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There are some in Wellington as far as I am aware. 

They are for WIN fixed odds only! There are other bets apart from WIN bets, its called Top 3!

Interesting! Does anyone know where the Bookies that set the odds are based or is it set by computers from Oz and algorithms do the rest?

They just don’t have any staff at Petone anymore I believe. They are based in Wellington CBD now. 

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So selling out to Entain  has cost a lot of New Zealanders their jobs! They were meant to be guaranteed employment with the TAB  for I believe 2 years minimum, but we know they started getting rid of staff pretty early on! Anyway they will not need many staff in NZ once the guaranteed funding to racing stops, all be done out of Oz!

Central Districts and Otago/Southland also have 4, Northern has 6

No one is at Petone from my understanding.     

so the tab restricts taking bets from known winning punters. But they take the same bet from everyone else. so its the person making the bet who is targeted,not the actual bet. i understand why you may think that is best practice,i may not agree with it,but i understand it. but,your comments linking that to greater tab profit,well its not as simple as that. if profit is the priority like you say it should be,then you need to have more flexible thinking. because as i have pointed out many times,the tab may reduce the losses on the ff by restricting winning ff punters,but if those same punters use those profts generated to invest on tote pools, then by resticting the ff profits,you most likely will impact their spending on the tote pools.Its just the way it works. i've given specific examples several times in the past to explain how it can actually play out. For some reason people will still always argue its black and white,in other words restricting winning ff punters leads to greater tab profit,when clearly that isn't always the case. And thats also without even factoring in winning ff punters  using some of their profits to participatie in other areas of the industry like ownership,breeding, sponsorship.