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Especially on a Saturday. With the on-course bookies turning up in their droves with the big handicaps aplenty, they love it. The main difference is simple. Sure, the on-course books have to make a living, but isn't it strange when a horse starts to contract in price, so do some others! This happens every Saturday, whereas on Betfair if there's a horse with plenty of money for it, the prices of the others expand, keeping the book to as near 100% as possible.
Come racing? What a joke if you want value. Meanwhile the on-course books know their days are numbered due to their greed. Long live Betfair and their value, especially when the mean on-course geezers will only go 1/4 the odds 1,2,3 and 4, on a thirty runner handicap whereas you can go into plenty of shops and Betfair and get the first six home on occasion.
Fairly irrelevant really when you know the amount of big hitters who venture on-course...
Come racing? What a joke if you want value. Meanwhile the on-course books know their days are numbered due to their greed. Long live Betfair and their value, especially when the mean on-course geezers will only go 1/4 the odds 1,2,3 and 4, on a thirty runner handicap whereas you can go into plenty of shops and Betfair and get the first six home on occasion.
Fairly irrelevant really when you know the amount of big hitters who venture on-course...
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THEIR ONLY LIKE OTHER PEOPLE IN BUSINESS TRYING TO MAKE AS MUCH PROFIT AS POSSIBLE,WHEN THEY COULD TAKE A LITTLE LESS,
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weak effort , stew
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That was a party political broadcast on behalf of beleaguered punters...!
Bookmakers right of reply to follow in due course...! |
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1/4 odds on course? If you're lucky! Regularly see 1/5 and even 1/6 from time to time.
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like to hear where you seen 1/6 odds GLOSSY, same old argument about 1/4-1/5 odds. sick of people comparing win only odds on here to EW bets on course
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At least on course bookmakers don't charge you 60% of your winnings.
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With respect BIG might be better to ask him/her when he saw 1/6th otherwise his/her point might have a shred of credibility.
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Cheltenham, Tony. This time last year.
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I'd rather be in your position Loper.
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I'm not that smart, Jmdc, I only pay 40%.
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Point proved !
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IN MY OPINION IF YOU DONT LIKE THEIR PRICES THEN f CK OFF AND BACK ELSEWHERE.
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That is what 60% of oncourse punters have done, Now most of the on course bookies come on here moaning. They have killed the golden goose.
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I think that the 1/6th odds you saw at Cheltenham was the final nail in the coffin for the shysters as it finally woke up the jockey club who banned such fractions, followed sluggishly by all other racecourses.
mind you , some are still kicking and screaming over it. |
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I don't think that you will ever here me moaning on anything other than ignorance, clayfield 1..it's a great life
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hear
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You are at an advantage though adge as you do your homework/know what you are doing.Some oncourse "bookmakers" don't know if they are laying a 2 year old filly or a 5 year old gelding, just know how to copy the "machine".
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adge, don't you agree that the punters have deserted the race courses in their droves in the last 10-15 years, look what is on offer off course. betfair, the purple site, and all the off course bookies giving their offers out.New on line bookies starting up giving free bets out, if you have a large enough family, new names, new bank details, fill your boots. There is no need to go racing now with all the board's showing the same prices and all changing at the same time.
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Garishly dressed egotists versus mac hines !
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you do make it sound grim , clayfield1 and I keep reading that only 5% win [ after commission ]. I'm actually looking forward to being at huntingdon , wetherby and even Newmarket this week
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IN MY OPINION IF YOU DONT LIKE THEIR PRICES THEN f CK OFF AND BACK ELSEWHERE Customer service at its best  |
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bannahan, joined 15 March 2012 and 16,072 replies. GET A LIFE comes to mind.or a JOB.
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hes got a boyfriend though
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weak effort , stew
How so adge? Anyone with an IQ of 70 plus knows I'm telling the truth. When the books eventually disappear and all bets are TOTE that's it, end of story. At least one will be able to get 100k on a horse albeit poorer odds but Betfair will blossom more with their 100% odds. After all, the big players are stuck on here and the liquidity will keep on rising. Plus the fact Betfair make the markets on all horseracing. It's known as a free tissue... |
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Clayfield.
Are you the bloke that leaves after packing up in a Punto  Mug |
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....and what I said above is FACT clay... You just don't want to believe it you plonker
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i can vouch for him clayfield.........he has got a boyfriend
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Thanks sweetie xxxxx
Love you xxxxx |
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Oh, I'll be outside at 9 xx
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out of interest ... what percentage of people who bet on horses bet on exchanges v bet with high street betting offices or via internet accounts v bet with racecourse bookmakers ?
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some strange comments here....so people are leaving the racecourses in their droves mmmmmm over the last few years attendances are actually up(off meetings apart). it seems to me reading on here that i havent read a single comment about a bookie moaning...all the moaning is coming from the computer screen merchants who never venture out of their front door......oh yes and im mirroring adge here....its been a fantastic summer.take up slippage up....no decline yet.
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Sounds like the usual bunch of jealous tripe. No moaning here.
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I think the main difference is that bookmakers, although a ghastly bunch of people, do try to work hard unlike Betfair's site, which never seems to fecking work these days.
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some strange comments here....so people are leaving the racecourses in their droves mmmmmm
I doubt if it's people that are leaving, more like punters, being replaced by Chavs and what like. Plus the odd fiver punter taking a price with a 120% + book. |
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i havent read a single comment about a bookie moaning
That's because many have became commission agents and can hedge on here. |
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if hedging on here then how will they dissapear weve had formites say were laying 8 and having 11 back so wheres the problem of on-course extinction
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Stewartyy you've just made my day with the chavs and the odd fiver.
...if your predictions are correct you must be a major shareholder on here....if not more fool you. |
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Not major, but largish.
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shares in my firm have gone up in the last two years , how are betfair shares doing ??
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