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I think I had an ISP issues. Was a mare for a while, missed 2 hours of trading.

lots of dosh missed?

Judging by how others did I missed a good day.

Another upgrade and another fiasco ... two of their "in play" football matches have been suspended for the last 10 minutes .

Coincidence ?

Update : One appears to have been suspended because the live feed to German TV went down and in the other one the home team are 3-0 , crowd p*ssed off and hit ref with something and crowd disturbances still not under control ... and thats in Sweden !!!!

Swedish match abanded and I'm sitting on a winning position , wonder what happens.

I now think they keep my money for 3 days , then void all bets not decided .... like mine.

Bloody great !

Dil

youre prob right re the 3 day wait then all void

as for the recent upgrades, been an absolute pain in the arse just to accomodate the aussies

scrip,
when will your new book be available ???

My copy has been on order thro amazon since April, can you beat that B-P?!!

pericles --------- you must be on the shortlist for a free bottle of champers from Mr. Webb (on second thoughts that should be a case lol)

Last time i spoke to scrip he was just rewriting a few things

I see betfair is down this morning. I guess it's something to do with last nights SUSPENSION of in-play footy markets???

Went down about 30 minutes or so ago. Not a happy bunny here as trading the SAA Open golf and in a strong position before it went down.

Good evening guys, well the Newcastle v Man Utd was an interesting game 'bettin g wise' I backed the 'Correct Score 2 - 2' @ 26 greened up at 12 after Man/U netted thier second for a 123% profit (the lay went to 1.04 by the bell)! Shame I did'nt hold on to the end would have bagged 2300% profit !!!
All went to plan for a change, happy with the days work, a good start to the new year.

Peter Webb - if you are around, do you know of a way I can refresh the Betfair pages more often than every 30 secons pls, (Apart from buying Bet Angel)!

Tia for any help you or anyone else can offer.

chartist hit the refresh button above the market it is on the right hand side

Gary Russell has a couple of freebie scripts on his website for IE and Firefox which allow you to define your own refresh rate.

http://www.gruss-software.co.uk/

chartist - go to http://www.autobet.co.uk/software.php (opens in new window) and near the bottom you can get a free download of Betfair Tools. Actually there's only one tool available - an auto-refresh - which lets you set refresh rates down to 0.5 sec.

sealed - the autobet one seems to only refresh the prices within a Betfair page, whereas any other refresher I've come across reloads the whole browser page, and you don't want to try that in the middle of a horse race when you're betting in-running!

Piptrader

there are 2 versions of betangel, the pro one is the one you have to line Scrips pockets for but the basic version is free and gives you every second refreshing as well as one click betting

http://www.betangel.com/products/BA/bab.htm