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Originally Posted by JerryBoyle
Betfair, or exchanges in general, strike me as the best balance between current pari-mutuel system and bookies. Perhaps it's just a perception problem and more people need to be directed there (first open it to all the US). But, bettors would no longer complain about odds changes, and there wouldn't be artificial liquidity restraints placed by the book maker
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That’s it exactly. Why should small horseplayers suffer because of late betting.
No problems with that with fixed odds betting.
The thing is that people in the United States.
There is very limited experience with it.
Instead they take to complaining about it like this thread instead of taking action.
Fixed odds betting makes threads like this one passé.
Only Monmouth has completely embraced betfair.
Other tracks worry about canibalization of their pools.
Exchange betting is great.
Allan
