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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

LOL! You are right is was worth it.

Seems large payoffs are an accidental consequence of the feature. Newc 16:30 if any of the four rank outsiders come in I will be at least 130 better off and at best 300 with no downside.

scrip

not worth trying to lay off in running ?

Good idea!

Big volume on the Agassi Tennis match this evening.

Big swings on the cricket tonight

Made a bit of a hash of the US Open tennis this evening but managed to escape level. I called every move right, unfortunately in the wrong direction though!

Nice little profit on the U21 Ger v Eng. Backed the draw, greened up after England equalised.

Report on the Federer match last night.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/4220814.stm