Another one bites the dust...

Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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Email from Hills this morning :( :

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We wanted to let you know we’ve removed all sports and gaming concessions from your account following a trading review. Please be aware that stake restrictions may also apply in the future.

Any qualifying bets under free-bet promotions made before today will not be affected.​
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Kind regards,
The William Hill Team​
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It seems to have been in response to the win the other day of the O'Neill horse in the big Cheltenham Hcap Chase. It was a bigger bet than I'd planned and I got a price enhancement but I've had bigger wins with them down the years.

Or maybe them dodging a bullet when my 28/1 Celtic to go through the season unbeaten came unstuck but it would have been a pretty hefty return for me.
 
Too many of my run of the mill bets are longshots, for which Betfair is no use when place portions are important.
 
Day to day racing is down by two thirds according to Patrick Veitch.The pre race matched amounts on Irish racing are scandalous.Back in the day there was literally free money to be made on betfair -there is no soft money these days.My own personal opinion is that it is possible to win on any given race or at the biggest meetings of the year when liquidity is good but if you deposit a couple of hundred on a Saturday to have a bet in 5 or 6 races it is very hard to win -especially if you are attempting to trade.
Over the last 20 years I would say 95% of my business has been on betfair but I am doing a big reset this year and trying to reduce that to 65%.
To paraphrase something a local businessman said to me years ago -turnover is vanity -profit is sanity.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Email from Hills this morning :( :

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We wanted to let you know we’ve removed all sports and gaming concessions from your account following a trading review. Please be aware that stake restrictions may also apply in the future.

Any qualifying bets under free-bet promotions made before today will not be affected.

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Kind regards,
The William Hill Team

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I've discovered that one of the restrictions is that "each-way bets are not allowed on this account".

I'm tempted to reserve my strongest fancies for this account and see how far I can take them before they shut me down completely.
 
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