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@chrisgambler247 @bigalgriff62 Chris. I posted about Betfred. My old account took a massive swing to down 5 figs. I bet another 3k while “kyc” ongoing for 10+ year account, gave them everything even tax return, account closed go away balance withheld, if I’d won those 3k of bets they werent paying UK finished

@bigalgriff62 A standardised check triggered if you lose £1k in 24 hours or £2k in 90 days.

🚨 Gambling Commission likely to rubber stamp affordability checks this Thursday. RIP Brtish regulated gambling market. RIP British racing as we know it.

@chrisgambler247 Its over Chris. Done. We lost. All I can say is. If anyone remains serious about it get yourself properly setup abroad with the correct ID all above board and some proper infrastructure. The game continues apace, just not in the UK (UK Horse Racing not part of that new wave)

@quarterfirst4 What a shift it will be 5am Austria Jordan should come with a £200 bet365 kick off bonus as a reward

What's our strategy for the world cup? Sleep and miss the 0200/0300 games? I'm most certainly not working PURE night shifts Or more likely alarm on, 10 min check, bet, bed.

@90sfootball I was wrong he played in Mersons the year before ! x.com/g4ryw4lker/sta…?

@90sfootball Pretty certain its 1997 and Nigel Winterburns testimonial

Paul Gascoigne and Paul Merson, 1996.

@quarterfirst4 One of the few people on the internet to have blocked me. A walter mitty extraordinaire. “I educated matchbook not to offer such markets so my subscribers could make money value betting and matchbook gladly lost commission” Supposed top players appear in thrall for some reason.

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@_DIGB @AyeReadyPod Throwing 14 years in petulance you just look like a complete mug I remember 14 years ago. Peterhead I remember 13 years ago. Cowdenbeath I remember 12. Queen of the South then 11 Queen of the South again. Those that actually lived it dont throw it back at the club. Grow up ffs

@AyeReadyPod 1 top division title in 14 years. Top of the league for 12 hours in the last 2 years. Here’s a video from 30 years ago when we used to win things (48 hours after we’ve chucked the league) You think it’s overly sensitive, i think it’s poor timing from folk that don’t get it

Who the fuck sanctioned this? We just chucked the chance to win the league a few days ago Read the fucking room

Be very careful of @Betfred. @GamRegGB provided transcripts. Old UK account 10 years old. The people you are forced to entrust your lifes documentation claim that the only way to demonstrate wealth is how much tax you have paid on it. Balance (tiny) stolen. Account down 5 figs

Every last one of them operating in the UK are the same

@devjoshstevens @Polymarket The UI and order execution is abysmal good luck in resolving. Cant be relied on, placing orders during play can cause a 30 second wait hunting checking positions / history / order book trying to find out where the hell the order went

This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here's exactly what we're doing: - Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible. - Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant. - Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon. - Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX. - We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it. - E2e tests throughout, starting with the CLOB, so issues get caught in CI before anything ships. - CLOBv2 is not a rewrite. It won't improve performance or stability on its own; it's an upgrade that unlocks us to move fast right after. We'll do better with communication next time. - We are rebuilding the CLOB from the ground up. Most important thing we're doing. Without it, we can't be the best DeFi exchange in the world. We know it, we're on it, it's mission critical. - Unified TypeScript SDK for all APIs, which is shipping soon. - Unified API. One WS connection for everything, with a schema that's actually readable. - New Polymarket contract in the works that unlocks things that are simply impossible on the current protocol. - New hires: Head of QA Automation, Head of Dev Tooling, Head of Internal Tooling, Head of Data Engineering. - Smaller, dedicated teams. Fewer focus points per person, clearer ownership. People do what they're good at and are accountable for it. - Working closely with customer support to give them real debugging tools so any user issue gets properly diagnosed, not lost. - Proper communication with marketing and market makers so everyone knows what's coming and when, and MM can submit feature requests with a clear path to get them into engineering and shipped. - Working with 4 security teams daily to ensure we're super secure and that funds are always safe. - Perps incoming. Brand new contracts and a backend built from scratch in Rust. We're proud of this one. - A lot of other fixes are running in parallel right now. Starting next Friday, I will be posting weekly engineering updates. I joined because I genuinely believe in what @Polymarket is trying to do. @shayne_coplan built this so the world has somewhere to go to find out what's actually going to happen, not what the media thinks, not what a pundit says, but what thousands of people are willing to put money on. But right now, our engineering isn't living up to that. We've let people down, and I'm not going to dress that up. I came here to fix it, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The next few months are going to speak for themselves. Stay with us.

@SBCinfo A joke to have that headline and be sponsored by Matchbook. The pretend peer to peer exchange that bans you if you arent losing money to them. “You are banned from playing this sport” “You are on 60% revenue share” “You are now on transactional commission” Heard it all.

“Betfair staff don’t really understand how people trade and operate…” That should not be the case at Betfair. Affordability checks and internal decisions are removing experienced traders and weakening the exchange model. Full podcast👇

@AKBets As someone that did very well out the wild west early betfair markets before SportRadar and the like coupled with the advent of mobile data locked everything down turning it into one giant machine / monopoly Cant say I’m sad to see it.

This is very significant. I’m a big historic fan of Muddy Waters and this report is fairly damning.

@piersmorgan Yvette Cooper in the Big Sam role No reason to linger about. Hes done

If I were Keir Starmer, I’d quit now over the Mandelson scandal - before the May local elections, which will be a historically humiliating repudiation of his entire agenda.

@alexburghart The important bit is what Dep Speaker said in reply to you.

The Prime Minister misled the House today

@Polymarket You can have 25/1 he announces quitting by April 30th, rules say it just needs announced. A cabinet coup changes the game on this market entirely. polymarket.com/event/starmer-…

Anyone involved on @polymarket may not want to rip up their April 30th tickets just yet. A current member of Starmers cabinet leaking that they want unity of all cabinet members to remove him polymarket.com/event/starmer-…

@_samdb @EssexPR @PoliticalPics Still buying my man, I see you Whats happening ? 😀

@OddsHunter @EssexPR @PoliticalPics I've mostly used polymarket to hedge some normal investments, but couldn't resist having a double reason to celebrate Startmer going. Probably shouldn't buy any more though 😅

Hearing rumours of movement within Labour… 👀

@_samdb @EssexPR @PoliticalPics Sam is that you trying to buy 25000 shares at 6.5 ? That markets going to explode in a minute 🫣

@_samdb @EssexPR Keep eye on this thread and @PoliticalPics theres something happening James Cleverly looks excitable tapping away on his phone at front of oppo bench