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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.
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?
How on earth can you "fancy" the favourite when you don’t even know who the favourite is, this had got to be a wind up.
Who said I didn’t know who the favourite was in that example? It is clear that I do know who the favourite is. But, should the favourite pull out (which I wouldn’t know because I’m betting so early) I’d like the bet to be transferred to the 2nd favourite who may look very good indeed with the 1st favourite out the race. In such a situation, placing an Un-named favourite bet is the best option for those who cannot check the race just before the off.
BUT — and this is the reason for my asking — when the favourite pulls out and it is down to the 2nd favourite as the only real one in with a chance of winning, the odds often shorten a hell of a lot! Leaving an SP of something ridiculous like 1.05 … that is what I’d like to avoid betting on.
This happens quite a lot in the races I watch. i.e. only really two contenders and whilst I’d would be happy to back the favourite, if they pull out I really want that bet to go to the next favourite and I can’t do that without the un-named favourite facility.
You have never bet on the 2nd favourite when the favourite pulls out????
I think the OP wants to back the unnamed favourite but only if it’s bigger than say 6/4.
Aye, that’s it. Didn’t realise I had made that unclear.
Maybe an example of where I would find this a nice addition might help?
Example: I fancy the favourite in a race, but should they pull out the 2nd favourite looks a pretty fantastic bet. In that scenario I (having to do my betting in the morning an unable to place a bet later in the day during work) will place a bet on the "Unnamed Favourite" to win because that covers me.
BUT — if the odds on that favourite, or the 2nd favourite should they pull out, drop to below 1.5 I would never really bother placing that bet if I had the time to wait. I wondered if anyone knew of a bookmaker that will take an unnamed favourite bet but cancel it if the odds drop below a certain point.
I realise that my situation (not being able to check the odds whilst working) might sound strange to some of you and I may be in a minority of people who could really use this feature.
What we would really like is only to be on if it wins.
Yes, that would be a nice feature! But I doubt any bookie has considered that.
Allowing people to set a "minimum odds" they’ll take when placing a Race Favourite bet is neither damaging to the bookie’s bottom line nor outwith the programming capabilities available online at the moment.
