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This afternoon i realised i had a bit of spare time so decided i would watch a cheeky couple of races at uttoxeter on ATR. I was also having a couple of punts on the odd race via william hill online….. anyway……
it wasnt until the 16.40 race where i spotted what looked like to me a nice bet in a horse named "Try" trained by M Sheppard and ridden by W Kavanagh and went in at 3/1 so i thought id bet a couple of quid and to my delight this horse ran a good race and finished 1st! so of i strutted onto the willhill site and to my dismay i realised id selected the wrong horse for my bet
anyway has anyone else on here ever done anything as stupid themselves?
I haven’t done that, but I have bet on the same horse twice not realizing that the first bet had been accepted. When I first started using my online account, as you can imagine it didn’t win
Yeh, but not quiet the same way, quiet a few years back I done a combination p pot, the days before the syndicates and professional punters ruined the dividends by covering virtually every eventuality, bumper payouts were a regular thing back then. I thought I was after winning somewhere in the region of 2 and a 1/2 grand. I was so cocksure I had got it up I never even bothered to check the numbers, duly handed it into the cashier, to my horror she said there is nothing off that, you can’t be serious I said, so after getting her to double check (they surely made a mistake), yes you guessed it, I put the wrong number down, the horse immediately below what was to be my original selection, a total no hoper who wasn’t spotted with radar. If the ground could have opened up and swallowed me I would have gladly have excepted its invitation.
Took me months to get over it, it also cost the over worked and underpaid betting shop staff a welcome tip.I’ve done that too! If memory serves there were a couple of 7/2 joint favourites and I must have accidentally ticked the wrong box. Fortunately though, the one I put the money on did actually win with the one I meant to back coming nowhere. Got a shock when I logged in a couple of weeks later and saw the balance I had sitting there.
I’ve done that too! If memory serves there were a couple of 7/2 joint favourites and I must have accidentally ticked the wrong box. Fortunately though, the one I put the money on did actually win with the one I meant to back coming nowhere. Got a shock when I logged in a couple of weeks later and saw the balance I had sitting there.[
/quote]Similarly, I was at Donny a few years ago and fancied something in a handicap and "backed" it with a boards bookie. It ran moderately and I was just about to throw the ticket away and I just spotted that the race winner’s name (Royal Milennium) was on the ticket. Don’t know how it happened but a winner’s a winner!
Tee Hee!!Yeh, but not quiet the same way, quiet a few years back I done a combination p pot, the days before the syndicates and professional punters ruined the dividends by covering virtually every eventuality, bumper payouts were a regular thing back then.
Apologies for veering off topic, but FYI, syndicates and professional punters have never ruined placepot dividends ~ this kind of argument also gets trotted out about how syndicates are ruining the Scoop6 for the small punter. It’s utter tosh of course (no offence intended MM). By definition, the more money there is in the pot, the more realistic the dividends are. Back in the good old days, there used to be frequent fluke dividends caused by the fact that the majority of money bet was actually outside the pool and the returns weren’t indicative of the actual bet.
People keep moaning that Harry Findlay is spoiling their Scoop6 chances, but these people seem oblivious to the fact that it’s people like Harry and Chris Broom and Murray Swann who are swelling the pots to such an extent that we can have people like Agnes Haddock winning fortunes for £2. Without the professionals, she’d probably have won £19.24. Rant over.
Back on topic, I was pleaseantly surprised to find Third Set priced up at 20/1 by Hills for the Totesport International Stakes on the Tuesday prior to the race. I had my maximum bet at the price and was screamed the good thing home after tipping it to all and sundry. It was only when I saw the bet unsettled later in the day that I discovered that I’d backed him for the Totesport Mile instead. Cue me feeling like an idiot. Happily, he went on the run away with the latter contest anyway so I came up smelling of roses.
Another tale of one that got away at Uttox yesterday… Kempley Green was having its first run since I tipped it as a next-time-out winner in Racing Ahead a few months ago, but we had a power failure in my office yesterday and we’re a long way from the nearest bookies. By the time all was straight again, of course, the beast had romped in at 8-1.
Professional integrity maintained, then, but my Betfair account looks about as empty as ever. Arsington sodmonster.
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I can’t remember the names of the horses in question but I was watching the price of a horse on Betfair once with a view to to backing it if it got any bigger. It was third on the list at the time but was being slowly backed into second favouritism. I went away from the computer for a while and when I came back, the third horse on the list was the price I wanted so I backed it quickly. But Betfair had swapped the second and third horses around to put the list in market order again so I backed the wrong horse. hey both lost though so I wasn’t too upset.
Niall Quinn tells a story in his autobiography about when he and Paul Merson went racing when they were apprentices. In the lucky last, they backed 2 horses in a reverse forecast with their last few pounds by selecting birthdays or something like that. The forecast came in and they won about £8,000 but when they went to collect, the tote employee had put the wrong horses down. Quinn said that he just shrugged but that Merson couldn’t talk all the way home he was that upset.
The daftest thing I ever did as far as betting goes ( it did work out luckily though ) was a couple of years ago when I didn’t fancy the 7/4 favorite to win in a race at Sandown ( can’t remember the name of the horse) so I decided to lay the horse not to win. I went on Betfair and I must have been in a much dozier mood than usual as I must have clicked on ‘back’ instead of ‘lay’ without even realising that I’d done it.
I then logged off BF and watched the race on tv hoping for the horse to lose but cursed when I saw the favorite win easily
It wasn’t until I checked my BF account and saw that my balance had gone up instead of down that I realised what I’d done.Needless to say I’m very careful now when I go on Betfair.
People keep moaning that Harry Findlay is spoiling their Scoop6 chances, but these people seem oblivious to the fact that it’s people like Harry and Chris Broom and Murray Swann who are swelling the pots to such an extent that we can have people like Agnes Haddock winning fortunes for £2. Without the professionals, she’d probably have won £19.24. Rant over.
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I can’t have that at all Rory. The likes of Findlay, Broom and Swann will only be playing the Scoop 6 when the Agnes Haddocks of this world have left enough dead money in the pool to make the bet represent a value opportunity for them. All perfectly fair enough of course, but let’s not pretend they are doing anyone bar themselves a favour through their activity….
I can’t have that at all Rory. The likes of Findlay, Broom and Swann will only be playing the Scoop 6 when the Agnes Haddocks of this world have left enough dead money in the pool to make the bet represent a value opportunity for them. All perfectly fair enough of course, but let’s not pretend they are doing anyone bar themselves a favour through their activity….
Don’t get me wrong James ~ I’m not trying to put them forward for canonisation for services rendered to punters. By definition, professional punters act purely in their own interest, but "ordinary punters" are not disadvantaged by their activity. Liquidity is the god of serious punters and it’s naive to think that neutering the big boys would benefit the rest. You’ll remember that a former forumite had the brilliant business plan of evicting winning punters from his proposed exchange and thereby creating a kind of utopia for the ordinary punter. It’s pie in the sky, isn’t it?
When I first had my Betfair account, I did the similar to Rockytony above, but I TREBLE bet my selection. I noticed it just before the off, and my heart sank – especially as I was using a staking plan, which the error would’ve really messed up.
It very often says unmatched, when it has actually been matched, and I discovered it’s all to do with the movements of money in those few micro-seconds around the time you place your bet. So now I always check "My Bets" and cancel the first attempt before placing a bet at a new price, etc.
However, the twist this day was that it won!! Made a change to have a bit of good luck.
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