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No ta fella. I designed mine myself and it's based on my favorite video game series.

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Far too clever for me that mate.

 

Don't let me down you pack of ****s.

 

Ladbrokes **** the bed last night.

 

Well my little chums I stung Mr William Hill for another £730 yesterday for a £10 bet. Yippee.

 

Thats some going.

 

A little update. Mr Hill gave me £924 not the £730 I thought I'd won. Who am I to complain eh?

 

So I guess you'll be taking the £194 back first thing tomorrow then Gil

 

Still illegaly pocketing 2 quid.

 

I don't think so.

 

I put it down to being p*ssed when I worked my winnings out. I appreciate the fact that you will struggle to comprehend the fact that I was drunk but there you go.

 

6-IN-A-ROW!

Started with £6.75 and ended up banking £150. Just kept banking most of winnings and putting change on next horse

 

Why do bookies use odds of 100/30 instead of 10/3?

 

It's just been kept out of habit/tradition, no other reason for it.

Just checked mate and found this reply..... @Despicable_Tel

The reason it is quoted as 100/30 is that as many odds as possible used to be quoted as 100/X.

This dates back to pre-betting shop days (1964 I think) when all betting was supposed(!) to be done on the racecourse.

eg.

6/1 - 100/16
13/2 - 100/15
7/1 - 100/14
15/2 - 100/13
.
11/1 - 100/9
12/1 - 100/8
16/1 - 100/6
.
33/1 - 100/3
etc

If liabilities are expressed in 100's or fractions/multiples of 100 it made it much easier for the clerk to calculate the individual and total liabilities in his field book.

Now all on-course bookies have computer terminals so this doesn't really apply any more. The fact that 100/30 remains is a throw-back to the (good?) old days.

Until computer terminals were introduced (about 5/6-ish years ago) it was still possible to bet with on-course bookies at the old 'fractions'. They are all slightly better than their rounded down modern equivalents.

A quite interesting point about 100/30. It looks clumsy and when you divide it comes to 3.3333. But £5 ew at 100/30 (1/5 odds a place) returns exactly £30. So there is logic as well.

 

All the bookies are looking to change over the betting now from fractions to decimals. They reckon it will draw in the next generation because it's easier to work out.

 

Even bookies are treating kids like they're stupid! The final insult!

 

The Vote Leave campaign are paying 50 million quid to anybody who can correctly predict the result on each of the 51 games at Euro 2016

 

Apparently the odds of being able to do it is something insane. A number with 16 zero's after it.

I think their money is safe. Canny gimmick though.

 

Ah, but apparently this is slightly easier to do than guessing the mobile phone numbers of the next two strangers you see in the street!

Anyway, it's worth a crack. Whoever gets the most consecutive correct results, wins 50 grand (assuming nobody gets all 51 correct)