Tag Archives: Michael Robb

The one word missing in BetFair’s Michael Robb’s résumé

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Michael Robb @ LinkedIn: Summary I am a communications professional with a broad mix of experience. My strengths include media relations, campaign management, corporate communications, digital communications and creativity. Specialties Print, online and social media, digital and online PR, corporate … Continue reading →

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BetFair created the world’s largest ad banner —as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- BETFAIR.COM – EURO 2008 BILLBOARD Copyright Bildagentur Zolles / Robert Zolles – Thanks to Michael Robb for sending me this aerial pic. – Video (I embedded the video in a post, yesterday.) – BetFair – PS: Soccer = world … Continue reading →

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BetFair’s brand-new bet matching logic

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair: Betfair Customer Services 06 Jun 15:55 We held a forum Q&A session in March in which we announced that we were working on an improved version of bet matching. This would allow us to match bets across selections, and … Continue reading →

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Huge quality improvement (well, considering that they started from 1,000 meters below the sea level) in the BetFair blog, lead by their resident prediction market guy, Mike Robb

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The guy has shown commitment. Look at the semi-long list of posts he has produced. The guy has finally understood that people want red meat —dynamic charts (i.e., self-updating) that link to the said prediction markets. I observe, in passing, … Continue reading →

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BetFair’s new bet-matching logic

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Michael Robb’s e-mail to me: Hi Chris, Firstly I’d like to clarify that Betfair is a privately-owned, limited company and is not listed on the Stock Exchange. Therefore, there is no trading in its shares and so when Ed Murray … Continue reading →

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??? BetFair bet-matching logic ???

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

While market design expert Chris Hibbert is puzzled by Niall O’Connor’s statement mentioning an automated trader, event derivative trader Ed Murray (who made a series of accusations against BetFair) has just written a comment bringing in some intriguing (but yet … Continue reading →

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Meet Mike Robb of BetFair and the BetFair blog (the “prediction markets” section).

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – - Michael Robb His LinkedIn profile BetFair blog BetFair

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BetFair-TradeFair (slightly) improve their blog, finally (it was about time) —and open 2 new sections: “prediction markets” and “financials”.

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Here’s the vertical menu of the BetFair blog. Scroll down until you see “Politics”, and “Prediction Markets”. – - Here’s their section on politics: – Here’s their section on finance: – - My thoughts: Their “about” page still does not … Continue reading →

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Once again, a BetFair spin doctor misunderstands the prediction market approach.

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Via Niall O’Connor, the Cyprus Mail (citing BetFair spin doctor Michael Robb): Political markets are different to sports markets because the people betting have an interest in the subject such as academics, journalists, people who work at it in their … Continue reading →

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The Michigan primary as seen thru the BetFair prediction markets

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Thanks to Michael Robb from BetFair, I can show you the charts of the last day of trading on Michigan’s election day. You can see, on the Republican chart, Mitt Romney (in red) as the Comeback Kid —starting at 3:00PM … Continue reading →

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