LG, no dutching, backed 2 in the race at level stakes, not a big fan of dutching, leaves too much on the table imho.

PP, my late figures on the race show there was around $150 available at $16+ on the exchange, but the real point is that BFSP paid $20 - from my experience the BFSP figure is not going to be significantly less that the late exchange price without a large amount bet at SP.

Now of if you had for example bet $1k at SP, given the market size (a Tuesday 58hcp, about $50k hold) it wouldn't have paid $20's, but I doubt it would have been less than $16's, as BF have a weird way of calculating the SP which I do not pretend to understand, but it does seem to allow for big bets to not to totally crush a price or vice verse with laying.

BF Win markets on the shorties offer no real advantage over the Totes, other than the ease of use & I agree with you on the place market for shorties, it's a loser on BF.

But the other side is the ease of use of BF, not getting banned or restricted etc.