Can't lose bet

Quoted from 1600

(as opposed to Ladbrokes or Boylesports who I try to avoid)

How come?

Ladbrokes can offer poor odds and can use every marketing trick in the book to fool you into handing over your money whilst thinking you're getting a good deal.
Boylesports are just scum !  (better be careful what I say...)

Bet365 definitely have the best offers for existing customers of all the betting firms I use regularly (around a dozen). They generally have pretty generous prices too (except for in-play prices which are usually rubbish value). Any offers other bookies give are much more gimicky and tend to be the poorest value markets that they want you to bet on anyway (correct score, first scorer etc) and that I generally avoid.

I agree with that.
In-play odds aren't very good but I suppose you'd expect that to an extent.

Rob would you say despite all these companies attempts to get people to bet with THEM, most punters just tend to just go with the best odds ?

Personally I'm not a fan of betfair for their 5% commission but you've got to go with it to get the bigger odds, range of markets and to be able to hedge your bets.

Quoted from topuphere666

Ive got £20 on both madrid teams on a double tonight, shitty odds but will pay me about £35 back (inc bet)

I started off with £5 two weeks ago, and chucked money on dead certs to win a small amount. Then putting like £8 on a dead cert then £12 and so on, After yesterdays games i had £118 in my ladbrokes account.

Uhhhh ohhhhhh  

Quoted from 1600

I agree with that.
In-play odds aren't very good but I suppose you'd expect that to an extent.

They are on Betfair! 90% of the time compare the two and you'll get a vastly better price. I don't use betfair much but I'd always use it for in-play betting on large markets.

Quoted from 1600

Rob would you say despite all these companies attempts to get people to bet with THEM, most punters just tend to just go with the best odds ?

I suspect not because most people are obsessed with accumulators! The bookies make their money for this reason alone. The best bookies offer a good price on maybe 50% of games, and a less good price for the others (it's these second half they make the money on generally). You can't spread an accumlator over more than one bookie but a lot of punters don't realise or care that on average they are going to lose just because of the way they bet. That's why I only bet singles and always take the best price. I sometimes do doubles or trebles if one bookie has a best or near-best price on everything I want to bet on but the days of my picking loads of games off a coupon are long gone.

Quoted from 1600

Personally I'm not a fan of betfair for their 5% commission but you've got to go with it to get the bigger odds, range of markets and to be able to hedge your bets.

I dislike betfair because I generally bet on smaller markets. It's rubbish for small football games, rugby league matches, snooker and tennis games unless they are televised. If it is a big market though take the 5% you'll probably do better than the fixed odds firms overall.

Yeah agree with you - I suppose the odds on betfair are real people trying to play bookie.
I've tried myself and it's so darn competitive I wonder how people ever make much profit laying these markets ! (if they do).
Maybe some have got so much money they can skim a very small %

Quoted from pontoonlew

Uhhhh ohhhhhh  

I know I watched the levante v R Madrid game!! Unbelievable. I had a decent win on Saturday though so it makes up for it a little bit!!

Had you involved Betfair, as I did, you would have made a profit of just over £30 whatever the result.