Take SP Option Not Working

If no one else has the prob................Id "google" betfair.........open a new page............

post moore

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which races did you have the problem in specifically?

Its a fact that if U just leave the page in .....as we all do......small things can happen.....................just to say.........G.L.

and I just had £2.90 matched out of the £50 i was asking in the last race.

ive been done by in-play SP not being taken before but only have evidence of when placing a bet very near to the start time (suspend) of a race, think i can recall one time it didn't go through at all, but wasn't recording that race so can't say with 100% certainty that it was the case

feels like betfair are checking for bet updates every few miliseconds but only checking every 5 seconds+ for any changes to the status of a bet- in-play SP/in-play Cancel etc

if the horse was an evens shot then you can probably get £1000 matched at sp if the runner has around £250k(0.0040%)-£300k(0.0033%)+ matched on the favourite alone*
it's not uncommon you even get a price that's better than what it was a second before the suspend
with only £150k(0.0066%) on that 2.0 runner and a £1000 stake you might expect to take a couple ticks loss or be neutral, and if 500k(0.0020%)+ on the runner your £1000 will now be insignificant and have very little influence of the BSP you get

it's a bit pot-luck with higher turnover for the race regarding the BSP you get if you don't have much influence

if you take your BSPs seriously/often and use high stakes i've got a helpful little calculation you can do to give you an idea (still gathering data on this one but this is what i'm going by at the moment)
take the stake size you want matched and divide it by the turnover the individual runner has received and if it's higher than 0.005% then expect to lose a bit of value and get a sh*ttier sp & conversely anything under half a percent is relatively safe (e.g. u want £500 matched at a relatively low quality irish race, lets say we estimate the horse will have ~£110,000 matched at the time it starts then simply 500/110000 = 0.0045% - i'd expect minimal or no real value to be lost here, but twice that at £1000 and it's highly probable you lose 5+ increments of the price)

if you wanted to be prudent i'd say quickly do the calculation and if its above 0.003% then just take whatever price is available before the start as you will start losing value rapidly if you get anywhere near 1% of the turnover on that selection

Just look at the Grand National - we saw shutthefrontdoor drifting from 8s to 14s and as a result stubborn traders who didn't have the stones to take a big loss & had cash sat at 9.0 to 13.5 say and i'd expect almost all of that was taking IP-SP. whereas if anyone wanted a back they would happily have taken 14.0 with a minute or so to go, so due to the little demand for backers taking IP-SP and the supply being MASSIVE on the lay-side of the SP, combined with betfair going down for a couple minutes around post-time we saw some cash get matched at 1000 which is just insane for the BSP and the average sp recorded at a huge 28.1