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I’ve just gone with Dolan again in the outright market. Obviously a long shot, but he averaged over 100 again yesterday and can still be backed at 150/1 with paddypower. He’s got Price tonight, but seems to be playing well at the moment, and did knock Price out the World Champs in December. I also like Heta to beat Rydz on the handicap today. Rydz is struggling at the moment, regularly averaging in the low 80’s over the last couple of weeks. Heta is 1/2 to win the match, but I think he might win this comfortably, gone with him at -3.5 on the handicap at 11/4.

1.20 Honor Grey 1.55 Josh The Boss 2.30 Kinondo Kwetu 3.05 Proschema 4.00 Mac Tottie 5.00 Djelo 5.35 No Questions Asked

1.45 Giovinco 2.20 Inthewaterside 2.55 Lookaway 3.30 Easy Game 4.05 The Edgar Wallace 4.40 Kyntara 5.15 Rewired

1.45 Colonel Harry 2.20 Intellotto 2.55 Ahoy Senor 3.30 Mahons Glory 4.05 The Big Lense 4.40 Dancing On My Own 5.15 Diva Luna

Good point - PaddyPower haven’t refunded me either, will message as well.

That’s a frustrating one mate. Gurney got to the quarters for me yesterday, and I’ll stick with him today, albeit at reduced odds of 75/1. Also going with Dolan (175/1), De Sousa (175/1), Menzies (200/1) and Lee Evans (450/1). (Menzies didn’t play yesterday, hopefully he’s there today).

Thanks for your comments and thoughts guys. I’ve just withdrawn more money from my betting accounts so that they are at a more comfortable level should something like this happen again. I’m still not particularly happy with the way Skybet dealt with it. There was no apology at any stage, and the way the first guy just shut the conversation down without any explanation does make me wonder if there was some sort of internal fraud going on. Anyway, money banked, and valuable lesson learnt.

Thanks @harry_rag - yeah looking back I was feeling pretty stupid for having that amount in my account - I should say that I don’t have anywhere near that amount in my other betting accounts. I suppose I was conscious that I may be more likely to be banned if I was constantly depositing and withdrawing money into my account - don’t know if that’s true or not.

I’ve had a right palaver with SkyBet this afternoon which I thought I’d share, mainly to vent my frustrations, also to warn others, but also to ask for a bit of advice - apologies for the length of the post in advance. I tried to log on to my Skybet account yesterday to find a message saying that my account had been closed down. Strange, so I immediately took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to contact SkyBetHelp to help clarify why I couldn’t access my account. Having received no reply after 12 hours I decided to contact the online chat help. After going through the various security questions I got to chat to a human. I explained that I couldn’t access my account and they looked into the situation with my account. They informed me that I had closed my account myself, and the funds in the account had been withdrawn to my card ending 4733. WTF, I hadn’t closed my account, and I definitely hadn’t received the funds in my account. I responded in a calm way, but made it clear that it was not me who closed the account, and I didn’t recognise the card number ending 4733. The b*stard on the other end of the chat then said there was nothing else they could do, and promptly closed the chat without giving me the chance to ask any further questions. I was pretty angry at this point, but got back into the chat queue and eventually got a second human. They could see my previous correspondence and said they would try and help. After a bit of to and fro, they eventually said that as I had closed the account myself, they couldn’t do anything as my 7 day cooling off period had not yet passed. When will these people realise, I didn’t close the account myself. At this point I’m thinking someone has hacked my account and withdrawn the money into their own account. At this point I should say that I had just short of £5k in my account, and was feeling pretty sick that I could be losing a substantial amount of money here. After mentioning that I would be taking this to the Gambling Commission, the chat person seemed to take the situation a bit more seriously. Over the next 90 minutes I provided the chat person with all sorts of ID, some of which I wasn’t particularly comfortable giving, but I was pretty stressed that I had lost everything in my Skybet betting bank. Eventually the chat person said they were going to restore my account, which they duly did. So after about 2 hours, I was able to log back into my Skybet account, and what did I find, the £5k was back in my account, and all the open bets I had in the account were also still there. I questioned how the money was still in the account when the first person I spoke to said that it had been withdrawn onto a card ending in 4733. They just said that the account had been fully restored, asked me if I was happy, and was quite keen to close the chat. I was pretty relieved to say the least, but it left me feeling pretty uneasy about the whole episode. Needless to say I immediately withdrew the majority of the £5k into my bank account, which to be fair landed into my account within 10 seconds. So what the hell were Skybet playing at, firstly closing my account without any warning, and then telling me the funds had been withdrawn, only to restore the fully funded account 2 hours later? Is it just me, or is there something quite fishy about And how do others manage their betting accounts? I guess I’ve always tried to keep my betting bank separate from my other outgoings so I’ve tried to limit the amount of money that I transfer between my betting accounts and my bank accounts - so I can keep track of my p/l a bit easier. Does anyone else keep a fair bit of money in their betting accounts, or should I be constantly depositing and withdrawing money into my betting accounts to avoid another situation like this? Any thoughts?

Cheers @Torque - all academic as O’Connor lost in the first round ☹️

Players Championship events continue today, as usual gone with a few outsiders to spring a surprise … Gurney (125/1), van Barneveld (125/1), Dolan (175/1), Menzies (200/1) and Zonneveld (250/1). Noticed that Coral have priced up O’Connor at 500/1 😁 - not sure if they’ll pay out if he wins, but worth the risk.

ET2 starts today. I’m away this weekend so going to miss most of the tournament, but have had a small bet on Dolan at 150/1 to win. He’s been chucking in some big averages on the floor, so hoping he can transfer that to the stage.

Lingfield 14:05 Light Speed 18/1 Hills

Southwell 17:00 Chaos Control 7/1 Bet365

Kempton 19:00 Mount Athos 11/8 Hills

Southwell 18:45 Waiting All Night 8/1 Hills

Newcastle 17:30 Asgard’s Captain 7/4 Hills

Wolverhampton 18:15 Leap Abroad 10/1 Bet365

Southwell 18:00 Engineer 6/1 Hills

Southwell 19:30 David’s Diva 15/2 Bet365

Exeter 15:30 Feivel 4/1 Skybet

I’m going to give Clayton another chance today, he’s been eased out slightly to 50/1 with a few firms. Also going with Schindler (125/1) again, lost in the first round yesterday, but averaged around 99 so didn’t do too much wrong. The bigger priced selections yesterday were all rubbish, so going with Dolan (150/1), O’Connor (200/1) and Zonneveld (250/1) today - fingers crossed for some better performances.

No good for me either - let’s hope for better tomorrow.

Players Championship 5 today and I’m on Clayton (40/1), Schindler (80/1), De Decker (125/1), Nijman (150/1) and Lukeman (150/1).

Wolverhampton 19:30 Intinso 15/8 PaddyPower