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Evening Schiff...No positions yet but will pounce when I see something decent, probably later on in the game.

Good call schiff on the over/unders. But with with 4mins to ft, I bet the ticker was racing :~)

edit: Oh er. 5mins of extra time :~)

I don't know if you watched the game, sealed, but the first half was so full of missed chances and the goals bearing a charmed life that I actually had a bit more on at 5.6. And then just forgot it for 25 minutes. Ceefax told me no goals had been scored and the odds were so poor to cover myself - I think 26 was being offered at one time - that I just decided to let it ride. I doubt if I'd ever make a trader but I'm not bad at gambling!
Watched the last 20 minutes, thought about reducing my exposure a bit at 4.6 when it was 0-1, decided not to and watched the rest of the game in bemused fascination. So I had two bets, let them ride and they both won. But not much skill involved.

Morning all

Haydock is on so off there in a bit - already nicely in profit on Kicking King :-)

For anyone trading the horses, Southwell starts at 11am today and there is a veritable feast of sport to trade to day - have a good day all

Top equal in the Racing Post Ratings for the big handicap hurdle at Haydock were My Way de Solzen, Tees Components & St Matthew! Tricast paid 855.36.

I follow Sue Smith's jumpers but not the hurdlers unfortunately - though St Matthew won for me over the bigger obstacles a few weeks back.

Looks like Betfair is down!

bloody useless

Not a good moment to break I'm too many events here. I should know better than to use it on a Saturday.

Some quality stuff out there as well at the moment, possibly the worst moment to break down!

Its struggling, 14:44:36 most recent failure.

Tell me about it Scrip, a pain!

I have open positions on the football, so I have to hope it comes back before many goals are scored really.

I have tried testing API and non API sites but it all appears to be down.

I don't know if anybody noticed but they recently changed their terms and conditions so they can kick out excess traffic hoggers. I sense some action coming on, on Monday.

http://www.betfair.com/lite/

Still down for maintainance from 17th November apparantly!

Phones busy!

Oh well, I may get lucky.

lite.betfair.com still works, but you can't see your orders.

And it appears you can see the prices either!

Subject Line: Settlement Delays 19/11/2005

We are experiencing extremely high volumes of traffic to Betfair.com this afternoon, and as a result we anticipate that there will be some delay in the settlement of bets. Wed like to apologise to all affected members as we fully appreciate that this can be extremely inconvenient. Please be assured that we are working to minimise these delays as far as possible.

Iim open on football, rugby and a horse race getting the right hump, time to open a beer methinks!

I guess the publicity at Haydock is driving much larger volumes.