Too close for comfort !

[Canada Bob]

I decided to watch the Bayern Munich v Man Ure game at the local bar tonight, but there's no point in watching the game if yer no involved in it, the odds against Bayern looked too generous to me, they are top of the Bundesliga not to mention their good record against Man ure so the 2/1 on offer looked worth a bet to me, so...

I put all of my Corals kitty on Bayern, near 2 grand of it at 2/1 and then set off for the pub, was I hissed off to arrive there 5 minutes into the game to see Bayern down 1-0, just made it worse to see that it was Desperate Dan who'd scored...

Wasn't looking too good until the second half and when it went 1-1 I thought I had a chance, but with regular time up and just 2 minutes of injury time given I'd given up on the bet, until 5 seconds from the end {thanks gawd for Swiss watches hey}, when they goal went in I must have leapt 10ft into the air, I then went on a victory lap round the pub to the dismay of all the Man Ure fans

That's the closest call I've had in years, every since Peterheed scored a penalty in the 3rd minute of injury time to win 1-0, but I'd a LOT more on that game than I had on this, gives you a buzz don't it.

I paid for a few rounds tonight, but oddly enough the pub near emptied when the game was ore, just me an a few Germans :drinking09:

Canada Bob.

BET DETAILS

Bet ID Client Result 5745-6485-01 983581 Won Result date Returns 30-03-2010 21:38:34 ?5,894.88 Bet date Potential winnings 30-03-2010 19:39:05 ?5,894.88 Stake ?1,964.96

Event Choice ODDS H/OU Res 1 Res 2 Half 20109943687

Bayern Munich v Man Utd

Champions League Matches 1

2/1 2 1 2

Print

Glebe House, Vicarage Drive, Barking, Essex, IG11 7NS, UK

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Please note that with any free bet, the original free bet stake is not returned with any winnings. Copyright ? 2010 Gala Group. All rights reserved.

[RowdyBey]

Congrats CB, mon super sub Olic eh :021:

[Caley Braveheart]

Now if you had that on and ICT to win the league,you would have had a great night!! Ach well, just have to settle for near 6 grand, well done

[Canada Bob]

I'm no quite sure which gave me the biggest buzz, the money or Man Ure gerrin beat, or even Desperate Dan limping off, that'll quieten the English fans.

Anyway, it's Temptation time {again}, Thirish lad phoned me about an hour back to say that NACHO LIBRE is expected to win the 8:30 at Kempton tonight, "by a comfortable distance, at a reasonable price", it's a 12/1 shot in the paper that I have here, might back it EW seeing as I'll now be getting involved with any football tonight, I'll no be backing against Barcelona, that's for sure, I'll sit this one out with a pint of Guinness in hand...

Canada Bob.

[Joonya]

Nacho Libre is 9/2 at william hill

[Canada Bob]

Hello Gringo Jnr...

Yea, by the time I had a look on Corals it was 5/1 seems it had been a bigger price earlier, but I doubt it was 12/1 just "morning paper odds" I reckon, I didn't know if I should back it or leave it alone, it's a hard game backing horses, I much prefer soccer, you don't get the chance to win in injury time on the horses, but anyway I decided to have a pony EW {on a donkey, as it turned out}. Got away quick enough, and was well there until the final furlong and then folded like a pack of cars, thankfully only 50 quid down the drain...

Other than that I left well alone on the Arsenal v Barcelona game, I wouldn't have backed Arsenal and I don't back the draw very often, so if I had a bet I'd have done a grand or more in tonight, just watched the game and then the glum of the locals as Barca threw away a 2 goal lead, the place emptied after the game was ore, left there supping on me own, just back the now...

Canada Bob.

PS... me next bet will probably be the boat race, might throw a few quid on the Fav's in that...

[Joonya]

I've been doing not too bad on the odd greyhound race letely...

I back the same traps each time and always do the conbination outcome.

eg I'll have traps 3,4 and 6 on my slip but back them on a 'conbination tricast', meaning I'm a winner no matter the order they finish(3,4,6 / 6,4,3 / 2,6,4 etc etc), so long as they're the first 3 over the line.

I started with ?20 at william hill, put ?10 on last nights football (with Peterhead letting me down) and got up to ?38 on the greyhounds with the rest. Break even today and that included ?10 more on tonights football.

