Anyone for a bit of red hot poker?

Well here it is at last, I've been planning to put up a blog since the years when Steptoe and Son used to roam the streets in that horse and cart.
Main thanks go to Betfair's betting exchange who decided my blustering rhetoric on their forums regarding their recent announcement that they were "taking a 20% cut of all winners profits" was a little too strong for their palate.
Plus I may well have mentioned one or two of their rivals too - accidently on purpose like you do lol - the reason being if I'm outta there its in my interests to encourage as many people as possible to join me so there is enough money in the pot for us all to get a better deal at the new place.
Anyway a change is as good as a rest and I've decided to join those nice people at Betdaq for my next few soires in the punting world, up until now they have mostly been playing second fiddle but are doing their bit by only offering 2% commission until the end of the year. WBX are the other possibles but they are currently third in line in the liquidity stakes although some of their NHL ice hockey markets last year looked quite feasible.
The vast majority of Betfair users are feeling somewhat like they have just had a red hot poker shoved where the sun don't shine and have been justifiably venting enough steam to start a traction rally on various forums across the world wide web so we're all a bit down in the mouth at present, was good to see England have a cracking 4-1 win in Croatia this evening in the football to brighten the gloom a bit.
Betfair have been putting out alot of spin that "only 0.5% of users are affected" but I'm sure this a red herring for their own devious purposes plus they also seem to be trying to fob this percentage off as being people who run aggressive bots or are traders, both of whom seem to be hardly flavour of the month with alot of its fellow clients.
This helps them create a divide and some people seem to have fallen for it, the truth is that alot of ordinary punters like myself who just bet the conventional way have been caught up in this too and Betfair are trying to sweep this under the carpet, much of the press coverage is also failing to address this point.
The 0.5 per cent is really a nonsensical figure anyhow as even if it was correct which I strongly doubt, everyone on there has the potential to win and fall into the band if they have a sustained period of good results for a while.
So certainly it seems there will be a fair exodus which breaks their stranglehold and it will then be very interesting to see how they react if their plan for the future has gone somewhat pear shaped at that point. It may well be too late for any u-turn then as people will have settled into their new surroundings at that stage, and anyhow once the germ of an idea is there they will be out to get you one way or another.
The lads on the Betfair snooker forum have started a petition to get me re-instated but sensibly not many people had signed it the last time I looked and those that read me rambling inanely on here will also be retracting their names very quickly I should think lol.
I'll tell you what if Johnnybigbananas signs it I'll make a comeback in true "for one night only" style should the powers that be allow it but think I'm on a safe bet with that one.
Johnny is a big friend of Jimmy Michie the pro snooker player, who has earned the nickname the "International Man of Mystery" as his name strangely disappears when you type it onto the forum and I seemed to get into a bit of strife for bringing it to everyones attention and then doing some silly jokes about it.
I'll apologise again as I do like the Pontefract Potter's style of play, OK he might not often reach the main venues but he is eminently watchable and can pot them off the lampshades on his day but maybe just tends to be ground down by the more methodical players.
He's still not a patch on Dave Harold though, who surely is a future World Champion if ever I saw one, he already holds the mantle of "most bananas eaten in one mid session interval" several times over and has come back manfully from receiving a dud batch at last years World Championship clash with Shaun Murphy since when his suppliers have been sacked.
Oh just remembered went overdrawn today to cap it all and incurred a £35 penalty charge, the bank in question kept badgering me to move most of my savings into a different account with better interest and I forgot to move enough back again to cover some money I had drawn out to fund my betting grrrr!!! I blame Betfair for not sending the withdrawal of my funds a bit faster lol.
Anyway, thats about all, I hope they dont charge by the word on here or else I shall be moving on again very quickly by the looks of it.
Will report back soon with some more musings on life.
Cheers for now
Rick