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Ivkovic
28 Jul 12 19:52
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The Great Daylami
When: 28 Jul 12 19:54
Too much on. Unless live on BBC best working with the books.
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leftitbehind
When: 30 Jul 12 08:52
The problem is the second you try to add some liquidity you get run over by bots. Two events I spent some tinme on which both have almost zero liqidity, I put some prices up to a fair % and the bots top me on every selection immediately.

Well played Betfair. You encouraged them - I hope it is all that is left trading in a year.
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Kelly
When: 30 Jul 12 11:07
Those of us who bet in running occasionally are well aware of the problems with fast pic guys , bots , and "supposedly" live pictures .  During the Open golf a week or so ago you would have assumed that the BBC were showing us things as they happened , in real time .  Wrong . Red buttonites ( with built in delays inherent ) were ahead of the terrestrial pictures quite often ( I had 2 feeds , one cable , one terrestrial ) .

So anyone who bets in running making live assumptions is taking their betting life in their own hands . Liquidity is not going to be good anywhere except on a very few select events , mainly the athletics . Also the nature of Olympics is completely different to selected "invitation " events where 2 or 3 get appearance money and the rest are just making up the numbers .

Be VERY selective is the only advice I would give to anyone betting in running . And as another general comment , the premium charge militates largely against shrewd layers , lots have gone away , and there are always going to be more punters than layers .
By:
whatdifference
When: 30 Jul 12 11:56
I gave up trying to make markets also, cant be wasting my time against bots
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Biscuit1979
When: 30 Jul 12 12:24
the 'live' pictures of the swimming must be about 20-25 seconds behind what is actually happening, last night in what appeared to be quite a tight finish on tv, a swimmer went to 1.01 when there was still half a length left
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DonNo1
When: 30 Jul 12 12:52
A swimmer also went 1.01 the evening before with over 2 lengths remaining and lost.  The pictures are 'live' (within 5 seconds), there's just silly money buyers out there
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Darlo Bantam
When: 30 Jul 12 13:06
Even the tennis markets - and televised matches at that - have liquidity worse than awful.
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JustWinBaby
When: 30 Jul 12 14:38
Been disappointing
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