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GREAT NEWS: Stephen Burn is now the big boss at BetFair USA [*], and Gerard Cunningham is out. – [VIDEO]

BetFair won’t release any public press release on all this, but they told me what’s on this site is accurate: Stephen Burn (previously director of horse racing) is taking over BetFair US leadership, including TVG. We have decided that the … Continue reading

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The details on BetFair’s Starting Prices

Via Nick Garner, here are the explanations from Stephen Burn (Betfair’s Director of Horseracing): [...] From next month we’ll be giving customers the opportunity to back or lay a horse at [Starting Price]. There’ll be guaranteed matching in all but … Continue reading

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Director of Horseracing Stephen Burn explains Betfair’s brand-new Starting Prices.

Well, “begins to explain”, I should have titled… [...] It was a complex challenge because of the choices they wanted to make available to the widest possible range of customers. Just returning a simple version of the SP would have … Continue reading

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The BetFair Starting Prices… explained

The Guardian (which has the best coverage on BetFair-TradeFair): The Betfair betting exchange will launch its starting price betting service in the middle of next month, after it received the approval of a number of the exchange’s biggest-staking clients at … Continue reading

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