Gambling

[AvfcRigo82]

Nice GE 1,2 Yesterday Conor.  

 

 

Away from your great result, I also see Rebecca Curtis is on a role too, in the last 14 days she's ran 15 horses (10 of them finished in top 3 with 4 being winners).

She is definitely worth keeping an eye on at this time of year for sure.

Edited October 10, 2016 by AvfcRigo82

[zak]

17 hours ago, CVByrne said:

Time to buy that watch Zak

Indeed, just put a quick P+ L together for this season (starting with Galway Hurdle) and my profit covers the purchase! Which is amazing, cheers!

I will start looking into it and others.....maybe something a little more obscure to differ from the 3 i have that are all quite familiar brands and models

 

 

 

[CVByrne]

Cheers lads, been stupid profit in past few months in those handicap chases. Bad run will come at some point as it's inevitable betting at the odds I do but this is a nice buffer to get into the meaty part of the season with.

Edited October 10, 2016 by CVByrne

[sidcow]

So apparently footballers and celebrities to be banned from gambling adverts. 

Why not just ban gambling adverts? They piss me off intensely. 

[Demitri_C]

18 minutes ago, sidcow said:

So apparently footballers and celebrities to be banned from gambling adverts. 

Why not just ban gambling adverts? They piss me off intensely. 

Exactly. They make out they want people to quit gambling but still encourage it

[Genie]

35 minutes ago, sidcow said:

So apparently footballers and celebrities to be banned from gambling adverts. 

Why not just ban gambling adverts? They piss me off intensely. 

Hopefully it’s the first step towards them being banned. Time for the gambling industry to step up their political donations.

[Mandy Lifeboats]

2 hours ago, sidcow said:

So apparently footballers and celebrities to be banned from gambling adverts. 

Robbie Savage is not impacted by this change.  

[bickster]

3 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Exactly. They make out they want people to quit gambling but still encourage it

You see it's a slippery slope because sooner or later someone might notice that the whole economy is based on gambling at a higher class of bookmakers called a stock exchange and jebus knows what would happen if the underlings found out

[Genie]

6 minutes ago, bickster said:

You see it's a slippery slope because sooner or later someone might notice that the whole economy is based on gambling at a higher class of bookmakers called a stock exchange and jebus knows what would happen if the underlings found out

The UK government are addressing this by moving into NFT’s  

[tomav84]

3 hours ago, sidcow said:

So apparently footballers and celebrities to be banned from gambling adverts. 

Why not just ban gambling adverts? They piss me off intensely. 

there at least needs to be better clamp down on the 'offers' on their adverts. i.e. how these so called 'boosts' are so often not actually boosts.

oh and they should be forced to add small print that accounts will be restricted if you win too much money

[Davkaus]

4 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

oh and they should be forced to add small print that accounts will be restricted if you win too much money

Indeed. Any gambling where you're betting against the house is a mathematical equation that's rigged in their favour. If you take part in that without some sort of edge like matched betting or card counting, they recognise you're a mug and will shake as much out of your pockets as possible, but if they have reason to suspect you're an advantage player (i.e., someone not breaking any laws, but simply playing the game smartly), you're out. It says it all that they'll ban people who play well.

I was watching some videos of card counters being asked to leave casinos, and it's hilarious how they always refuse to talk about it at the table, because they don't want anyone else within earshot realising that they're allowed to keep playing as much as they want, because they're going to lose a lot of money.

[ml1dch]

14 minutes ago, Genie said:

The UK government are addressing this by moving into NFT’s  

[bickster]

50 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

there at least needs to be better clamp down on the 'offers' on their adverts. i.e. how these so called 'boosts' are so often not actually boosts.

That would require reporting them to the Advertising Standards Authority for making false claims in advertising

[tomav84]

1 minute ago, bickster said:

That would require reporting them to the Advertising Standards Authority for making false claims in advertising

they get around it by having an original price, say 1/2 then boost it to evens. the only requirement is that it has to be at the original price at one point that day. the problem is that in many cases at 1/2 it was totally underpriced and that the boosted price is more realistic. the bookie, were they to be questioned by the ASA would just say "that's what our traders priced it up as originally"

the less experienced/knowledgeable punter thinks he's getting a good deal at evens, when actually he's just bet at the price it should've been all along

another nifty trick is boosting a market that no other bookie offers. these "bet on son to assist kane" boosts. there's no basis for comparison so they can claim whatever they want as a starting price and then 'boost' it. no one knows if its a good deal or not...but i'd wager it's not.