Tag: fat fingers

Football’s turn for an ouch!

Football’s turn for an ouch!

Bolton score against Spurs, so you would expect the odds to move a bit. However, you wouldn’t expect Spurs to get backed into 1.59; but that’s what happened! I suspect somebody sorted the odds in the wrong order or just had the wrong selection up some how and back heavily on the goal.

Bolton won 4-2 so no get out of jail card was served on this occasion. £77,809 was matched at 1.59.

06/11/2010 | By More
Fat fingers crucify punter

Fat fingers crucify punter

I see lots of strange things in the markets but few stranger than what happened just a moment ago at Newbury. While I realise we all, in some way, take money of each other now and again. I feel a great deal of sympathy for what they did, we all screw up from time to time. I can’t imagine how they felt after this error.

The long and short of it is that they backed a 400/1 shot down to …

23/10/2010 | By More
Hustle

Hustle

Was this a hustle or just a  case of fat fingers? On Wednesday we saw another one of those odd moments when the price on something comes crashing in for no apparant reason. I posted up some examples on the blog before where I got something matched at tiny prices that should have been 1000. On this race we saw something matched at 10’s that really should have been 20’s, not just once but twice!

090923 - Hustle fat fingers

25/09/2009 | By More
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