Official Betting Thread

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Gone for the same bet tonight (1 line accy + 4 lines trebles in separate bets - 4 matches)

Tunisia
Turkey
Croatia
Slovenia

All 4 come in, £10 returns £101

[James P]

Can someone explain please:

May seem a stupid question. If e/w odds are 7/2. This means if the horse comes first i get the odds of 7/2. Do i get the same odds if it comes in second or are the odds shortened?

First of all, when you bet each way, you're actually placing two bets. One on the win, and one on the place.

If you're betting on a horse and it says 7/2 - E/W 1/2 odds 1-2 then this means that the odds for the win are 7/2 and half the odds for a second placed finish. You have to put one bet on the win and one on the place.

So if you want to bet £10 on the race and you want it each way, you actually put enter the bet as £5 E/W.

For this you are putting on one bet of £5 for the win @ 7/2
and one bet of £5 for the place at 7/4

If the horse wins, both bets pay. You get £5 x 7/2 for the win plus £5 x 7/4 for the place (plus both stakes back). You'd return £36.25
If the horse comes second, you lose the win part of the bet but get paid on the place bet (plus the place stake back) so you return £13.75

Some E/W bets might be 1/4 odds for a 1-2-3-4-5 place (like in the Grand National or something). The fraction is what you divide the win odds by for your place bet and the numbers will be the places that pay. (The place bet pays the same for each of the positions). You always have to place a win bet alongside the each way though.

Hope that isn't too confusing.

[twixy]

Had a tip, 8.35 at Kempton, Hill of Dreams, about 6/1. as always don't shoot the messenger...

[k-r-c]

TIP ALERT!!

2.35 Southwell

No 4 Raphiell

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards ... ceTabs=sc_" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Got told a very good thing and the informant is usually spot on! Got EW value this morning!

7/2 generally but get 4's if you shop about!


DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER!

Cheers.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

TIP ALERT!!

2.35 Southwell

No 4 Raphiell

Cracking stuff mate.

£35 won

A pint is on me

[k-r-c]

I got £35 too. Thats a fiver for the football tonight and the rest towards Cancun spending money.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Is there any sense in blindly betting on the favourite in 3 different races as a treble?

[Cambs Iron]

James P - Cheers mate, well explained. I understand e/w now!

Raphiell Cheers phil20005, keep them coming.....

[fjthegrey]

No. Unless its for a small stake.

Raphiell done in a double with that other tip.

[manchammer87]

Another thanks for the Raphiell tip.

And have followed the tip for kempton....

[Dyl]

Croatia
Slovenia
Turkey
England

4 way and trebles.

[stratford]

Paddy Power have made a huge mistake on their "Goalscorer markets" tonight. Ashley Young is priced @ 66/1 for 1st or last goal, 25/1 to score at anytime and 40/1 to be Englands 1st scorer.Also if Van Persie scores 1st they refund losing goalscorer bets. To put it into perspective, he is 9/1 1st goal with William Hill. Time to fill your boots !!

[k-r-c]

Boooo twixy

[fjthegrey]

Clodhopper is a strong runner. Always is over that distance.

[Dyl]

Paddy Power have made a huge mistake on their "Goalscorer markets" tonight. Ashley Young is priced @ 66/1 for 1st or last goal, 25/1 to score at anytime and 40/1 to be Englands 1st scorer.Also if Van Persie scores 1st they refund losing goalscorer bets. To put it into perspective, he is 9/1 1st goal with William Hill. Time to fill your boots !!

nice spot, definitely worth it, even if he did have to go off injured after 20 mins

[k-r-c]

Ermmm Gerrard went off

[SammyLeeWasOffside]

Clodhopper is a strong runner. Always is over that distance.

Are you thinking of a different horse fj? It had never run over 7f before today according to the post

[k-r-c]

Paddy Power have made a huge mistake on their "Goalscorer markets" tonight. Ashley Young is priced @ 66/1 for 1st or last goal, 25/1 to score at anytime and 40/1 to be Englands 1st scorer.Also if Van Persie scores 1st they refund losing goalscorer bets. To put it into perspective, he is 9/1 1st goal with William Hill. Time to fill your boots !!

I hope you got on this!

By the time i looked it had been changed.

[Dyl]

Ermmm Gerrard went off

haha you're right, i wasn;t paying attention and saw young limping towards the sideline lol

Holy ****! If you;d had Young last goalscoer you would be so ****ing gutted!!

[k-r-c]

Yeah err i hope you had him any time. I was going to have a punt on any time so i'm a bit gutted i was too slow.