Tag: error

A classic psychological flaw

A classic psychological flaw

Here is something that will help you understand the way people act and what you can’t do about it! But how you can benefit from it.

I made a comment on Twitter a little while ago saying something along the lines of “if I ever think going to lose my edge all I need to do is look at social media and I know that’s not going to happen”

Entrenched views

What I was commenting on was the proliferation of …

08/10/2016 | By | 1 Reply More
Strange Betfair error you need to be aware of

Strange Betfair error you need to be aware of

While browsing the Betfair site today I spotted an error that could lead to you placing a bet on the sportsbooks rather than the exchange. Even if you are logged into and using the exchange. Please see the following video: –

06/05/2013 | By | Reply More
Betfair to compensate Leopardstown losers

Betfair to compensate Leopardstown losers

Hot off the press, just received this email from Betfair: –

“Dear Peter,

Since the 2.00pm race at Leopardstown on 28 December 2011, we’ve looked in detail at all the circumstances surrounding the technology failure and the anomaly it created. In addition, we provided our Gibraltar regulator, the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner (GGC), with a detailed technical and operational report on the incident and the GGC made a number of recommendations. We have also consulted with customers and taken their feedback …

11/01/2012 | By More
£1k account caused £600m Betfair error

£1k account caused £600m Betfair error

Betfair have issued a statement this afternoon outlining the error that caused the exchange to misfire. The full statement is here: –

https://community.betfair.com/service/go/thread/view/94166/28801289/in-running-bets-void-on-200-leopardstown?post_id=514377961#514377961

But here are some bullet points:-

“This bet was placed by one of our UK customers trading the race via our API or Application Programming Interface (bdp.betfair.com/) using an automated program (a “bot”). Their bot had developed a fault causing it to try and place a very large number of bets on the Exchange. These bets were …

30/12/2011 | By More
How to lay £600m worth of bets on Betfair?

How to lay £600m worth of bets on Betfair?

That has to be the #1 question after yesterdays debacle in one of the feature races at Leopardstown.

To summarise, a mysterious lay bet appeared and stayed on the winning favourite at 29’s right up to the finish of the race. The ‘layer’ offered up £21m at 29’s creating a £600m liability. Betfair voided the in-running market.

Betfair have come out officially and ruled out that it was them or any account controlled by them or that they had a …

29/12/2011 | By More
Fat fingers crucify punter

Fat fingers crucify punter

I see lots of strange things in the markets but few stranger than what happened just a moment ago at Newbury. While I realise we all, in some way, take money of each other now and again. I feel a great deal of sympathy for what they did, we all screw up from time to time. I can’t imagine how they felt after this error.

The long and short of it is that they backed a 400/1 shot down to …

23/10/2010 | By More
Hereford 16:30

Hereford 16:30

Gee, thanks Betfair. Just started trading this race when they suspended it and put it in-play. No problem usually there, but it was well before the start of the race. Obviously some head scratching went on as I was held in the market for ages with a half finished trade before, just seconds from the start, they brought the market back. What a mess, but luckily I escapted with a 80p profit in running. Phew. I hope you didn’t get …

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