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For anyone who was trading last night, backing Woods in the clubhouse after he finished was the biggest gift ever. He went to 3.2 after he finished with most of his challengers still 3, 4 or 5 left to play, and finished the day odds on favourite.

Hard to see past him today, tho if he shoots high theres an awful lot of players who can win this from the pack, tho personally expect Woods to win as he wants from here

On Justin Rose since the first day, was about to green up last night when he managed two consecutive bogeys, moved out from 7s to 15s in no time at all :(
Decided to let it run today and see what happens, big upside for small downside, but might take some off depending on how the last round goes. Difficult to see Tiger losing from here, but he's not played especially well. On the other hand Rose has played steady and is more than capable of staying on the leaderboard. Of course lots of other contenders have moved into contention.

Cricket going quite nicely :)
Laid Aus at 1.30, 1.34 & 1.39, Covered at 1.87 prior to Bell's dismissal and greened up at 1.70 prior to Pieterson's.
Think the wicket has 300 runs in it, so anything less for England and I would expect an Aussie win.

wot no betfair site ???

:-(

cant log-in to betfair anyone else having problems?

rb you have answered it thanks

but how long do we have to wait ...

:-/

to long already tried using betdaq could not get bet matched on the football poor money there

Betfair down, spoken to them and they dont know what the prob is and are investigating so no idea as to when back

not happy as down for last overs of NZ innings :-( had a buy up of 250+ and assume not filled

fundy thanks for update

Yes, thanks Fundamentalist

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Betfair quite frankly is rubbish when it comes to these 'out' periods. Laid NZ early on and was trying to green up when the sytem crashed. Can't imagine Ireland will win so unless the site is up soon, looks like Betfair will cost me money. Can't understand why they don't have a back up server for this situation. Can't even do anything on the phone. Morons!!

back at last

That outage cost me my worst ever loss. It's a right pain when that happens. I can take normal losses but those beyond your control are always a right pain. Even worse, they always seem to go against you don't they!!!

scrip cant you have a word with them to put in a back up service when the main one fails?

Sorry to hear that Peter, fortunately one of my bets that I couldn't close won anyway; the cricket I have had to trade out at a loss having been in a position to green up. Overall a profit, but only 25% of what it should have been. Might as well have used a bookie :(

Sorry to hear about your pains with Betfair, Peter.

Any reasonable answer for the following situation, other than Betfair is happy to behave like a typical UK Bank and hang onto your money for as long as they can get away with it... :

League 2 Winner Market - only 4 teams can now possibly win this league, yet Betfair is still quoting on 10 teams. Not a problem unless you are green on the potential 4 (which I am) and yet have "liabilities" according to Betfair on other selections which in reality are now out of the running and do not exist.

Seems a teeny weeny bit of a con to me.

pinsticker the reason could be even though they cant win it on points at the moment one of the top teams could have points deducted between now and the end of the season,the chances of this are remote.