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WHO YOU BACKING FOR THE VIRTUAL GRAND NATIONAL
vaigret
Member Posts: 16,380
Hi all
As the losses going to NHS had to give this a go.
Mine are
WALK IN THE MILL 16-1
KIMBERLITE KANDY 16-1
Small savers on
TOP VILLE BEN 45-1
BEWARE THE BEAR 33-1
BALLOPTIC 25-1
MAGIC OF LITE 18-1
As the losses going to NHS had to give this a go.
Mine are
WALK IN THE MILL 16-1
KIMBERLITE KANDY 16-1
Small savers on
TOP VILLE BEN 45-1
BEWARE THE BEAR 33-1
BALLOPTIC 25-1
MAGIC OF LITE 18-1
Comments
Ballyoptic 25
Talk is cheap 25
Yala enki (nap) 28
Magic of light 18
Vintage Clouds 33
One-time plz....looser..
Definitly Red 14/1
e/w
The Storyteller 40/1
Top Ville Ben 45/1
Any Second Now 10/1.
Magic Of Light 18/1
Ramses De Teillee 66/1
Beware The Bear 33/1
Valtor 66/1
Elegant Escape 20/1
Bristol De Mai 20/1
Beware The Bear 33/1
I'm with you @vaigret with WALK IN THE MILL e/w too
I'd actually backed it e/w Ante-post at 25/1 for the real thing after it won the Classic Chase at Warwick in January ....... so gutted this year's race has been cancelled.
Walk In The Mill @ 17.00
Kimberlite Candy @ 17.00
Definitly Red @ 15.00
Burrows Saint @ 13.00
Potters Corner (NAP) 18/1
Yala Enki 28/1
Walk In The Mill 16/1
Kimberlite Candy 16/1
Hopefully one or more comes up trumps and gets me some UKOPS tokens for later
GL all.
Essentially, they're turning the Grand National into an advert for online casino at a time when they know people are stuck at home and bored out of their minds, and doing so under the pretense that you can help the NHS by taking part. I mean, if the customer wants to donate to a Coronavirus charity anyway, it's a freeroll, right? Clearly not, because they're donating net profits on the market, so your winnings come from money that would have otherwise been donated, but of course they won't tell anyone that.
Since they'll only be donating their profits from the market itself, have a guess where the money they make goes when someone blows their winnings on Roulette tonight. Because it's definitely not going to the NHS. That's where they make their money on this.
They're also pushing the idea that losing is okay, without saying it.
"You lost your money, but you at least helped the NHS and you had fun, so it's not all bad, right?"
That weakens the idea that losing money is a negative thing, making the punter slightly less risk averse in the future and potentially more willing to gamble when they're not giving profits to the NHS. As with most bookie tactics, it's subtle and it's very clever.
Meanwhile, I've seen nothing of wealthy owners contributing to the NHS from their own pockets - H3ll, most of them are in Gibraltar or some other tax haven so that they can avoid contributing to our public services.
And of those that do actually pay tax in the UK, I've no doubt that Fred Done will continue throwing money at supporting the Conservative party, thus causing far more harm to the NHS than we can ever hope to collectively raise from a virtual horse race.
Instead, we're left with a desperate attempt to salvage a few quid from people punting their winnings on casino this evening, and an attempt to grab some good PR for the industry when people don't bother to scratch below the surface. Because the industry needs all the good publicity it can get when two record fines totalling almost £25m have been given out in the last three weeks.
Betway UKGC fine
Caesars UKGC fine
But hey, at least we don't have to listen to the bandwagon animal rights activists this year for a change.
All good fun
Evil Pingu too serious, I have had enough of serious, bit of light releif, profits from the market going to NHS charities and if people win and then lose it then there fault.
Agree the bookies not angels but let us gamblers have a little fun in this tough time.
Stay safe
I did 4 horses with 50 spread over so didnt think about Fc .