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In a blow to the French, BetFair choose Bastille Day to premiere the revised version of the bet-matching logic of their prediction markets. — IMPROVEMENT MEANS BETTER LIQUIDITY FOR THEIR EVENT DERIVATIVE TRADERS.

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- BetFair: Improvements to Betfair’s bet matching logic today, Monday 14th July: What’s changing? We’ve improved the code that matches bets. As well as matching backs against lays as we’ve always done, we’ll also try to match your bet against … Continue reading →

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The definitive proof that Emile Servan-Schreiber, the NewsFutures CEO, is an essential part of the world-wide conspiracy aiming at silencing BetFair.

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

[This post is filed in the "humor" category, of course. ] — Take a look at the blogroll of the NewsFutures blog, which cites everybody but BetFair: Recent Posts UC Riverside’s eLab eXchange : featuring Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageants Demise … Continue reading →

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Hanson’s Market Scoring Rule Explained in Five Sentences, Why Betfair Gets So Little U.S. Press Coverage, and other Half-Baked Commentary by Michael Giberson

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Michael Giberson

[Chris Masse invited me to submit to an email interview. I’m responding here to Chris’s questions, rendered in italics below. I'm not sure that anyone other than Chris will be interested, and half-way through he may regret this idea himself. … Continue reading →

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Deep Throat on Deep Throat on BetBrokers, “the World’s first independent betting brokerage”

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Guest Author

A reader (… anonymously… with a fake e-mail address) replies to Deep Throat: As a share holder of Betbrokers, I find some of the comments made unfair and untrue. True, Betfair does have better prices than the norm but what … Continue reading →

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