Footballers playing high stakes on Betfair?

Speculative rubbish.

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ok ta - have played here for a while so surprised I hadn't heard it before if true...

there are a few...cant name names but thats why there are some relatively big games on betfair - like a punt on the racing and play a bit of poker too

Does sounds dubious. Are footballers clever enough to operate computers?

Well, one of the rumours on 2+2 is that Isildur is Phil Babb!! He's supposedly a fairly decent high stakes player...

ROFL Phil Babb :o

wasnt there that alias which read backwards was the nickname for a footballer?

nori/iron? there were always 7/8 players lined up to play him.

am sure there are others, what about owen who likes a punt on the horses and will 100% have a betfair account. you telling me he hasnt dabled? and all those stories about playing poker on the team busses etc.

you need to ask the high stakes players really but there must be more than a couple

Just to end this thread ;)

Pro Footballers wouldn't like it to be common knowledge that they play big stakes poker online. They would be aware that profits and losses are easily available for all to see. So the last thing these players would wants is for a newspaper to reveal that they are winning/losing hundreds of thousands throughout the night and day, when they should be sleeping/training etc etc.... So they will do all they can to keep an annonymous profile whilst playing................. Thus, anyone saying that the games are full of them is just speculating.

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I know for a fact an England international plays big games online, not sure if he's on Betfair though

I suppose it possible that punterz is Joey Barton, they could both start a fight in a phone box.

its rumoured that steve claridge is a regular


on the 0.01-0.02p cash games

I KNOW A CERTAIN PLAYER PERSONALLY WHO PLAYS ON HERE REGULARLY

is the striker from Aldershot playing here?

Well, one of the rumours on 2+2 is that Isildur is Phil Babb!! He's supposedly a fairly decent high stakes player...??

Isildur is Swedish pro and not Phil Babb

Yeah, I don't believe it either Chessey.

But how do you know he's Swedish? You can change your country of origin on FT - he could be from anywhere....

Of course pro-footballers play on here. There was one who attended a forum game.

bring back Sam Torrance I say.
He was a true gent.

stilian petrov used to play low stakes stts on here when he was at celtic. he had no issues with discussing footie in the chat box as well.

chipfire, i also once had a footballer username and would play along to the dumbasses out there who actually thought i was him

Who cares if pro footballers play online poker, most of em are just kids with too much money.. should they be given some sort of respect or something for getting 100 grand a week for kicking a ball about....

no one said anything about respect or standard of their play for that matter, it would just be pretty funny/entertaining to find yourself randomly heads up against someone like darren moore

If it is true, think it only fair, they let one or two of the poker players, on this site, have a kick about in the premier league. Some time soon.

i heard dieter hamann did a huuge amount on exchange games....