Itâs Counted as a cross with pp.
They all use the same crowd to settle those bets.
They donât have their own person doing it.
Iâve had bets readjusted the other way too in fairness to PP. Someone got awarded a shot on target a few hours after the game and my bet was in.
Was there anything said about bookmakers opening for Cheltenham?
Id be surprised if they were deemed necessary
I thought all retail was opening no?
The initial focus will be on schools and construction.
It really is hard to say / know where main street shops will be in the relaxing of restrictions at this stage.
They will most likelu relax a couple of other elements around travel. Make no mistake they have to open up the country from April onwards to a large degreeâŚotherwise our problems will be much much worse over a longer term.
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Oh Clinton 
Donât think thatâs the Boyles chat? Iâd say itâs a spoof.
Is this fella mad to be looking to get into on course bookmaking and buy up pitches? I see no one else doing it, most folk are running the other way. I heard him on a podcast saying he was a compiler at PP but it was too boring so he gave it up to punt from home. Anyone know roughly what it would cost to buy a pitch at a good course and/or a small regional course?
Wonder is he hoping to buy them up on the cheap now
Seems bit odd
I wonder do on course pitches bypass the regulations regarding money laundering etc.
At the moment theres lads in their 70s whoâd happily give them away for free Iâd say. If SP stays with industry pricing then bookies arenât needed. Courses have been slowly making it more difficult for them and when things reopen I can imagine only half the number will be bothered.
So yes, yer man seems a bit crazy
Thereâs no KYC obviously but you have to submit full takings after every race and if your income was drastically up compared to other bookies on the course it would send red flags off every where
I really miss Saturday and heading in to boylesports for the machine coffee and digested biscuits and loading the machine up with a few fifty euro notes to make a heap of accas in Israel, Serbia or Greece.
is there any chance I wonder they could install these outside the shop like say an atm and fellas could q up and work away?
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The punters at your average midweek regional meeting then are pensioners many of whom wouldnât bet online like the crowd coming after them. Then youâve the issue of we are nearly heading into a cashless society. Hard to see how things will be any better in the next five or ten years for on course bookies.
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He seems to be specifically picking tracks that have good summer festivals where many spectators are not really Racing people at all so wouldnât have online accounts.
Paddy Power parent Flutter Entertainment to ban credit card betting in Ireland
Flutter Entertainment, owner of Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Bet franchises, will ban credit card betting in Ireland from the beginning of April.
The move, which has already been made in Britain, comes before government plans to establish a gambling regulator. Flutter will also stop âwhistle to whistleâ advertising for sports events broadcast live on Irish TV before the watershed of 9pm.
Only âsingle digit per centâ of Flutter customers use credit cards to bet online, according to Conor Grant, chief executive for Flutter UK and Ireland.
Research in the UK has shown, however, that 22 per cent of online gamblers using credit cards are problem gamblers.
Grant says Flutter will also increase its contribution to safe gambling charities to 1 per cent of net gambling revenues in Ireland by 2023, which will be worth âŹ3 million. The money supports âthe research, education and treatment of harmful gamblingâ. The company will donate âŹ1.25 million this year.
Grant says Flutter fully supports the proposal in the programme for government to introduce a gambling regulator, but decided to move ahead with the measures as part of its safe gambling programme.
Flutter uses predictive models to monitor harmful gambling behaviour. Across Paddy Power and Betfair brands in Ireland, 8,227 customers receive âsafer gambling messagesâ per month; 157 are contacted for âa safer gambling interactionâ. It restricts 85 accounts on average each month in Ireland for ânon-successful completionâ of a safer gambling interaction, applying mandatory deposit limits or suspending accounts.
The UK gambling commission, founded in 2007, is considering possible âaffordability checksâ on punters.