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[TightEnd]

Ok I just noticed it says Min stake 10p and Max stake £13.33. I take it this is why I can do more....

use the rest on England Argentina being a draw

[smithy69]

whats the best bet you have ever done - value wise

My Top 2 are below

1)I remember betting on a tennis match on will hill, and it was in running. The thai player scripchon or something like that was playing, and he was the defending champ. Was playing a game and was odds on all the first set - he ended up 8/11 at 6-5 in the first set - he then broke the serve and won the 1st set. I was watching this live but the in play betting hadnt been stopped. I managed to get a lumpy bet on at 8/11.After about 10 secs it halted betting, came back up and he was 1/9.

I didnt bother laying it off and he won easily.

2) was in my local ladbrokes in town when liverpool were playing portsmouth in the fa cup - think it was 2 years ago now. Liverpool got a penalty and went to 1/7 as there were only 25 mins left, and portsmouth went out to 50/1.

Liverpool missed the penalty but the banner stayed up, I mentioned to the lad behind the counter who i knew and he told me to write a slip out quickly and if it was accepted he would stand it. I stupidly put only 5 on it, and the bet was accepted. Portsmouth then scored with 10 mins left

WHY DIDNT I HAVE 500 on it

[matt674]

Only time will tell

I always remember one of my biggest single bets on the football was a few years back when luxembourg were playing a friendly. The team they were playing were offered up at even money and i couldnt believe this. Luxembourg have not won a game since about 1972 (and have only won 3 in their entire 90 odd year history) so i lumped on their opponents and at half time they were 3-0 up. having seen this i didnt bother to check the full time score and went into the betting shop the following day to collect my winnings only to find that my bet was a losing one according to the clerk. In disbelief i went home to check the score on the internet and found that luxebourg scored 3 second half goals for the first time in their history and i had done £500 down the drain - turns out their opponents stuck on a load of kids who hardly had any first team experience at half time because they thought they had the game won......

[TightEnd]

Forget the best one, here's the worst two I heard

A really good friend of mine (I was his best man) is a big rugby man and an even bigger spread bettor

In the 1995 rugby World cup he decided to sell New Zealand's points supremacy over Japan in a group game at something like 33. God knows why

The same day he was going for Sunday lunch at his fiancee's parents, the future father in law also being a rugby nut

He was just about to ask for the man's daughter's hand in marriage when the dad suggested they retire to another room to watch the rugby on telly and leave the ladies to it

The match started...50-0 at half time and something like 112-0 at full time for a loss of 75 units per point and a future father in law gushing all game about the All Blacks. He didn't ask the dad if he could marry the daughter that day and his future wife had no idea why, ever. Until the best mans' wedding speech.


Two, same guy thought Mark Ramprakash was the next big thing in English cricket back in 1994-5 before we all found out his temperament wasn't suited to test criket. He bought Ramps series runs at 233 before the start of the first test. He scores 0 and 1 and then breaks his wrist, out for the whole series. 232 point loss

Oh, how we laughed  

[SQ]

I do remember a friend placing a bet on Trap 7 in a 6 dog race. The bookies took his money, and he didn't have the bottle to go back and ask for his money back!

[Pokerron]

If trap 1 won it, it would be well worth a claim! 

[smithy69]

My dad has a good story when she met my mum. They went to the dogs and my mum went up and asked for a bet on the dog called VACANT TRAP. My dad swears blind this is true, and she backed it cos it must be a wolf in sheeps clothing as it had no form.LOL

[AndrewT]

If trap 1 won it, it would be well worth a claim! 

Indeed - you wouldn't believe the sort of handwriting I had to put up with when I was a betting shop manager. We had one punter with a fabulous alcoholism/illiteracy combination which resulted in some very puzzled and flustered cashiers trying to work out what horse he was asking for a price on. I remember him once running up to the counter, grabbing a pen and slip and scrawling a line which was nothing more than a curve, whilst saying "20 quid". I knew he wanted trap 6 in the dog race just about to go off, but I fully expected the security team to send the bet back to me asking what the hell I was taking bets on.

[thetank]

Daytime TV made me a monkey.
When I used to live with the bird I watched a lot of tat on the telly.

Gmtv did a daily phone poll during the last serious of I'm a celebrity get me out of here. Every time someone got knocked out of the show it was also the person who got the least votes that morning on Gmtv.
On the last day Joe Pasquale had 68% of the vote on GMTV, the other 32% being split between two other guys.
Hills were still taking it at 1\4 so i popped 2G on.

[smithy69]

Would anyone be able to give us an update on the footy tonight with regards to bookings - my sky is off

The worse thing i have ever done is during the lions tour. I backed the lions to win a tour match with a 15/16 handicap  - something like that

I wanted £200 pound on it at i think evens

They ended up winning by 2 of the handicap mark so i lost the bet.

When I checked later during the day, I noticed 1000 pounds missing from my account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had pressed the 1 button I think when I pushed the 2- So it added a 1 onto the front of my intended bet

If it had been the other way round it would have returned the bet because i didnt have 2k in there, My stupidity and lack of checking cost me a grand

[matt674]

Daytime TV made me a monkey.

And what prey tell is wrong with being a monkey?!?!?!?!?!?

humph

[thetank]

I like monkeys 

Trying to open a sporting index account at the moment but not sure if it'll be open in time.

[matt674]

I like monkeys 

Good, i'm glad - now give me a banana!! 

purleeesssseeee

[smithy69]

can anyone give us updates on tonights  game - france vs costa rica

[NoflopsHomer]

I've put £50 on this, fingers crossed for a punch up!