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Old 15-02-2008, 08:43
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Re: Screwing the bookies on their opening account offers

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Originally Posted by Quandram View Post
Having said that I saw one thread (after it had all gone tits up) which ended up with several people losing thousands (biggest was £12k) because they thought they had a good dutching system on a market (first goal scorer i think), they didn't understand that half the money wouldn't exist if the player didn't start and used the implied winnings to back others so actually lost more than they had in betfair to start with (which i must confess hadn't occured to me that you could do).
Remember it well Quandram. Last seasons Carling Cup final between Arsenal and Chelsea. Didn't help that players like Henry were in the FGS list despite Wenger insisting he was playing the reserves. To be honest I am the same as you as I didn't think you could lose more than you had in your account either but they proved it could be done.

That incident made the Racing Post I seem to remember - and there is possibly a bit on here somewhere about it.
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