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Is this the way its going.
Is this the way its going.
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Ronnie, What stakes do the machines take please, could I have £50 EW in the Lincoln yesterday? Before they spit out an error? It's been a while since I've been in a shop. CHeers
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I’ve seen people sat there for ages pumping £20 notes into the betting terminals. Some people are betting hundreds if not thousands on them. I think £50 ew on a horse would be easily accepted. Piss poor prices though.
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Trident.
Sorry for a late answer just got in after a very quiet day depends on the market shop laid a 2500/1000 in one of the ssbts on Friday. Edinburgh to win a rugby match it lost. Ronnie. |
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shop laid a 2500/1000 in one of the ssbts on Friday. Edinburgh to win a rugby match it lost.
presume your traders had a quick gander on here and saw Edinburgh were over 3/1 .... big flashing MUG sign came on. take as much as he wants, no affordability checks required !!! |
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Cant understand why they wouldn't take a monkey on Newcastle to win -after all it's the Premier League where there's hardly anything a clued punter knows that the oddsmakers don't. I would have thought they'd have loads of £5s and £10s on ManU because it's Man U and it would have balanced the books up.
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why do you need to balance the books up ? take the monkey and stick it straight back on here for a guaranteed profit. unless you're laying over here on a PL match
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Would it be too much to hope that the present bookmaker industry would be obliterated by zealous regulation and higher tax for that particular "trade". Racing would be the winner with better prizemoney and the amount of extra investment in racehorses would transform the industry. A golden opportunity to be grasped by all.
Anyone bemoaning a strong Tote/Pari Mutuel cannot argue against the success of all the successful "pool" racing jurisdictions around the world. For those believing that they would or could not bet into a pool system just remember just remember 99% of punters lose regardless of the many geniuses present here who never lose. |
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Wouldn't lay me £200 at 10/11 a snooker player in a major championship without phoning through, was then told the price was a mistake you can have 4/5 told them to stick it, feckin shambles.
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they gave up on betting the day they wheeled the golden goose fobt's in. no point taking £200 at 10/11 a snooker player when joe bloggs is busy sticking 10 grand in the fruit machine.
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@s.kenbo
"Piss poor prices though" Does that not depend on the bookie? I *thought* (might be years out of date) that some brought the terminals in from a third-party (with piss-poor prices) and just took a rake for passing them the business whereas others had their own terminals which bet into their own books (where I'd expect the prices not to be a turn-off as they are using them as a way of automating the counter-staff's job and so cutting costs)? |
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What is a betting terminal?
Is it for cashless betting, like in the supermarkets with their automated check out? Forgive my ignorance please, have not been in a betting shop since Methuselah's goat died. |
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SSBT - Self Service Betting Terminal
Imagine a machine that is like a bookie's website but a physical thing in a shop. You can feed them cash or (these days, I believe) cards. Corals had them in the 1990s when I was betting in their shop in the City - you cannot have not been in a shop since then, surely? |
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Thank you longbride, never seen one in the shop I used to frequent.
Must be more than 10 years since last in one. Live in the country so quite a drive to get to one. |
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asks for a 600/500 on the Toon?
Good news, I've cracked the code. The Toon in this instance is Newcastle football club? Isn't Newcastle where Jack Carter went to sort them out? |
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No wonder they wouldn't take the bet.
They didn't know what he was on about. |
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Just for you Dr C https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/call-newcastle-toon-12917622
Jack Carter was from Newcastle originally but had gone down the smoke to work for a London firm -he came back to avenge his brother's death. |
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I think you’re right, Trident. Someone (possibly Dealer) has mentioned similar in the past I think. I’ve only ever used Fred’s before. They’re not worth it imo. If other bookies are doing it for themselves then the price might match their shop or online prices.
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I'm gonna call b0llocks on the not getting a monkey on Newcastle at 6/5, even a red grade would get that if it was below betfair on Prem footy. Day of game
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Thank you, Manoleeds.
I thought the Toon were a horse. |
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From experience I was having 'private' bets with people in the early nineties. Hard to believe but the one thing I and every bookmaker has in their favour is the draw. Take a Spurs v Arsenal game for example. 60,000 at the match and say 10,000 have a bet. 99% will stick their score or nifty on their team or better still for the bookmaker they will do first goal scorer and correct scores.
Some might remember The Magician on here. He made a fortune sticking 5k bets on the draw. He may have bailed out with 15 minutes to go, I'm not sure but he made enough to retire for a good while. |
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Or to simplify, there are three runners in a football match.
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