lol, good one Mark

Courage knows no bounds, just ask any corporate bookmaker;)

I don't get it?

I normally never listen to the races, just watch mute, so I'm not influenced by any hype. After I reached my target for the day I switched the volume on and listened to, "...so many thousand this and so many thousand that" wagered on TAB.com.....You blokes are telling me you can't get 5 bucks on....like I said, "I don't get it?"

Somebody must be wagering BIG, to get the pool sizes they're showing, they can't all be sub $5 bets? Are all these big wager's, novice first time bettors, with no prior betting pattern revealed?.....I don't think so?

I guess what I'm leading too here is, if someone was to take the TAB/Bookies to task over bet refusal, they'll just show all these big bets that they have taken. Dunno? You'll never beat them!

It's called a furphy.
Look it up on Wikipedia.
NOBODY is allowed on for those amounts, they are a lure to get the mugs to follow suit.
Simples.

There are plenty of losing punters that can't get $100 on anything with the corporates.

Furphy:...an erroneous or improbable story.

Mmmh.......?

Something like this perhaps, sums it up, an extract from a 2013 post I came across:

"....Maureen asked me the other day about these "big bets" that are spruiked by the likes of sportingbet etc. who are these people that are "allowed" to place these types of bets?? wish i had an answer for her!!."

TAB will let a losing account on for thousands, so long as they don't profile as an arber.

My feeling with all this is....
Do you honestly believe that if people were "really" putting $5000 - $10000 on a horse be posting and whinging about it not being accepted on here.

Methinks their Drxxxxxg.

Not on Fixed Odds, which they are spruiking, you can have much as you like in the tote pool.

I've heard differently, and that leaked powerpoint at the start of the year implied otherwise. It's difficult to prove either way.

I don't know? I'm not welcome on LxBet which is the fixed arm of tab but I can put as much as I like on the tote.
Of course my bets are in the hundreds not thousands so that maybe the reason I have no problem?

Can't see any reason why they would not except any amount on the tote?
Makes no sense, it's after all a totalizator agency the more you bet the more they earn with 0 risk to them. Different with the fixed odds a smart punter can really hurt them.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to fixed odds at TAB. I was saying that TAB will let losing accounts placed fixed odds bets in the thousands, so long as you don't profile as a winner (arbing, betting on firmers, etc). No hard evidence, just anecdotal stuff that I've been told. Those "big bets" that they publish don't sound fake to me.

Yeah they don't restrict betting into the tote pools, just fixed odds.