Is There Any Good Bookies These Days ?

[Nfehily19]

must occasionally be manual intervention on price cuts. Had a bet on machines yesterday at 9/4 and after a 5 min walk to 2nd branch to top up was cut to 7/4. Sports not horses

Depends on which bookie u used, most ssbt's are operated by outside companies and not the bookie, therefore prices are different on machines to over the counter most of the time too.

 

[Nfehily19]

Bookies vary obviously, but the average will allow a brand new customer to bet to a liability of £1000 if a price is taken on a weekday horse and twice that on Saturday and festival races.
Liabilities larger than that will require a "permission to lay" phone call to the traders.
The affordability/laundering checks come further down the line and obviously depend on the number and amount of said bets.

I wanted to prove I had balls once so had 500 pounds win on a 4/1 shot in a local Coral shop. The horse won. I got paid out in a brown envelope the next day. No questions asked. No answers given.

That was about 2009. Nowadays I'd probably be given a psychological evaluation not to mention a proper financial check.

I also had a couple monkey bets that went astray, one of them was actually pulled up, but I like to think merrily about the one I landed anyway. My stakes are a lot smaller these days, unless I've got winnings to play up that is.

Ry

 

[Nfehily19]

I wanted to prove I had balls once so had 500 pounds win on a 4/1 shot in a local Coral shop. The horse won. I got paid out in a brown envelope the next day. No questions asked. No answers given.

That was about 2009. Nowadays I'd probably be given a psychological evaluation not to mention a proper financial check.

I also had a couple monkey bets that went astray, one of them was actually pulled up, but I like to think merrily about the one I landed anyway. My stakes are a lot smaller these days, unless I've got winnings to play up that is.