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comingupthehill
26 Oct 25 19:42
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Banned a punter cos he got best price on a 11/2 shot over a 4/1.

At least he has the podcast,and tries his best.

Some off his classic.

Tote systems don’t work,you get better prices from independent bookies,name anywhere in the world it works.

Errr,France and USA.

The costs are a joke,it’s a fortune just to go Cheltenham ,overheads are massive.

We didn’t enjoy going to the fat duck,5k for a meal for my staff wasn’t worth it.

It’s not really worth betting on horse racing,too many expenses.

We ve just opened our first on course shop at listowel,

I know punters moan when they lose'this guy moans when he wins.

But great listen,always makes you think you’re own life isn’t that bad,after he’s off loaded all his gripes.
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Report uptheirons October 26, 2025 6:57 PM GMT
Utter two bob flimpers.
Busytool thinks otherwiseLaugh
Report layingisthewayforward October 26, 2025 7:15 PM GMT
I opened an account with them 6 months ago.lost a packet early doors, a couple of very close shaves but that's punting right..won it back and now about level. They're taking big bets off me, maybe because I was losing to start with.
Report brandyontherocks October 26, 2025 7:17 PM GMT
Did i hear that you can't take a price until after 11am ?
Report Busyfool October 26, 2025 7:30 PM GMT
Correct Irons

I get on fine with them. You are jealous
Report comingupthehill October 26, 2025 7:30 PM GMT
He’s stopped marking up till 12pm,low trade etc,which is fine,but it looks like it’s to stop some getting a bigger price.
He’s perfectly allowed to do this.

At least he puts himself out there,he’s done well,promotes his company.shame he’s getting slaughtered over small bets ,prices.
Report ponchoslament October 26, 2025 7:55 PM GMT
It’s not just twitter he’s getting slaughtered
On, I watched his last podcast, and he’s getting
Lots of negatives there too, almost all having a go.

Apparently his ante post prices on the 2yo race at Donny
Were a disgrace. Hé was chunks under on everything, hé
Was 4s thé winner, when everyone was 8s midweek

Looks and sounds like a bit of a charlatan ? Was mocking
Punters on the track for having 7k to 4 when their was 4/6 on
Next board.

Hé Can apparently see there been no racing offered in the shops
In the near future, as the product is way too expensive
In fact he’s anti racing, and encouraging other bookies to boycott racing
To get costs downShockedShocked
Report uptheirons October 26, 2025 7:58 PM GMT
Busytool does not bet,NapLaugh
Report ronnie rails October 26, 2025 8:03 PM GMT
Poncho.
I would bet odds on there will be no pics in entain  shops within  3 years.
Hope you are well.
Ronnie.
Report ponchoslament October 26, 2025 8:11 PM GMT
Wow, that’s very interesting Ronnie, Is It cost
Of the racing product ?? And lack of interest from
New generation of punters ??
Report comingupthehill October 26, 2025 8:15 PM GMT
Disagree,
He just likes a good moan,at least he’s open and put himself up for critism,

He’s done well,got a masters,then got a job in a betting shop in Ireland,learned his trade,then set up on his own,
Big jump though from employee to setting up,ambitious and he’s like blogger,puts himself out there,
Hates the curragh cos no ring in front,loves punchestown cos queuing round the corner.
He layed Rory ,best price,

Think is spat here is,he felt this guy was being crafty,clever,so basically said,you’re not fooling me.
But sometimes it’s better to lose a battle,to win a war.

Heston blunemental had him over,but when he moans about increased tax,I’m sure he’ll be putting the fat duck bill on his expenses.moaned about(common theme),cost of accommodation at chelt for his staff.thats how the punters feel.

With ,fat duck,accomdation,all his expenses,plus 100ew on ponieros.hes re booked for next year.
Fat duck 5k
Accomdation 5k
Full trip 5 k
Ponieros 17.5k

Extra tax ,2k this will destroy the industry,it’s pointless betting on racing.
Report ronnie rails October 26, 2025 8:18 PM GMT
Poncho.
It is the cost very very  sad to say the shops have lost the race to race punters  nobody  watching  it called in paddy power  in Cheltenham  high  Street yesterday to watch the last race not one person in.
Ronnie
Report ponchoslament October 26, 2025 8:24 PM GMT
I don’t cuth, just relaying what was on YT ?
Never heard of him or ak bets until the other
Day. I think the idea of the PC’s are exposure
And generate interest in his business.

