Landmark moments in Betfair History

kq's breakdowns were legendary, he went from proclaiming he was great into a quivering wreck within 90 minutes throwing tantrums and stating if he couldn't win it was impossible for anyone to win. :)

the day they rejeted me for a job

summer of 2001 i think

lucky escape for betfair

haha

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.

has the incorrect score on the tennis scoreboards been mentioned yet? An epic meltdown followed that with the people stating that people were mugs getting cleaned out when reality dawned on them

Isner vs Levine - great thread, have now read it all the way through!

buzzer 15 Dec 12:30
kq's breakdowns were legendary, he went from proclaiming he was great into a quivering wreck within 90 minutes throwing tantrums and stating if he couldn't win it was impossible for anyone to win

what does tony post as these days??

Unless i ain't spotted it...

The Portsmouth manager market late 2005.Was absolutely gripping.Nobody knew what the feck was happening.

When you couldnt bet on something if you were physically present in austria :) it was something like that, dunno if it still exists lol

Someone mistakingly layed £200+ at 1000 the 5/2 fav at Wolverhampton one evening as the stalls opened .It lagged up.

do you reckon he's still on here Gash? He was friendly with a poster on here, bigCFC i think it was, and i remember him telling him he was applying for a part time job at B AND Q for the sake of his and his families sanity.

no idea buzzer.

was a funny guy.

remember him saying he was leaving to play the guitar etc.

he did a great thread "£1000 for all of you by christmas" which predictably ended in disaster.

i remember that i think, was it his steady drip staking plan where he bet a level 5% of whatever his bank was?

GASHWAN 14 Dec 16:20
it's common knowledge that CailiniDeas8 is alex the old.

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!

yeah

he had

A

B

C

rated bets depending on how good a bet it was

i can remember, a fair few years ago, when kq had a failsafe staking plan he'd devised himself, after 3 losing bets he piled the lot on Liverpool in a late saturday kick off that went, predictably, astray and he had a full 24 hour meltdown even accusing teams of knowing when he's wagered money on them :)

i remember that one

didn't liverpool score in dying seconds only for to be flagged offside??

i can't remember but you're probably right, it's the following total meltdown i remember rather than the game :)

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"

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

Under 3.5 goals in the Man Utd - Roma game.

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

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

Don't think Mr Redknapp has received a mention on this thread
Something of a surprise

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

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

hang on we forgot the FGS CARLING CUP FIASCO

chaps 24k red ....

i maintain the chaps off mse were set up.

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

Green with Envy ,and his haughty lecture about French football

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

The time someone hacked into the site and put bets up at odds greater than 1000
can anyone confirm that this is true?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

first £10 to 10k challenge, Blatch (i think?) got to 7 before it went wrong.

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

Anything TheBigDogg was involved in was classic, I miss him

what were the odds on liverpool to win champs league at halftime?

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.

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.

When you could change your name. You didnt know who was giving who abuse until they changed the names back and disabled the feature

Don't cry for me Argentina..... Just bring home the Bacon


Classic Thread

Money trees breeders cup thread

Anything by the fishing master revelz

Dec 14, 2009 -- 10:38PM, TALKSPORT wrote:

Getting rid of Mr winner.

Wasnt that Blatch

Supernap tipping up three very short price losers in the league cup

Just seeing a mini-version of Isner-Levine. Monaco-Lyon on 365 showing the colours the wrong way round. Market reacted rather oddly.

saturday 3pm every week

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...

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....

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.

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

The MSE League Cup final mob, in the main, had their losses written off, which was pretty vile....

Any mention of scousebarry and his pals beating the clock?

Mylessoncost70k's 10k thread

The lad who used his entire £12k bank to lay Greece in the qtr's of the Euro's only to see them win in the Final

However my personal favourite was in the early years when one Saturday night. Betfair informed an individual that they were banning him from the Football Forum. Only for Betfair to realise that until he logged off. They could not stop him posting. He continued slagging off Betfair, well into Sunday.

Its great to see at the top of the OPs post the Famous Gretna will not win from Nocko (Owen Scott the William Hills Scottish non-league compiler). Of course it finished Gretna 8 Cowdenbeath 0.   My thread that netted a bloke from edinburgh over £100,000 always stands out for myself.

Remember something from Christmas 2003 when Michael Andrews & Gary Jules made the Christmas number 1 with their cover of Tears For Fears "Mad World". Basically Betfair had listed "Michael Andrews & Gary Jules" and "Gary Jules" as 2 separate entries on the Christmas number 1 market they had that year. Cue complaints from people who backed the "Gary Jules" option when they wouldn't pay out on it.

