TAB SITTING ON "TIME BOMB"

I am told the pool for the first pool was a massive 12000 rand can anyone confirm this ?Sorry to say but this bet is an insult to punters and whoever at phum came up with this pathetic idea should be shot at dawn..

Bob Brogan wrote: From Rob Scott

Hi Bob the idea behind the time bomb is that the tote is losing huge amounts of turnover to lucky number bets. The time bomb is in effect the totes counter offer to this it will over time deliver huge pools and the tote will offer guaranteed payouts as per the lotto. The good news is that a percentage of this bet goes to stakes so whilst it may not be everyone's cup of tea it will appeal to certain customers.

What a crock of shite, Rob Scott speaks shit.

Bettingworld currently offer betting on 38 various lotto numbers. 38. That is as of 9am this morning. Phumelela are not losing out on anything, they are milking as fast as they can just as they always do. The tote should be a racing facility not an effing soccer lotto.

pirates wrote: I am told the pool for the first pool was a massive 12000 rand can anyone confirm this ?Sorry to say but this bet is an insult to punters and whoever at phum came up with this pathetic idea should be shot at dawn..

i have to agree with you on this.the idiot who suggested this bet surely must be insane.how can phum employ insane people?

Over the Air wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: From Rob Scott

Hi Bob the idea behind the time bomb is that the tote is losing huge amounts of turnover to lucky number bets. The time bomb is in effect the totes counter offer to this it will over time deliver huge pools and the tote will offer guaranteed payouts as per the lotto. The good news is that a percentage of this bet goes to stakes so whilst it may not be everyone's cup of tea it will appeal to certain customers.

What a crock of shite, Rob Scott speaks shit.

Bettingworld currently offer betting on 38 various lotto numbers. 38. That is as of 9am this morning. Phumelela are not losing out on anything, they are milking as fast as they can just as they always do. The tote should be a racing facility not an effing soccer lotto.

Sure they are just trying to offer their clients(tote) an alternative as the bookies do?

Bookie told me that on 10% of bets taken these days are racing bets(20% stakes)

Could not establish pool size but no winners 4 or 5

3 correct paid R7049. 70 not sure how many winners ?

Checked TAB but could not find

If you google

TAB TIME BOMB PAYOUTS

It takes you to ABC lol

tab put 100k into the pool..the timebomb should be put underneath some of these clowns at phum who come up with this crap

So it turns out, looking at the pools, the punters are not as dumb as they thought. :lol: :lol:

Sure they are just trying to offer their clients(tote) an alternative as the bookies do?

Bookie told me that on 10% of bets taken these days are racing bets(20% stakes)

Bob I have a few problems with this scenario. You are quite correct in saying racing bets are way down. I have on many occasions not been able to get a racing bet on at Betting World (admittedly now many years ago but I am sure that nothing has changed) because there are queues a mile long with soccer patrons calling out multiple bets to the harassed operators. Should this stink bomb rubbish, or any other sports type bet gain popularity in the tote, then we will have a similar scenario. Racing should not be playing a back seat in the tote! Shame on Rob Scott and the idiots who devised this bet. Start offering more racing bets if you want to improve turnover.

They are actually giving info on to when the first goal will be scored based on history

All the best Shane, you gave me a bit of a chuckle there

The only other time the authorities were gratuitous was following that howler of a start at Clairwood on a former Paddy's day. It wld be nice thank-you's to horse racing punters if they did it say annually.

Any bookmakers offering odds on how many more weeks this lasts?