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    Border Gadgie
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    Paddy Power and Betfair agree to merge


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    Rudeboy
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    Wow

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    Another one

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    IBetYou
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    In other words, goodbye betfair sportsbook. PP have me restricted to 10p bets

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    IBetYou
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    Or do they carry on ostensibly the same?

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    IBetYou
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    One thing with these mergers is they legally allowed to share player blacklists/ restrictions aren;t they?

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    Border Gadgie
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    Details held will be shared in any merger, if you are limited or restricted at one, they will soon do the same at the other, especially at Paddypower.

    My Bluesquare account at which I was limited to zero, had been closed by me years earlier, when Betfair took it over I was emailed by Betfair sportsbook to say I no longer qualified for any offers/refunds etc before I had even placed a bet. (Although they hastened to add my use of the Exchange would be unaffected) Couldnt really give a flying fook anyhow as I am only really interested in using Betfair exchange.

    Hundreds of people got exactly the same email in a blanket gubbing

    My account at Sportsbet which I had for years, was closed by Paddypower (another who I cant bet with) almost as soon as they took it over.

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    rodneytrotter
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    Two businesses with nothing in common.

    One likes to think it appeals to sharp minds and the other targets it's adverts to simple minds

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    Quote Originally Posted by IBetYou View Post
    In other words, goodbye betfair sportsbook. PP have me restricted to 10p bets
    Betfair's sportsbook has never been available to Aussies .
    Haven't been able to figure out why. I'm guessing even more unlikely now and probably be useless to me anyway if they follow Paddy's laughably low limiting policy.

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    jjgold
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    strange merger

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    Hareeba!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    strange merger
    why?

    seems to make a fair bit of sense to me in the present environment

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    IBetYou
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    Never a dull moment in the gambling industry. Exchanges wanting in on bookie action, poker networks (stars) likewise, and now bookies wanting in on the exchange. All the while fantasy sports betting is ready to explode behind the surface, and then the bit-coin thing...

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