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Hills £500,000 bet on Big Bucks has rival bookies rattled
Hills £500,000 bet on Big Bucks has rival bookies rattled
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AS AN ONCOURSE BOOKMAKER I CAN INFORM EVERYONE THAT THESE WAGERS ACTUALY DO EXSIST,AT WOVERHAMPTON ON MONDAY I TOOK TWO 500K CASH WAGERS BOTH OF WHICH WON THE LAST ONE BEING ON THE FAV IN THE LAST WHICH WAS BACKED DOWN FROM 9/2 TO 5/2FAV,THE GENTLEMAN WHO PLACED THE WAGERS HAD AN UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO LORD LUCAN,AS I WAS PAYING HIM OUT HE TOLD ME HE WAS GETTING A HORSE READY FOR A SELLER AT WOLVS CALLED RAG REHS THAT WOULD DEFINATLY WIN.
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nevada...hmmm..mob...hmmm hills....they will lose more than 53 million in nevada
 do they really think they can just waltz into america....wonder what tony soprano would do to them |
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credit due atleast hills do have a go with p.p and baldy,ladcrooks are gone just check there prices always under every horses and corals should sell cakes thats all they are good for
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theres the black amex credit card,you need 500k in the bank to get it ,so it could be true.
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There is probably not one single person on earth who has a credit card limit of half a million pounds.
This story is as believable as the loch ness monster. |
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Typical duplicity by a high street bookmaker, on the one hand claiming punters can easily place big bets in shops and in reality most consistent winners being limited or even barred from their outlets, have they thought of going into government?
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you have to admire the energy and money put into "spin"
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What next - people will be saying punters on here have exagerated their stakes and wins before you know it!
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The logistics of this are laughable.
Lets just say for one minute this chap did have a credit limit of 500 big ones. If he went to the counter and asked for this bet it would take ages ( an hour or 2 ) to verify this guys identity and all that hoo haa. A financial company would not allow this to happen. |
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IT WASNT A PERSON U FOOL,IT WAS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER WHO PUT THE BET ON!
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appartently he tried on line but got offered 1.26e.w
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William Hill Sports turnover for 2011 courtesy of William Hills PLC annual accounts.
is In Shop £2.605bn Online £1.664bn = £4.269bn If Turnover was split equally (This is not the case but there will not be massive variation month to month. Daily £11.7 million Weekly £82 million Monthly £355 million William Hill have done wonders it seems. A good weekend might see turnover of £40 million but William Hill expected turnover to be 2500% higher then normal. Bookies reps are not accountants but this is quite a stretch and is them believing people are idiots. |
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Who's to say that William hill did not place the bet themselves producing maximum publicity for no risk.
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There's zero chance any credit card company's fraud detection software would allow a transaction of this size to go through to a bookmaker...
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The bet is not impossible, I've seen a guy place £70k on a 2/5 shot. I know as well that a number of Ladbrokes in London in previous years would receive visitors from the Middle East who would place 6 figure bets.
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The bet is not impossible, I've seen a guy place £70k on a 2/5 shot. I know as well that a number of Ladbrokes in London in previous years would receive visitors from the Middle East who would place 6 figure bets.
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But yeah a credit card sounds madness.
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They've got sure-fire regular profits being pumped out of fobts, why would they bother taking bets like that?
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Anonymous punter puts on a horse bet to take out 100k - no problem
Joe Public putting a bet on the gee gees to take out 1k - don't be ridiculous. |
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The bet was real the ammount is correct , was placed by a william hill employee on a william hill company debit/credit card, simples
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Hills think its great publicity, I think it makes them look pathetic when they fail to take a half decent bet from almost anyone.
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Who took Terry Ramsden's bets in the 80s ? They make this alledged bet look like peanuts.
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If you're going to lie, get the story straight. First of all it as a cash punter, then a credit card customer and now a bloke with a bag full of notes. You would struggle to get £250k into a carrier bag, even if it was all £50 notes.
