mikeynz

You must have stacked a lot on it judging by the short price Kods.

The Timaru course has been well discussed and Doomed keeps bringing it up. It is really up to the powers that be have to listen to the participants if they want to shut Timaru. Personally I reckon it's all bullshit but if they want to shut one of Oamaru or Timaru what would you do ? Common sense should prevail.

All the aussie sites let you deposit by cards, but only withdraw through bank transfer, Betfair were an exception, I use to fluff around Betfair when they were based out of the UK, had a brilliant Sportsbook as well as the exchange, then all of a sudden it was blocked and everything linked up to an a australian based site, the place to navigate around is hopeless, even the app is crap, shame really. Easy to criticise TAB site but Betfairs is easily the worst going around.

Wasn't Mr McNaught the guy who was there when they wanted to close Wyndham, ,Forbury and others ? Shift everything to Winton ?

Whips and spurs might be better behind closed doors.

The problem attracting new young punters is that the older ones are probably dieing off twice as fast as the new ones.😞

So I'm not the not the only one who's noticed ?

Putting the radio against a 8 wire fence often would improve the signal. That guy calling the trials at Winton, very enthusiastic, spose ya got to love him for that.

I think for non racing people the racing on the zb stations must have been very nauseating. There weren't many alternatives either. Remember when at 6 o clock they use to read all the results ? Strange though after all these years the coverage on actual radio is the poorest its ever been.

Pity this cuts off a bit early.

some win

Pokies don't bother me, played them online, kind of realized they were a great drain on finances,(mine) but nonetheless a great funder for the host, seems weird the TAB getting rid, what is the reason. Could be they are just thinking of the people not harming themselves, so those people will probably go somewhere else and probably won't go in a TAB again.

Why are the pokies going, spose you could ask why were the ever installed but they were a revenue earner. Does that mean that entain will be doing all the gaming, maybe online only ?

Freda, how are they going to increase revenue and reduce gambling harm ?

Online casinos are a trap for people, but the betting company's love them, money money money.

Centrebet, I told them I found that blackjack instant game on the right side of the screen a distraction and to get rid of it so they got rid of me lol.

I will add I only bet small amounts, for fun , I did have a period where I was serious but gambling has not been good to me money wise but I do it coz I enjoy, I am simply being responsible. Was in a shop the other day, women bought 50 grams of roll ya own tobacco, 123 bucks, now that is a waste of money, at least having a punt you might win something.

Brodie, the reason I don't quote anyone is because I have arsehole phone that stuffs up. You quote figures of 30 bucks on a top four, the TAB has it says 250000 account holders, most are small time punters but they all add up but I think I read somewhere that 3% of customers bet 87% of turnover so ic they want to grow turnover look after your core base. You probably are not going to grow turnover by more nz customers, many don't bet in our society and having more options is actually creating gambling issues, do we need all these Xtra betting options ? If the commingling goes on the major aussie races be interesting to see what the pools are, with TABcorp they were Feely big with Entain I'd say they would be much smaller.

Does the 2k limit apply to sports bets, there must plenty of opportunities to rake it in with tennis or rugby yet I never hear of them.

Brodie I hear you going on about restrictions. Obviously this applies to fixed odds only but what are people being restricted too. What are their winnable limits ? What are restricted too ?

Invercargill cup friday December 22, note not the Saturday like last year. Might be the Franklin cup or something else at New year, Auckland cup at New Year is gone.

I wonder if in 25 years if I'm still going if I actually win anything.

Whatever happens happens, but in the fullness of time I reckon many will be proven right, hopefully they don't get geo blocking, I'm for competition, without it you take what you get or tough luck.

Give these fuckers the flick, stick to tabcorp if anyone, after all you do commingle pools now so that's a starting point. Corporates are fine but they are interested in dollars, not racing, sports organisation's etc etc.

Talking about revenue making, one wonders if the new whip rule or the lack of whipping also stifles betting, lots of races run see horses not driven out, why bother if you don't get a good run for ya money.