Who was that mob that tried the offshore tote, was good prices but i think they lacked the numbers, i guess if a couple of bigger bookies with the advertising numbers got behind it then it might work.

On the other hand, it is hard to blame them for chasing part of this pie...& checkout the pokies losses, truly disturbing.

Those charts are pretty disturbing thats for sure. As you said the pokie machine stats are very scary. So many people are addicted to those things and I just cannot for the life of me understand how or why that is the case. You play one knowing your going to eventually lose no matter what and they are just dull to me but I guess each to their own.

Also I wonder how much of peoples pensions are put into pokie machines. You see some of those bowling clubs in/around the gold coast and they a chockers with pokie machines and retiree's playing them.

Not saying i'm a saint for doing a fair bit of recreational punting on sports/racing but it's because I have an interest in those things and they a human/animal driven. Not a machine that determines your eventual loss.

Like you said though stugots pretty obvious why these bookies operating in australia do what they do. And the problem is its hard to see a government going into bat for supporting gamblers as it would put too many noses out of place due to the perception that they would be encouraging further problem gambling.

Austote

And in other news(!) BETSTAR have just been bought out by none other than... wait for it...

LADBROKES!

http://community.betfair.com/austra...ed-odds-betting


It seems the TAB have been banning winners from January 14th, 2014.

I got limited to $25 stakes and $200 return last September... but according to that legislation, they should have allowed me to win $1500? ...at least until Jan anyway. Damnit.

hmm, I heard i'ts a conspiracy, "they" don't want too many cashed up Bogans.

Seriously though, the power of the computer has reached stale-mate.
TAB's, corporates etc now have to deal with those whose selection methods are better than the price/odd mechanism's smoke n mirrors.
And this number is increasing, more winners than losers.

As a Lay bettor, I'm stuck with Betfair, but have formed the view that providing you're not an Arber, just Back horses, then wouldn't the go be to open an account with every betting agency going? Not just to dilute your impact on any one provider and hopefully stay under the radar, but also to benefit from an average of all dividends?

Hawkesbury R2 was a good example: Organisms ~ NSW $9.10, UNI $24.20, STAB $11.30.

the hugely conspicuos absentee is no China.
wait till they properly get a hold of it
you will need a second graph just for them.