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Maczebus

29 May 2005, 07:02 PM

Didn't know where to put this but needed a UK angle on it.

OK - I know I sound like someone that's lived in a cave but I've never placed a bet in a bookies.

I want to bet on the play-off final tomorrow.
Treat me as a retard (no jokes please), what do I do?
Probably fairly straight-forward but don't want to look like a simpleton in there.

Thanks

Clan

29 May 2005, 11:06 PM

You're QPR - don't worry mate, everybody will understand ;)

Boro_lad

30 May 2005, 07:16 AM

use one of the internet bookies, they are easy and convinient and well explained aboutwhat you have to do etc.

But if you want to go to the bookies it's easy you just pick up a betting slip, there will probably be one just for this match with a whole load of different bets you can do on it. Just write down the amount you want to stake on the bet you have chosen on the slip in the appropriate box and ticket any appropriate boxes etc.

Just ask the person working there, they won't laugh or anything most people who work there are not going to be betting experts or anything, just people working a job and would probably be happy to help.

Maczebus

30 May 2005, 07:26 AM

RichardL

30 May 2005, 07:33 AM

nice one.

Trouble is I've offered to take someone to the bookies (foriegner) - but i realised I hadn't ever done it before.

looking to place a bet on PNE to win by a certain score. Do I just write on the slip - 'PNE to win 2-1' and hand over £10?
I think you write the odds on there as well, and your stake.

I've only been to a proper bookies once or twice myself, both times with someone who knew what he was doing.

I've used the bookies at a match a few times though (normally much clearer) but I stopped after I found it changed the way I watched the game. I had Trevor Morley to score the first goal at a match at Norwich. I remember with the scores at 0-0 a beautiful cross was sent in perfectly for Morley, poised at the back post, only for Adie bastard Williams to steam in and head the cross in instead. Lovely header Adie, but you just cost me £45.

Colin Bell the King

30 May 2005, 08:53 AM

I think you write the odds on there as well, and your stake.

I've only been to a proper bookies once or twice myself, both times with someone who knew what he was doing.

I've used the bookies at a match a few times though (normally much clearer) but I stopped after I found it changed the way I watched the game. I had Trevor Morley to score the first goal at a match at Norwich. I remember with the scores at 0-0 a beautiful cross was sent in perfectly for Morley, poised at the back post, only for Adie bastard Williams to steam in and head the cross in instead. Lovely header Adie, but you just cost me £45.

Should of placed the bet on Morley bedding Bishop instead. ;)

RichardL

30 May 2005, 01:02 PM

Should of placed the bet on Morley bedding Bishop instead. ;)
but what if Adie sneaked in first there too?

Eddie26

31 May 2005, 01:21 AM

You're QPR - don't worry mate, everybody will understand ;)

Holy S you're on a roll recently. The wife must be giving you some (plus a league championship will do it too!)

Maczebus

31 May 2005, 07:51 AM

Well that was fun.
Lost it all and unlike every other vice on the planet, it's not something I want to be that much a part of in the future.
Still, I have a far better chance winning something on football than on horses.
I had a few quid as a side bet that Zamora would score first but PNE to come back and win 2-1, 85/1. Got half of it right.

aloisius

31 May 2005, 07:59 AM

Still, I have a far better chance winning something on football than on horses.

Actually you have exactly the same chance of winning on football, the Czech hockey league and women’s water polo world cup.

kerpow

02 Jun 2005, 04:00 PM

I know what you mean. First time I went into a bookies, aged 18 I suppose, it was a little intimidating. Really smoky and full of fat unemployed people!!

Internet gambling is much more up my street but it's not something I do regularly. Betting on the WC is good, makes games like China v Ecuador much more exciting.