The Gamblers Moaning Thread

[Kmac84]

Thought it might be interesting to have a thread to collate our moans and groans whether it be about the books, jockeys, trainers, clerk of the courses, weather.  draw bias whatever you want really. 

My pet hate right now is SkyBet, they take an eternity to settle bets.  Tilts me. 

Also commentators who claim the draw won't be as crucial when clearly you can see bias. 

[scotty2hatty]

Popped into a Hills shop yesterday at 7:30pm and they didn't have any early prices for the Romford card. Ridic.

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I'm sick of hearing gamblers moaning.

[arbboy]

My biggest pet hate is people who can get on with skybet!  I would happily wait a day for them to settle bets if they were willing to lay any.

[Kmac84]

My biggest pet hate is people who can get on with skybet!  I would happily wait a day for them to settle bets if they were willing to lay any.

Mines is a fairly new account, if I keep following the stuff you boys post I'll be in a similar boat soon.   Think they have made a mistake with the ladies weightlifting today, is that an account closer you think? 

[arbboy]

My biggest pet hate is people who can get on with skybet!  I would happily wait a day for them to settle bets if they were willing to lay any.

Mines is a fairly new account, if I keep following the stuff you boys post I'll be in a similar boat soon.   Think they have made a mistake with the ladies weightlifting today, is that an account closer you think? 

I would imagine so!  My last account was closed with them for backing a 1/5 shot as a first ever bet on the account on the nba! 

[Kmac84]

Another one for the list bookies who wont take a bet because you so some signs of being a better judge than them. 

Some people just say meh, but I think they should have their licenses taken off them. 

[TightEnd]

Another one for the list bookies who wont take a bet because you so some signs of being a better judge than them. 

Some people just say meh, but I think they should have their licenses taken off them. 

so that's every bookmaker with a GC licence then?

its not as simple as you suggest.

[Marky147]

My biggest pet hate is people who can get on with skybet!  I would happily wait a day for them to settle bets if they were willing to lay any.

Just ping Cute

[Kmac84]

Another one for the list bookies who wont take a bet because you so some signs of being a better judge than them. 

Some people just say meh, but I think they should have their licenses taken off them. 

so that's every bookmaker with a GC licence then?

its not as simple as you suggest.

Should be though, they should be allowed to set a limit on bets they take but to reduce Mr X to 1% and allow Mr Y who's a mug and knows know better to bet 100% is wrong imo.

[horseplayer]

The new legislation in New South Wales will be interesting thats coming in

All "major" layers will have to lay upto 2000 dollars per horse per race to anyone.

On the face of it superb news, in reality if it happened over here (unlikely) the days of near 100% books especially for the bigger races would be gone.

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Another one for the list bookies who wont take a bet because you so some signs of being a better judge than them. 

Some people just say meh, but I think they should have their licenses taken off them. 

so that's every bookmaker with a GC licence then?

its not as simple as you suggest.

Should be though, they should be allowed to set a limit on bets they take but to reduce Mr X to 1% and allow Mr Y who's a mug and knows know better to bet 100% is wrong imo.

Isn't that the same as saying you have to sit in a high stakes cash came with a load of top class players?

[Kmac84]

Another one for the list bookies who wont take a bet because you so some signs of being a better judge than them. 

Some people just say meh, but I think they should have their licenses taken off them. 

so that's every bookmaker with a GC licence then?

its not as simple as you suggest.

Should be though, they should be allowed to set a limit on bets they take but to reduce Mr X to 1% and allow Mr Y who's a mug and knows know better to bet 100% is wrong imo.

Isn't that the same as saying you have to sit in a high stakes cash came with a load of top class players?

No.  The thing about poker is the player knows the levels before they sit down.  Imagine you comfortably beat £1/2 at DTD and Rob says to you you need to play £2/5 now.  Or the flip side imagine you were killing the £5/10 game and were told you had to move down to 50p/£1.  They set the books, some of them badly, some just copy others and some actually do a good job but they shouldn't be able to say they take bets on the outcome of events if they only allow certain punters the luxuary of betting. 

[Tal]

You're both comparing apples with oranges.

If you ran an all you can eat buffet and a load of very hungry people moved in down the road, why wouldn't you be within your right to say "we will happily serve from the menu, but you're eating us out of house and home on the buffet"?

My issue is when people who only want to bet fivers and tenners get restricted.

[arbboy]

The new legislation in New South Wales will be interesting thats coming in

All "major" layers will have to lay upto 2000 dollars per horse per race to anyone.

On the face of it superb news, in reality if it happened over here (unlikely) the days of near 100% books especially for the bigger races would be gone.

but the days of getting a bet on would be here and firms would have to pay 6 figures salaries to replace their 'loltraders' which would mean half the people who beat them would get their wages from them properly rather than the tax free method when they are forced to employ people on real money to do a real job.  When they went top price an event they would actually want to lay it for the old fashioned reasons of going top price not because the marketing suits enforced them to.