how rich or poor has betfair made you?

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down about 40k over a few years across a few accounts. quite obviously (from my username/forumname) ... this is my latest account

fck sorry to hear that, thats quite a bit, was it from horses?

no tennis, cricket and football.. all a result of breaking my rules and then chasing with silly amounts. should never have had so much money accessible to me ..

anyway.. 3 years from now, I will either be nicely positive.. or down 100k ;)

a apt name...

**ingloser

**ingloser ?

**ingloser

Must be a joke from the forum moderators

I'm splashing out on a used Skoda this week. Betfair has made me so rich that I can afford a new one if I wanted :)

good going fred.. .looks like im the only loser here. and betfair are just lying about the 0.5% who actually make money on here..;)

no data a[part from last 3 months sadly so i dont know anyway i only bet for fun.

my last 3 months down £ 2.07

Football: -£2.79 | Special Bets: £0.72 Total P&L: -£2.07

I'll get my minions to post later when I come in from the pool.

I won so much I have retired to Canvey Island

**ing

that's absolute sausages

I have moved to a fairly remote island myself thanks to betfair, it's still fairly busy between 7 and 9 a.m though and those lorries often splash rain water over my abode leaving me praying for a bit of sun before the unpleasant dark evening kicks in.

I couldn't make betting pay, but since start my tipping service things have been going very well.

A good question. I gave up a decent career to become a full time gambler so am I richer than I would otherwise have been?

Not sure but my life is a lot easier than killing myself over a lengthy commute and all the ** politics of 'work'.

In the meantime I have made 6 figures every year since I started so I haven't lost out too much.

^^^very good post .


its not always about the money ,but about remaining sane .


who wants the biggest pension in the nut house ?

Started to make really good money past six months, then had a rotten couple of weeks recently, but still well up albeit with less confidence to betting now.
I sometimes wonder if it is possible to make good money consistently over a long period of time, or if it's just cyclical good runs, some of which last a lot longer than others before a downturn.

Downturns are inevitable, We all have seasons and sports that suit us more. The trick is keep risking wisely thru these times w/o losing your @ss.

Betfair makes me about £5k a year.

As I'm from the north, this is pretty much like a full-time job.... ;)

im down 3 k since i joined but 4k up in bookies this year so 1k up not very good would like to make 5k + a year and have time off work

down 40k 5 years

Only made about £1k from 2001 to late 2004, but £56k up since then...cheers betfair!!

98% of profits from horse racing

**ingloser

onthemark, very impressive mate, i dont find horse racing easy to bet on but anyway thats my opinion, you specialise in it so well done mate

13.5k , 6.5k in last 12 months.

98% football

OnTheMark 17 Nov 14:09


Only made about £1k from 2001 to late 2004, but £56k up since then...cheers betfair!!

98% of profits from horse racing




I find much the same, if you find a track stick to it like GLUE.

MAKE more than i would at work

but conversely find doing this for a living rather empty and pathetic

lost about 1700 since joining
used to do about 100-150 a week in bookies, so you
could say i am a winner on here.

EVERYONE WINS ON BETFAIR.

Terry 'The Bull' Jenkins 18 Nov 00:26
MAKE more than i would at work

but conversely find doing this for a living rather empty and pathetic


every one dreams of a home job working for yourself but you make a good point terry.
you still have to put the hours in and you still have some sort of work pressures, and of course you have to make it pay.
how many hours a week u on here terry?

too many. the reality is, free time during the week is pointless, no one is about, and weekends on here you have to work on, its when the mugs are about, so ur not free when ur friends are. a dull existence on here, trust me.

Total deposits £1430, total withdrawals £1528.70, so up £98.70. Would be £27 pound more than that but in the 13:20 at Southwell yesterday Solicitor was available to lay at 1.09 but was backable with bookies at 4/9. Had £200 with William Hill at 4/9 layed £300 at 1.09.

I am a student so obviously not gambling loads. But since the semester started i'm about £600 up with my gambling, so can't really complain.

The reality is only certain personality types will make it on here.Only the loner , anti-social obsessive compulsive need apply.

Agreed Terry, been doing it full time 5 months, made way more than i would in my previous job, but my word do i get bored some days, and i feel all my brain is capable of sometimes is calculating odds!!!

i dont think its to hard to make money on here as long as you kow what youre doing and have a plan and dont deviate from it!

Both.

conversely, how much has betfair made from you?

rink rat 18 Nov 03:01
The reality is only certain personality types will make it on here.Only the loner , anti-social obsessive compulsive need apply.


Agree, have we met? Although im not a loner i have all my forum friends.

**ingloser 16 Nov 20:11
good going fred.. .looks like im the only loser here. and betfair are just lying about the 0.5% who actually make money on here..;)

It's 0.5% who are said to pay PC. Betfair said 2% of winning customers pay PC. I guess that means about 25% of accounts are in profit. Although this probably includes people that opened an account got their free bet, made some money, and never used the site again.

Betfair said 2% of winning customers pay PC

i would like to see the updated figs
must be a lot more customers paying it now with the 1k rolling allowance scrapped

**ingloser

Terry and co are miserable sods. I suggest they ** back off too work if their unhappy.

Ungrateful t wats

Terry 'The Bull' Jenkins 18 Nov 00:38
too many. the reality is, free time during the week is pointless, no one is about, and weekends on here you have to work on, its when the mugs are about, so ur not free when ur friends are. [...]

That is a major drawback. Move to Costa Rica and you'll have every evening free during the week ;)

losing £3.75 over 8 years, done a milion monkeys in commission though.

Financially: poorer

But this is balanced out when I think of all the friends I have made on the forum.

Actually scrap that - poorer all round so!

Much better off, both time wise and financially.

Used to run a part time business on ebay pulling in £500 a month extra to pay off debt, go on hols etc, but seemed to take up all my spare time, and as I had a full time job too, I was knackered, never spent time with wife or going out etc.

Since giving ebay up and moving to betfair, I consistently earn a similar amount, if not more some months, but only need to spend 30 mins - an hour a day to get it (which I can do whilst at full time work!).

Total Deposits £2500. Total Withdrawals £48600. Available to withdraw £2430.58. Works out to less than the national minimum wage. But, out here in the sticks, its paid the mortgage for the last eight years, and I enjoy it.

Have made about 430 k over 7 years from an initial deposit of about 6k
More than I wud of earned working
Have paid BF a similar amount in commission over that period.

430k. That's a lot of commission :-)

Paid £12.95 in Premium Charges. There must be a lot of **ters on here if I qualify for the top 0.5%!

Since joining

Ive made about £150-£200 per month..

im not a big punter £5 win average on uk jump racing.

£2.50 win on USA racing(i had a 40/1 winner the other week)