Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One wag has written in to us with following ‘mail’: In the wake of public explosure of his superb price setting skills, the Mt Isa satchel swinger Ken Elliott has been hired as the TAB’s new head trader. His first job was to frame the fixed odds market on race 2 at Kembla Grange on […]
A well-known recently retired ex-bookie of long service from out the Hume River way – Daniel T Crimmins by name – called in today to offer bookmaker Ken Elliott who was betting the larcenous prices at Mt Isa on Sunday some sage advice. His advice? “You’re a disgrace. Get out and go now”. Its a sentiment […]
Ken Elliott was the only bookmaker at the Mt Isa meeting that was transferred from Cloncurry yesterday. It would have been better for everyone if he had just stayed home. Just look at these for prices. A usual betting market percentage is 100-120% Elliott has framed his at a whopping 396%. That’s grand theft rorto. […]
Ladbrokes have this quite unique feature on its app where all wagers placed with the bookmaker are published in live time as they are placed. The names aren’t shown but the bets are. This one was spotted by an eagle-eyed reader last night. It’s a 100 percent fair dinkum bet. $300 000 on a threes […]
We first met the corporate bookmaker Baggybet (real name Mailbag Wagering Pty Ltd) back in October last year when we wrote about how the company then owned by tips spruiker Jack Dickens and the Chairman of the Australian and Victorian Bookmakers Associations Chris Lester was fined $82 620 by the NT Gaming Commission for breaches […]
A number of readers have been asking us who exactly these co-Chairmen of the VBA are. As we don’t know them personally, we cannot tell you first hand, but what we can do for you is to use their professional Linkedin profiles to give you a picture. Chris Lester (pictured at top) started his business […]
This is the betting ring at the ‘Bool this arvo. Isn’t it great to see bookies still in the ring? You don’t get that up here at the races in Queensland. We don’t get the biggest of them all Fabulous Frank Hudson fielding in our rings either. But there he is perched on his stool […]
These bets you see at the top are fair dinkum wagers, published by one of Australia’s largest bookmakers on the bet ticker available on its app. $80 grand the place on a pacer on a pacer in race 4 at Wagga last night. Who said you can’t get a bet on at the trots on […]
The joining together of Bluebet and Betr is being widely reported as a merger. But it isn’t really, it’s an aquisition. Betr aren’t paying a cent, other than the $2 million worth of newly issued shares that Matt Tripp is buying at about 3/4 of their currently traded price (Tripp and other investors pay 21c […]
Royal Bombadier was backed from $2.50 into $1.22 to win the 5th race at Wellington yesterday. It was the plunge of the day, maybe even of the whole weekend. The plonk h0rse parked outside the leader, a position from which it should have won. But a roughie at odds of $46 sat three-wide without cover […]
