[satnav]

I think quite a few snooker players have got into trouble for betting against themselves but if snooker is your main source of income placing the odd bet against yourself is a bit of an insurance policy. It used to be the case in the world championship that if you won your first round match at the Crucible you won £20,000 but if you lost you only got £10,000. A small side bet on the final score of the game could help ensure that the very least you walked away with would be £15,000. In the first round you know the winner is going to win 10 frames so you could go for a score of 10-2 or 10-3 and just put enough effort in to get the 2 or 3 frames you need to win the bet.

[mattomac]

Considering he donated 100k to the Labour Party he doesn’t sound short.

[Killer Whale]

Considering he donated 100k to the Labour Party he doesn’t sound short.

Fair point.

[Abernathy]

Breaking news : The loathsome Phillip Davies, former MP for Shipley and husband of the equally loathsome Esther McVey, has apparently been found to have placed an £8000 bet on him losing his seat at the election.

And still it continues.

[Bones McCoy]

Breaking news : The loathsome Phillip Davies, former MP for Shipley and husband of the equally loathsome Esther McVey, has apparently been found to have placed an £8000 bet on him losing his seat at the election.

And still it continues.

That's a whole different ball game to a ton on the election date.
Maybe not as illegal, but you have to wonder which bookie accepted that bet.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I've known people put bets on elections, of course I have.
£8k is a lot, but he's using publicly available data and if a bookie takes the bet that's fair enough.

[davidjay]

Nobody raises an eyebrow when the Duke of Buckingham's trainer's stable lad tells his mate in the public bar of the Horsewhipped Poacher that his Grace's unraced two year-old is breaking all records on the gallops. Where Plod are concerned I really can't see the harm.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Philip Davies is a big mate of Harry Findlay, a particularly flamboyant professional gambler. I’m sure he bets on all sorts of stuff. Hard to see a problem with this bet compared to any made by himself or indeed Harry Findlay.