{"id":11728,"date":"2016-03-06T12:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T12:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2016-03-15T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:50:34","slug":"how-bookmakers-workd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2016\/03\/06\/how-bookmakers-workd\/","title":{"rendered":"How bookmakers work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bookies limiting customers has been around for some time. This was a situation\u00a0I first experienced\u00a0in the early 90’s, over 25 years ago. Not much has changed since then\u00a0it seems. If anything, the bookies are much sharper now.<\/p>\n

If you want a view on how they do this, read this blog post series<\/a> that I posted up a little while ago. It gives you the story from very inside of a bookmakers.<\/p>\n

My story<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story of how I was limited by a bookmaker was pretty much the end of an era for me. Up until that point, I thought I was onto something. I had managed to fox my\u00a0local bookies. Following my foray into football pools, I figured out if I arranged a combination of bets in the right order I could get pretty decent odds and a fair chance of a win. I just had to ‘arb’ the early week football coupon.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted a video of this story which you can view below: –<\/p>\n