Any bookie do price as well as starting favourite?

[The Ante-Post King]

Nyrian, so your idea of betting is to tick the Fav box, when you strike a bet!
You have fancied Sea the Stars for this years Derby since he won the Guineas say! He is the 5/2 fav, even 11/8fav to go off fav in the race! You tick the box for the fav to win the Derby and stick your £20 on to win, you go out shopping with the wife and miss the race,but you catch the result
in Dixons on the only TV with the racing on and find out the Fav has got beat in the Derby! Strange!

[nyrian]

alternatively can I be your bookmaker?

I don’t think you’d enjoy that as much as your taunting implies. I take it you all assume I’m some newbie who is making a loss?

My question was only if anyone knew of a bookies that had a crossover of two services that are currently already offered by different betting facilities:

1. allowing you to bet on the eventual Favourite
and
2. allowing you to set the minimum odds you’ll take as an SP.

I appreciate all your concern regarding my simply awful betting technique but does anyone actually know the answer to my question?

[The Ante-Post King]

1. allowing you to bet on the eventual Favourite
and
2. allowing you to set the minimum odds you’ll take as an SP.

Nyrian, you are getting stranger by the minute! You fancy a horse that is
7/2 in the morning, so you set your minimum odds at 7/2, which you are obviously happy to take! The bloody horse wins at 3/1 but you wont get paid out because it breaks your minimum odds stipulation! Why dont you just take the price of the horse you fancy and keep your fingers crossed
it just wins! Are you sure you aren"t taking the P**s here?

[Grimes]

You know, this mean-spiritedness isn’t necessary. Why do you think they mention the records of favourites in the morning papers, and have the History of each race in the RP?

I expect nyrian wants to bet on races in which favourites statistically do well (I probably don’t pay enough attention to that sort of thing, myself), but he wants value. Doesn’t the latter count for something? I wouldn’t expect a professional to bet on an unnamed favourite, but on the basis of a race’s statistics, unlike fantasy racing, it’s has a rationale; and it’s been a feature provided by at least some bookies for as long as I can remember, i.e. since 1961.

Why the taunts? Though he doesn’t sound naive to me, perhaps I’ve missed something. If he does to you, give him a break. This is a "broad church", isn’t it?

[Grimes]

Bingo.

I’ve been on here quite a long time now, and it’s been a bit disappointing to see how much personal rancour has has been growing between individual posters.

If the discussions had been about politics, well, in this imperfect world, I could understand it, because people, livelihoods depend on it – even their lives, whether brutally cut short in wars (aside from being maimed, physically and/or psychologically) or cruelly truncated as a result of the underfunding of so many public services. Not to speak of the effects of unemployment, poverty and the country’s moral anarchy.

But these were disputes (rather than discussions), and they were about the relative superiority of the respective posters in terms of their shrewdness, intelligence, etc! That doesn’t make sense on this board, where so much decency and good sense has been the norm for so long.

Of course, you don’t want a totally anodyne board without any animation and controversy, but with personal rancour, nobody wins. It just depresses you a bit when you read it. I

‘ve joined in the bad-mouthing of celebrities of one kind or another, and, for the most part, regret it, and maybe I’m "making a mountain" out of a molehill here, but allowing personal rancour to colour our opinions relating to racing and tipping just among ourselves sees barmy to me.

[nyrian]

I’ve been on here quite a long time now, and it’s been a bit disappointing to see how much personal rancour has has been growing between individual posters.

Most unfriendly first thread I’ve ever been part of in any forum that’s for sure.

I’m a member of quite a few forums, some for 8+ years and this was my first venture on to this one.

Newbies do ask the stupidest questions sometimes but I’ve never seen any forum group respond in this manner. It was downright playground in some places .. might has well have thrown a "Nah-nah, nah-nah-nah" on the end for good measure.

Don’t worry, I won’t be coming back to bother you with my ridiculous, stupid and inexperienced questions any more. You have this place all to yourselves and the millions I’m sure you’re all making by the sounds of it.

[Anonymous]

That’s a pity I was just about to get started on you They’re a rough lot round here but me and one other guy are ok

I think your being a bit petty mate it wan’t exactly an easy question.

I must say If I was a bookie and everyone started writing a line out saying
they wanted their money back if a horse was less than evens e.g how on earth could I balance my books?

These condition bets are ok in small doses but they draw attention to you, give bookies a headache and they will only out up with it if you’re a loser. Start winning and they will simply refuse your bets.

[Grimes]

Don’t do that, nyrian. Fist and others on here eat and sleep racing and can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t be familiar with bookkeeping as a business, or even be interested in their problems! You might not realise it, but that was a very fulsome apology by Fist!

You have had far worse than you ever deserved, but forgive and forget. There’s some good stuff on here, and good chat at times, too. I know no-one meant ill. It kinds of builds up a momentum of its own, once someone starts, so we just have to be careful sometimes. I expect we’re all hoping to read more posts from you.

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