Classic Betfair forum posts...

kofi's thread about gambling and benefits is a classic

Odwyer's famous horse laying thread in which had had 50 successful lays before the 51st in which he "layed off" just before his layed horse romped home. The thread ended with Odywer saying "And that's how you win money laying horses". Was very amusing.

Twenty tenners please or however it was worded about the pc.

dlarssonf, betfairy, lori all good suggestions!

My Great System by Kenniky must be up there as a classic of its type.

Ok, it's not on the forum, but it's been discussed on the forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U481VOmobg

Pete Nordsted about his book "mastering betfair". He talks about a major event in his 'trading career' being losing £500 and having to call his wife about it :D

Respect to him for getting his book published though!

Was it slicer's Holy Grail?

The ultimate classic has to be Footsoldiers.

Schalke's 'This is as they say FREE MONEY' thread

I liked the "Who didn`t lump on Austria must be plain stupid" thread by Carsten.

What about The Forum Reader's Atletico v Barca thread?

"" LAY MON MONE ""
for the national , was amazin ;\

I'm paraphrasing; "There's something wierd going on in the football markets" thread about the discovery of betfair' s cross matching bot which they kept quiet about, but later had to admit it.

20 tenners was prob the best thread ever on here. who wrote it?

nocko?

twenty tenners was by armida:

http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=32&threadID=1667378

brilliant ! - a great find, cheers TI

yes i remember nocko's one - thats right up there lol

lol at 20 tenners

what about on the tennis forum when the scoreboard was the wrong way round and showing the opposite score?

"free money, literally"

The one by the kid who discovered the cross matching was a classic thread with a very sad ending as remember his father coming on here to say his son passed away? :(


An all time stupid thread (or maybe the most clever of wind-ups) is the one by Dinosaur that was recently brought back on here where he discussing laying 0-0 and then backing 0-0 once a team has scored :)

and the other tennis about the polish girl told to throw the game IR. polish bloke on here picked it up

Cider Red on Tour's "I've just come home battered from the pub" thread

GASHWAN 14 Jan 21:27
what about on the tennis forum when the scoreboard was the wrong way round and showing the opposite score?

"free money, literally"

Levine/Isner, oddly now locked which is a shame

get ur whole bank on phil taylor

rellbillionaire ..

the tennis was classic

Sometimes I wonder why I am here but the betfair forums just crack me up. The tennis forum is good.

The in-play fred on the voided Daveydenko match with people screaming about the free money on offer.

Another on tennis where the live scoreboard was showing the scores for the wrong player. Again people screaming about free money only to realise that the data was wrong.

But one of the best was the moneysaving dot com comments copied about a FGS market where the pink book was going 100%+.




In all of these, people thought they had found free money. :|

Was there a thread at the time where Bradley Dredge was given a 30 on the online scoreboards in a golf tournament when it should have been a 3? Went on to win the tournie if memory serves me correct.

Don't forget the classic "Can the poms avoid an innings defeat" thread on the cricket forum, 5 years and more :0

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I always laugh when I remember the thread about somebody**ging a (ahem, shall we say larger) lady from behind while she ate a portion of *****

How has no one mentioned the 'money saving experts' goalscorer thread ripping the p!ss out of them when they thought they was onto a 'free money' good thing.
Pure gold.

sgt bilko 14 Jan 20:48


nocko?



Correct answer - the phrase 'you've nocko'd it' is still used in the office.

Five By Five 15 Jan 11:52
How has no one mentioned the 'money saving experts' goalscorer thread ripping the p!ss out of them when they thought they was onto a 'free money' good thing.
Pure gold.




They have. We have done the wrong tennis scoreboard a few times too.

I lost the link in my bookmarks but there was a tennis match, women's, where someone spoke the language of one of the competitors that was leading by a set and up 4-0 (?) when her father said to her "go to 5-1 then retire".

A forumite was watching and understood him and posted "I'm shaking...eetc" and started laying, advising everyone else to.

It was debated and he kept insisting he was telling the truth. She was at sub 1.10.

People joined in laying and sure enough she retired.

The forumite was named a hero. I said knighthood.

If anyone has the link, it is a great read.

Five by five, I often wondered if they were set up by the person that started the thread.

Two more both on the Football forum:


OCD tendencies (mispelt in the title iirc), &

Which circuit goes uphill all the way with acknowledgment to Mr Eko for starting it and Ben Sprockett for milking it so well.

Isner vs Levine and the dodgy scoreboard.

http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=64&forumName=Tennis&threadID=1586573&tName=*****+Levine+vs.+Isner+In-Play+Match+*****&iMessageCount=1635

Wozniacki vs Kremer and the retirement saga.

http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=64&forumName=Tennis&threadID=2112252&tName=*****+A+Girl+that+isn%27t+Kremer+versus+Kremer+IN+PLAY+*****&iMessageCount=405

day in the life of the betfair market operations person -

get up, check under car for bomb, polish big red suspend button.. a classic thread

Koos comeback thread has got to be worth a mention

Haha Justiki what a legend on that Woz thread!

