Bet Placement Changes to Prevent Minimum Bet Abuse

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Hi WellDoneSoft,

This change relates to the liability on a single transaction, not multiple bets. Both of these transactions would be accepted...

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Hi LiamP

Any single bet transactions that would result in '0' liability to the account placing the bet will be automatically cancelled. ...

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Following customer feedback we are planning to implement a change to the way that we handle the placement of bets below the allowed minimum stake....

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Thanks MarkoB, are you specifically referring to a test bed style system?

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Hi gourej

You can only retrieve traded volume at each price point retrospectively using the listMarketBook request, but no specific timestamp...

Hi, I do not know if you can help me? I used my betfair account for a long time without placing bets, now I want to bet and bought geek toys but I have...

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Hi ajw,

There isn't unfortunately, you'll need to calculate this yourself.

Kind Regards

Neil

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Hi alan7893

The following request should work:

{"listMarketPricesRequestParams":{"marketIds":["927.23770381"]}}...

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Hi Samarth,

Please refer to the response I sent you via Developer Support yesterday.

Kind Regards

Neil...

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Hi Ian,

We've now enabled your App Keys access to the Stream API

Kind Regards

Neil

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