New Posts For Thread: Betfair's to 70 winnershttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners"When looking at Betfair's top 70 winners combined from last year, these customers made a larger profit than Betfair."What i can't fathom is how so few can be so successful ?In the real world you have folk who have accumilated wealth over decades and potentially billions of people and ideas to make money fromhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501816349#501816349What i can't fathom is how so few can be so successful ?In the real world you have folk who have accumilated wealth over decades and potentially billions of people and ideas to make money fromThu, 07 Jul 2011 08:41:26 -0500So you are saying that you think that BF just sees its exchange concept as a bridge to becoming a gambling monolith, with fingers in all pies?Do you think therefore they are setting themselves up as a takeover target ? You know the concept of backinghttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501248889#501248889So you are saying that you think that BF just sees its exchange concept as a bridge to becoming a gambling monolith, with fingers in all pies?Do you think therefore they are setting themselves up as a takeover target ? You know the concept of backingThu, 30 Jun 2011 16:44:53 -0500Jealousy.Unrelated due to Betfair being bookmakers, but how much more do they think the london stock exchange's customer make than the exchange ? 1000s I'd imagine.Betfair's sold it's soul and no longer wants to be an exchange. They never wanted tohttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501231837#501231837Jealousy.Unrelated due to Betfair being bookmakers, but how much more do they think the london stock exchange's customer make than the exchange ? 1000s I'd imagine.Betfair's sold it's soul and no longer wants to be an exchange. They never wanted toThu, 30 Jun 2011 14:04:34 -0500I'm sure that top 70 have put in a lot more effort and took risks with their own money to make Betfair a success than the management have.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501221857#501221857I'm sure that top 70 have put in a lot more effort and took risks with their own money to make Betfair a success than the management have.Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:38:41 -0500how much has been pissed away in the LMAX abyss??? 20-30 million??? Yes but let's fleece the punters some more!!!!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501220121#501220121how much has been pissed away in the LMAX abyss??? 20-30 million??? Yes but let's fleece the punters some more!!!!Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:21:44 -0500How much was Betfair's profit? £25m?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501218389#501218389How much was Betfair's profit? £25m?Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:04:29 -0500Do Betfair think they should be earning more than their top 70 winners combined? Because if so they have no hope whatsoever of ever understanding the gambling industry.Imagine if poker sites took that view.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501217417#501217417Do Betfair think they should be earning more than their top 70 winners combined? Because if so they have no hope whatsoever of ever understanding the gambling industry.Imagine if poker sites took that view.Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:54:49 -0500how many of these 70 will be paying 60%? someone whose average win is £8 will be paying 60%, another average win is a staggering £10.27 and they will be paying also. But it is obvious that all betfair wanted to do was to close the accounts of conshttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501217257#501217257how many of these 70 will be paying 60%? someone whose average win is £8 will be paying 60%, another average win is a staggering £10.27 and they will be paying also. But it is obvious that all betfair wanted to do was to close the accounts of consThu, 30 Jun 2011 11:52:58 -0500Remember the spiel when the artist formally known as the 20% premium charge was introduced???? recall Harry F saying the following "I'm a gambler, so the way I bet, it won't make a difference. The people who will be screaming will be the maths profhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501213397#501213397Remember the spiel when the artist formally known as the 20% premium charge was introduced???? recall Harry F saying the following "I'm a gambler, so the way I bet, it won't make a difference. The people who will be screaming will be the maths profThu, 30 Jun 2011 11:12:27 -0500I'm not having a go mate I would just question every piece of info that spills from BF...It's phrased in a way to justify targetting the top earners but fails to acknowledge the small to medium players who have just been consistent winners over the yhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27948461/betfairs-to-70-winners?post_id=501213001#501213001I'm not having a go mate I would just question every piece of info that spills from BF...It's phrased in a way to justify targetting the top earners but fails to acknowledge the small to medium players who have just been consistent winners over the yThu, 30 Jun 2011 11:08:38 -0500