LOI Round 9

**Raheny Red** · 25/04/2009, 7:28 PM

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

What do you mean they've reduced your stakes? Amount you can place on each bet? And just for yourself or in general?

Yeah they've restricted my bets, bit unfortunate considering they are first with the LoI now.

Fingal 2-0 up now at half time. Hopefully they can keep motoring along for the second half but I'm a bit pessimistic about this one.

Oh and Alan Gough is in goal.

**eL Bettor** · 25/04/2009, 9:40 PM

Pity about the Longford goal costing us the win both halves but all the others came in.

And 3 goals in Wexford also, happy days.

**Raheny Red** · 26/04/2009, 10:24 AM

Well in eLB

Fingal to win both halves @ 3/1 (Hills) - 1 pts.
Fingal to score in both halves (Hills) @ 8/5 - 1 pts
Fingal Ht/Ft (Hills) @ 6/4 - 1 pts

Lucky enough Hills restricted my stakes otherwise I'd have put it all on Fingal to win both halves. Second half finished 1-1 so that one was a loser thanks to Fingal getting a man sent off!

**DmanDmythDledge** · 26/04/2009, 10:26 AM

How does the points thing work?

And has anyone been paid out by PP for Saturday's games? Still waiting myself...

**ifk101** · 26/04/2009, 10:37 AM

I think Hills have a very strict limit on League of Ireland bets (with the exception of win market bets) for everyone.

**eL Bettor** · 26/04/2009, 11:16 AM

The very strict limits will come in when they realise they are only going to lose money to you on Irish soccer. For me, I suspect that day will come in the next few weeks. Until you are limited you should be able to win a few hundred euro (at least) on any LOI bet with them online.
From what I have heard, they are stricter in-shop than they are online regarding LOI limits (that is if they havent personally restricted your online account yet), i.e. you could bet €300 online on a 4/7 but if you tried to place the same bet in shop it would require a phone call from the cashier and then you're possibly told the max is €200.

Dman..
The points system used by RR is so that you can tell how much he is placing on each bet relative to the others. It doesnt mean much if you only read 1 of his posts but when you check back on them you can see 0.25pts on first goalscorers, and 2 or 3pts on stronger bets. Some people use a scale from 1-10. It's just a better system than talking about cash because a €50 bet to one person could be the equivalent of a €2 bet to someone else.

**ifk101** · 26/04/2009, 12:09 PM

I'd only bet for the price of a pint but even at that Hills have limited bets I have had in recent weeks to a euro or two. So considering they had placed a "limit" on my bets, I assume that's the case for everyone else.

**Raheny Red** · 26/04/2009, 2:47 PM

Originally Posted by ifk101

I think Hills have a very strict limit on League of Ireland bets (with the exception of win market bets) for everyone.

Nah they only hit me with it recently, don't know when exactly. They wouldn't allow me put a 3 figure sum on Fingal to win both halves, thankfully

. The alst big bet I had with them I think was Ribery to score anytime V Barce so it may be because of that one. There's a Hills 10 mins from my house so if I need to get more on I can just stroll on up to there.

**JC_GUFC** · 26/04/2009, 3:46 PM

Hills shops are a bit strange.

A few weeks ago they'd prices for all 1st goalscorers on their website but wouldn't lay me a bet in the shops saying that their internet was different (Ladbrokes claim the same thing sometimes).

When I went into one of their shops on Thursday morning to back Monaghan and Fingal they told me that betting on all Friday's matches (including Premier) was suspended.

In general I find that the Irish firms' shops (Powers, Boyles and the independents) are much more likely to lay a bet and offer concessions. Ladbrokes and Hills are simply here for profit and don't really care about ****ing off customers - the others can't afford to have that attitude.

**brianw82** · 26/04/2009, 6:47 PM

Originally Posted by brianw82

Going to do a Raheny Red-style write up for this. Starting kitty of 5 points.

Longford Town -V- Sporting Fingal

Sporting are really hitting top form after struggling to gel initially, and will take great confidence from their narrow win over Shels. Longford, on the other hand, have been on a miserable run. All the comments on their forum suggest that they're truly brutal at the moment. Their single win has come against the division's whipping boys Kildare, 4-0, who Fingal beat by double that score. I can't see anything other than a handsome Fingal win, but just to be safe, I'm going with the win-draw-win. Slow and steady wins the race.

Longford -V- Sporting Fingal, backing Fingal @ 4/7 (Will Hill) 2.5pts.

**Mr A** · 26/04/2009, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

The LOI site has it down as Salthill v Sligo - it's a game from later in the season being brought forward for some reason. They're due to play each other in Sligo next week!

It was Harps they played. Salthill won 2-1.