My Personal favourite was Bet Fred who restricted me within 2 losing bets to SP.
If your not restricted with Boylesports, Skybet or Coral your doing it wrong.
Betfair make a huge song and dance that thier exchange prices are more accurate than the polls. The last Amercian election is often cited as a good example whereby the polls showed a contraction of Obama's lead but the market stayed put and was proved right. All this is about is Betfair getting...
Betfair have paid out already (It's crappy Sportsbook, not the exchange)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/11098848/Betfair-pays-out-early-on-Scottish-independence-No-vote.html
Don't get me wrong I'm not touching it at those prices. I think the golden rule with political betting is to concentrate on polls as close to the polling date as possible and they seem too closely matched to me to start waving around monthly mortgage payment type bets (which if your backing No...
I read an article the other day. On Betfair, 4 of the 5 million has been matched on the No. Most of the other 1 million is the patriotic pound from Scottish punters in small stakes. 75% of bets over 2K have been on No with up to 22K staked in one go.
In Politics the prices are normally spot on.
I've seen a number of people who reckon the No vote will get to about 1/10 come polling day and there were a fair few of the timeform crowd were lumping on at 1.38 on Betfair.
The media might be portrating this as too close to call but the market has as good as made it's mind up. It's No all...