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pandora1963
04 Jan 25 22:11
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Can it be done??I think I have made it to a couple of hundred a few times, but never made it into 1k plus.
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Report Escapee February 17, 2025 5:49 PM GMT
a guy known as investor on here, a fairly skint student when he deposited £63 IIRC.
he turned it into several £million on here purely laying.
Starting out all in on the U/O 8 goal market making a quid or two a night, continued churning and churning, night after night, gradually moving into U/O 7 etc, I forget how long it took him to get to £1million. 2-3 years something like that.
He put the hard work and hours in and got the dream.

I remember him saying he was very lucky he never had a loss until he'd built up enough of a cushion that it didn't wipe him out.
Report fullback February 18, 2025 4:53 PM GMT
he must be a rare animal
Report Escapee February 18, 2025 5:39 PM GMT
He threw it (his cash cow) all away when he tried to multi account to avoid Premium Charge and got banned.
Report freddiewilliams February 18, 2025 6:00 PM GMT
I always wondered why he left
Report freddiewilliams February 18, 2025 6:02 PM GMT
Could he nota went other sites
Report freddiewilliams February 20, 2025 1:47 PM GMT
Investor posted on Jan 21 2018. Doon 100k in 2018
Report freddiewilliams February 20, 2025 8:25 PM GMT
Don't fink he did a 63 poon to 100k thread
Report freddiewilliams February 23, 2025 2:50 PM GMT
8 goals so far bilbao
Report G Hall February 23, 2025 3:25 PM GMT
Investor posted on Jan 21 2018. Doon 100k in 2018

Incredible
Report kingscrewed February 23, 2025 3:54 PM GMT
Vaguely remember the Investor laying 2 more goals in a Portuguese game around 85 minutes, probably around 2011, was about 90 grand or so liability he hadn't been following game just thought price way below what it should be so he kept topping up. He wasn't aware of a bad injury and 16 minutes injury time shown. He redded out for about a £30000 loss.
Genuinely seemed a good guy I thought he started with £200 but my memory isn't great.
Report freddiewilliams February 23, 2025 4:09 PM GMT
7 goals Newcastle
Report Andriy February 23, 2025 4:54 PM GMT
@kingscrewed
here's a link to the thread with the Portuguese game,
http://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27388165/whats-the-biggest-mistake-ever

Here's my biggest ever loss:

Feirense v Beira Mar     Over/Under 1.5 Goals    06-Feb-2010    -7284.16
Feirense v Beira Mar     Total Goals    06-Feb-2010    -11020.64

Lost more than £18k in just a few minutes (2010). 90th minute, market is priced up as if the game is going to end within a minute or two (0-0 is trading at 1.06), I've got money up laying goals everywhere, and the ref announces 14 minutes of extra time, followed by two very quick goals!

Anyone watching could have known this, so the error I made was assuming that any blatant mispricing (0-0 at 1.06), would quickly be taken advantage of so that basing my own odds on odds implied by other markets was safe.

Also lost £14k on the Arsenal v Newcastle 4-0 t0 4-4 fiasco.

The biggest mistake I've seen was by a bot, in a Prem Correct Score market. After a goal had been scored it put money up trying to back an impossible score, matching everything at 1000, and leaving loads up at really low odds. It all got matched, and a couple of minutes later the same thing happened again. I didn't get any of it, but I think someone lost a collossal amount of money.



As Escapee mentioned there are some great and thought-provoking threads in this now underused section; a few years back i went through the whole lot, which was then about 65 pages, and just made a bookmarks folder of the best for reference, hence managed to sort out the appropriate link quickly
Report kingscrewed February 23, 2025 5:31 PM GMT
Thanks Andriy, will read over it again when I get chance.
Report G Hall February 24, 2025 12:15 AM GMT
Thanks for putting it up Andriy, a lot of the names seem to have disappeared from the forum.
Report Escapee February 24, 2025 1:47 AM GMT
After a few days where memories of the Investor I knew in real life, And the Investor2 posts I have read, popped in to my mind occasionally.

I am not giving a definitive verdict or opinion, but I would urge some caution in 100% concluding they are the same person.

People do the weirdest things to live vicariously through others to collect the plaudits bestowed
Report freddiewilliams February 26, 2025 1:16 PM GMT
8 goals Barcelona
Report freddiewilliams March 15, 2025 3:46 PM GMT
Aussy footy fur goals. Yester 3 matches at same time think there was 6, 7 and 9 goals
Report freddiewilliams August 31, 2025 2:26 PM BST
3 in a couple
Report DIE LINKE September 2, 2025 9:19 AM BST
Andriy 23 Feb 25 16:54


The biggest mistake I've seen was by a bot, in a Prem Correct Score market. After a goal had been scored it put money up trying to back an impossible score, matching everything at 1000, and leaving loads up at really low odds. It all got matched, and a couple of minutes later the same thing happened again. I didn't get any of it, but I think someone lost a collossal amount of money.


Italy 1-2 Germany last March, Italy went 1-0 up and £20 was matched @ 1000 on Italy to win 1-0, 2-0 and 3-0.
Report mega88 October 20, 2025 4:57 PM BST
I've done plenty of these over the years, I've actually started with £0 and won a small amount on a free spin on casino and turned £1:20 into hundreds, all on goals
Report DIE LINKE November 4, 2025 3:04 PM GMT
bots been going mad recently. I've had 20/1 matched on 0-0 twenty mins after a goal was scored. Crazy
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