[Canada Bob]

If you can win on the dogs yer a better man than me Gringo Din, dogs can be the fastest way to the workhouse, I stay well away from the dogs. Even in the worst case scenario it takes at least 90 minutes to burn yer money on a football match, but on the other hand yer out of yer misery faster on the dogs, it was almost blood, sweat and 4,000 tears for me on a football bet today...

I guess there?s not many teams as good as Millwall, (who won 5-0 for me last Saturday) since then I?ve had a couple of bets on the so called Top Teams in Europe, Bayern Munich who went 1-0 down before beating Man Ure, then tonight I went for Hamburg, who also went 1-0 down against some obscure team from Belgium, mind you the Hun didn?t let me down, they made a come back to win 2-1 but again I had to sweat for me money I think I?ll stick to backing the reliable teams like Millwall no sweat there when they take to the pitch, it?s just a matter of how many times the other teams goalie picks the ball out of the net

I was staggered though tonight when Hamburg went a goal down, mind you they were shyte for the first 30 minutes, playing more like Fray Bentos than Juventos, but all?s well that ends well hey, and when you don?t drop 4,000 quid into the Bookies satchel I call that a good night

I think I?ll go lay down now ?till me blood pressure drops back down, I bet Corals don?t know how I do it ! (they aint on their own).

Canada Bob.

Edited April 1, 2010 by Canada Bob

[Canada Bob]

BET DETAILS

Bet ID Client Result 5749-9146-01 983581 Won Result date Returns 01-04-2010 22:00:39 ?6,000.00 Bet date Potential winnings 01-04-2010 19:05:28 ?6,000.00 Stake ?4,000.00

Event Choice ODDS H/OU Res 1 Res 2 Half 20109943478

Hamburg v Standard Liege

UEFA Europa League Matches 1

1/2 2 1 1

Print

Glebe House, Vicarage Drive, Barking, Essex, IG11 7NS, UK

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Please note that with any free bet, the original free bet stake is not returned with any winnings. Copyright ? 2010 Gala Group. All rights reserved.

Edited April 2, 2010 by Canada Bob

[Caley Braveheart]

Not a bad nights work that!! Will get a pinmt or 2....

[Joonya]

thats some amount of money you've won this week CBob. Fair play to you.

40 odd quid now gone. some on dogs, some on football and one on bet-in play.

Stuck ?5 on southampton to win when 1-0 down to brighton. although they equalised, brighton scored again to make it 2-1, and the game finished 2-2...

Not too keen on football bets this late in season, purely because they're too hard to predict. those already relegated have the pressure off, and those at the top tend to bottle it - like dundee :025:

[Canada Bob]

Have to say I've had a good run the last couple of weeks with Corals, here's the bets that I've had with them...

Account: 983581 Balance: ?31,912.08

Today is Fri, 2 Apr 2010

List of bets

Status: From: To: Proceed

Bet ID Bet date Stake Result date Result Returns

5749914601 01/04/10 19:05:28 4,000.00 01/04/10 22:00:39 Won 6,000.00

5745648501 30/03/10 19:39:05 1,964.96 30/03/10 21:38:34 Won 5,894.88

5731882601 27/03/10 17:24:28 3,546.40 27/03/10 19:53:37 Won 4,964.96

5727461801 27/03/10 00:54:28 2,728.00 27/03/10 17:05:17 Won 3,546.40

5726762101 26/03/10 19:31:39 2,000.00 26/03/10 20:47:30 Won 2,728.00

5714892801 21/03/10 11:49:39 706.25 21/03/10 19:11:19 Won 908.23

5714886301 21/03/10 11:47:52 700.00 21/03/10 19:11:19 Won 900.20

5714884101 21/03/10 11:47:14 700.00 21/03/10 19:11:19 Won 900.20

5714879701 21/03/10 11:46:14 700.00 21/03/10 19:11:19 Won 900.20

5714869201 21/03/10 11:43:27 700.00 21/03/10 19:11:19 Won 900.20

Some of the bets above were multiple bets {to get me money on under the radar} so it's not as many "events" as it might seem, but still a good run...

I'm just trying to figure out if I'm clear of the mine field or if the next step I take blows me bollocks off, I've decided not to bother with the boat race, not at 1/3 the Fav's, I'd hate to have 9 grand on to win 3 and see the friggin boat sink, that would be too much to bare, Chelsea {and Millwall} are tempting me though, as are ICT but I don't want to stiffen them.

