fullgoracing

An ex-professional punter, tipster, and author, now blissfully retired.

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@chrisgambler247 People like that think that they know best and people like us can't take responsibility for ourselves.

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You've got to wonder about our sport sometime. A Paul Nicholls horse drifts from 11-10 to 3-1 and gets pulled up. Needs softer ground says Paul. Has won on today's good ground twice and by 9l on good to firm last time.

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@JonasLeng Politics is a revolving door of failure full stop. How long a government stays in power is dependent on how long it takes them to fail. Party politics (not the horse) doesn't work in that respect.

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@trickysays @chrisgambler247 The problem here is that the GC don't listen, or at least they haven't up to now. They've got their own agenda to protect and listening to punters doesn't help them in pursuing it. Unless that changes, which seems unlikely, punting as we know it will soon be over.

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@Golfpunter1 @philbetting It's amazing what shit happens to you during a downturn.

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@philbetting @Golfpunter1 Liquidity is going to dry completely soon apart from in cricket and big football matches.
As for the question what's causing your variance, the answer is simple - variance.

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@chrisgambler247 If there was an Olympic medal for not listening to your customers, bookmakers would win gold every time.

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Yep! Including the GC.
“I thought we elected you guys to decide things not to get other people to decide them” Trevor Phillips exposes the heart of the problem with modern UK politics: a generation of politicians have outsourced decision-making to unaccountable bodies.

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@chrisgambler247 That last paragraph is key. If affordability checks worked we'd know about it by now. But they were never going to in the first place. Addicts need to help themselves first and no amount of affordability checks will ever change that. The regulators don't understand addiction.

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@geoffbanksbet Running it on the first Wednesday in June might help.

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Somewhat ironic that the Gooners lost on pens.

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@chrisgambler247 🤦

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@CrowleyOnAir @BBCRadioLondon The Spy - The Doors
Watching The Detectives - Elvis Costello
It's A Mystery - Toyah

First wage packet was £50 and I also bought a pair of trousers.

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@chrisgambler247 Have these people ever placed a bet? If not, how would they know how the experience compares to five or ten years ago?

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@Feargal_Sharkey @YorkshireWater At least they've got some water unlike down here in Kent. Pot luck nowadays if something comes out the taps!

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@VaughanLewis1 More entertaining than watching the Gooners!

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@betangel Liquidity drying up even more than it already has is a real concern. UK orientated markets like lower league football and low class racing will become untradeable soon.

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@VaughanLewis1 @chrisgambler247 Surely some kind of software that can identify problem gambling traits would be more affective than affordability checks. Not that it would solve the problem as problem gamblers need to help themselves first. But at least the majority of punters would be flagged as responsible.

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@chrisgambler247 If she's done her research she'd know that statement applies to a tiny minority of gamblers (gamblers who should have quick and access to help though), so definitely an activist.

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@VaughanLewis1 @chrisgambler247 As far as I'm aware, there's also zero evidence that the affordability checks that bookmakers are currently implementing have decreased problem gambling. Which begs the question, why are the GC persevering with the idea?