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whilst at newcastle races on bank holiday monday i saw a man go to put £400 on pheonix tower @ 8-11 with the in house betting shop run by totesport, imagine his surprise and mine when he was told he could only have £200 at 8-11 and the rest at sp, hardly a big liability.<br>surely totesport should be standing bets like that, although i know they are not alone in this practice.<br>
I’m surprised they wouldn’t lay that in the shop
I was at Cheltenham this year & tried to get £400 on Ouninpohja @ 11/2 (freely available in the ring) with a 2nd line Tatts bookie. He told me to **** off & who did I think he was Ladbrokes! Yet the guy on the pitch next door took my cash with pleaseure. Makes you wonder why he bothered forking out for a cheltenham pitch & all the associated expenses if he didn’t want to lay a bet??
I was at Cheltenham this year & tried to get £400 on Ouninpohja @ 11/2 (freely available in the ring) with a 2nd line Tatts bookie. He told me to **** off & who did I think he was Ladbrokes! Yet the guy on the pitch next door took my cash with pleaseure. Makes you wonder why he bothered forking out for a cheltenham pitch & all the associated expenses if he didn’t want to lay a bet??
<br>To be fair, if I was a bookmaker, I wouldn’t be wanting to lay 11-2 shots in 30-runner end-of-season hugely-competitive handicap hurdles either.
Mike
Quote: from betlarge on 5:53 pm on May 12, 2007[br]I really am the lowest form of wit.
Mike
Betlarge, I think it’s unfair to bring TRF’s finest legal brain into this.
Betlarge, I think it’s unfair to bring TRF’s finest legal brain into this.
<br>DJ, didn’t you used to be the warm-up for Max Miller?
The Palladium in ’36 wasn’t it?
Mike
It’s all a bit crap really. It’s like your local Wetherspoons advertising beer at 99p a pint but, when you ask for four, they say "sorry, you can have a half but the rest will cost you £2.99 a pint". If you don’t want to go 11-1, why take out full page adverts in the racing press offering horse x at 11-1? Simply say "we’ll lay it to lose a tenner at 11-1, after that it’s 6-4".
It’s all a bit crap really. It’s like your local Wetherspoons advertising beer at 99p a pint but, when you ask for four, they say "sorry, you can have a half but the rest will cost you £2.99 a pint".
Mounty
a) Are you a feckin’ dipsomaniac?
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b) You don’t half drink in some quality joints.
Mike
For the uninitiated (including me until five minutes ago): "A dipsomaniac is a person with an uncontrollable craving for alcohol, especially alcoholic liquors. It differs from alcoholism in that it is an uncontrollable periodic lust for alcohol, with, in the interim, no desire for alcoholic beverages. "Dipsomania" is usually thought of as a dated term."
In answer to point b), my hand is forced, my local Wetherspoons is the only place open at 9.30am.
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