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vBookie for Soccer Boards?

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  • 30-03-2010 12:22pm
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    Le King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭


    Why isn't there a vBookie for the Soccer Boards?

    What is vBookie?
    What is vBookie?

    vBookie is a virtual 'bookmakers' that allows members to bet on selected events such as football matches (such as correct score, first goalscorer... and even the amount of corners!), boxing matches, horse races... basically everything!

    No money will ever exchange hands vBookie uses its own point system which has no more use than as 'bragging rights'. Read on to learn more about the points system...

    What are 'Points'?

    Firstly, betting points is just for fun. You use your points to place bets on games which are added automatically to your account when you register. You should have 500 to begin with in your account, with each bet thats added, a further 50 points will be added to your account just to make sure members always have at least some vCash to bet with.

    Help with odds

    Odds of "5/1" are "amount won per amount placed". This means that I would win 5 for every 1 placed. Of course, if I win, I get my stake back as well. Odds of "1/5" means that I win 1 for every 5 placed. I'd have to place 25 to win just 5.

    Decimal Odds

    Decimal odds are just another way of displaying the same information. 2.0 is the same as 2/1. 0.2 is the same as 1/5. vBookie only lets you specify odds in terms of x/y, but if you think in terms of decimal you can still work out what odds to provide. Simply think of your decimal odds as "2.0 / 1.0" or "0.5 / 1.0" and then multiply each side through by 10 or 100 until there are only zeros to the right of the decimal point, then just take the whole number part.

    2.0 / 1.0 has no decimals, so this is the same as 2/1

    0.5 / 1.0 has a 0.5, so multiply both parts by 10 to get 5.0 / 10.0. Then you can specify your odds as 5 / 10. You might also realise that this is the same as 1/2. The technique is a simple way to work out any odds you may need to specify.

    Odds of 0.65 -> 0.65 / 1.0 -> 65.0 / 100.0 or 65/100. Then you can divide through by 5 to get to 13 / 20, although this step isn't necessary.


    To be honest I'd love to see a vBookie on the soccer boards. Just an idea don't slate me for it!
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    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Osu wrote: »
    Why isn't there a vBookie for the Soccer Boards?

    Because no one ever mentioned it before?

    If someone was willing to do it then go for it. We have prediction threads anyway.


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    Dohnny Jepp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Dohnny Jepp


    I'd say best bet would be to post this in the site development forum and see what conor says about it :).

    I think it sounds very interesting.


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    IITYWYBMAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    Osu wrote: »
    Why isn't there a vBookie for the Soccer Boards?

    What is vBookie?




    To be honest I'd love to see a vBookie on the soccer boards. Just an idea don't slate me for it!

    It takes a fair amount to maintain, and it's quite clunky tbh.


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    Le King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭Le King


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Because no one ever mentioned it before?

    If someone was willing to do it then go for it. We have prediction threads anyway.
    Dohnny Jepp wrote: »
    I'd say best bet would be to post this in the site development forum and see what conor says about it :).

    I think it sounds very interesting.

    Yeah thanks for the feedback guys. We'll see how much interest it takes up.


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I'd say odds on this being used here are 1000/1.


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    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    There was one in another forum I post in, I thought it was great.


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