Tag Archives: Tony Clare

BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 – [This link is only available to the BetFair registered users, alas. In the future, BetFair should make the transcripts of all chat sessions available to the public at large, … Continue reading

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Tiny API delay for non-UK customers of BetFair —since all international BetFair bettors, traders and gamblers are now served from Malta, not from London.

- BetFair Games, BetFair Poker, BetFair Casino, BetFair Multiples, and all non-UK BetFair customers (including those trading on BetFair’s prediction exchange), are under the radar of Malta’s Lotteries and Gaming Authority. (As you all know, Malta is a state that … Continue reading

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BetFair’s brand-new bet matching logic

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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BetFair Malta’s combo market maker (trading algorithm + human market makers) operating on the multiples

Tony Clare of BetFair (The Sporting Exchange) to me: Dear Mr. Masse, Thank you for the questions you submitted to tonight’s Q&A session. The session is intended specifically to address questions from Betfair customers. We therefore don’t feel it would … Continue reading

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Did the BetFair blog use trading data from InTrade to hint at BetFair’s accuracy??

Latest update on the BetFair blog fiasco — I am alerted today that the BetFair blog has updated its infamous Michigan story with a new compound chart bearing a clearer label. It reads now: Republican nomination – The race so … Continue reading

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2007 WORLD CUP OF RUGBY: BetFair, Betdaq, TradeSports and NewsFutures all predict that South Africa will pulverize England into fine particles.

BetFair: 2007 World Cup of Rugby South Africa (“the Springboks”) will win: It should be said that the prediction markets got it wrong betting on New Zealand and then on France, in previous rounds. — The other prediction exchanges (betting … Continue reading

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