early trading on betfair

[dannkez2407]

an idea popped in my head when perusing betfair earlier, i was looking at the odds of the england-belarus game on draw no bet. you could back belarus at 4.8 and the current lay odds were at 50, obviously totally out of sync with what they will be come matchday, no doubt levelling out somewhere at around back - 5.0 and lay - 5.2. so what if you put on an unmatched bet at 40 to back belarus, meaning it would be the first in line in the lay section at 40 for a punter to come along and take that up, now if some fool takes the lay odds at 40, by matchday it should have dropped down to around 5-6ish and you have a huge green up potentially. does this happen and do ppl currently attempt this for a mug to come along and snap up the lay odds?

[Hooloovoo]

Re: early trading on betfair Now back is 29 and lay is 30....? :unsure What makes you think it will get down to about 5 ?