Offshore Oscar’s picks May 30, 31 – Bombs away

By: Offshore Oscar | May 28th, 2009

This is the last official weekend of the season for this series, but don’t be surprised if I pop up during the summer with some crazy plays or stories about that one time I got really drunk and wound up in a CIA holding cell for 3 months.

We’ve guaranteed a winning season, which aint easy, folks. In spite of our recent slide (including being totally wrong about the big game Wednesday), we have managed to stay profitable almost the whole season, and definitely at the end, when it really counts.

You might expect me to play it safe to try to preserve most of our profit, and that would be the sane thing to do. Instead, here are a couple longshot-ish plays for fun and profit.

Original bankroll: 1,000 units
Last time’s bankroll: 1,382.7 units

Last time:
1 – 50 units Barcelona-Manchester United draw at 3.20 – Final 2-0 – LOSS

Profit/loss = (-50 units)
New bankroll: 1,332.7 units

This week’s Offshore Oscar plays:

1 – FA Cup Upset special. In what should be a cracking FA Cup final, Chelsea and Everton square off at Wembley on Saturday afternoon. Under Gus Hiddink and David Moyes, both squads had fine seasons and made Europe next year. On paper Chelsea are stronger, but we’ll go with the Toffees for the upset. The trio of Fellaini, Osman and Cahill are clicking at the right time and if the Everton defense hold up, they can pull it off.

30 units on Everton to win at 5.50 (so a win gets us back 165 units)

2 – It’s the final weekend of La Liga in Spain and we’ll make a last ditch attempt to hit one of our “city” themed parlays. Real Betis aren’t out of the woods yet, sitting one point out of relegation. They should complete the double at home versus Valladolid. Sevilla FC need one more point to get an automatic Champions League spot and should fire from the opening kickoff at already relegated Numancia.

50-unit win parlay on Real Betis at 1.73 into Sevilla FC at 1.83 (so if both win we get back 50 x 1.73 x 1.83 = 158.3 units)

Odds from willhill.com