Mini Bookie

I'm sorry but the horse racing charts on this site will no longer update as the dishonourable people at Betdaq went back on a prior agreement and have severely restricted my access to the GetPrices API.

I see everybody's going to leave betfair AGAIN. They must be worried :)

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As there are so many visitors to this particular post I figured I'd calculate what the commission I paid Betfair actually was through normal laying with no trading out. I'm on the normal 5% commission on winning bets

And the result is....

41%

That somewhat surprised me. My trading bots don't pay anything like that but it's interesting to see that with a basic (and nicely profitable) non trading strategy the commission is well above the premium charge level.

A little experimental feature on this site. If you look to the left you'll see a "Todays Race Charts" section with charts for each of the days races.

Charts start collecting odds data at 2am UK and continue on for the day.

Please note this feature of the site is experimental.

This is a state of play type post. Once again this site has gone a little untended to whilst I've been so busy.

From my email...

10% Sky Sports Cashback (August 16th - September 13th)
Calling all Sky Sports Customers! You can receive 10% cashback during the first four weeks of the season should you show a net loss on Sky Bet. To qualify online go to 'my account' and enter CASHBACK in the 'free bets' section, and make sure your details are up to date.

Time to close out our bet on the Big Brother Male or Female winner market at www.betfair.com . Navigate to the market and place a lay bet (click the pink box next to male) for £2. This is currently at 1.57 whereas we backed at 1.77 so this will leave a profit of 40p if a there is a winner or nothing (but no loss) if it is female.

It's hardly going to set the world on fire but it was a nice easy bet.

Well Betfair apparently don't love me after all and they took the free £5 back. Gosh, aren't they lovely!

Currently working on another prediction bot. Is coming along rather nicely but a bit of a slooooooooooow one!

On checking today I found a £5 deposit into my betfair account. That's nice. Unfortunately betfair's system doesn't tell me why there's a £5 credit there. Is it general? For doing something? Or is it my birthday (it actually is my birthday. Yay). So who knows - maybe there is a dead cert once a year! :) The drinks are on betfair...oh....too late...spent it all!

Hmmm...Mario v. Rebecca. Not really any use for us either way.

Interestingly in the 4th evictee market you can (lay) bet against the following being the 4th evictee:

Belinda....£3 @ 990
Darnell....£2 @ 880
Sara.......£2 @ 770

They're not even nominated! Well...I suppose nothing ever is *certain*!

This is a long running bet but seems worthwhile!

Go to www.betfair.com . Navigate to sports. Scroll down to Special bets in the left hand box. Choose UK and find Big Brother 9. We want to bet on "Male or Female".

Back MALE at 1.77 for £2. Do this by clicking the blue box to the right of Male (after checking it says 1.77!). Change the stake on the right to £2. Click place bets and confirm.

Why?