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was just gonna make the same point Harry. the bet was originally reported as a CASH bet (which i believe is debit or reddies).
Unless this is Chinese whispers |
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the 500k BB was an outstanding bet. Most know he should have been 1-20. the field was absolute turd
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Have Ladbrokes not made similar but less lavish claims recently despite the fact they restrict bets? William Hill are easily the best bookie out there right now. Had no problem getting reasonable bets on with them despite having a profitable account with them over the last 6 months. While I appreciate they might restrict me at some stage in the future they at least try to take a bet unlike Coral's and **** who continue to restrict prices and the amount you can put on. Glad to see some bookie still has an interest in horse racing. I don't doubt Hills do very very well out of the mug machines but most bookies look more like a home for roulette-loving tramps than somewhere you can have a bit of craic about the nags.
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Is the same hills where im ptl ALL BETS so just to take the piss i do £1 union jacks and the robot phones them through to leeds.
Or are there two hills   |
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harry2.1 19 Apr 12 00:35
If you're going to lie, get the story straight. First of all it as a cash punter, then a credit card customer and now a bloke with a bag full of notes. You would struggle to get £250k into a carrier bag, even if it was all £50 notes. I have just checked that, you are right Harry, I can only get 370k in a regular Tesco's carrier |
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try a tesco's bag for life - i can get £630k in one
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Safc1973
19 Apr 12 04:49 Joined: 23 Aug 10 | Topic/replies: 5 | Blogger: Safc1973's blog Have Ladbrokes not made similar but less lavish claims recently despite the fact they restrict bets? William Hill are easily the best bookie out there right now. Had no problem getting reasonable bets on with them despite having a profitable account with them over the last 6 months. While I appreciate they might restrict me at some stage in the future they at least try to take a bet unlike Coral's and **** who continue to restrict prices and the amount you can put on. Glad to see some bookie still has an interest in horse racing. I don't doubt Hills do very very well out of the mug machines but most bookies look more like a home for roulette-loving tramps than somewhere you can have a bit of craic about the nags. PLANT ALERT.. PLANT ALERT... PLANT ALERT... Hills have even got 24/7 PR.5 REPLIES IN 20 MONTHS. You should be ashamed of yourself.Creep back into that bunker !! |
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William Hill are easily the best bookie out there right now
Which area do you manage then? |
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So let me get this straight, a big bookie claims big bucks was bet on big bucks but the other big bookies claim the books look too big and the said bookie is bigging the books up too look big.
And all this after a punting stable lad who actually did win on big bucks getting no recognition from the bookmaker he won it from at all, and the big firm swerved the positive PR possible in favour of not looking like the odd bookmaker out taking bets from a possible winning customer as most are restricted and barred in reality by the betting industry accept firms that don't take customers on directly at risk. |
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Is Trevor007 the only person who thinks the BBC are equally to blame for this nonsense?
If anything the BBC are even more culpable than Hills for allowing this type of premeditated bookmaker advertisement (which is against broadcasting regulations) to air in the first place. It appears the BBC will believe absolutely anything they are told (Frankel etc) without obtaining verification of the facts. The BBC should hold an internal enquiry into the individual who sanctions these 'make believe' advertisements on behalf of bookmakers and whether or not they are receiving 'gifts' of any nature to do so... |
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Is it any wonder that the masses are slowly losing faith in traditional Bookmakers who blush, avoid and hide at the mere mention of the word winner!
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If anything the BBC are even more culpable than Hills for allowing this type of premeditated bookmaker advertisement (which is against broadcasting regulations) to air in the first place.
Correct. And also correct on the Frankel point. |
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Well as they are no longer covering Racing, it's a mute point..
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RUK on the other hand, do it daily..
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The fact the Big firms look too the exchanges to see how much is being bet on what is proof enough that its not going on in the high street shops who prefer mechanical bettors playing virtual electronic gamess , bookmakers havent got the bottle anymore!
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Boys and girls too the left and men and women too the right!
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