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PDC wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:36 pm
ticktake wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:20 pm
Trader Pat wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:12 pm
Does anybody know how many people attended?
Over a hundred I'd say.
I saw a tweet that said 148 out of the 150 who were expected attended.
£150 x 150 = £22,500, a few grand for the venue and you've a decent payday, certainly beats sitting at a desk all Saturday afternoon .
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spreadbetting wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:20 pm
PDC wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:36 pm
ticktake wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:20 pm


Over a hundred I'd say.
I saw a tweet that said 148 out of the 150 who were expected attended.
£150 x 150 = £22,500, a few grand for the venue and you've a decent payday, certainly beats sitting at a desk all Saturday afternoon .
No tax on gambling 8-)
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LinusP wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:30 pm

No tax on gambling 8-)
Just a regular Wednesday morning mugging of 40-60% instead :(
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ruthlessimon wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:18 pm
ShaunWhite wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:46 pm
In fact the really big earners are sometimes quite socially awkward.
What do you expect?? :D

The core truths of trading, are fundamentally anti-social

1. No sharing
2. Emotions like a robot
+1 .. which doesnt do it justice. Great post.
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The pricing of trading time is irrelevant with regards to teaching. The ability to teach, articulate and communicate to others isn't dependent on what you earn per hour. Wanting compensation for missing out on trading time is a different thing all together. And still, any supposed hourly figure could be simply made up.

I think the reasons for doing these types of events isn't and shouldn't be about how much money you can earn from them. I think there's other reasons that play a big part. These can include improving profile/status, networking, social and potential future opportunities with media and other events. One thing can quickly lead to another and it's always good to broaden your horizons and test yourself.
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spreadbetting wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:34 pm
LinusP wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:30 pm

No tax on gambling 8-)
Just a regular Wednesday morning mugging of 40-60% instead :(
20% payers get mugged as well. ;)
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vankancisco wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:00 pm
The pricing of trading time is irrelevant with regards to teaching. The ability to teach, articulate and communicate to others isn't dependent on what you earn per hour. Wanting compensation for missing out on trading time is a different thing all together. And still, any supposed hourly figure could be simply made up.

I think the reasons for doing these types of events isn't and shouldn't be about how much money you can earn from them. I think there's other reasons that play a big part. These can include improving profile/status, networking, social and potential future opportunities with media and other events. One thing can quickly lead to another and it's always good to broaden your horizons and test yourself.
I was thinking along those lines. Some people enjoy teaching and it may be considered as part of your time off trading rather than missing trading and needing to make as much to justify it.
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:51 am
spreadbetting wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:34 pm
LinusP wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:30 pm

No tax on gambling 8-)
Just a regular Wednesday morning mugging of 40-60% instead :(
20% payers get mugged as well. ;)
I thought you arbed your way out of charges, Derek.
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spreadbetting wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:20 pm
£150 x 150 = £22,500, a few grand for the venue and you've a decent payday, certainly beats sitting at a desk all Saturday afternoon .
I think it's also said that “once a sufficiency has been suffonsified, anything additional would be superfluous”. Basically a day off won't kill you if you're minted.
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Not completely sure you call prepping and running a 22k a day event a 'day off' :lol:

Let's be honest and put all the fluff aside it was a commercial opportunity, they took it and it will probably have a fair impact on their yearly earnings. Fair play.

Previous events that Betfair had tried to run were deliberately disrupted so Betfair cooled on the idea in recent years when I spoke to them.
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Euler wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:00 pm
Not completely sure you call prepping and running a 22k a day event a 'day off' :lol:
If it's a one man and a van operation maybe, but you pay events people to do the menial stuff and get people there, then the star guest just rocks up and talks. You don't have to turn up early to make the sandwiches or sweep up after.
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I await that day ;)
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spreadbetting wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:22 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:51 am
spreadbetting wrote:
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:34 pm


Just a regular Wednesday morning mugging of 40-60% instead :(
20% payers get mugged as well. ;)
I thought you arbed your way out of charges, Derek.
Without looking back at my posts I don't think I ever said that I've completely avoided PC.

A few years ago when I was using 5-6 bookie accounts I wasn't doing much trading and spent the evenings arbing and lost enough with Betfair to give me a PC deficit that lasted several weeks. There's been the odd week last year where my arbing losses wiped out my trading profits, but generally arbing can only reduce PC rather than eliminate it altogether, depending on the scale of your trading (losing £500 means roughly £100 less PC). But those days are long gone as I no longer have a usable bookie account.
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Euler wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:28 pm
I await that day ;)
You're heading in that direction judging by all the fans you've got.
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Euler wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:28 pm
I await that day ;)
Put it this way, if it didn't sell out. Good

I'll bring my laptop & we'll talk spreadsheets for 24hrs :D

-actually that would be quite a hard days work ;)
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