I'll keep me powedr dry for a while I think, the problem is though you get a pint or two down yer neck and then I cannae resist the temptation...

Canada Bob.

Edited April 2, 2010 by Canada Bob

[Joonya]

teach me oh wise one

I was looking at millwall, norwich and west brom today...

Millwall currently losing 1-0 to brentford, and norwich are 3-1 down away to tranmere. Glad I never bothered. lol

settling for a 4 way tomorrow, because on a 5-way i always end up with one defeat.

preston 5/6

leeds 7/10

notts county 4/6

cowdenbeath 4/5

I realise they are all odds on, and i was tempted to include QoS on it at 7/5 away to Morton (who are also 7/5). Just goin to stick a 10er on it though. ?93 return is better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail :P

EDIT: mrsjnr asked me to put on a bet for her, random games. just ?1 though. I scrolled my mouse over different leagues and told her to shout STOP whenever. I then asked home, away or draw. Her coupon looks thus

Ipswich @ 6/4

LeyOr v H'pool draw @ 11/5

Bury @ 10/3

Morton v QoS @ 12/5

Arbroath @ 11/8

Potential return = ?279

Edited April 2, 2010 by Gringo_Jnr

[Canada Bob]

Millwall losing !!!

I thought they were playing Saturday ? bleedin good job I got that one wrong, looks like I missed a minefield today then, how the hell can Tranmere be beating Norwich, then again that's how come Bookies drive about in Merc's while punters go about ragged assed, there's not "always" one for the book, but there's one often enough for them to live better than most folks...

As for pickin 3 or 4, it's hard enough trying to pick one, and tough enough sweating that one out when you're heavy on the bet.

As to how I pick them {when the Wigin Mafia or Thirish Lad don't have owt for me, here's how I start out...

Go to Oddschecker then look down the left hand column for MARKET REPORTS {click on that to open the tabs up}, This will give you a good idea of where the money is going, and often as not money takes, if folks are pouring money on a horse, or a team or almost anything else then you'll see if flagged up under the appropriate column.

It's no as simple as backing the horse or the team or whatever that has the most "points" {the one top of the list}, you have to use a bit of savvy, if {say} Man Ure or Chelsea top the list, of Denman etc then leave it alone, but if Ross County or some obscure team or some unknown horse is scoring high then take a closer look.

Best way to "figure out" how to read this list is to freeze it at 1 pm each day, then yellow out the winners and look for a pattern that makes sense to you, within a couple of weeks a pattern should emerge, but keep doing a daily print out because patterns change.

Let's say some obscure horse is getting some attention on the list, check if it ran in the same race last year, or if the stable won it last year, add to that pay CLOSE ATTENTION to how much the odds have dropped and HOW MANY BOOKIES have been hit by the bets, that can be confusing because it's s strong hint is say 13 bookies have been taking bets and dropping the odds it's probably due to a tipping service, but if a horse {or a team} appears on the list that's only been backed with 3 bookies then chances are it's the stable {keeping it quite}.

It takes a while to "read the Markets list" and you need a gut feeling for what's going on, but for me {when you know nowt, and you want a bet} this is the best place to be looking...

Canada Bob.

Edited April 2, 2010 by Canada Bob

[Canada Bob]

PS...

I don't want you thinking I've backed nowt but winners in the last 2-3 weeks, I've lost just ore 4,219 quid on horses and a couple of other daft bets with Hills, Betfair and Ladbrookes...

I set myself a goal 3 weeks back {starting with a 5 grand kitty} to win enough to buy a x-drive Diesel Beamer by the time I get back to Canada {4 weeks from now}, and I'm just 2-3 winning bets away from doing that, but those bets have to come together bowt any losers creeping in, it's like walking through a minefield, one wrong step and yer money is blown away...

Canada Bob.

[Canada Bob]

Bugger !!! I forgot to mention in the post above that when yer on that ODDSCHECKER thing and you open up the MARKET REPORTS you then click on the STEAMERS tab, that's the ONLY ONE to take notice of...

I'm no at me best when I'm spillin' cans of Guinness gown me shirt...

Canada Bob.

[Canada Bob]

Here's an example of the Football "Steamers" when you see a team or a horse go up over 10,000 it's well worth figuring out what's going on...

