About 5 years ago in a low volume cricket match (Bangla and somebody), which had only traded a few thousand, some money went up at clearly too generous a price. I and a couple of others started hitting it and it kept getting replenished. Roughly AUD70k traded. I know one person took 30k and then took the dog for a walk as the result wasn't certain. It turned out a winner for me and the others who took the 70k. Must have been a bot from someone with deep pockets. Never seen that repeated.

but its just money at the end of the day

That's the mantra of a real gambler. It comes second only to, "I'm playing with the bookies' money now".

Not biggest mistakes ever but some of my favs:

Somebody backing wrong event during Olympic rowing. Pairs was on and skulls being backed or vice versa.

Eng women v NZ women = NZ heavily backed pre-match into big odds on whilst Eng v NZ men was being played.  NZ women were about 10 point dogs for the game which was on right after the men played.

2008 famous rugby draw layer who got nailed in Salford v Celtic Crusaders final.  He had gone as big as 110 pre-match in a game that was handicapped at nothing more than one try between the teams, so real draw price prob about 20-25, especially given it was a final.

Disgusting from Betfair, especially if you're a big liquidity provider and considering it's 1.01 they have helped others out.

However, you must have far too much money if you can make mistakes like that. People are walking the streets around here looking for coins in the parking meters,,,,,

I only have several hundred quid in my account which is a good job cos I can't tell you the amount of times I've accidently tried to lay instead of back huge odds!

Being so friendly I treated my mate to a bet on the 2014 Grand National. Rushing, I layed it & if McCoy had've won it would've cost me loads!

I thought there must be a sensible explanation.

"I would like to think that in similar circumstances I would void."


embarrasing statement.....even the real Bayes would have rejected to calculate a probability for that

err, that's obviously not what he's saying, jan

I was being a bit sarcastic

Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour quite a big mistake

Last year I beat my biggest ever mistake.I was setting up the Federer Berdych semi final market and went to lay them both at 1.01 in preparation for when the price got there the next day.I backed both for 111k instead of laying.Virtually no other bets in the market, no problem with the request from Betfair (how can you back both players in a two runner market at 1.01 simultaneously?)I got the lot done at 1.05 average on Federer, about 6k the other side on Berdych.SP on Federer was 1.86 so an instant 55k loss in equity.I did actually ask Betfair to void. They refused. I then asked them to ask the other pro to agree to void. He refused.I would like to think that in similar circumstances I would void.


Kind of begs the question, can you claim the normal bookies get out of "palpable error"?
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this gent made his own mistake
often palpable errors are make my 18 year old data entrants on minimum wage..

What happened to Janthefish?

In the early years of Betfair there used to be a thread where people were trading football matches in play. I remember two of the regular contributors were porkboy and starbuck (this thread has long since disappeared). Anyway one Saturday Man U were playing Southampton at Old Trafford in a FA Cup quarter final (this is when Southampton were in the lower division). Half way through the second half Man U score a third goal to go 3-0 up and starbuck decides to put £7K on Man U at 1.01. Unfortunately in his rush to get to the front of the 1.01 queue he hits the wrong button and instead off backing Man U for £7K at 1.01 he backs Southampton instead! He wasn't joking cos I looked at the graph. All his £7K was eaten up by the bots in a matter seconds at all prices down to 1.01.

If you haven't backed at short odds when meaning to lay or laid at huge odds when meaning to back, you've not been here long enough.

I reckon most have done a massive mistake on Betfair. Similar to the Man U story above I managed to lose £1000 by trying to be too quick. The year Liverpool played TNS in Champions League when they were given an extra spot Liverpool went 3-0 and I tried to lay the draw to grab an easy £10 but because rushing so quick and not concentrating I placed £1000 on the draw and was instantly matched. I phoned Betfair in a pure panic and they said sorry, nothing we can do. At the time other forum member just said to me "you are now a proper Betfair user"

Years ago I was contacted by a lawyer from betfair threatening me with all kinds unless I agreed to void all my bets on the NBA acca market.
I agreed because (as he pointed out) I knew what I was doing when taking the bets. I knew there was an issue with the market.
Also they had suspended it and I had been hoping to trade out for a few k profit. I was currently with a liability of about 8k or a profit of about 100k

They all won and I would have won over 100k.

At the time I thought it was the right thing to do. I thought some other poor soul had messed up. It was only after I thought about it I realised it was actually betfair that had automatched the majority of the bets.

Bayes. You sound like an imbecile .