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Akimbo priced at 1.13 in the 16:20!

The shortest price I think I have ever seen.

I'm going to lay him outright for 1k just for a laugh.

Bought it back and greened up in-running.

scrip,
what price did you get when greening up ???

1.15, not much, I saw it trade briefly at 1.20

Scrip,

Just a quick comment re. Betangel. I'm not sure whether you're aware of this unless it's a problem on my side.

I was checking the tennis odds on Henin v Petrova game. The Betfair screen shows monies available to back at 1.22, 1.23, 1.24 as 16079, 23155 and 995 respectively, whereas Betangel is showing 1607, 2315 and 995.

It seems that the back/lay boxes on Betangel can only accomodate 4 digits unless this is corrected when the game gets underway?

Seems to be fine over here and with others I have checked. Can you confirm the screen resolution you are on?

Or just give me a call.

Final testing of Pro is out there at the moment with other Betfair users. We are on track for a release very shortly.

It, probably, is my screen resolution. It was originally set at 1400x1050. However, I've reset to 1280x1024 and still having the same problem. What is the recommended max screen resolution?

Odd, I see everything OK at 8*600 and 1024*768, Haven't tried a higher resolution but guessed only lower could cause an issue. Will give it a try.

Fundy, Has Code Orange won it? A good race to start on for the afternoon.

Bakko, Tried different screen resolutions but everything is find over here. No sure what the issue is. If you can give me details of your setup I will see what we can do.

Bakko, what's the DPI setting on your PC? On this Dell I can find out by pressing the Advanced button in the Display Properties (from Control Panel). The PC standard is 96DPI, I've seen a number of applications behave strangely if the DPI is set to anything else.

Scrip, Will get details of my setup to you later. Thanks for trying to solve my problems but apologies for being a nuisance.

Despite problems I managed to pick up a nice earner from Henin game which seemed like a stroll from the scoreboard. Hope others did the same.

Scrip

code orange got beat in the photo

decided just to watch that race and red on the next 2 (1 winner 1 loser) - finally got a green one lol. Going to take a fair bit of adjustment i feel

Bingo!

Thanks TPO. Checked the DPI setting and it was at 120. Changed it to 96 and everything OK. All systems go again!
Thanks again.

It's men's semis at the French Open with the much anticipated big 2 clash of Fed v Nadal stealing the show. Both have been in scintillating form this year with a total harvest of 11 title wins between them (Fed's 6 to Nadal's 5).

Their head to head record stands at 1-1. Fed winning the last encounter over 5 sets having been 2-0 down.

Fed hasn't dropped a set during this tournament whilst Nadal has only lost 1.
Go to this link for a preview
http://www.atptennis.com/en/newsandscores/news/2005/RG_SFpre.asp

For an in depth opinion by Jim Courier, go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/4602259.stm

I'm predicting a win for Fed but will be nipping in and out on this game as it should present excellent trading opportunities.

Happy fifth birthday Betfair. Make sure you log in today and you can be in the hat for a prize to celebrate their birthday.

Had a punt on the Oaks. Getting into this horse racing thingy. Virgina waters.