Name Event Bet Type Best Orig Odds Best Curr Odds Shortest Curr Odds Bookies With Odds

Bookies With Odds Cut Average Market Share Swing Significance

Alcobendas Sport Alcobendas Sport v S S Reyes Win Market 6/5 7/8 11/13 2 2 6.36% 3027.02

Foligno Foligno v Alessandria Win Market 10/11 7/10 4/6 4 3 4.80% 1908.89

Cruz Azul Cruz Azul v Queretaro Win Market 4/6 4/6 5/11 12 8 3.74% 1473.98

Olaria Olaria v Madureira Win Market 10/11 5/6 7/10 9 7 3.18% 1292.50

Pogon Szczecin Motor Lublin v Pogon Szczecin Win Market 1 11/13 8/11 7 6 2.99%

1272.99

Toluca Toluca v Estudiantes Tecos Win Market 8/11 7/10 8/15 12 6 4.44% 1270.71

Stevenage Borough Blue Square Premier Win Market 1/6 1/7 1/12 3 2 2.77% 1240.93

Santa Clara Santa Clara v Sp Covilha Win Market 4/7 6/11 2/5 8 4 3.09% 961.53

Atlante Atlas v Atlante Win Market 7/2 33/10 23/10 12 9 4.95% 947.13

Blackburn Portsmouth v Blackburn Win Market 13/10 6/5 1 17 15 2.33% 910.97

Pumas UNAM Monterrey v Pumas UNAM Win Market 7/2 7/2 5/2 12 8 4.07% 656.25

CF America Guadalajara v CF America Win Market 7/2 29/10 9/4 12 7 4.32% 646.11

Nagoya Grampus Eight Nagoya Grampus Eight v Vissel Kobe Win Market 3/4 4/6 6/11 13 4 3.13% 549.30

Chelmsford Bromley v Chelmsford Win Market 1 1 3/4 13 5 2.88% 532.41

Friburguense Friburguense v Flamengo Win Market 15/2 28/5 9/2 9 7 4.17% 516.14

Brackley Brackley v Merthyr Tydfil Win Market 4/9 2/5 4/11 7 2 2.73% 508.30

Cerezo Osaka Cerezo Osaka v Kyoto Purple Sanga Win Market 5/4 6/5 1 13 4 3.47% 467.91

Draw Sorrento v Varese Win Market 13/10 13/10 15/13 4 2 2.13% 433.63

Levski Sofia Chernomorets Burgas v Levski Sofia Win Market 13/5 5/2 9/5 8 5 2.35% 421.40

Vorskla Vorskla v Illichivets Win Market 4/5 8/11 11/17 10 4 1.89% 407.15

Margate Margate v Bognor Regis Town Win Market 11/10 1 4/5 8 3 2.19% 386.06

Lumezzane Lumezzane v Figline Win Market 3/4 3/4 11/17 7 2 2.49% 383.23

Terek Grozny Terek Grozny v Krylya Sovetov Samara Win Market 4/7 1/2 2/5 14 3 2.86% 382.50

Draw Friburguense v Flamengo Win Market 16/5 14/5 5/2 9 7 1.89% 355.54

Paganese Paganese v Monza Win Market 5/4 6/5 11/10 6 2 2.41% 341.86

Juan Aurich Juan Aurich v Universidad Cesar Vallejo Win Market 11/10 20/19 9/10 7 2 2.60% 339.92

Jaguares Santos Laguna v Jaguares Win Market 5 9/2 58/19 12 6 3.43% 324.84

Queens Park Queens Park v Montrose Win Market 4/5 4/5 4/6 17 5 2.03% 318.26

Inverness Inverness v Raith Rovers Win Market 1/2 1/2 2/5 17 3 2.86% 317.30

Draw Beroe v Lokomotiv Mezdra Win Market 19/5 11/4 12/5 7 2 4.19% 311.79

Forfar Forfar v Berwick Win Market 1 1 4/5 17 3 3.20% 276.97

Rangers Rangers v Hamilton Win Market 1/5 2/11 2/17 17 3 1.94% 275.63

Dunfermline Dunfermline v Ross County Win Market 11/8 13/10 20/19 17 6 1.89% 273.93

