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Originally Posted by rails run
Hi All
Yesterday I tried to back a few horses for the place with a $75 stake. These selections were fav or near fav's with place odds in the range of $1.40-$2.00 on BF.
I had 5 races picked with 1 selection in each and only got $44 partially matched on one runner at $1.67 on BF about 15sec's before the jump.
So, does bet size really matter with BF? (Or could it be a problem with the bot I used?) Monday races have lower pools but I thought more money would have been available at the top end of the market so I was surprised I couldn't get $75 set for a place.
I'd be grateful if anyone could share their observations on the point at which their bets started to hit partials (or none at all).
Assuming bet's aimed at, say, a $2.50 win odds runner, what is the largest back bet you've managed for the win or place? Does the size of the betting pool effect one's chances of getting a wager set?
Thanks in advance.
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Welcome to the club rails run.
Not only do you not get on with any sizable bet for the place, my usual place bet being $150.00, you also have to run the gauntlet of falsely offered odds that change as soon as you match them, on Sunday I missed out on a potential $750.00 return on
5/02/2012 SUN R4 #2 ZAROXIE SHANE ARNOLD $5 third.
by trying to get on and after the fifth time as the odds kept coming down I gave up and went back to the TAB only to miss the race altogether.
Now what is better? A potential $5.7 divi you cannot get or a fair dinkum $5.0 that is there for the taking?
The same day I missed out on a winner on
5/02/2012 ELW R9 #1 KID KOBE J TODD $5.6 $1.8 by being mucked about on BF so long that I was late to put the bet on the TAB.
It annoys me no end when some people here make comments like:
"Why anyone has anything to do with the TAB is beyond me & one is paying 18.5% impost for it.
Especially if using real money."
when they are not in the knowledge of all the facts and perhaps they doing something entirely different, something that suits the way BF operates.
Good luck