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Horses - the new not-really-betting betting game

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Jen HB
Jen HB
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It's showing that those who are the bravest (or maddest?) with the bets can reap large rewards...
Jen HB
Jen HB
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I've occasionally gone to watch greyhound racing (with the £1 tote bet) and sometimes go by 'I like the name of that one...'
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
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It’s the ultimate accumulator :-)
ptr_runner
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Oh wow

Curious, Juuphy, what was your bet that got that return?

Question for the group then, when do we stop? What's the goal?
57.5 Degrees of Pain
57.5 Degrees of Pain
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ptr_runner wrote:Oh wow Curious, Juuphy, what was your bet that got that return? Question for the group then, when do we stop? What's the goal?
A huge bet on me was put on virtually the same moment as I posted a big improvement. The bookies might've investigating a fix ;)
Velociraptor
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At this rate the game is going to break the page horse
Jen HB
Jen HB
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I guess that there may soon be rules that for bets to count they need to be placed before the start time of the horse's activity...
DaveG
DaveG
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ptr_runner wrote:Question for the group then, when do we stop? What's the goal?


It feels like a maximum bet, with an 'all in' option, would prevent people getting too far in front. Perhaps a maximum bet of 100, but you can click 'all in' and bet everything if you want to go past that.

Perhaps that, with a badge for being top of the leaderboard at the end of the month, would be good.
57.5 Degrees of Pain
57.5 Degrees of Pain
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A rather less generous scoring system that recognises that a three month PB can be enormous if you are coming back from illness and injury?
Juuphy
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ptr_runner wrote:Oh wow Curious, Juuphy, what was your bet that got that return? Question for the group then, when do we stop? What's the goal?


41,373 on @57.5 Degrees of Pain to improve at 10k (just because it rounded my credits to exactly 100k)

57.5 Degrees of Pain wrote:A huge bet on me was put on virtually the same moment as I posted a big improvement. The bookies might've investigating a fix


I didn't realise you were running today, I just saw your post about @Fizz :-) betting. Thanks very much, well done on the run!

Maybe there should be a standard bet of 10 or 100 credits per runner per distance and no higher?

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The blog giving a bit more detail is here: fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2024/11/491373

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