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Landmark moments in Betfair History
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i can't remember but you're probably right, it's the following total meltdown i remember rather than the game :)
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My personal favourite is the shenaigans over the Next Newcastle Manager Market over the past few years and how they were going to settle it. Eventually led to the 10 match rule regarding caretakers being adopted.
And an honourable mention to our dear departed thread, "Oh dear...Poyet odds on ffs" |
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Havent read all posts, so apologies if mentioned already, but the Money Saving 'Experts' laying all first goal scoreers was one of my all time favourites
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Under 3.5 goals in the Man Utd - Roma game.
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Max and Paddy 15 Dec 12:31 The day that a "planned upgrade" was delayed for three hours, meaning that lots of people were left with horrendous books as it clashed with a brilliant climax to the ODI between India and Sri Lanka lol |
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yes the Indai v SL one was a classic.
I think that co-incided with a lot of people talking about leaving the site. Hopefully those days are long gone now - I mean a company cant expect its only assets (clients) to stay with them when this sort of rubbish happens can they? LOL - will these .... ever learn? NOPE |
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Don't think Mr Redknapp has received a mention on this thread
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recent one in tennis game
chap was 5-1 up in last set but all the forum thought he was 5-1 down layer was laying 1.17 and people scooping up what they thought was free money when they realised their man had lost they were FUMING sorry i laughed |
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other one was when chap posted at 3-0 up that the lady tennis player would retire when 5-0 up
warwinka cause he heard her father say in polish retire when 5-0 up wtf |
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hang on we forgot the FGS CARLING CUP FIASCO
chaps 24k red .... i maintain the chaps off mse were set up. |
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Rocket to the FACE 15 Dec 12:45
inner city sumo 14 Dec 23:19 How many of these do you remember... Gretna will not win today Can anyone fill us in on what happened with this one?? Sounds good! They won 8-0 |
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Green with Envy ,and his haughty lecture about French football
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jonnyg 15 Dec 13:19
other one was when chap posted at 3-0 up that the lady tennis player would retire when 5-0 up warwinka cause he heard her father say in polish retire when 5-0 up wtf jonnyg 15 Dec 13:22 hang on we forgot the FGS CARLING CUP FIASCO chaps 24k red .... i maintain the chaps off mse were set up. both of these have been mentioned more than once |
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The time someone hacked into the site and put bets up at odds greater than 1000
can anyone confirm that this is true? |
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My all time favourite was the Bayern Munich game that ended 2-2 but 2-2 had been missed of the correct score market.
Absolute meltdown. |
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ALEXANDER_THE_GREEK 15 Dec 14:20
The time someone hacked into the site and put bets up at odds greater than 1000 can anyone confirm that this is true? It was true. I saw it with my own eyes. It was a cunning plan let down by one major drawback- everyone else could still only lay at a maximum of 1000 :^0 |
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time somewon put up a lay of 1000000 on the darts or snooker?
or did i maje that up? sure that was a massive lay put up. |
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What about that time someone put up around £1 million on the favourite greyhound some afternoon when the race had a £100 first prize.
Have to agree with Mary Chain though, the Carling Cup Final when the Money Saving Expert Forum were all laying the first goalscorers was the all time classic . They were all convinced they were going to win fortunes then once the rules were explained they all started to work out the huge liabilities they had amassed |
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great moment for me was horse race a year or 2 back at windsor when commentator was calling wrong horse home. There was forum meltdown as all the people who had tried buying money at 1.01 where stung bigtime. Still makes me laugh now
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there was a similar one to that when the favourite was announced as having fallen and was laid at all prices up to 1000, when it was actually his stable mate who had gone down and the favourite romped home.
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The one at windsor was funny because believe it or not i was watching race thinking that the horse he was calling was wrong yet all i did was sit there and not make any money at all lol
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first £10 to 10k challenge, Blatch (i think?) got to 7 before it went wrong.
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The race at windsor i think was the brazilian brush race, think they called the top two wrong in that!! 1.01 for absolute chunks
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Anything TheBigDogg was involved in was classic, I miss him
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what were the odds on liverpool to win champs league at halftime?
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My mate couldn't believe the in running price of Idle Talk at Cheltenham a few years back and laid the ar5e out of it, and kept laying it, convinced it wasn't winning and that some mug was asking for the wrong price.
He realised that Betfair had introduced place market in running betting as it crossed the line in 3rd. |
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or "I layed Man ure ROFL" against City in the 90 min and they went down and Owen scored at the other end 1 min later lol !
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has ne1 mentioned the mse lay the first goal scorer thread. that was an all time classic.
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When you could change your name. You didnt know who was giving who abuse until they changed the names back and disabled the feature
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Don't cry for me Argentina..... Just bring home the Bacon
Classic Thread |
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Money trees breeders cup thread
Anything by the fishing master revelz |
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Supernap tipping up three very short price losers in the league cup
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Just seeing a mini-version of Isner-Levine. Monaco-Lyon on 365 showing the colours the wrong way round. Market reacted rather oddly.
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saturday 3pm every week
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4/5 years ago now if memory serves me right.....Real Madrid 1-0 up, Benzema scored an offside goal, Sky coverage assumed 2-0, commentators not at ground, plenty matched on 1-0 at 1000s, game ended 1-0.
A few days later, Mexico Youth vs South Korea or Japan iirc, very similar situation......Mex 1-0 down, went 2-0 down, 4/5 mins left, goal chalked off, Eurosport coverage never picked up the offside flag or foul, stadium scoreboard still had 2-0..... Mex equalise, comms were chatting complete drivel etc...complete meltdown across numerous markets....IIRC comms were bigging up the winners, then ET started...  |
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A more recent one being BFs outrageously pathetic attempt to run a Match Odds & BTTS market, without an option for the draw and either team winning to nil....
Then when every Tom, Dick and Harry was massive green on all 8 Champions League games the following night, voiding the fekking lot....The old "application of an incorrect exposure algorithm" chestnut....  |
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MSE League Cup final was THE classic. That moment when realisation set in was priceless.
One that hasn't been mentioned was the November Hcp in 2006. Someone backed a horse down to 1.01ish IR as the stalls opened. They and their slippery fingers knew! The horse, Group Captain, went on to win. I can't remember who admitted to it, but it was a forum regular I believe. |
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The betfair ambulance night where half the forum thought hornets had died. DSmith even rang round some local hospitals to see if he'd been admitted
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