I'm Rich I'm Rich I Made £8 Profit! (willhill.com)

Member Name: opinions4u

Product:	willhill.com
Date:	01/05/03 (91 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent automated service, Quick settlement of best

Disadvantages: Gambling is NOT for the addictive personality

I have always been a little bit of a gambler. I am a statistical person by nature. So I was rather keen when www.mypoints.co.uk offered me 750 points to join William Hill online at www.willhill.co.uk.

Registration with Hill's was straight forward and simple, as, not surprisingly, was charging £20 to my credit card for my William Hill account. you can actually start with as little as £2 and that gets you as many as 200 bets!

Now, at this stage, you should take care. Gambling can be addictive. If you have an addictive personality, I strongly recommend you read and rate this review but do not join any online bookie.

If you just fancy an occasional flutter, and can control your spending, this is for you.

You can bet on anything. My first bets were on the cricket World Cup. Thanks to a lucky flutter on Kenya to beat Zimbabwe a few weeks back, I still have £28 in my account, an £8 gain! But if you like football, greyhounds, or horses, there is a bet here for you. Rugby. Motor Racing. Irish Lottery. American Football. There is a lot more too!

The "specials" of the site currently covers I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. At the time of writing, Phil Tuffnell is the 7/4 favourite, although Linda Barker may be a better price at 7/1. The site will also display odds in decimal form. Eg 7/4 is quoted as 1.75. I prefer the traditional way though.

Ah, you want me to explain what 7/1 means! Well, you place your bet. £1 for example. If Linda lets you down, you lose your pound. If she wins, you get £7 plus your stake back, making £8 in total.

Stakes are deducted immediately and winnings usually credited within 2 hours of a race or match finishing. You can withdraw either by recrediting your credit card or sending funds to your bank account via the BACS system. While I have not yet taken money out, it should take 3 working days to move from A to B.

One excellent feature of
the site is the live betting option. In other words, you could be watching an event on telly, in my case football, and you can bet on the outcome of a match after it starts. In other words, if a team is losing with a few minutes left, you can still back them to win and make a massive gain if they do. But I refer you back to the health warning above. Bookmakers make big profits! Out of punters! My £8 gains so far will doubtless be frittered away and certainly will not put this lot out of business.

The stability of the site has been excellent. It is maintained up to the minute usually, although in the evenings information is occasionally an hour or so out of date and will advertise events that have finished! Unfortunately, it does not let you bet on those though!

Right, what else do you need to know?

1. The minimum bet is 1p. Yes, a single penny! This is fabulous, as I would feel ashamed to bet less than £1 in the shop. Online anonymity for me please!
2. Maximum bets are stipulated depending on the event. A lower division football match usually has a lower maximum than a Premier League game. This presumably helps them to minimise the risk of match fixing!
3. You can bet on a single match, so winnings are not reliant on three or more teams doing as you predict.
4. No tax is deducted from your winnings following one of the decision of Gordon Brown to scrap betting duty last year.
5. William Hill prices are usually competitive. It is rare that Coral or Ladbrokes offer a better price on anything.
6. The online statement facility shows you exactly where you are up to with all your bets.
7. It is easy to pick singles, doubles, trebles, accumulators, Yankees, lucky 15 etc. All multiple bet permutations are available. To the uninitiated, this means that you can bet on, for example, 3 horses in different races. If all 3 win, you have a successful treble. If only 2 win, you lose your money! The advantage o
f a treble is that
if your 3 winners come in at 3/1, and you stake a pound, your first winner turns £1 in to £4, which becomes your stake for the next horse. £4 turns in to £16. Then £16 turns in to £64. An easy way to make money? Never managed 3 winners myself!
8. Your account balance is always shown at the top of the screen, with the value of all bets place deducted.

I am impressed with all the basics of willhill.co.uk. I recommend them to anybody who enjoys a flutter and can manage their spending in this sort of environment.

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