William Hill New Horse Racing Offer

Had an absolute shocker today….I placed my bet on the horse that won the race (or so I thought….) as it was just before the start of the race quickly put my lay bet on…when I went back to William hill the bet hadn’t gone through as the race has just started but my lay bet had been accepted….I tried to cash out to minimize damage but it wouldn’t let me…. the horse went on to win…lucky the lay odds were low at 2 but still ended up £24 down….how could I have sorted that mess out mid race….?

Yeah I tried to effectively cash out (yes I’d have been down but it would have been better than £24!) I was going to try and lay another horse for roughly the same odds but the odds were going all over the place. Lesson learnt though, I find William hills odds are aggressively low on the favourite horses so trying to find a close back/lay odds to minimize ql can often only be done last minute.

On a side note I’d love to use smarkets but for some unknown reason they don’t offer PayPal…so I can’t…going to be going for a mortgage in the next 6 months so don’t want gambling sites all over my statement, limited to PayPal only sites at the minute.

It probably wasn’t you that was restricted but the market.

Yep, bookie look to reduce their liability to. If you went back to bet the same amount on the same horse later in the day you will probably find your bet will be accepted, because at that point others will have placed bets on other runners.

Yeah I’m aware of this, I’ve already lost a few, StanJames, betway and betbright but I’ve only just been doing the horse racing thing for a week or so, hopefully will get a decent amount of time to profit of it! Williamhill seems pretty decent with their offers, I wasn’t too bothered with the other accounts.

Shame about the small fields at Plumpton today, its usually a course that is extremely profitable for this offer.

And theres another non runner, shame.