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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: World's greatest Gambling scams
Anyone watch this last night 11pm on Challenge TV, all about people pulling off scams, there was one involving greyhounds at Rochester dog track in the 70s
There was one fruit machine scam and another scam involving the roulette table
These blokes invented this competition where the final was a long distance contest but the heats were sprints. Then they bought 2 sprinters from Ireland, ran them in long distance contests as warm up where their times and form was awful, then they entered them in the sprint heats.
They were long shots because of previous form. These blokes placed doubles on the dogs, with the bigger priced of the 2 running first, they both won and were in the final but these blokes weren't bothered about the final, they had won their money on the heats. They stood to win over £400k.
The bookies refused to pay out as they noticed there were loads of these bets, the blokes got nasty and started intimidation and violence but they didn't get their money
wasn't there one with some irish horse trainer, who sent a horse to market rasen??
he bought a really good horse (he's a top trainer, cant remember his name tho!)
and sent a similar, but crap, horse to a crap trainer in england. the top horse
was entered in a race, but the rules are that a horse must be in the country
7 days before his race, or something...
anyway, the top trainer trained the top horse in ireland, while the crap trainer
trained the crap horse in england. On the day of the race, people saw that
the horse was trained by this crap trainer, so he was 8/1.
on the day, they put soapy water on the horse, so it looked like sweat.
the top trainer put doubles and trebles on with 2 other of his horses, but later
pulled the other 2 out of their races...
the horse won by 10lenghts. i think there was a big kerfuffle, but i think he
got his money...
(my accuracy baffles even me sometimes...) _________________ You're about as much use as Anne Frank's drumkit!!
Rochester...The 2 dogs were named Leysdown Fun and Leysdown Pleasure. At that time you could bring a dog from Ireland and not have to use its passport. The guys involved spent months using super glue to jam the bookies looks on busy days in an effort to get paid.
Adam...It was Cartmel and the horse was called Gay Future.
Adam.....Far from getting paid they all got warned off. Part of the scam involved the trainer using other horses in doubles and trebles. which he then withdrew so it all went on as a single. He claimed the horsebox had broken down so the horses had not arrived at the track. A reporter called the yard to see what was going on and was told the horses were outside in the paddock which prompted the inquiry.
well my details were a little sketchy!! i'd only seen a programme about it
a few months back, but it was in irish, so i didn't quite catch everything...
Go raibh maith agat! _________________ You're about as much use as Anne Frank's drumkit!!
there was acard counting scam where a group used a chinease man and promted him to bet big, they got banned in vegas so went to japan, they made alot of cash! _________________ Wolves winner 20.1.08
there was one on there last night about this guy who could break into fruit machines and re-set the machine to win. Then he got caught and when he came out the fruitys were all electronic.
So this guy designed little microchips to insert in the machine and he would take the jackpot. He would win thousands in one go.
They caught him because there was a £16 million jackpot and they knew he would go for it
I remember there was a scam in a two year old race a while back. The horse that won had won by 20 lengths(speaking about making sure), But like the earlier posts it was an older horse that was actually in the race.
There was a golf one about 5 years ago, not really a scam but a group of punters had noticed that small indepentdent bookies would offer daft odds of 50/1 + on there being a hole in one at a tournament and as they nearly happen about every 5 i think they cleaned up i think it was over £100,000 _________________ Forest are Treemendous
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The last Ryder cup. It was 8-8 going into the last day. The local bookie whilst full of drink on the Saturday night offered my mate 10/1 for Europe to win. When my mate went in to back Europe first thing in the morning the bookie had a board price of 7/1. He asked him about the 10/1 he was offered the night before and the bookie said he remembered it and stood by the 10/1 offered. My mate only put £40 on it, But the whole shop was on it at 7s. He did pay everyone out, but needless to say he`s no longer in business.
best gambling scam was in sports illustrated a few years ago...it was in the 30s this guy came into town and joined a golf club and began playing the club pro and others for money...after awhile he then offered to play the club pro left handed if he got a few strokes...nearly everyone took a piece of the action but it turned out that he was actually left handed....cleaned the place out for thousands and thousands of dollars
[quote="Adam"]wasn't there one with some irish horse trainer, who sent a horse to market rasen??
he bought a really good horse (he's a top trainer, cant remember his name tho!)
and sent a similar, but crap, horse to a crap trainer in england. the top horse
was entered in a race, but the rules are that a horse must be in the country
7 days before his race, or something...
anyway, the top trainer trained the top horse in ireland, while the crap trainer
trained the crap horse in england. On the day of the race, people saw that
the horse was trained by this crap trainer, so he was 8/1.
on the day, they put soapy water on the horse, so it looked like sweat.
the top trainer put doubles and trebles on with 2 other of his horses, but later
pulled the other 2 out of their races...
the horse won by 10lenghts. i think there was a big kerfuffle, but i think he
got his money...
(my accuracy baffles even me sometimes...)[/quote]
i THINK IT WAS TRAINED BY EDDIE O GRADY ADAM!
THEY LATHERED HIM UP IN THE SADDLING BOX WITH FOAM SUDS TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE HE WAS OVERHEATING.
GINGER MCCAINS WIFE SEEN WHAT WAS GOING ON..
_________________ pete mitchell,your minds writin'checks that your body can't cash!
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