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Evening all

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer break…

Quick question re accounts - since the last festival + royal ascot, most of my accounts have been closed or heavily restricted.

Im at the point where I want to start building for next march and also have a few flat ap bets too.

Is it as simple, as setting up accounts in my wife’s name, and depositing via her card. Will the address / surname etc raise any red flags? Can I access the new account via my phone or would IP address mean that this isn’t doable? Am I better going to WhatsApp books / black market?!

Apologies as these are v basic questions but last thing I want to do is tie the usual antepost funds up and then not get paid out for any reason (prob optimistic 🤣)

Thanks in advance for any advice
 
Evening all

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer break…

Quick question re accounts - since the last festival + royal ascot, most of my accounts have been closed or heavily restricted.

Im at the point where I want to start building for next march and also have a few flat ap bets too.

Is it as simple, as setting up accounts in my wife’s name, and depositing via her card. Will the address / surname etc raise any red flags? Can I access the new account via my phone or would IP address mean that this isn’t doable? Am I better going to WhatsApp books / black market?!

Apologies as these are v basic questions but last thing I want to do is tie the usual antepost funds up and then not get paid out for any reason (prob optimistic 🤣)

Thanks in advance for any advice
There's ways around it by opening accounts in friends/family names as long as they live at a different address, but they also have to be willing to provide proof of ID and likely a bill or two for proof of address. Certainly some of the pros used to pay students for their details to use, though this did result in an infamous case with Bet365 when a 19yo student 'placed' almost £25k in bets involving a combination of horses in Lucky 15s, winning just over £1m but Bet365 refused to pay alleging that the bets were funded by a third party, against their T&C.

If most of your accounts have been closed or heavily restricted then opening up more accounts will just see the same thing happen anyway! You need to change how you are getting your bets on. Either more bets/smaller stakes, using shops or if you really want to risk it then black market. May also have to consider the use of exchanges to get money on as another option. I also think it is worth having the odd 'muggy' acca on the account and play a little bit of slots just so it flags up as you use the casino etc. All helps to disguise it. Gone are the days though when you could place all your bets through the one betting company without questions being asked!