Bolton Bolton v Aston Villa Win Market 21/10 2 17/10 17 8 1.67% 260.28

St Etienne St Etienne v Le Mans Win Market 10/11 5/6 7/10 17 3 2.75% 258.68

Sao Caetano Sao Caetano v Santos Win Market 7/2 7/2 13/5 9 3 2.99% 242.65

Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv v Maccabi Ahi Win Market 1/4 2/9 2/11 10 2 1.53% 232.40

Burton Burton v Darlington Win Market 8/15 8/15 1/3 17 2 3.01% 227.22

Odd Grenland Sandefjord v Odd Grenland Win Market 9/5 6/4 11/8 13 2 3.92% 226.83

Luton Blue Square Premier Win Market 11/2 11/2 4 3 2 2.14% 224.37

Hyeres FC Hyeres FC v Frejus Win Market 7/5 5/4 1 6 2 1.66% 223.57

Lille Valenciennes v Lille Win Market 6/5 15/13 18/19 17 5 1.64% 219.76

Ituano Ituano v Corinthians Win Market 9/2 9/2 16/5 9 4 2.51% 215.48

Pachuca Ciudad Juarez v Pachuca Win Market 11/10 20/19 9/10 12 3 1.87% 213.77

Start Start v Valerenga Win Market 11/8 5/4 11/10 13 2 3.18% 209.04

Rapid Vienna Rapid Vienna v Austria Karnten Win Market 1/6 1/6 1/10 15 2 1.95% 207.86

AFC Wimbledon Histon v AFC Wimbledon Win Market 11/10 11/10 4/5 17 2 3.63%

204.98

Cheltenham Cheltenham v Lincoln Win Market 13/10 13/10 10/11 17 3 2.32% 178.85

Ruch Chorzow Ruch Chorzow v Slask Wroclaw Win Market 8/13 8/13 1/2 13 3 1.31% 177.25

AF Calahorra San Marcial v AF Calahorra Win Market 8 7 21/4 2 2 1.39% 175.28

Manchester City Burnley v Manchester City Win Market 3/4 8/11 4/7 17 4 1.33% 174.09

Wigan Fulham v Wigan Win Market 58/19 3 5/2 17 7 1.62% 168.12

Toulouse Boulogne v Toulouse Win Market 13/8 13/8 13/10 17 5 1.49% 166.74

Havant & Waterlooville Basingstoke Town v Havant & Waterlooville Win Market 5/4 5/4 1 13 2 2.38% 159.52

Club Bruges Anderlecht v Club Bruges Win Market 9/2 21/5 10/3 15 6 2.02% 158.19

U San Felipe U San Felipe v Santiago Wanderers Win Market 15/13 11/10 1 10 2 1.77% 156.89

Draw Juan Aurich v Universidad Cesar Vallejo Win Market 5/2 27/11 11/5 7 3 1.30% 155.65

Univ de Chile Univ de Chile v Union Espanola Win Market 8/11 8/11 11/17 10 2 1.43% 153.49

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt v Austria Vienna Win Market 23/10 23/10 15/8 15 4 1.87% 151.12

Catania Catania v Palermo Win Market 9/4 11/5 2 7 2 1.77% 150.44

Sertaozinho Sertaozinho v Paulista FC Win Market 2 15/8 6/4 9 2 1.99% 149.99

Montevideo Wanderers Montevideo Wanderers v Cerro Largo Win Market 11/13 11/13 8/11 9 2 1.31% 148.30

FC Kobenhavn FC Nordsj v FC Kobenhavn Win Market 4/5 4/5 3/5 13 2 1.76% 147.90

Bristol City Bristol City v Nottm Forest Win Market 2 15/8 13/8 17 4 1.79% 144.25

Urawa Red Diamonds Urawa Red Diamonds v Shonan Bellmare Win Market 8/13 8/13 1/2 13 2

1.58% 143.29

Amkar Amkar v Sibir Novosibirsk Win Market 4/5 4/5 4/6 14 3 1.26% 142.26

Draw Guadalajara v CF America Win Market 5/2 5/2 11/5 12 6 1.01% 140.69

Draw Atlas v Atlante Win Market 27/11 12/5 28/13 12 5 1.43% 134.16

Arbroath Clyde v Arbroath Win Market 8/5 6/4 5/4 17 3 1.91% 128.99

Ajax Den Haag v Ajax Win Market 2/7 2/7 1/5 16 2 1.37% 127.81

Hapoel Acco Hapoel Acco v Maccabi Petach Tikva Win Market 15/8 15/8 17/10 10 3 1.28% 126.47

[Canada Bob]

Here's the Steamers in the Horses so far...

