Its not easy to compile a book of 240 runners, but let me give you an insight as to how it was done.
First of all, all the players who we recognised the names of were priced up - about 50% of the runners.
The remainder were then all put in at 200/1 then each were checked to see if they had any live results. Those who did, had their prices adjusted accordingly. Of the remainder, for whom there was no info that we could find we pretty much guessed it. So yes, there should be some value in there.
There are always going to be a few who slip through the net - players where the names are maybe spelt incorrectly and therefore may have good live results, but which we therefore missed; good online players who have not played live; good local players who don't go to many festivals, etc.
Some of the names who had several good live results were new to us as well, so if there is a name there which is a comparatively short price but you do not recognise, do not assume these are strange choices for pricing in such a way. Check their results out on the hendonmob or pokerineurope.
Maybe my tone wasn't right, i was actually meaning that it must be difficult to compile the odds.
The strange comment applied to some of the more famous faces, i would have thought that the odds would have been longer on some of these as their recent results are not so great.
Not having a pop at them because we all know they have been there, done it and will again, i just want greedy odds for when they do!!
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