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The Ladbrokes rep was on ATR a few minutes ago stating that one of their UK shops had just laid a ten grand bet in the Champion Chase at Punchestown this evening (cant remember which horse).
I wouldnt have a clue. Is it possible to walk into a shop and have a ten large bet on any horse these days?
Nonesense….I went in to Laddies with 1k to put on New Approach Nr/Nb in the Irish Derby at evens and was knocked back.
Said i could have 500 @ that price and that was it.
And that is not Ladbrokes alone…had terrible expierence with Boylesports over a measily 200 quid bet on morning odds on with Mastercraftsman for the Irish Guineas a few years back
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My local Ladbrokes (busy town centre) refer any bet with a 3-figure stake, even at a shade of odds-on. But, as the manager told me the other day, they don’t do enough over-the-counter business these days to justify keeping the shop open; the FOBTs make 90% of the money.
There’s nothing to suggest from what Hayley O’Connor said that the person walked in to the shop with £10,000 cash and got on at the price he wanted.
Without doubt the bet would have had to be phoned through. The person could have paid by cheque, debit/cred card, bank transfer (lots of ways in fact), and doubtless he would have been knocked back at the price he wanted to take, and probably took slightly shorter odds (the perils of wanting so much on).
Funny this post as I remember being in a Ladbrokes shop during last seasons Ebor meeting. They broadcast news of a ten grand bet on Wooton Bassett being accepted over the counter somewhere in york.
The manager in my shop rang round, and whilst it was true a man had gone in with a carrier bag full of cash hoping to get it down, it turned out they had only allowed him a bet of £200.
Fortunately I had enough time to get my full fiver on it with no problems whatsoever.
Laid £4400 Kauto Star for the King George in our shop on the morning of the race. Biggest single bet I’ve seen.
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Was standing in the bookies with a bloke a know a couple of weeks ago and he got a phone call he was expecting for a horse so went to put 500 e/w on it at Ladbrokes but they only took 200 e/w on it. As it happens the horse came nowhere…
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There are too many days when it’s a toss up whether the horse racing or the FOBs represent a bigger insult to the intelligence.
Stranger walks in with 10k, unlikley to get laid in full. Known customer with similar historical pattern and proven losing record, all accepted with pleasure. Play the man not the markets is the way they operate these days.
As I recall the bet she was talking up, was on Sizing Europe. Hayley O’Connor doing her job well if only losing customers are accommodated with ten grand over the counter bets.
Considering Ladbrokes online would only let me have £100 on Big Zeb, rather than the amount I wanted, I for one, am highly suspicious.
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I remember going into my local Ladbrokes with £400 in pound coins and asking the bloke to put it on Santo Padre for the Portland, he refused and asked me to leave the shop.
I remember going into my local Ladbrokes with £400 in pound coins and asking the bloke to put it on Santo Padre for the Portland, he refused and asked me to leave the shop.
Maybe he suspected you were the guy who had robbed the prepaid electric meters in the block of bedsits where he lived?
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i.e. the dreaded 13th post
which has shortened from the old 15)Not sure about Ladbrokes or horses, but here’s my latest attempt to get ten large on a selection with one of the ‘big’ bookies.
No Morals were offering 1/10 on Man City finishing in the first four and I fancied a Steve Palmeresque fire up to liven up a dull afternoon. Ten large was the plan to nab me a bag of sand, split between their shops and online.
Go down the shop, hand over the slip. "Sorry we don’t have that market". It didn’t appear on any of their screens though No Morals definitely had it online. I asked him to phone up but was told it would be pointless as no-one would be in head office on a Sunday.
Return home, log in, ask for five large. Told I can have a monkey at 1/10 and 4.5k@1/20. Opt to just have the monkey and they ask for payment, process payment and then tell me sorry bet refused, price now changed to 1/33 but we’ll keep your monkey anyway. This was in the morning, before a ball had been kicked in anger, in a moribund market on a selection that was trading at 1/10 on BF, on probably the straightest & most liquid sporting competition in the world.
Do No Morals actually lay bets or is the sportsbook just a front for a short-term money raising venture luring punters to hand over money for bets which are then refused?
I see they’ve subsequently lengthened Man City from their chalk move to 1/33 and are now 1/25 after Man City have won in the meantime!
So there you have it: try to get on £1000-£10000 and end up getting offered £15-500. Even the £50 payout they originally said they’d lay had them ducking and diving like a bunch of schoolyard fiddlers.
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Back in the sixties,I knew an Independent bookie with 4 shops. Every now and again on a Friday afternoon,a guy would come in for the last 2 favs and do £1,000 win £,1000 win and a £1,000 win double,this was before bets were photocopied and there were no mobile phones.The bets would be accepted. Trying to contact the bookie before the off was exciting.
The way the big firms act now should be exposed.If you go to back a certainty always buy a return ticket.
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