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back up again

Betfair being down this afternoon cost me 98.80, instead of a 101 greened up profit on the Arsenal v Man-U game (layed the draw after 1st Arsenal goal) @ 3.44
after goal 2 the odds were approx 7.5 (whilst their site was down!) by the time betfair was up and running Man-U were level, odds back down to 2.3. With only approx 15 mins remaining was time to 'red up'! and recoupe my losses on the Horses
which I did, 13 in running lays from 14:30 till 15:55 all profitable. A frustrating day but all ended well in the end up 10% on the day...

fundy ---- no swearing please (lol)
chartist --- well done with your in running lays --- cant wait for the instructions in book.

B.P : Dont ask about Sun trading!!! > lay @ 14 drifted to 50 and came in!!! ouch, lay @ 32 came in! not my best day. Mon 3 trades 3 losses!!!

I guess my 'luck just ran out' ! It had to happen sooner or later!!

You all happy now!!!

betfair down again :-(
tum te tum ...
yawn!

Clowns. Just during the BB highlight show as well :(

betfair back.. but sky coverage of mexico chile stopped for a while.. and market suspended .. scary few moments as trading under 2.5s

Three times this week. They messed up the suspension of a race earlier today as well. Not a good show really is it? I'm in to see them next week so will give them some grief.

scrip after the commisson increase you would think the service would be better, all you get is a message on the service page saying sorry, not good enough.
iam lucky i can use betdaq for horse racing.

Is there a problem with the Bet Angel website?

Tis ok - got it now.

Web server went offline at our hosts for a short period.

any issues today with betfair...or betangel? betangel keeps freezing on me. its a bit scary. dont *think* its my ISP..

edit... all okay now.

Betfair playing up again I am afriad. What with that and the weather things haven't been easy of late.

I see there is a chat thing.. but any plans for a forum on the betangel site? think it would be useful.

Yes, one is in beta already. I've generally been negative on forums but I'm willing to give one a try.

After attending 2 betangel courses and buying the software.. been on bit of a roll.
Been doing it part time mainly trading the horses.. was close to having made enough profit to have covered the cost of the courses and the software..

Now its all changed. Profit slashed in half.

Gamblers often have beginners luck and Im wondering now if thats what I had.

I have of course made some mistakes..

top clangers for me:
- Betting to close to the off and having one side matched the other refused.
(investing in the racing channels subscription would have been cheaper)
- Closing out a bet that wasnt met on a Dutching attempt.. so costly!
(be interested to know best strategy for bets that are not taken when trying to match)

- Trying to recover "inplay" (I know this does work sometimes..its not at the moment!)
- Having ""Auto stake/auto update" ticked. having backs/lays at different prices...aaagh

"Gamblers"

You shouldn't be gambling or have that mindset. It has been difficult recently anyhow due to the weather so that may have forced you into a few mistakes. Glorious Goodwood is coming up next so things should settle again fairly soon.

The night the RWC starts and "service unavailable".

Bloody useless.

Very annoying.
I thought it was strange that the Glamogan v Kent Match Odds hadn't changed for a while !!!