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Just called into my local Paddy Power shop and every single horse in the Grand National was being offered at artificially low prices.
eg
I Am Maximus 5/1
Iroko 5/1
Perceval Legallois 13/2
Stumptown 8/1
Hewick 9/1
Vanillier 10/1
Hyland 14/1
etc etcBig Mac used to say on National day, “Take an early price in the National.” Not if you go in a Paddy Power shop today.
No wonder the licensed thieves can pay hundreds of thousands to Harry Skelton & Co for that David Power nonsense. Rip off once a year punters to pay for it.
Don’t expect to hear any criticism about it on ITV racing though as the licensed thieves sponsor it and Ed Chamberlin is on their payroll via Skybet. He probably gets a bonus every time he mentions the David Power rubbish.That is just taking advantage and lining their pockets at the expense of once a year punters they have no interest in and who they know will be back next year for another fleecing.
The bookmakers should be ashamed of themselves on Grand National day. Watch out for all the prices shortening in the last few minutes to deflate the SP.
It should but as you say, too many people in the racing media are compromised by either being directly on the payroll of bookmakers or because they work for broadcasters which rely on bookmaker advertising.
Shame you didn’t take down all the prices and work out the overrounds!
Do they still publish that Overround table from to time in the Racing Post? I presume ITV still show the overround in their betting show.Perhaps they reckon this may be their best National for several years to come if this tsunami of a recession really materialises. Shame too they are so niggardly as they have some of the best broadcasters.
Ed mentioned near the end yesterday that the David Power Cup hadn’t really caught the public’s imagination. Adele wasn’t in agreement!
To be fair to Ed zilzal, he’s made it pretty clear since it’s innovation that he was very much in favour of the competition and I’m sure we will see further confirmation of that this afternoon. He said yesterday that he was just playing Devil’s Advocate although his comment that it hadn’t really caught the public’s imagination seems fairly accurate to me.
I was a bit mystified by Adele’s comments that she’s had lots of people coming up to her, telling her that they think the DP Cup is great. Wonder who they all were?
I hope none of Mr Power’s punters took a price. I believe Nick Rockett opened at 12/1 with the firm.
If you backed him at that price when the SP was 33/1, it would have felt like losing.
Professional punter Neil Channing was on Luck on Sunday last Sunday and seemed quite pleased with himself that he’d been in a Paddy Power shop on Saturday morning to avail himself of them offering each way, first 8 places. Wonder how much he managed to get on? Funnily enough he never mentioned the heavily butchered odds on offer.
I am sceptical about how much of a professional punter Channing is nowadays. Would Paddy Power even take a bet from him if he was?
Put me down as not a fan of him.
See the licensed thieves have done the same trick this year, 6 places at one fifth the odds but butchered the odds in the shops of the leading contenders.
Must be plenty of money to be made from once a year punters.
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.Free market innit.
Brick and mortar shops staffed by humans in high footfall areas are expensive, online data centres and remote operations, not so much. They are priced accordingly, happens all over.
I bet the counter staff are instructed to recommend taking those prices!
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysI only bet online these days and i’m a small stakes punter. PP often limit me to £1.50 e/w on a big priced horse.
Many a time i’ve seen them offer the best big price (via oddschecker) on an outsider i fancy, login to my PP account and find i can only do £1.50 e/w.
Even for a small stakes guy i find that too small, so i skulk off to next best-priced bookie and take slightly lower odds for a bigger stake.On another note i had quite a few free bets on Thurs and yday this week, a couple with Skybet BUT anyone else see Skybet as always offering the worst odds?
Wilts- Skybet are often the worst odds in races where they are offering more places than their competitors.
As for Paddy Power, I’m sure I have previously recounted the story of how one of my exes was told to put up with sexual harassment from a big-stakes FOBT player when she was a shop manager. Absolutely reprehensible company.
Christ, that’s awful Gladders. Thankfully I scrapped my account with them years ago, I will not be tempted back.
Another point I would make about the disparity between shops and online is that most people simply don’t care. The price sensitive folk will go online where they want you. Once a year punters are happy if they can walk in to the shop this morning with a score and collect enough for a few pints and a takeaway on the way home.
Short of legislating to make it illegal I don’t see what you can do and good luck finding enough people to make that happen.
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