Not like the good old days eh ?
You're showing your advanced years Feck.

I don't understand your post fafh.

I used the phrase because the parasites in the financial sector would be the very people that would use it to refer to some poor sod collecting 40 odd quid from the dole.

There is a group recommending people withdraw their money from Betfair on monday...its nmaking ne nervous there will be a run on them like the banks on Monday...

We'll all miss your money Feck.
We hope at least you will consider continuing posting on this forum.
That would really be too sad if that stopped overnight.
Talk about withdrawal symptoms.

You mean you're not going to carry on betting in volume elsewhere ?
That's amazing to hear, if so.

A non gambling life.
What a refreshing phrase to hear on here.
Could be viewd as rather traitorous though.

How do you know I haven't already done that Rocket?

I was talking about the millions charlatan.

it seemed implied in the question that those were the methods to be used.

yes your right peter, monopolies are great arent they, bet you wish you could give the winners on here a right good beating, have you recently had some problem with betfair winners or pc world staff, i have always found them to be both good at what they do?

Good post.. Since the post float capers I find it difficult to have any faith in the people in the towers and have wondered just how safe the funds of customers really are???

" ---any other investment ".
Now that you have to admit is a phrase for concern.
Any real trust lawyers out there with an opinion on this ?

Perhaps I'm naive, but wouldn't this PC problem be solved if all of the big hitters affected by the charge got together, opened accounts at the purple site and at the same time started trading over there? I've moved over there and there is a liquidity problem particularly on the horses in running, but this would surely be eliminated by the volume of money the big hitters would inject arriving all together. The purple site are extremely accomodating and I'm sure would do everything needed to ensure smooth transition. Is it beyond the wit of people whe are intelligent enough to win big on Betfair to collaborate and solve this problem for themselves?

I don't get it.  Basically, you compare poker to a betting exchange.  Poker sites, take a % out for their profits, and everybody else competes for each others money.  Now you have your sharks there, huge winners, losers.  I would suggest the % of profitable poker players to be around the same as profitable punters?  Say 5%?
That being said, do poker sites have an issue with all the money being taken out?  The losers seem to commit their funds, lose it, put more in, lose it, and the cycle continues.  Doesn't seem to be money problems in the poker world (disregard the obvious legal encounters of the past year, the point is the comparison in funds)....

Montie, even if the purple could handle the number of transactions I don't think they are as accommodating and virtuous as everyone likes to think.

They are hailed as saviours of pc-hit but have they done anything to make us think this could be the case?

If poker sites allowed certain players to cheat I'm sure they'd want a bit extra off those players in return for setting them up with mugs. Fortunately most poker sites seem to be taking a long term view.

I would bet my left nut that in poker losers lose even faster than here. In poker you can play heads-up with a rich guy who has no clue about poker or choose a table where is three pretty good players and one very poor one. Not the case here where everyone has to play on the same pool. I would understand Betfair's fan boys cry if there would be 10 different match market's for the same match and big boys would be always choosing the one with minimal amount of shrood players and max amount mugz.

It is completely true that under 5% of people (could be well lower) has even some kind of understanding about probabilities and should Man Utd be 80% or 70% favourite. But what you are missing here (I think you know the truth but for same magical reason you keep defending what some big boss has said..) that even if 99% of 5 pound players here don't have a clue should the odds be 2.0 or 2.15 it doesn't matter to them cause big professional players are always racing against each other which will always lead to that odds are near what they should be. Driving away most of the sharp guys will always lead to that there is less competition and sharp guy (s) can offer much worse odds and still get matched. Unless they want it...

On that score, catfeppo we all have an unfair advantage over, say the blind or illiterate or severely mentally ill but I take your point. 
So to clarify, you don't have to be a cheat to be a PC payer.

A betting exchange has a food chain where it is possible for most players to be both eater and eaten except at the very top and the very bottom. Take away those at the very top and you still have a food chain with the next in-line being promoted. Take away the bottom and there will be some who are demoted to become the eaten.

The top position is held by BF, of course. It is in their l/t interests for the rest of the chain to be as flat/short as possible so knocking out top earners or taking more off them is a win-win scenario - or so it must seem.

What seems to be missing from this view is whether this action increases or more likely decreases overall fish stocks.