An excellent post.

[The once and future king]

Hilarious mini saga of British soccer fans losing money by pawning themselves on Betfair.

This takes a bit of reading but it is worth it just to see what happens when the penny drops.


Brag: Gonna get me loads of money dutching some footy bets on betfair

O Noes

Teaser post from the linked forum:

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I stopped smoking a few weeks - think i need a few packets to calm me down and find out what the damage is after final whistle!!!!!

I thought fairbot was great - now its a f*cking b*stard of a program !!!!!

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[Xylocain]

please explain to me what happened, I'm to dumb to figure it out from the forum threads

[edit] beat OBV [/edit]

[Yeti]

that is pretty hilarious, esp as that forum is full of the biggest nits you will find anywhere. mmmmm i love it

[Yeti]

in fact it's one of the greatest things i have ever read

[dooom]

[ ]Successfully beat the system
[X]Lost tons of money because they thought they could.

A+ absolutely hilarious.

[grando]

cliff's notes:

- soccer match
- people picked every single possible player on the docket to score the first goal because there was an overlay doing this
- some players sit
- ???
- -11.2K

[CrazyJoe113]

this is hilarious, but what happened in the end!?! both threads got locked, did betfair go after them?

[PwnedDonk]

and it took you 8 months to realize this?

[CrazyJoe113]

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and it took you 8 months to realize this?

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sure, who reads those forums and who cares about soccer? most people would have never heard of this, and it's awesome. I just want to know if people had to go bankrupt or not.

[Jake_the_Poacher]

Ha Ha! Although this happened ages ago it suprises me how many times this kind of thing happens. Oh wow, an overround book by 40% free money, whoo hoo!

Brag: Lifetime +£45k on betfair.