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Hello, I am a successful full time trader on betfair for more than 6 years. I bet only on footbal and sometimes on tennis. Fortunately or unfortunately (will see) I fell in love with a Thai girl (normal girl :) and would like to move there.
My questions are:
1. I see that Bangkok and Pattaya have good internet speed, 6mbps is already enough for trading. How about Phuket? Or how about Si sa ket province for example that is 500km north east of bangkok, close to Cambodia?
2. What about sattelite? Can I watch english/european football live? By LIVE I mean no delay between me (in thailand) and the guy who lives in England, for example.
3. I know that betting is prohibited in Thailand. If I use proxies, will this affect my delay? For example if I watch a game on b e t 3 6 5, will there be any delays between me watching it and people from europe? How you deal with this legal problem?
Please, help me with some information, because Love is the air :). Sorry for my english. You can write here and to my email: braiescu AT yahoo DOT com.
Thank you!
My questions are:
1. I see that Bangkok and Pattaya have good internet speed, 6mbps is already enough for trading. How about Phuket? Or how about Si sa ket province for example that is 500km north east of bangkok, close to Cambodia?
2. What about sattelite? Can I watch english/european football live? By LIVE I mean no delay between me (in thailand) and the guy who lives in England, for example.
3. I know that betting is prohibited in Thailand. If I use proxies, will this affect my delay? For example if I watch a game on b e t 3 6 5, will there be any delays between me watching it and people from europe? How you deal with this legal problem?
Please, help me with some information, because Love is the air :). Sorry for my english. You can write here and to my email: braiescu AT yahoo DOT com.
Thank you!
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I would reconsider that whole Plan cause you will need all your Profits to bribe yourself out of your local Thai Prison after they caught you gambling over there.... :)
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OMFG. Please do standup!!!
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Hi,
I live in Hong Kong but spend 2-3 months in Thailand. It is a great place to live. 1. Phuket speeds are pretty good too, not sure about the north but if you are in one of the major cities i see no reason why it wont be a reasonable speed. 2. You can watch english and european football live. i-cable carry the premiership (every game is live) and the bundesliga (selected matches only, normally 2-3 each weekend) and Star sports (on now tv) carry the la liga matches (around 80% of the games are shown live) and serie A matches (around 40% of the games are shown live). I-cable also carry selected europa league games and the champions league games. One of the only problems can sometimes be the time difference, particularly for evening kick-offs in europe which often means getting out of bed at 3am in the morning. There is a small delay in the pictures compared to europe around 1 second. 3. Betting is prohibited in Thailand and HK. I use a UK VPN which costs around 10 quid a month but hides your IP. As long as you maintain UK accounts fro transferring your money into and out of betfair and use a VPN you should have no issues. Generally using the VPN means you have an additional 1-2 second delay with everything that you send and receive through it so you will have some delay to overcome with your betting. Having said that i know people here (HK) that continue to use uk betting sites without using a VPN or proxy and they have never had any problems. I just hope that they don't get caught although being a foreigner they will probably just plead ignorance if they do! Hope that helps. |
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What about the VPN, I guess that slows down betting further compared to betting from the UK?
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RitzyDelandro, thank you so much for this information!!! I don't know your betting strategy, but this 1 second delay affects your betting or not? How much time you spend betting? Thanks again!
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Yes Investor - as i said the vpn adds around 1-2 seconds extra. It is not really a massive problem for me as i generally bet on football and take prices before the kick-off - i do little trading during the games (although in honesty i should probably do more!). I probably spend around 8-12 hours a week betting as i only bet on the English, German, French, Italian and Spanish top divisions and most of that time is research. On an average weekend i may only have 3-6 bets that i make.
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OH yes ritzy, I see you already answered that. What about being a different country? Doesn't that also add a delay? I would imagine for instance that if you were in Canada, access to betfair would be a little slower.
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Hello, I have been living in London for the past 20 years. I plan to go back to Thailand permanently next year. Currently, I also use Betfair to bet on football. Please let me know if you managed to trade football with Betfair in Thailand. Thank you for your time. Fa Woon
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Yes, use a VPN and connect it to the UK and BF will work as normal.
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