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I've seen this on other forums and it seems quite good, was there ever any talk of putting it on this board?

vBookie is a 'bookmakers' or betting extension to vBulletin. It enables authorised members to post Events and Outcomes that forum members can bet on. Each Outcome has its own set of odds, and odds can be modified through the life of an Event
 
Locked before it hits 2 pages

Stake $500 @ 1/4

$50 on the locker being Wibble @ 3/1

Any takers?
 
I like this idea but from past experience it takes a lot of effort on the bookie's part, and which one of our equally lazy mods would be willing to do that.
 
ive seen it i won so much that the bank stopped adding interest.
 
I_live_cement said:
I like this idea but from past experience it takes a lot of effort on the bookie's part, and which one of our equally lazy mods would be willing to do that.
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you just need to create a thread and add the odds from bet365 with the betting options
 
GazM said:
I've seen this on other forums and it seems quite good, was there ever any talk of putting it on this board?

vBookie is a 'bookmakers' or betting extension to vBulletin. It enables authorised members to post Events and Outcomes that forum members can bet on. Each Outcome has its own set of odds, and odds can be modified through the life of an Event
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You saw this on Planetcricket didn't you?
 
I'll have a think about this though I suspect there would be problems with liquidity (not enough money being bet) and a skewed punter population (everyone wants to back Man Utd not Barca to win). Potentially it could undercut betfair commission and offer a modest income stream to the caf (Niall wakes up).
 
Any interest from the mods in doing this? It would be good if it could get started before the season starts.

By the way, there seems to be an impression that real money is bet, it's not, just vMoney or Points or whatever. I was a vBookie on another forum before it died, people liked it.
 
kietotheworld said:
Any interest from the mods in doing this? It would be good if it could get started before the season starts.

By the way, there seems to be an impression that real money is bet, it's not, just vMoney or Points or whatever. I was a vBookie on another forum before it died, people liked it.
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If it's only for fun why don't you have a go? I could give you some help to price stuff up if you need it (though I can't commit to doing it regularly).
 
peterstorey said:
If it's only for fun why don't you have a go? I could give you some help to price stuff up if you need it (though I can't commit to doing it regularly).
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This thread is about an add-on for this forum software, kietotheworld would therefore not be able to do this himself, as the add-on needs to be installed.

The add-on basically does all the calculations itself and the admins only have to add the matches, the odds and then the results.
But if I'm not mistaken, Niall has never been keen on installing add-ons, for a couple of reasons.

It would be great though.
 
peterstorey said:
If it's only for fun why don't you have a go? I could give you some help to price stuff up if you need it (though I can't commit to doing it regularly).
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Thank but I won't need it, I'd just use Oddschecker.com.

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This thread is about an add-on for this forum software, kietotheworld would therefore not be able to do this himself, as the add-on needs to be installed.

The add-on basically does all the calculations itself and the admins only have to add the matches, the odds and then the results.
But if I'm not mistaken, Niall has never been keen on installing add-ons, for a couple of reasons.

It would be great though.
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Is correct.
 
Top said:
This thread is about an add-on for this forum software, kietotheworld would therefore not be able to do this himself, as the add-on needs to be installed.

The add-on basically does all the calculations itself and the admins only have to add the matches, the odds and then the results.
But if I'm not mistaken, Niall has never been keen on installing add-ons, for a couple of reasons.

It would be great though.
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Yeah I got the add-on bit but I thought someone had to set the book but I guess you can just get it from betfair etc (as kw suggests). Would be worthwhile I reckon (and a potential source of dosh to the cafe - nudge nudge).
 
peterstorey said:
I assume we could trial it then make it for real with the caf getting a rake off.
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You'd need a license for that, surely? And there'd be considerable risk if the Bookie made a feck-up. I've never seen it done with real money.
 
kietotheworld said:
You'd need a license for that, surely? And there'd be considerable risk if the Bookie made a feck-up. I've never seen it done with real money.
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It would be an exchange scenario with nil risk to the caf.

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Would never work, Storey.
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Could do. Even if the caf had to be licensed as a bookmaker. Basically the cafites would benefit from better odds (since many of them bet with conventional bookmakers despite my frequent advice NOT to do this) and the caf could hoover up the 5% betfair comm (less my 1% comm for getting it all going)
 
Let me rephrase; never going to happen, Storey.
 
I used to run a vBookies on another forum before. Had to be on the ball to set up the threads and get fair odds. Also the threads had a set layout, kind of like the matchday threads. It could be a real success here.
 
It'll be like the arcade, everyone uses it like mad the first 2 weeks before going back to posting shit in the general.
 
Psmith said:
It'll be like the arcade, everyone uses it like mad the first 2 weeks before going back to posting shit in the general.
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Nah, as long as the Bookie(s) post a thread for maybe every premiership match, or an event like Wimbledon, interest is maintained because people want to keep their totals up. With vOdds you can be a bit more generous than a real Bookie as well.
 
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