I must have missed something.
I thought we weren't using Betfair and/or placing lay bets?
What have I missed.
You didn't miss much really..other than I've had a bit of an epiphany betting wise after seeing how Blatch is doing on his football trading thing and what Simon suggested on the forum. This is the first time I've even considered doing it and the race was a bit special as the horse had made mistakes before.
TBH, I am still surprised the horse didn't hack up but either way we were going to make a 5 point profit on a 4-1/5-1 shot.
At the end of the day it's all about making money and I thought if we could lock up a few points profit for the day that that'd be worth it. Admittedly I didn't run any software and that means my calcs were off by about £100 so that was definitely my mistake.
If you look at the post on the forum of racing 25-10 I reckon it shows it a bit clearer. I will do a longer post about it on the forum this week and still won't use betfair to back horses as it just doesn't work for me with regards to the prices but for laying I have to go to the exchanges.
Obviously if people don't agree with the general principle of laying in these situations then I won't do it again. But I do reckon that, especially for the jumps season, this could be a good way to make money.
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