But look is hé any different to all the other
Books who won’t take a bet or close accounts down ??
Report ponchoslament October 26, 2025 8:26 PM GMT
Ta Ronnie, No punters in Cheltenham shop, on a SaturdayShocked
Report comingupthehill October 26, 2025 8:27 PM GMT
Future young customers.

More 18-25 year olds have been racing than been to a premier league game.

Bookies syphon off these new customers to footy,then spins.
Then say,young people aren’t interested in racing.but racing helps attract new customers.

Would be interesting to know.

The percentage breakdown of first bet on new accounts.

Say racing is 30%,the bookies aren’t going to shut the avenue of new customers of 30% because media rights are expensive.

Ultimately,if it was a scorched earth situation,the bookies need racing,more than racing needs the bookies.

Racing could go it alone with a tote,sellable in newsagents,tescos etc,like lottery tickets.and on course.

No one ever opens a betfair account,thinking,I love roulette,can’t wait to start playing.
Report ponchoslament October 26, 2025 8:32 PM GMT
Yeah to most that, but I can’t imagine the 18 to 25 olds
Winning on racing or football, I’d imagine a lot of them
Ain’t got a clue
Report duffy October 26, 2025 9:22 PM GMT
Barstewards gave it to him both barrels a couple of weeks back over the not pricing up the racing early doors.
Report uptheirons October 26, 2025 10:50 PM GMT
Nop point pricing if you don't want to Lay,duffy and they clearly don't
Report 1st time poster October 27, 2025 9:10 AM GMT
on this bet the bloke was betting on anytime goal scorer, AK hadn't laid a bet was just reacting to others cutting the odds, not sure if they were reacting to opposition team news or smelled a rat to cut the odds,but banning a bloke for having 20 quid on a goal scorer at 11 to 2 instead of 4,s come on,YOU AINT NO FOOKING BOOKMAKER YOUR A NUMBERS MAN/ACCOUNTANT IN SHIRT AND JEANS
Report ronnie rails October 27, 2025 9:16 AM GMT
1STP.
Go  to any racecourse  watch the prices  change every  race without  a punter  in sight.
Hope you are well.
Ronnie.
Report 1st time poster October 27, 2025 9:22 AM GMT
yes ,Ronnie  but how many times on Saturdays do we hear/see horse drifting back out because bookies saying they havnt stood a bet so want to get money for horse X in the hod so lengthen the odds
Report DIE LINKE October 27, 2025 11:31 AM GMT
betting shop manager doesn't know the difference between price movements in racing and NFL anytime touchdown scorer markets Shocked
Report Flemenstar October 27, 2025 12:53 PM GMT
^^ LaughLaugh
Report Flemenstar October 27, 2025 12:55 PM GMT
punter in question wasn't giving AK any genuine business, chinning the account completely fine here

punters whinging about account restrictions has been done to death, so boring.

The only difference here is that AK does try and claim he's somehow different. But behaviour like has happened will see you get closed across the entire industry IMO. A complete non-event which has blown up. Ah well - gave us some entertainment for an evening
Report duffy October 27, 2025 1:20 PM GMT
1st time poster 27 Oct 25 09:10 
on this bet the bloke was betting on anytime goal scorer, AK hadn't laid a bet was just reacting to others cutting the odds, not sure if they were reacting to opposition team news or smelled a rat to cut the odds,but banning a bloke for having 20 quid on a goal scorer at 11 to 2 instead of 4,s come on,YOU AINT NO FOOKING BOOKMAKER YOUR A NUMBERS MAN/ACCOUNTANT IN SHIRT AND JEANS


He was betting on an Eagles receiver to score a TD, don't know the facts for certain but I'm guessing that the AK traders had not reacted to the fact that the Eagles main pass catcher AJ Brown was out injured which would have logically shortened the other receivers as they were likely in line for greater share of targets.

