked him, saying that what he was writing were just some stupid books, she insulted him, and finally dumped him'. Suslova broke up with Rozanov twice, but he always forgave her and begged to return home. After they finally parted, Rozanov admitted: 'There was something brilliant (in her temperament) that made me love her blindly and timidly despite all the suffering.'^[7]

After Rozanov met his future wife, Varvara, Polina refused to divorce him for 20 years.

Beginning in the early 1900s, Polina Suslova lived alone in Sevastopol.^[7] She died in 1918 at the age of 78.

References[edit]

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1. ^Breger, Louis (2008). Dostoevsky: the author as psychoanalyst. Transaction Publishers. p. 15. ISBN978-1-4128-0843-9.
2. ^Knapp, Liza (1998). Dostoevsky's The Idiot: a critical companion. Northwestern University Press. p. 10. ISBN978-0-8101-1533-0.
3. ^Zhuk, Sergei (Winter 2001). 'Science, Women and Revolution in Russia'. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 75 (4): 802–803. doi:10.1353/bhm.2001.0204. ISSN0007-5140.
4. ^ ^abcGippius, Zinaida (1923). 'Zadumchivyj strannik (O Rozanove)' (in Russian). Retrieved 21 September 2010.
5. ^Simmons, Ernest J (2007). Dostoevsky - The Making of a Novelist. Read Books. p. 175. ISBN978-1-4067-6362-1.
6. ^Payne, Robert (1961). Dostoyevsky: a human portrait. Knopf. p. 323.
7. ^ ^abcdefghijkNevskaya, Elena (February 2003). 'Sense and sensibility'. Vokrug sveta (in Russian). 40 (2). ISSN0321-0669.
8. ^ ^abLantz, Kenneth (2004). The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 155. ISBN0-313-30384-3.
9. ^'Years of closeness to Dostoevsky. Diary, story, letters' (in Russian). Ozon.ru. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
10. ^(Russian) 'Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova'. Deyateli revolyutsionnogo dvizheniya v Rossii: Bibliographic Dictionary. slovari.yandex.ru: Izd-vo Vsesoyuznogo obshestva politicheskih katorzhan i ssylno-poselentsev. 1927–1934. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
11. ^ ^abMoss, Walter (2002). Russia in the age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Anthem Press. p. 105. ISBN978-1-898855-59-0.
12. ^ ^abDostoyevskaya, Lyubov (1920). Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter (Dostoejewski geschildert von seiner Tochter).
13. ^Anisimov, Evgeniy (4 February 2008). 'Apollinaria Suslova, zhrica russkoy lyubvi' (in Russian). Delo. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
14. ^Korneichuk, Dmitry. 'Life of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Women's motives' (in Russian). Chronos. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
15. ^'Book Information: Gambler with the Diary of Polina Suslova, the'. Internet Book List. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
16. ^Payne, Robert (1961). Dostoyevsky: a human portrait. Knopf. p. 162.
17. ^'Dostoevsky Research Station: Chronology'. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
18. ^Lantz, K. A. (2004). 'Chronology'. The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN0-313-30384-3.
19. ^Ivask, George (1961). 'Rozanov'. Slavic and East European Journal. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages.

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