SlIghtly less well known, but there was a guy called RS1 who tried to lay something at 3s but got fat fingers and asked for 300 which he duly got. Went into a rare old panic and had a complete meltdown when he couldn't get out of the bet. Was teased mercilessly.

http://xtranormal.com/watch/6065325/

sadly lost forever.  alex the old wrinkled retainer video after giggs won sports personality of the year.

my favorite forum moment of all time was when winner landed his o2.5 bet in the argentina v peru match in 2010

the "lay Giggs at 249.0 for SPOTY" thread was a classic

Voler La Vedette with £21,357,218 at 29s freely available,
as it sauntered easily up to the line in the Christmas Hurdle

the day that they banned new registrations to the forum will go down as the day that the forum changed forever

That Voler La Vedette situation was shockingly handled

Dec 19, 2014 -- 11:53PM, marychain1 wrote:

That Voler La Vedette situation was shockingly handled

Did anyone believe the reason given by Betfair?

One word for the old timers among us

Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

20th August 2010
MONEYTREE advising a lay of Sole Power in the Nunthorpe.  The nag had not heard the great man speak and won by 1 1/4 lengths at 100/1.

Pretty sure a few of bigmarts will be remembered fondly in the future

bigmart saying that he had just ate a 41 lb kebab !..........timeless !

bigmart wont remember them

millionaire morse and the "ive got my eyes on a tan pair of winklepicker shoes that I will buy  with my winnings " when this bet comes in !

why has betfair stopped registrations / made it so hard? these forums are virtually dead now

towny

betfair stopped new registrations to the forum for about a yesr and a half due to the antics of bob vegas

bob was a landmark in betfair history

the forum is not what it used to be

cheers go on then tell us a few stories about this bob then grandad

grandad

bob was a nutter but i actually thought he was a good laugh

made a lot of enemmies on here the lad was very persistant in his questions

think a lot of folk had their xmas come early when bob was banned

rob the bantom threatened to glass him if he ever met him in a pub

forget bob then - this bantom figure sounds like a true internet hardman legend amongst men

1.istanbul bridge jumpers
2.the meltdown when redondo did that turn at the toilet to knock the mancs out of the cl.
3.that 400k bet on barca v zaragossa!!!!
4.the epic battles between tucky and joaneeeeee

I'm absolutely nails from behind a keyboard.

The day Helen Chamberlain was on here, got into a fight with some guys who were calling her all sorts about shagging James Wade and being a slapper and all that, and people were saying "prove you are Hells Bells" and then she turns up on Soccer AM the next morning and says something like "hello to all you boys on the betfair forum"

The guy who bet relatively small stakes normally who took out a 12k loan to lump it all on Barca (when they were at the height of their powers) in a league match at 1.12 as he thought it was an easy way to make a grand.

To be fair to him he was right and they won comfortably. I think he cashed out in the first half at 2-0 though as his ringpiece was quivering

http://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/23852522/just-remembered-this-one-time-when

JUST REMEMBERED THIS ONE TIME WHEN..

NASHWAN'S TALL TALES
NASHWAN'S TALL TALES 25 Jan 07 20:40 Joined: 18 Jan 07 | Topic/replies: 593 | Blogger: NASHWAN'S TALL TALES's blog
WE were all aboard, ALL ON , MASSIVE PRICES, anyway we were there at the hotel, south of france, monaco infact,with the HIGH ROLLERS

All i could hear was NASHWAN this NASHY that, so then see me, on at MASSIVE PRICES, i turned to tony blair and said will you get bush and his mates to cut me some slack IM ON AT MASSIVE PRICES

then i turned round and stallone was there, NASHY he said what about my movie? MASSIVE GET ON, i told him it wouldnt work as it'd been done before, FACT! i said
Its been proved to be a flop as YOU'VE not seen it have you,except for the cheeky link on here the other day, and then stallone? says to me EVERTON THE PEOPLES CLUB

see me but, i turns to stallone and says WALK ON , you'll never be on at MASSIVE PRICES

Then the hoo kers came, indeed , GET ON

The very first Spurs manager market - Santini and all that, and in the runners were two quite separate "B Robson's"

The thread about going round to someone's house in Huyton to share the cost of his Setanta matches!!! Real class!!!

But I don't remember at all Liverpool v AC Milan in Istanbul.

Don't believe it ever happened, tbh.

mc560

i think that guy was called hudson hicks IIRC

do you remember the seria b matches a few years ago   going off at 1.65 the draw, as one team scored the market went 4.5 the draw, 2 mins later equaliser and no mpore action or attempts on goal

One of my favourites was Caloman's claim that he had backed Nick Watney in the golf at 140, when the highest price matched was about half that.

He got roasted for months but still wouldn't admit that he lied. He even tried to claim that 'I backed it at the purple place'!

.

Footsoldiers and his incredible can't lose system - got loads of other people's money from a syndicate and laid Rangers to win 3 - 0 away to Lyon in the Champions League. Easy money!!!!!!!!

You can guess the rest followed b court cases

also the scoreboard error in the tennis that time. as well as the other tennis match where the player withdrew a set and 5-0 up at the time

Epics

interesting thread