New Posts For Thread: Betfair's Latest Wheeze - Grand National Betting Rules Changehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-changeAnyone here get a 'phone call from BF today about their GN bets? To cut a long story shortthey want to change the rules so that if you lay more than one horse they will ADD the liabilitiesinstead of offsetting them. This is to prevent people going fr.... not guilty!https://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528225771#528225771.... not guilty!Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:23:32 -0600RydalThat pretty much sums up my view too. Even tying up a grand leaves you hamstrung. I would have committed a third of that and still taken £30,000+ on the race.Anyway, onwards and upwards... what d'you make of that £4,000 at 2.08 on the Arkle? Ihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528224697#528224697RydalThat pretty much sums up my view too. Even tying up a grand leaves you hamstrung. I would have committed a third of that and still taken £30,000+ on the race.Anyway, onwards and upwards... what d'you make of that £4,000 at 2.08 on the Arkle? ISun, 20 Jan 2013 11:49:28 -0600PeteMy exposure to date has been kept at a low level - a grand. I set it up in April and when it became clear how messy the market was, confined my activities to balancing the book, which I have done.In retrospect, I wish I hadn't bothered in the firhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528224113#528224113PeteMy exposure to date has been kept at a low level - a grand. I set it up in April and when it became clear how messy the market was, confined my activities to balancing the book, which I have done.In retrospect, I wish I hadn't bothered in the firSun, 20 Jan 2013 11:25:40 -0600Rydal, you're a brave layer to be playing at all in my opinion. I reckon that I'd need £100,000+in my account to play on the Grand National the way I would like to. My only explanation is that people are comparing to the building society and decidinhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528223125#528223125Rydal, you're a brave layer to be playing at all in my opinion. I reckon that I'd need £100,000+in my account to play on the Grand National the way I would like to. My only explanation is that people are comparing to the building society and decidinSun, 20 Jan 2013 10:44:12 -0600The rules change has made a big difference to my GN laying activities with bets down by 95% year on year. The market this year has been difficult to cover with double the number of runners compared to last year as well as the new rules. Despite this,https://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528216101#528216101The rules change has made a big difference to my GN laying activities with bets down by 95% year on year. The market this year has been difficult to cover with double the number of runners compared to last year as well as the new rules. Despite this,Sun, 20 Jan 2013 06:16:02 -0600Bump!This issue is still rearing its head. BF don't know their elbows from their rear ends - half theirstaff are totally ignorant of the problem and the other half barely understand it.The Cross Country at Chelt has just had the rule applied becausehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=528005355#528005355Bump!This issue is still rearing its head. BF don't know their elbows from their rear ends - half theirstaff are totally ignorant of the problem and the other half barely understand it.The Cross Country at Chelt has just had the rule applied becauseSun, 13 Jan 2013 05:50:57 -0600Precisely.And your comment about the over-round is very true too.https://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=517067087#517067087Precisely.And your comment about the over-round is very true too.Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:25:20 -0600I have now confined myself to the GN, and funded enough to level out. Given the low numbers of scratchings to date, the current over-round for the GN doesn't look attractive for laying at present anyway. I have a solid green book which is robust to mhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=517062841#517062841I have now confined myself to the GN, and funded enough to level out. Given the low numbers of scratchings to date, the current over-round for the GN doesn't look attractive for laying at present anyway. I have a solid green book which is robust to mFri, 02 Mar 2012 09:56:35 -0600And, incidentally, the fact that the GN is all green doesn't make me feel any better at allbecause I've barely laid anything worth talking about since the rules change came into effect,which means I could take a serious hit on any ballotted horses. Ihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=517036329#517036329And, incidentally, the fact that the GN is all green doesn't make me feel any better at allbecause I've barely laid anything worth talking about since the rules change came into effect,which means I could take a serious hit on any ballotted horses. IThu, 01 Mar 2012 16:10:38 -0600I wouldn't say "huge" but they are amongst my better winners. I can't afford to lay thembecause of the fact that I previously laid them at big prices. I can't even work out if I can afford to lay anything - I just go down the list one horse at a timehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_antepost/go/thread/view/94098/28853697/betfairs-latest-wheeze---grand-national-betting-rules-change?post_id=517036133#517036133I wouldn't say "huge" but they are amongst my better winners. I can't afford to lay thembecause of the fact that I previously laid them at big prices. I can't even work out if I can afford to lay anything - I just go down the list one horse at a timeThu, 01 Mar 2012 16:06:14 -0600