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Eddie the eagle
25 Oct 14 20:03
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why there's matched so much money in the LPGA market ?

   During my time on here I've never seen anything close to this in any women tournament and this one is held in Asia, which usually in mens tournament, attract even less money than when it's in Europe or US.
  And it also looks as if the money is spread around, so it's not Down to a whale having a ton on at a short price.
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Report vegasdreams October 25, 2014 8:41 PM BST
Got to be us addicts in the UK - They need there daily fix to relieve working life, men/women even footgolf we don't care, just wanna bet.
Euro Tour in austrailia! were sleeping :(
Report Eddie the eagle October 25, 2014 9:06 PM BST
Soprry, but I don't buy that.  Not even during womens British Open has there been anything close to this matched.

  And the market now just a few hours before the final round starts is deserted.  Usually at this time there should be fairly good liquidity in a market which has had this much money matched.
Report therhino October 25, 2014 9:57 PM BST
Betfair is illegal in China too isn't it? Which makes it even stranger. Hadn't even bothered to open the market until reading this. Is it possible there are some shenanigans going on here? Some PC related profit dumps to some friendly accounts?
Report vegasdreams October 25, 2014 10:17 PM BST
bleedin hope not or we have gone and skrewed em royaly!!! :(
Report the muppet moans October 25, 2014 11:34 PM BST
Eddie - lot of money matched at early prices - was there a hih profile w/d? = not looked at lpga this week
Report Kelly October 26, 2014 1:34 AM BST
Its a mystery , Eddie .  Betting spread around quite a few of the players .

A.  Who backed them ?

B.  Who laid them ?

227k matched so far .
Report therhino October 26, 2014 1:47 AM BST
Need to get Woodward and Bernstein on the case.
Report vegasdreams October 26, 2014 12:16 PM GMT
All i know is 2/1 on - 4 shots clear with 5 holes to play is a steal!! tytyty
Report vegasdreams October 27, 2014 4:07 AM GMT
Happyfew and far between u get a complete overprice, thankfully I saw this one Excited hope at least saw the value in this one Happy
Report Kelly October 27, 2014 11:51 AM GMT
Pays to be on the ball ,vegas .  That looked like a steal provided the data was accurate / semi up to date .  Who won ?  Cant be bothered to look it up , but if it was a winner for you it will be on the tip of your tongue !
Report vegasdreams October 27, 2014 12:40 PM GMT
yeah pace won it, never in doubt, dunno if it was cos she's european but insane price lol wase'nt some kid who'd collapse she's already won 9 events :)
Feel like i have won on the week!! in reality it's just stopped me from a big loss as i got both the mens wrong ...
Report Eddie the eagle October 29, 2014 6:23 PM GMT
Last weeks tournament had 230 k matched.

This week we are back to normal. 1 k matched 5 hours before tee off.

What happened last week ?
Report Kelly October 29, 2014 11:00 PM GMT
Its a mystery , Eddie .  Basically very few are interested in the ladies tour , except the sponsors possibly and those close to the players . Occasionally a player pops up who catches the public imagination , Nancy Lopez , Kash and Karrie for a while , Anneka  , Lorena  . Others get huge media coverage without actually winning much , Michelle Wie for instance .  Then there are the ( American mainly )fashionistas with decent figures and snappy outfits , but their golf game seldom sustains interest in them , the Kournikova -ites .

I sat in a restaurant in Singapore with my wife about 10 years ago , at the next table there were 3 of the most prominent members of the European ladies tour , no one paid a blind bit of notice of them , despite them having been on local TV playing for a good part of the day .  Guess I was the only other person in the restaurant who knew their identity . Sad that , they deserved more recognition , I nodded at them as we left .

A friend of ours took on the ( onerous) task of running the European ladies tour  , gave it his best shot for a year , and then opted out . He was not used to failure , had been involved very successfully in helping with the European Mens Tour when it was at its development peak , Sevvy , Bernhard , Sandy , Ian , Nick et al . Couldn't make any progress in the female arena , head bashing against a brick wall ( of indifference I guess ) . You can take a horse to water , but you cant make it drink necessarily .

The only female sport on any footing compared with the mens equivalent is tennis . Down to Billy Jean and Martina initially  , but they had brilliant ambassadors over the years , Little Mo , Margaret Smith , Althea Gibson , Billy Jean , Chris Evert , Martina  , Steffi ( what  athletes these 2 )through to the Swiss Miss and the Williams sisters . A lot fewer female golfers in comparison . And they sell outfits the lady tennis players .
Report Catch Me ifyoucan November 5, 2014 4:49 PM GMT
Eddie, any positive response from Betfair in this matter ?
Report vegasdreams November 5, 2014 11:23 PM GMT
Don't need to be informing the authorities for such a thing imo!
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