Purple sold.

MB?

Matchbook not sure its allowed?

Can only be a good thing

Thanks

Well, that's a shìtter. Matchbook chuck you out if you make too much profit.

Opps

MB are absolutely DIRE

Enlighten us panda

Ss above poster says, they ban you for nothing. And the affordability checks are up the a rss ole

Where have you seen this info? Can't find anything online.

Why did daq not grow like here......and be number 1 when pc was invented

How much prophets gets u closed down there jamee

Were owned by Ladbrokes before I believe? So never been fully independent as exchange I suppose.

Oddly, they asked me for documents just last few weeks - wonder if that was why. First time it's ever happened to me over there.

Oct 13, 2026 -- 1:33PM, freddiewilliams wrote:

How much prophets gets u closed down there jamee

It depends whether you are making money from their market-makers or not.

Absolute Flimpers so no point in bothering

Soon only be BF left worth bothering with...

Been told its to be announced tomorrow.

Oct 13, 2026 -- 1:55PM, ribero1 wrote:

Been told its to be announced tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads up.

Fella who founded it, sold it to Crookes then bought it back a few years ago.

tbh i found daq very good indeed, ecellent better than here by far if problem etc, at least you could still phone them up

Website been truly awful for years though, nearly unusable at times, and rubbish money often there.

Yes and apparently it's been costing him a nice few quid to keep it going,They're also involved with RDT which provide the software and back up for over 50% of the on course bookmakers and also RBC which is the Bookmakers Admin site,Matchbook taking them over too.

asked for documents from me 6 months ago...i refused so they closed my account.

matchbook are worse, closed my accounts after 2 bets.......smarkets on the other hand , i like....

I actually WD my balance as soon as they made their request, not put anything in there since.

Any request for a personal financial document or verification I do not oblige. I close the account instead.

I do not trust them until their personnel are signed up for the Financial Conduct Authority. Anything less is a big no go.

Wen ure biggest back of the week is 1.50 on a super boost....ull never have that prob

Ask 'ladcrookes'. I even contacted their CEO, Ms Stella David, and within 2 hrs a member of 'ladcrookes management team agreed to release my money for a withdrawal. I closed the account forthwith.

U thought u were getting a free 20 and it bit u on the a££

Laddies is one of the worst. Noone should use an account with them

Never used my matchbox,,,, but guessing inrunning is p1sh

Same here

Matchbook has acquired its fellow betting exchange **** for an undisclosed sum, it has been revealed.

The deal is also understood to include Racecourse Data Technologies, which provides hardware, betting software and technical support to on-course bookmakers and allows them to hedge into the **** exchange.

Matchbook said the existing **** service would remain open for trading until October 21 "to allow an orderly transition", with customer accounts open for withdrawals until November 4.

Bit of a bummer if that is the end of purple, there is often a few opportunities especially with late non runners etc where the bf/daq bots are turned off. Two doses of bad news with the introduction of the gruss GPS and the end of purple

What happens to my open bets on ****?

Open positions cannot move between exchanges, so trade out of them on **** before [18 October 2026]; after that date, remaining open trades will be voided or settled - check ****.com for more details. You’re welcome to place an equivalent bet on Matchbook, but it will be a new bet at Matchbook’s current market prices, not a continuation of your **** position.

See www.****.com for more information.

Anyone remember this, and if so does it still apply?

Matchbook.
Customers who meet or exceed the Thresholds (as defined below) may be charged one or a combination of the MB Rates which only apply to the Exchange and they are as follows:
1. Commission rate up to 3.5% per bet (“Transactional Rate”); or
2. Commission rate up to 5% of Gross Profit per market (“Market Commission Rate”); and/or
3. Revenue share commission rate up to 60% of Net Profits per calendar month (“Revenue Share”).
(which shall severally and jointly be referred to as the “MB Rates”)
The thresholds are as follows:
1. £1,000,000 (one million UK Pounds) of Betting Volume; and/or
2. £20,000 (twenty thousand UK Pounds) of Betting Profits

Anybody foolish enough to trade with this shower deserves all they get

Hi


We are writing to let you know that Exchange Platform Solutions Limited (“EPS”) will permanently cease operating **** gambling services on 21 October 2026. This email explains what this means for your account, the key dates and your options.


Key dates:


14 October 2026: New customer registrations and deposits stop.
21 October 2026: Betting on **** ends. You can continue to manage and trade out of open positions until betting closes, subject to market availability.
21 October to 4 November 2026: You can continue to log in to view your account, statements and betting history, and withdraw your available balance. You will no longer be able to place bets or deposit funds.
From 5 November 2026: Online account access ends. A closure notice on our website will explain how to contact us about any remaining balance.


**** brand acquisition by Triplebet Limited (Matchbook)

Triplebet Limited, the operator of Matchbook, has acquired the **** brand. The acquisition does not include EPS, existing **** customer accounts or the customer database. Your **** account will not automatically transfer to Matchbook. If you wish to use Matchbook as an alternative betting exchange, you will need to register for a separate account at Matchbook.com and complete its account verification requirements.

What happens to Daqman?

some money still around on there for today's racing - must be their own bots trading against each other surely!??

oh, and must go and rush to play their slot/casino games they spam on the site too...

