Largest single bet matched on Betfair ?

Not sure how you could tell.  But I'm sure the biggest ever single liability would be the customer involved in that horse laying disaster in 2011 (what was it, £27m?).

Told a punter had 100k on a Barelona win at 1.14.

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Not sure how you could tell.  But I'm sure the biggest ever single liability would be the customer involved in that horse laying disaster in 2011 (what was it, £27m?).

That **** still owes me £57k.

Harry Findlay put up £999,999 on a greyhound called Escholido in the first round of the English Derby at evs i think.Never all got matched or even close to it but went off 4/7 and jogged in.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Greyhounds%3A+Derby+bet+%60the+biggest+ever'.-a0116386662

Its all there ^^^^^

How about someone involved in the 2007 League Cup Final kerfuffle. And all seemingly written off.

Must have been Morse.

He politely informed us all that he had upwards of £2million staked on a one day cricket match once.

How about someone involved in the 2007 League Cup Final kerfuffle. And all seemingly written off.

What happened Darlo

If you wanted to lay that Escholido, or back another dog in the race, and then saw someone wanting to back it with £1m, you'd be getting the hell out of there.

Can't believe he didn't just drip feed a few k here and there. Not surprised it didn't all get matched.

Mar 12, 2013 -- 5:39PM, Levskie101 wrote:

How about someone involved in the 2007 League Cup Final kerfuffle. And all seemingly written off. What happened Darlo

It's someone else on here. I only read about it the other week. Basically it seems people were trying to bet on the first goalscorer market who didn't understand what happened when the teams were announced. They thought they'd guaranteed green when in fact they had very large liabilities.

*somewhere.

I believe that some people thought that backing every selection to

I believe that some people thought that backing every selection to win to a book

I believe that some people thought that backing every selection to win to a book less than 100pc thought they would make free munny but forgot about players who weren't to play etc.

Levskie - the league final fiasco was a thread from money saving expert where people thought they could make 'free money' by laying everyone in the first goalscorer market, not realising that some selections would be voided if the player didn't start.


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386063


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=386241

Thanks biscuit, so what was the outcome for these poor fellows

they ended the game with reds of 12k etc

But Betfair wrote off their losses i think

At some point did nobody think to wait and see the squads -_-

they knew the teams they just assumed if they layed Henry and he didn't play before goal they would have a winning lay

think BF actually wrote off negative account balances rather than all losses, because the way the system worked then meant that it let people run up unlimited liabilities regardless of their bank.

that was a happy day - but I still think the original posts on the mummy shaving expert forum were fishy.

the issue was, they didn't understand the void rules in FGS betting. they just thought the lay market had gone overbroke because it was showing 115% or whatever.

Betfair wrote off the losses because they were partly liable i think in that they let all these people place bets with liabilities way way bigger than they actually had money for in their accounts.

Ah i see so they didnt know if player X didnt start he was void?

as for biggest ever bets, dunno about matched but I saw a 7 figure position go up in the match odds market of a football match once. was about 4M iirc. disappeared pretty quickly, so probably a typo on a large account.

yeah, that was it levskie. so they were just using automated tools to skim the field at stupid prices again and again. they kept driving the lay side down to 100%, and of course money kept appearing so they kept doing it.

No levskie, they had no idea.

Read the panic posts in that second link i posted up.

"Can Betfair really come after you? I thought gambling debts were not enforceable"

"And my balance was only £164 to start with. I can't figure it out at all, my head is wrecked trying to work it out!"

"Although the market is suspended I am now showing round about negative £190 for every player and it seems to be rising every minute"

"yeah my account says 0 but my profit & loss says -5K"


and that's just from the 1st couple of pages

What a clown Findlay was to put it all up in one go

Yea i skimmed through the threads, one guy seemed to be in for 12k :|

One main guy seemed to keep doing it over and over happy he was driving it down

Harshly i must say it was funny reading the first few people saying THANKS AMAZING PROGRAM you told me to use, and some were saying dam missed this :(

Then WTF SH*T PROGRAM

like I say, the whole thing smelt a bit fishy even at the time.

Just heard a guy had 250k on overs 0.5 on a Celtic Rangers derby a few years ago.

Knight rider had a 100k on Tiger Woods to win the open last year. There was a thread on the golf forum around it.

Sure there have been plenty of big bets over the years.