Name Event Best Orig Odds Best Curr Odds Shortest Curr Odds Bookies With Odds Bookies With Odds Cut Average Market Share Swing Significance

Salut Flo Haydock 15:30 2m 4f Class 2 Handicap Chase (5yo plus) 11/4 11/4 9/4 8 3 1.53% 139.32

Fistral Beach Haydock 15:30 2m 4f Class 2 Handicap Chase (5yo plus) 9/2 4 7/2 8 2 1.47% 64.58

Light From Mars Kempton 15:50 7f Class 2 Handicap (4yo Plus) 20 20 14 8 5 1.51% 50.64

Kay Gee Be Kempton 15:50 7f Class 2 Handicap (4yo Plus) 10 10 8 8 2 1.13% 23.38

Servoca Kempton 15:50 7f Class 2 Handicap (4yo Plus) 20 16 14 8 3 0.84% 14.65

Mister McGoldrick Haydock 15:30 2m 4f Class 2 Handicap Chase (5yo plus) 20 20 14 8 3 0.91% 11.27

It's way to early to read much into the horses yet, but there's a couple of pointers in the soccer, like Brackley & Burton, I'll be having a look at those games...

Canada Bob.

[WYNESS101]

I've got my 4 ladbrokes celb bets on...

and my one is...(well line of 3)

Line 1:

Bristol C v.s. Nott'm Forest @ AWAY 11-8

Coventry v.s. Derby @ DRAW 9-4

Ipswich v.s. Reading @ HOME3-10

Leyton O. v.s. Hartlepool @ AWAY 11-5

Line 2

Airdrie Utd v.s. Partick @ AWAY 11-10

Dunfermline v.s. Ross Co @ AWAY 6-4

Morton v.s. Queen of the South @ AWAY 11-8

Elgin v.s. Strantaer @ HOME 6-4 AWAY 5-4 (Hmmmmm dont remeber that)

Line 3

Hibernian v.s. Celtic @ Home 7-2

Kilmarnock v.s. Aberdeen @ 7-5

St Johnstone v.s. Dundee Utd @ AWAY

St Mirron v.s Hearts @ AWAY 11-8

Thats it for this weekend

[Canada Bob]

BLACKBURN look like a good bet @ Portsmouth, from what I read on the BBC Sports pages Pompey are struggling to put a team together ! saving everyone {who's no injured, tied or suspended} for the QF of the FA Cup.

Blackburn are no mugs, 1-1 against Chelsea, then beating Birmingham 2-1 and a couple of other half decent results recently should see off a badly weakened Pompey...

Other than that, you should all be piling yer money on Dundee, {4-6 I think}, if they win it'll pay for some ale, if they don't win you'll be happy enough, if I were you I'd be backing them in every game they play now...

Having said that {and somewhat repeating my forecast that ICT will have the league sown up well before the final game, my prediction is ICT win by a clear 7 points...

Canada Bob.

[Canada Bob]

I just tried to put a decent bet on with Corals, got a few quid on then they {again} knocked the next bet {on the same game} down to offering me a bet of 10p on the game !!! So much for all this shyte on Morning line etc where they say you can get 100,000 quid on a bet with the Bookies, yea, try it, you can't get 10k on with most of them, believe it or not some of them will limit your bet so they they have a maximum liability of 1,000 quid, that's what Corals just did with me even though I spoke to them over a week ago asking what the maximum bet was that they'd take, and they said "No Limit" !!!

I was considering lumping on Oxford in the boat race {if I could have got a decent price, 4/6 or even 1/2} so I emptied my account with Hills & Betfair and loaded up a Corals, only to find they don't keep their word on the size of bet they'll take.

I might cash in after today, looks like Corals want to put a block on the run I'm having with them :D

[Canada Bob]

This is what I wanted...

09:55:19 BST

Can't Proceed.

BET STAKE INFO

1 (Single) ?3,500.00 Bet Limit exceeded, no more bets possible on selection

This is what they offered...