Were will the on course boys hedge into now

quick look at my e mail  looks like it will no longer exist  get your money out wud be my advice

Were will the on course boys hedge into now

Good question, I heard a lot of purple's business was that.

What are Matchbook getting for their money except the removal of one small competitor?

Looks like Matchbook only really wanted RDT and without RDT Daq was untenable.

RIP Purple.

Just got the email from the Purple Exchange.  It is still a sad day to see them go, even though it's over 6 months since I've with them.  At one time they were a sanctuary from the Premium Charge and they also charged a flat rate 2% commission fee while Betfair was fleecing it's regular customers with increasingly steep commission charges.
I feel the same melancholy as when I heard that Radio Luxembourg had finally shut down, even though I hadn't listened to them for years.

will BF now be increasing commission ?

A lot of people don’t realise that **** introduced higher commission charges for customers who won too quickly (ie those who would have been “premium charged” on Betfair ). So in effect they had their own version of the PC.

I was moved onto a 10% commission rate in early 2017 and therefore, i'm not really that sad to see them go!

**** = Daq

Advert on match
Reads

The exchange just git bigger

Big news match has joined forces with daq
2 exchanges worth of punters
Horse racing just got better
Liquid got better
Inpkay git faster

2 exchanges worth of punters??

Assuming any from Purple go to them...

"2 exchanges worth of punters". Yet they've bought no accounts. WALOFS.

Wonder if there's many out there sitting on arbbed ante-post bets who are going to have their Daq bets voided.

Ante is screwed
Matchbook zero.....Wats that about

Oct 14, 2026 -- 2:04PM, freddiewilliams wrote:

Ante is screwedMatchbook zero.....Wats that about

From memory... Small stakes. No trading. No cancellation.

Does anyone know if matchbook have a trading app similar to gruss?

Gin - I have been on 25% with daq for a couple of years.

They are good for the small fields sizes, as still do 3 to place on 5 runners, and place market for 3 runners. For some reason, Bf pulled the plug on those markets a few years, considering the small field sizes are more common than in the past, I never quite figured out why they stopped those markets, especially in the depths of winter on testing tracks.

25%!!!

That's unbelievable......

To answer your question about Gruss:


TheOddsBeater
@TheOddsBeater
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2h
Will you be making a Bet Angel for Matchbook?
Bet Angel - Betfair trading
@betangel
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2h
No

Have just realised that that wasn't quite the question that you asked.

no worries Gin - i say that will prob also be a no.
yah i caught one of their bots out good and proper, so i guess that was my punishment.

Hope it compensated you well.......

They let me stew for a few weeks and blocked my account when I tried to withdraw the bulk of it, but thankfully they paid out and unblocked me, but was a very uncomfortable couple of weeks. So the 25% was easy to take.

Just read the terms and  they haven't bought the customer database or accounts, seems a bit pointless buying it tbh as their website isn't anything special and would imagine MB have their own bet matching engines. Does it say anywhere how much they paid?

press release says "undisclosed"...

But yah their site is unusable for inrunning purposes as far as I can see. Defo their money and odds running the show.

They do have some sort of API but it sounds like its aimed at developers who design their own bots - but someone might know if thats the case?

https://developers.matchbook.com/docs/getting-started

Could be good news for liquidity ! or am i dreaming.

Dreaming

Real Madrid evens to 180 to 1.01
Why they buying to shut it down

I/R is virtually non existent.
That assumes that you get keep open with them.
BD were generosity plus compared to these utter Flimpers

Could be good news for liquidity ! or am i dreaming.

This is the obvious question though, how much from the previous purple money will move over here?

With liquidity on exchanges so poor I wonder if the amount bookies hedge off on exchanges has also declined.

Yeah I believe most of the bigger layers in the ring keep the bets or keep the money on course.

Anyone else not received the closure e-mail from purple? Last e-mail I received from them was for 25 Free Starburst spins 7th October.

Then there's easy bet
If ure with match.u can't use easy bet....
Is the same cash being used in both

disgrace **** and now matchbook not going to honour ap bets say you have had  2.000t1,000 arsenal and now you are going to get your money back filth

I had an account that I have not formally closed but they changed their log in system so I just stopped using it. Several years ago now.

I asked Mark from Gruss whether they will be looking at doing a betting assistant for matchbook and I got this reponse

It wasn’t on our radar but obviously with this news we are now investigating whether or not it would be viable for us to make a Matchbook version.

We will make an announcement on social media if anything comes of it.


On MB, is there any way you can find out matched price history/graphs, or reduction factors?

If M-book thinks it's acting fairly by voiding unsettled bets, it clearly has no understanding of how gambling works.

Avoid like the plague. At some point they will do you over. Probably not deliberately, but that wouldn't be any consolation.

Spot on Screaming.

Oct 14, 2026 -- 2:46PM, Wicklow wrote:

no worries Gin - i say that will prob also be a no. yah i caught one of their bots out good and proper, so i guess that was my punishment.

Wonder if we did the same thing ! There was a huge loop hole on low liquid markets. Interestingly after copping a lot of money they suspended my account then eventually paid me out whilst closing my account !