What I'd like to know is what were the prices of the other players like, were they all out of line or was it just Dotson that was missed, Goeddert, Barkley also scored but their primary receiver, Smith, didn't.
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 1:29 PM GMT
closing an account because somebody had 20 quid @ 2/1 an NFL TD scorer when it was 7/4 best price elsewhere claiming the 2/1 was a "stale price"

he is rightly getting a coating for this
Report uptheirons October 27, 2025 1:33 PM GMT
He can try to dress it up but,the fact remains that he is a two bob flimper
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 1:37 PM GMT
less than that uti

its 61p of EV on the 2/1 bet & 92p of EV on the 11/2 bet

...would have cost them £1.53 of EV to suck it up
Report 1st time poster October 27, 2025 1:51 PM GMT
listening to the podcast that didn't reveal that much AK alludes to the prices getting cut because of injuries/team news etc
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 1:54 PM GMT
traders have to be on top of things like this 1tp otherwise don't offer the markets or stfu imo
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 1:55 PM GMT
it isn't the same as somebody eg betting a football team at the old price when a goal has been scored
that's a stale price
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 2:05 PM GMT
just listening to the podcast now he's doubling down on the 2/1 being "way out of line" when 7/4 is available elsewhere
Report duffy October 27, 2025 2:05 PM GMT
Brown was being reported out on Friday, the game was Sunday, they were sleeping, you can't punish a punter for spotting it, what are we supposed to do when we see a price bigger than we think it should be, phone customer services first to check that it's OK, shutting the punter down smacks of spitefullness, "I'll f00k1ng show him"Crazy
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 2:06 PM GMT
and he openly admits he doesn't follow the NFL but is shouting his mouth off
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 2:07 PM GMT
exactly duffy its fair game the bets he's had imo
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 2:14 PM GMT
now he's comparing it to a politics bet requested by a different account £100 @ 66/1 that was cut to 5/1 in minutes

exactly how is that relevant to this situation when 2/1 was laid for £20 & 7/4 was available with other firms
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 2:21 PM GMT
see on twitter this guy has posted his bets up

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4N2XttX0AAQ2r4?format=jpg&name=large

nfl, ryder cup, champions league outright, glorious goodwood, galway festival & king george
Report duffy October 27, 2025 2:26 PM GMT
The guy placed the bets two days after Brown was reported out!!!! iF it was moments after the report you could understand AK being pi55ed off but all that should have happened then was giving the bloke a ring and offering him a job monitoring team news.

The Kittle bet is worse because there was no team news that altered things in that game, it was only Kittle's second game back from injury and last week he had zero receptions. The only thing that might suggest that Kittle might see an increase in targets is that yesterday was "national tight ends day" which is a light hearted celebration of the position that was the brain child in part of George ittle, but he was 2/1 which more than reflects this.
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 2:42 PM GMT
So all this carp is about a 20 quid bet ? Ffs
What an absolute **** head. Never stoop so low
For so little ?? My grandad used to advise

He deserves all the flak he’s getting, how dare you
Nick a point and a half off me, Eh ?  I’m now closing
You down, oh dear Plain

Every man can be trusted below a certain figure, this
***** is 15 quid, Jesus Plain
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 2:44 PM GMT
AK, surname is kasimikas ?? Where’s thst
From, has  an orish accent ?
Report 1st time poster October 27, 2025 2:51 PM GMT
MANCHESTER ?
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 2:56 PM GMT
Grin
Report duffy October 27, 2025 2:58 PM GMT
Unfortunately in the modern world with social media freely available, if you mess with the wrong fella it can very well come back and bite you and that's what happened here, a PR dsaster. Many more, although rightly annoyed just go quietly, not in this case though.
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 3:03 PM GMT
Yeah duff, absolute car crash for this ****
And all avoidable, no class, no depth, If it were
Me, I’d of said, nice one, and paid thé punter
His pittance?? Arrogance?? Arrogance is always
Supported by ignorance, it appears AK has both,
In abundance Plain
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 3:08 PM GMT
Me, now I’d contact the punter, apologise, say
Sorry I think I was a bit hasty the other day, I was
Having a bad day, we all have em, and here’s
A free 20 quid bet on a future NFL match??

Hé can still get of this ?? ATM every one looking
A twitter, has him down as a complete ****** ?
And all for pennies.
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 3:14 PM GMT
would have been so much better PR to smooth it over
send an email apologies account is reopened
an error on our part

just to inform you we should have been 7/4 that bet you had at 2/1
and 4/1 that bet you had at 11/2
all bets on this account from now on will be forwarded to trader for approval

or something similar

but instead he's put his size 9s in
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 3:15 PM GMT
all this over 1 pound & 53 pence of expected value
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 3:16 PM GMT
Yup, but it appears thsts his character??
Little things affect little minds??
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 3:33 PM GMT
Ian
@brodders_be
I didn't request a larger bet size - the bets were referred to the Traders who
could have offered a lower price of [sic] the one being advertised was wrong.
2:47 PM · Oct 27, 2025
Report wondersobright October 27, 2025 3:34 PM GMT
as has already been said on this thread, not worth the hassle this firm
Report ponchoslament October 27, 2025 3:39 PM GMT
It gets worse, palpable error then LaughLaugh

