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Was going to do something on the golf this evening but not much to do. Will look at some of the minor markets and see what is available.

That was weird, DiMarcos ball sat on the green for a minute or so before rolling back 20 yards or so. I'd love to play at Augusta but with greens like that I think I'd need a handicap about 10 times my current one.

Chartist

i have attheraces on the tv whilst trading the horses hence no need for a feed to the pc. Find it is very helpful at times for the following reason:


1) you can tell exactly when the race is going to go off, ie when they go down to the post, go in behind, when they are in the stalls (if a flat race) and when they are off. it also helps when they break the tape in a nh race as the market stays open an extra minute or two and is often very easy to scalp

2) you hear which horses are shortening or drifting on course - this helps me as i tend to only have 3 horses on my screen currently and can miss opportunities, especially the gambles where horses with big odds shorten considerably - it keeps the focus on which horses to watch. also, if there is a big gamble going on, invariably the favourite drifts quite close to the off hence in this situation i look to lay the favourite

3) you get interviews with jockeys trainers etc and they will often either rave about their horse or write off its chances - you invariably see quite a large change on betfair over the next minute or two. also they may well often talk about another horse they have running later on - late last week at approx 2pm a trainer tipped up one of his horses in the 5.00 race. at the time it was trading at 9.2, by ten minutes before the race it was trading at 3.65 - a very nice profit

Scrip

they reckon that a club golfer with an 8 handicap wouldnt break 100 round augusta in championship conditions and would struggle to break 90 on the way it is normally set up.

I've noticed Betfair appears to be ahead of the coverage of the Masters on the BBC.

Fundamentalist - 10 Apr'05 - 21:16 - 2204 of 2205

I've been invited to Sawgrass later in the year. I hope that is a little easier.

If Mike Wier wins I would now win 13,000! Will let it run for fun.

Scrip

i have friends who have played there and they set it up quite fair - its not too bad unless the wind really blows - let us know when you are going and well have a sweepstake on how many shots you take on the 17th - its only 130 yds - but the green is an island

betfair seems to be getting further ahead of bbc2

Evening guys,

Back on the golf once again.

Just been scalping ticks on Tiger at the moment. Even though he's ahead there is a tendency for him to play too aggressively leading to mistakes.

The longer the round goes on, the more di marco is going up in my estimations - hes not letting tiger get to him, is playing his own game, making few errors and making birdies when he can - just wonder if he gets to within 1 or all square whether this will change

as for tiger, he is trying to slow the game down and i feel it is hurting him more than di marco

great putt from DiMarco - Watching BBC2 after seeing betfair move do quickly is taking some of the enjoyment out of it.

His odds moved from 7 - 3.8 back to 4's now.

Gonna be a late night by the look of it. Only one shot in it and eight holes left. 12m traded and plenty more to come I think.

Spot on Fundy.

Only 1 between them now! On the basis of that I'm going back DiMarco with some of Tiger's profits

Ive stopped watching the prices on betfair - want to enjoy it

as expected, as soon as he got back to 1 down, di marco makes a soft bogey. feel 13 and 15 will decide it now

This is getting more and more interesting - a remarkably composed performance from di marco - bakko - you should be doing well by now

Unreal chip from woods

Sublime stuff!

That shot shortened Tiger from 1.43 to 1.07

Now he's back to 1.17 after that reckless tee off!

and 1.35 after 3 shots lol