{"id":164,"date":"2009-02-10T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-01-20T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:40:30","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2009\/02\/10\/blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wading back through my archives the other day and realised I am older than I thought! I actually placed my first bet on a betting exchange on June 5th 2000. It wasn’t on Betfair but on Flutter, Betfair’s early rival. I didn’t start on Betfair till the 18th June.<\/p>\n

On the 5th June, I had a whopping \u00a35 bet on the FTSE up or down market. A day later on the interest rate market and my first sport was Golf. I was backing and laying Tiger woods to win \/ not win the US Open and Colin Montgomerie as well.<\/p>\n

Embedded on the spreadsheet are the immortal words ‘If you want to make money you need to lay at a lower price than you back at’. Would never have guessed back then, nearly nine years ago where those words would lead.<\/p>\n

I knew way back then that it was worth putting some effort into things and seeing what I could make of the opportunity. I never realised just how big betting exchanges would get. I also didn’t realise just how the opportunity would present itself. If you said back then that in nine years time I would be gambling millions a week on the horses I would have thought you had gone mad. Just goes to show, always use the words impossible with the greatest of caution!<\/p>\n

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I was wading back through my archives the other day and realised I am older than I thought! I actually placed my first bet on a betting exchange on June 5th 2000. It wasn’t on Betfair but on Flutter, Betfair’s early rival. I didn’t start on Betfair till the 18th June. On the 5th June, […]<\/p>\n

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