We Are Willing To Accept Part Of Your Bet

You have approximately 30 seconds to accept the revised stak

Should an event start this offer will be withdrawn SINGLE BETS

STAKE REQUESTED

1) Scottish Div.1 Matches - Inverness CT v Raith ?3,500.00

STAKE REQUESTED REVISED STAKE

?3,500.00 ?0.10

REFUSE ACCEPT

Needless to say I declined the offer of 10p at 4/9 on ICT.

Canada Bob.

[PullMyFinger]

They must abide by their advertised promise. Write to the office of fair trading.

[Canada Bob]

Decided to have a couple of bets today, the main one being on Caley a must win match to be keep Dundee at bay. ICT were 4/9 so I thought I'd lump on them, wanting 4,500 quid, but after I'd got just over 2,200 quid on {with Corals, who said they wouldn't limit the amounts I want on} they declined to take any more money on the game, so I only got half the money on that I wanted on ICT.

Other than that, I got involved in some stuff here and missed the kick off of the Man Ure v Chelsea game, I was going to put 2 grand on Chelsea {at 9/5} but by the time I got back on to

Corals web site Chelsea were already winning 1-0, so I left it until half time and then put 1,500 quid on Chelsea at 8/15, they ran out comfortable enough winners could have been 3-1 but should really have been 2-0 as Man Ure's goal wasn't kicked in it was hand ball, anyway...

I thought the Caley Thistle game would have been a walk in the park seeing as how Raith Rovers are 3rd from the bottom of the league and Caley were top of the league, but it didn't go exactly to plan did it. Not what you want to see when you have a couple of thousand quid on the team that's gone 1 down. Anyway, glad to see ICT level by half time. But they made us all sweat in the second half, 2-1, 3-1 {so I'm thinking weighed in} then 3-2 worse still 3-3 then a last gasp 4-3 {how close to time was it, wish I could have been there}. I couldn't believe that I'd pulled ANOTHER game out of the fire, Bayern Munich made me sweat mid week but I think this might have been even closer, by a second maybe, but, the money is in my hand, no in the Bookies satchel, it's me counting the money. no Corals.

I think I'll draw me horns in for a while now, mind you, I was tempted to back Man City and they annihilated Burnley, so I missed a winning bet there, mind you THANKS to Corals I missed a losing bet too, one that would have done me in for today.

Canada Bob.

here's the list of today's bets...

Bet ID Bet date Stake Result date Returns

5755434301 03/04/10 13:38:19 1,500.00 03/04/10 14:40:13 2,301.00

5753397501 03/04/10 09:47:33 252.81 03/04/10 17:09:57 365.31

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[Canada Bob]

Hello PMF...

The Bookies say they'll take any bet, how many times do we hear that r sole McCrirrick telling us how Billy Hill have taken a bet of 100,000 quid and so on, but try getting more than a grand on and you struggle. I rarely phone them {Corals or any of them} as they make you wait on the phone to see if they can make money on your money by edging your bet on Betfair etc, but I wouldn't be betting with them if BF's price was better than theirs.

You tell me why they wouldn't take more than a couple of grand off mt for the Caley game ? it's not as though it was s stitch up ! it's bloody shameful to offer the price yo 10 feckin p !!! but there's nowt that the Office of Fair Trading can do, a Bookie {any of them} have the right to refuse a bet, they don't refuse bets if your on a losing streak, or chasing your loses, but hit a winning streak and they'll {all} limit their "liability" to you to {say} a 1,000 quid, part of the reason is, they don't want you betting with them, so they restrict your bets to what they hope is no longer of interest to you, they don't want you taking anything out of their book {the miserable b* stards}.

Mind you, they did me a big favour today, when my Chelsea bet was weighed in, and Caley were 2-1 up I was going to have 3 grand on Oxford in the boat race, the price on line was 1/3 BUT when I went to "Confirm the Bet" they'd dropped the odds to 2/9 FFS !!! they didn't want the bet, but they did me a favour, big time, I declined the bet, no way am I taking 2/9 that Oxford float past the post first, so they saved me 3,000 quid !!!

I had a target in mind, an amount to win, but to get to that target in 2-3 bets meant that I'd need to put 3-5 grand on the bets, if they came in I'd quit and buy a new xdrive, 6 cylinder diesel Beamer out of the winnings, but if they limit me to a grand or two per bet then I have to pick more winners, and I'm no chancing that my luck will hold out that long, so I might just cash me chips in and take a sabbatical for a couple of months...

Canada Bob.

Edited April 3, 2010 by Canada Bob