Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sussan Ley’s biggest fan, a famous Riverina bookmaker, today came across the One Nation candidate to fill her recently abandoned electoral seat. Pauline’s bloke offered Ley’s man an orange shirt to wear around town to support his candicacy. Bookies being bookies and always looking for overs, our man said sure, and copped the freebie as […]
Archie We are talking Nanango here. A punter has $250 @3.5. $550 return is printed on ticket incorrectly. The punter didn’t realise until after the race. He fronts the bookie. The Bookie says that the price was $3.00. So if correct the face value of the ticket should be $750 if that was truly the […]
One of our readers tried to have $5.00 on a horse at Albany tomorrow @$9.00 with Bet365, one of the world’s largest bookmakers. They cut his bet back to $1.00. You’d have to be kidding wouldn’t you? In WA bookmakers have to bet a punter to lose $1000 on provincial thoroughbred meetings, but sadly for […]
Isn’t it nice of the unnamed bookie to counsel their winning client on how he spends the money he withdrew from his betting account. It is odd how they don’t share the degree of care when he deposits money into his account. And when he bets. Funny that.
Mr Y punted with Picklebet. God only knows why, but he did. Y was winning on his account, and sometime before Xmas 2024 he won again. On the 11th of December in that year he tried to withdraw $12 500 from his account, the balance of which at the time was $12 615.26. Picklebet wouldn’t […]
Mr L – let’s call him Lala for the sake of simplicity – was a punter who bet with bookmaker.com, which reveals that he is an idiot from the start, given that it was an Entain branded corporate that had all but been abandoned at the time that he was punting, and probably only stayed […]
Story by guest columnist Digger Dave Everyone keeps banging on about offshore betting like it’s some foreign invasion. “Offshore is killing racing.” “Offshore is stealing turnover.” “Offshore this, offshore that.” But around Victoria, punters reckon that story’s about as accurate as blaming a hangover on the ice in your drink. Because the real issue isn’t […]
Why would Sportsbet bother putting up a Melbourne Cup market 9 months in advance if they are going to set it like this? Half Yours won the Cup last year with 53kg, but is likely to get 4kg more this year, and weight stops trains. Al Riffa didn’t get the two miles with 59kg, and […]
It’s the biggest day of racing of the year so far down south, and everyone is having a punt. Everyone except Bet365 customers that is. They can’t get on. The 365 website has been down for hours, and is showing no signs of coming back up anytime soon. And it’s impossible to get through on […]
They look a bit alike too don’t they? Both good sorts. Kenny Rogers wrote a song Sussan. It was based on the life of fearless bookmaker DT Crimmins. Your local constituent and biggest fan. You had coffee together in Albury one day. It goes like this. You got to know when to hold ’em Know […]