The traders???  Plural ?? It looks like he’s  a one man band ??
Whats Calvin doing, getting involved with this bloke??
Guilty by association?? He’s fallen off a cliff, Calvin ??
Report Daryl Revok October 27, 2025 3:59 PM GMT
Isn't Brodders the footy guy on Channing's Betting Emporium site?
Report Fashion Fever October 27, 2025 4:30 PM GMT
simple case of
punter sees a few small arbs to pay for a few beers later that night
ak traders were not paying your bar bill mate
Report comingupthehill October 27, 2025 4:54 PM GMT
AK said the 2 bets he had ,both won,and we hadn’t moved price.

So the question is.
Does the customer bet best price other touchdowns scorers on other days,and do they win.

If the bookies are all the same price,does he not both having a bet.

When AK says,hes in the industry or knows people in the industry,

How can industry knowledge ,help knowing who will score a touchdown.
Report 1st time poster October 27, 2025 5:08 PM GMT
AK said you would be banned even if the bet was 50p saying the bet was miniscule,irrelevant,meaning he thinks.thought has said punters like this [ his words ] are taking the piss ,nieve if they think they,ll continue to get on
Report Rico-Dangleflaps October 28, 2025 9:47 AM GMT
How can industry knowledge ,help knowing who will score a touchdown.

surely similar to a football match 1st goalsorer?
Report CLYDEBANK29 October 28, 2025 10:00 AM GMT
I don't have specific knowledge about the anytime touchdown market, but I used to be heavily involved laying on the anytime football scorer market (the prices used to be too short back in the day) and they are one of the worst value bets you can have with a bookmaker.  I suspect the same is true in the NFL equivalent, especially post COVID with the increased bookie margins.  He may have beaten the general market price, but that doesn't mean he got value in a market which likely has massive margins built in. 

My initial take is there's nothing especially shrewd looking at this fellow's bets on his account.  He's just not a complete mug.  He's not betting often so he's clearly responsible and in control.  Very much has the look of how I would bet way back in the day when I was betting casually for interest every now and then, but had a little bit of a clue, but not enough to make a long term profit.  Maybe he did achieve value on the NFL.  Maybe he didn't.  If he did achieve value on those bets it isn't a reason to close the account.  It's whether he achieved value on average over all his bets and the evidence is he hasn't.  The lowest price matched on Juventus in September on Betfair was 70 and he took 67 with bad ew terms.  The horse racing bets are not shrewd on the face of it.  Jan Brueghel drifted and went off 5/2.  Dunum drifted and went off 12/1 (no BOG) and the ew terms were bad. The two outsiders went off 20/1 and 33/1, but outsiders often trade 2 or 3 times bigger on the exchange, and prolly more symptomatic of huge SP over rounds.

It's sad if closing accounts has come down to this level tbh
Report 1st time poster October 28, 2025 10:08 AM GMT
on numerous times around royal ascot/iris classics etc, AK used the podcast to say he had eyes/faces in AOB yard that marked their card for them before pricing a race,
so AK can use info not available to public/punters to take money of punters,but you cant use public info that you react to quicker than AK to take money of him Angry
Report uptheirons October 28, 2025 6:59 PM GMT
ttt
Report uptheirons October 28, 2025 7:15 PM GMT
Busytool claims to have had 47 bets with the two bob flimper and is unrestrictedLaughLaugh
Report formoftheace October 28, 2025 7:21 PM GMT
Did you come off the forum for tea Iron ?
Report Busyfool October 28, 2025 7:25 PM GMT
Wrong Ironer


You misseed the connection
Report uptheirons October 28, 2025 7:28 PM GMT
Although you are a serial loser,Aceform,I do not regard you as a moron.Unlike BusytoolLaugh
BTW,Tea is in the afternoon for those that take it
Report uptheirons October 28, 2025 7:29 PM GMT
Post your P&L then
Report uptheirons October 28, 2025 7:40 PM GMT
Mention a P&L and Billy Big Gonads does the offLaugh
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