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For those interested in the tennis check out Blake v Nadal. Blake took the 1st set and Nadal has just levelled up. This could well be a good one to scalp on the Nadal side.

Thought Italy would have pulled it off, but still made a profit overall, so happy(ish)!

Just nipped in on Turkey vs Denmark, will now call it a day.

greed cost me in the italy game was looking for 1.5 lay on scotland to balance the book got close 1.54 cost me from being an excellent day .

See theyve finally settled the highest temp market this morning :-)

That delayed settlement irritated me and IMHO didn't do Betfair any favours.

For myself (and probably a few others who are equally daft) although I still had some funds on account I was not inclined to trade AT ALL when the majority of my account was tied up. Such was the free-money situation on this event that I had committed over 75% of my account.

To Mrs C's approval, I worked in the garden and earned some brownie points yesterday. Had my account been available to trade I'd probably have joined in the fun on the footie.

I did email Betfair asking why, when so far as I could see, the necessary information was in the public domain, they couldn't either settle the market or post a brief explanation on the forum BB. I got this reply:-
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Thank you for your e-mail.
I apologize for the delay when settling for, once the official result
has been verified we settle the market as soon as possible.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further
enquiries.

Kind regards

Sharon Reid

Betfair helpdesk
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Can you spot the evidence that this is a standard response? They were not even bothered to make reference to which market was in question. Now I don't doubt that they get deluged with email but they could head a fair proportion of it off if they made pertinent postings on their own forum.

Rant over :-)

not involed in the icvcameroon game ,swings all the way anyone trading will be quids in

I know I and several others pestered them to settle. It was very annoying but not entirely unexpected, as you say did themselves no favours. No trading today out in the garden giving it a long overdue makeover. Strange things going on in it, some shrubs have started to flower again!

Easy money from Brazil tonight - 2-0 up after 20 minutes

Make that 3-0 after 28 minutes - this lot are awesome and that is without Ronaldinho tonight

4-0 after 30 minutes - anyone who thinks England have a chance of winning the world cup - or anyone else for that matter - may need to think again

I would normally switch to the other markets now, but the liquidity is poor. Have opened a small position on total goals and next goal market.

Out of interest does anyone know how far the odds on Wales fell yesterday before the goal ?

Haven't seen the goal but read on teletext it was a deflection ... lucky sods :-)

I backed Brazil just before they scored the second , had a cup of coffee and it was all over !

WOODIE ... I think attheraces is delayed by about 5 seconds plus the satellite time.

I don't follow the horses but on the occasions I have watched attheraces you could lose a fortune if you were betting in running believing it to be live.

dil thanks for info i will tread carfully when betting in running they should not be allowed to call it live!

"Out of interest does anyone know how far the odds on Wales fell yesterday before the goal"

If you give me the starting odds I can work it out.

Typically the price on Wales would have been steady and England would have drifted as the draw came in during the first half. This would have changed slightly as the second half progressed.

Last odds I saw were 13.5 to back Wales about 3 hours before kick off.

Difficult to estimate in arrears without the draw odds but I reckon the market would have been around these levels in the 54th minute.

11.87 Wales
2.17 The Draw
2.19 England

Almost pulled off an amazing fluke this afternoon. Currently messing around with the new bookmaking feature on Bet Angel and messed things up good and proper (I guess that is what testing is for) had a largely red book other than an outsider which I had over 3k profit if it came in (Don't ask how I achieved that!). Anyhow race goes off and it makes a late charge to get beaten on near the line. So close to a remarkable profit. However I am not tempted to try again..

Ended up with a 3.71 loss but that was the second best scenario, all the others worse. Would have wet myself had that one come in.

scrip did you think at one stage you was going to win the pleasure must have been worth 3.71