The one how layed albacete(?) when losing against barca.

That Steve chap who laughed at man u layers

That dimi thread

Roger moore 15 Jan 15:46
day in the life of the betfair market operations person -

get up, check under car for bomb, polish big red suspend button.. a classic thread






I missed that one. There must surely be a case for a classic fred forum. Has anybody asked betfair for one yet?

The thread (wasnt on here but another orum) where some kid lost a load of cash and was about to commit suicide :0

Thread got pulled, anyone remember??

Anyone remember the poster on the darts forum who was giving us life stories from various sports stars? Think his name was farthouse or something. Van de voort story was a good one.

The day in the life of a betfair employee was a good one also.

There was one guy who started a challenge. There was a long introduction talking about "the long months ahead". His first bet was laying 6 goals or more in a liverpool game. Finished 3-3. It was so funny, I wish I could remember his name so I could bring the thread back up.

The 'leepee' thread on the football forum, where 17-3 got caught out talking to himself as Cantonasboots still makes me laugh.

One on the Cricket or Gen Betting forum ( similar to Moneysavings scam but a few years earlier).The thread starter ,an Aussie , opens up saying anyone interested there is an overound book waiting to be layed on Top Runs scorer in the one day international the following day.
20 minutes later the reply came " thanks for that I owe you a pint".
50 minutes later " I can`t thank you enough ,I`m green for a right few quid and the backers keep coming back for more".
90 minutes later " I am starting to get a little bit concerned here"
It went on for a few hours before the full horror kicked in.

When the non-starters were taken out he had a huge red screen and no where near enough funds to cover the loss ,can`t remember his forum name and don`t think we ever found out the final outcome.

Frames,
Betfair had to eat it on that one because they were not licensed to give credit, hence any bets which left the punter with a negative balance were illegal ( FSA/Consumer Credit Act )

Adonis..........sleep inducing TIME threads

I remember a fishing/wind up thread about a racecourse that was uphill all the way. Classic!

Need more links for these threads!

noble warriors

http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=58&forumName=Chit+Chat&threadID=1014463&tName=Noble+Warriors&iMessageCount=235

funniest was a thread about how the forum had ruined a guys life,about christmas time

http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=58&for...

No mention of Footsoldiers yet?

There was a nice enough chap called Best on here this week '1.1ish shots and a 1.56' ...starting bank 51.55 ....sure enough he started with a 1.56 chance and a few mins later had used up his bank on a 1.03... the last post on the thread summed it up with 'Worst'

Loved the Tennis one : Isner v Levine

Dawsy's posts on the thread summed it up

dawsy 08 Jul 21:00

Just stuck 13k on Isner


dawsy 08 Jul 21:11

the scoreboard is correct


dawsy 08 Jul 21:20

just phoned up

no void confirmed

easiest 2k ive ever made


dawsy 08 Jul 21:21

levine won wtf??


dawsy 08 Jul 21:24

when I phoned betfair up they said Isner had won....

i am very confused


dawsy 08 Jul 21:24


paid 2k yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

dawsy 08 Jul 21:58

i been cleaned out

Total available: £0.00

dawsy 08 Jul 21:58

Phone them up - I just did and they said they will void it

dawsy 08 Jul 22:21

just phoned again and now told this wont be voided

i am cabbages raging

13000 DOWN THE *******


dawsy 08 Jul 22:23

how can you blame yourself?

its the scoreboards fault


dawsy 08 Jul 22:28

so i've lost half a years wages on a scoreboard mistake

why is life so unfair

has anyone mentioned the one where the guy tipped unders and it was 7-1 to man united

the Roma game

cant remember his name but he was crazy

:)

The forum reader

that was the chap

Anyone remember the Varthouse thread from yesteryear?

Obeone was the Roma game!

alanthegoona@adultfriendfinder.com


wrong site alan.........lol

^^ :^0 ^^ ** Hilarious!

Laying Betis@80 free money against Barca (?) was also a good un.

flatliner, i think it was one of the classic odwyer threads. He made a few that would fit in this thread.

i remember when teabaghead first came on here and virtually every thread was about him.
greatest wind up merchant ever, he even had a lottery numbers tipping thread.

and the winner is...

ancients of mu mu.......haiti v suriname

teabaghead was class.

sweetchildofmine 16 Jan 12:02
and the winner is...

ancients of mu mu.......haiti v suriname

That was a v good thread, team getting absolutly hammered for 90mins...0-0, how it happened no one knows.

Yes, think betis was odweyer

I second the Kenniky M A S T E R P I E C E - My Great System

"that just fruitcake plan"

if only some of the links to the threads worked, would have loved to have reminiced about them!

The Money Saving Expert one where the clueless piled into a market they had no understading of for "Free Munny"?

https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/26511101/moneysavingexpert-thread

Mu mu was a very funny poster