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Might be a bit of jiggery pokery (pun intended) in those figures, as the pros are more likely to be the active accounts of course.
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The Investor 23 Feb 14:04
Lori 23 Feb 13:57 There must be many more poker pros than Betfair pros. Easily! __________ So they must work of all the different internet Poker sites ? There must be a good few sites in which case . I understand there are a lot of foreign pros over in the UK because of the tax situation ,but ive never been able to find out how many . Anyone know ? |
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Lori , agree ,but how many of them live in the UK ? 5% ?
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Investor ... what gives you this impression though ? ...edges get wiped out on here all the time .
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quality thread, some great info
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Great thread
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The Investor 23 Feb 01:
Obviously there will be thousands who have made more than £30k in the last year, purely due to luck. ______________ absolutely Investor .... a huge winner one year can be in the gutter the next if the discipline goes AWOL ,which is where BF are really making the PC pay ;) |
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coach you might know.? actual % of people that have paid pc
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Pistachio , before the PC was extended to lifetime accounts there were around 1,200 i remember reading .
I''d say the vast majority would have been making 170 or more a week , but obviously those making 170 -400 pw would be far higher than those in the 401- 600 bracket naturally . So i'm guessing the amounts over 600 would be miniscule . Still ,its all conjecture until BF publish a league table :D |
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Yes coach , would be nice if betfair could publish some stats
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Coachbuster 23 Feb 14:37 Still ,its all conjecture until BF publish a league table :D i remember in the old days when flutter used to post up the big winners for the week , think play121(?) used to publish figures too, and was always the same accounts week in week out |
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Probably some Data protection law in force these days ,Joe :)
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It hardly seems worth all the bad publicity and the risk of people moving to purple if those were the figures coachbuster. If betfair take £5m a year from pc and there's around 1,000 people paying, the average pc payer might be making at least £600pw.
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Interesting that flutter used to do that.
Data protection isn't an issue as they could publish the winning amounts without divulging who won them. |
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Okuma 23 Feb 15:54
It hardly seems worth all the bad publicity and the risk of people moving to purple if those were the figures coachbuster. If betfair take £5m a year from pc and there's around 1,000 people paying, the average pc payer might be making at least £600pw. I expect that the difference between mean and median weekly profit for PC payers is quite big, due to a handful of people making huge amounts. |
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Yes thats probably the case Investor. Although I think that with the amount of markets available and all the different angles and margins to exploit, there must be more pro punters than ever. But most are probably a lot different from the conventional pro gambler.
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Didn't Mark Davies recently declare that nobody in the uk was making a living from gambling?
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as if...
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Need two incomes these days, work and hobby earnings!!
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Didn't Mark Davies recently declare that nobody in the uk was making a living from gambling?
http://site.forum.betfair.com/jive3/betex/ThreadsFrameset.jsp?forumID=32&threadID=2105062 yoyo 13 Oct 18:19 todays evening standard(tuesday 13th) Mark Davies MD. when asked if anybody makes a living on betfair. "there are very few people who are consistently profitable and NONE of these people are in the UK |
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"consistantly" might mean no losing markets? its vague enough to mean whatever you want i think
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it must mean over the course of a year plus at least
i'd hope so anyway but i don't believe the statement anyway. |
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in fact is it not misquoted?
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dukeofpuke 23 Feb 01:34
took £7k voluntary redundo at last job in october hated it there big high street retailer i worked in distribution warehouse doing mon-fri 7.5 hours day 37.5 week prob would of stayed a bit longer but recession the money men upstairs thought lets cut costs so now would of been any 4 days from 6 rotating including any 4 sundays from 6 and 6.00 am start and also boxing day bank holiday taken off you for no cost and rotated out so for me would of had max of 3 boxing days off if stayed there for remaining 18 years horrible bullying atmos there from management team leaders etc terms and conditions being taken away with union doing nothing to help stating jobs could go blah blah blah was and still am making loads through various methods arbing trading stats etc and i am better off money wise but tend to do 8 hour days most days especially saturdays sundays midweek less so depends whats on but i can do what i want when i want and pay no tax no n.i. etc and i can take i break when i want and its warm at home not like a warehouse and as this as been the coldest winter in my life i am glad i left i feel better physically and mentally just replying to earlier posts made an absolute killing on wales france game arbed every bet made over £200 could of lost £2000 if wales after being 20-0 down would of won IF NOT ARBED score 20-26 the 2nd half total diff game from 1st i would rather have £200 than £2000 down |
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well done......just look at the ridiculous threads ....eg.....£20 to a zillion......there are always one or two good bets per day ....just use your judgement...if they lose ..close keyboard...too easy to chase...........yesterday i thought tom tara a great bet....but 9-2 thought it should be shorter so didnt back it came home ...saw it had won ...lol.
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crediter, if the price was 9-2, and you thought it should have been shorter, you should have backed it
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duke good luck to you mate i"ve been at royal mail 22 years and just praying i get offered v.r within the next 12 months it is without doubt the worst company for bullying in the world as for being a pro for me if i made anywhere near what i earn being a postman i would more than happy
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p.s i take home 260 per wk for 6 days slave labour
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postmannick 27 Feb 12:04
p.s i take home 260 per wk for 6 days slave labour An extortionate salary for one without any talent or qualifications. |
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ican ...fick off moron
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Spoken like a true chav princess lol.
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Royal Mail will employ anybody these days !
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when i want your opinion i"ll shake a bag of nuts ..tw@t
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Push off,and post some additional mail.
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postmannick 27 Feb 12:04
p.s i take home 260 per wk for 6 days slave labour My son gets more pocket money than that. |
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ICANTSTANDTHISFORUM ,Did you fail your Post Office exam or something?
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No,it's just that postmannick and I have locked horns in the past.
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The guy is very quick to extract the urine,and I don't forgive and forget easily.
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Fair do's
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but you ruined a decent thread with your pathetic**ging on an annoymous internet forum
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