The Dark Side of the Ledger – Why Punting and Easy Access to Other Peoples Money Don’t Mix – Peter Huxley – Part 3
The Dark Side of the Ledger – Why Punting and Easy Access to Other Peoples Money Don’t Mix – Peter Huxley – Part 4
Much Loved Melbourne Bookies Clerk Busted Back on the Darts
Our mail out of Melbourne is that a very well-known and loved Melbourne bookies clerk was seen strolling out of a garishly painted Mason Street, Newport tobacconist store this week with ten cartons of gaspers tucked under his wing. The problem is that the bloke – whose name is Renoir, or Rimbaud, or Rosscoe or […]
Layoff the Unauthorised Betting Bookie Travels to the Top End Looking For an Arb – But the Pearls Were All Away Holidaying in Asia With D. Ng
David ‘Layoff’ McLauchlan is the Melbourne rails bookie who did a stack betting against the credit punter David Ng and then unsuccessfully taking him to court trying to get Ng to pay his tick. In the process McLauchlan set a losing precedent that left both himself and other bookies across Victoria open to prosecution for […]
Betmakers Does Its Arse Again – This Company Almost Makes the TAB Look Good
Betmakers have announced a provisional loss of $7.8 million for the year, and tried to sell it as a win. Some win. The loss would have been closer to $20 million if the company hadn’t sacked 20% of its staff. The market weren’t fooled by the shiny bells and whistles. Betmaker share price dropped by […]
Why the Long Face Bookie? – You’re Robbing the Punters Blind
Bookmaker at Longreach yesterday Peter Anderson looks for all the world in the photo like a man who has just run over his own dog, and backed up and squashed his wife’s cat flatter than a pancake too. Anderson’s long face almost makes you feel so sorry for him that you want to walk up […]
The Silence from Racing Victoria is Deafening – If My Hands Were All Over the Layoff McLauchlan Unauthorised Gambling Thing Like Theirs Are, I Would Keep Quiet Too
Racing Victoria is the regulator that licenses bookmakers in the State, and the body responsible for setting and enforcing compliance with the Bookmakers Telephone Betting Rules. That creates a bit of an issue for RV, because it now knows that David McLauchlan has broken the rules, and a simple check of their own stored betting […]
Racing Victoria Changed- But You’ve Still Got a Problem Bookies
Racing Victoria changed the Bookmakers Telephone Betting Rules on the 14th of September 2023, and from that date on the new rules apply. The changes made by Racing Victoria removed the requirement for a bookmaker to get a signed Client Authorisation Form from every punter that they took bets from over the phone. “Phew” you […]
There’s Panic Among the Ranks of the Victorian Bookies, After Layoff McLauchlan’s Supreme Court Loss Leaves Their Hip Pockets Hanging Out in the Wind
Layoff McLauchlan gets the cash ready to give back to the punters The mail out of Melbourne is that a great many Victorian bookmakers are deeply concerned about the implications of the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgement in the matter of McLauchlan v Ng, and what it might mean for them. As we wrote earlier […]