vBookie for vBulletin 3.5

vBookie

Introduction

This is a Port of the original vBookie Hack created by tdjrico; full credits to him for the idea and the kind permission to port his work

A t t e n t i o n
This Hack is unsopported and incompatible with vBulletin 3.6+
You are hereby advised to not use it.
Please do not ask me about support and/or updates - there will be none.

[dartho]

Someone asked me to post the vbookie files I have running successfully on my 3.8.6 site. Here they are. There is no support or warranties with these - they work for me and they might for you, or they might not. As always, backup first.

[FreshFroot]

Originally Posted by dartho

Someone asked me to post the vbookie files I have running successfully on my 3.8.6 site. Here they are. There is no support or warranties with these - they work for me and they might for you, or they might not. As always, backup first.

thanks once again. Will give it a try on a test board and see how it goes.

[BenWCF]

I've got the 3.8 version running and have a quick question:

Is it right that the amounts that my members are posting are meant to go onto my overall total?

I myself had a limit of 500 like the others but now have over 3000.....

[dartho]

yes - thats how I had it set up. when you settle a book, all the winnings comes out of the the bookmakers account - kinda like a real bookie

[BenWCF]

Originally Posted by dartho

yes - thats how I had it set up. when you settle a book, all the winnings comes out of the the bookmakers account - kinda like a real bookie

Thanks for getting back to this.

Ok, so I have all my members original stakes, but when I settle the bets, where will the winnings come from - that overall amount?

Apologies if this has been answered before - first time using this on our board.

[dartho]

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Originally Posted by dartho

when you settle a book, all the winnings comes out of the the bookmakers account - kinda like a real bookie

[blind-eddie]

I have been using this since it was posted & my members love it.
I took it a step further and used Article Forums by Banana Live to expand it a bit.
I also used Easy Forms by Banana Live to add a request vcash link for members to request more vcash when they run out & added it to the vbookie header template.

If you want to do the same, you will need to install Article Forums by Banana Live , do a whole lot of phrase changes & add the vbookie header template contents to the af_articles_alt template just below the opening table.
I use them both on a few vb sites & then added them both to my I am bored & created another live test site, site.
You may have to register to view,...I like the added touch.

Demo:http://blind-eddie.com

I added a link to it in the navbar & edited the vbookie header with a link to the events forum as well.

I just wish the successor of this mod would show a bit more support & maybe add a few things to this for all the 3. whatever users that are out there....Long live 3.8.....

[MagicThemeParks]

That's a cool way to display the events Blind-Eddie. :up:

You can take it a step further and have the vbcredits be your 'cash' and then when your members run out of 'cash' they can purchase more credits via the paid PayPal mod with vBcredits.

[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

That's a cool way to display the events Blind-Eddie. :up:

You can take it a step further and have the vbcredits be your 'cash' and then when your members run out of 'cash' they can purchase more credits via the paid PayPal mod with vBcredits.

Yes, I could do that but, Free is the key word here...If I were to charge to play, I would have an empty board. Plus I believe Paypal may frown down at the idea.

[BenWCF]

Morning,

So I just settled my first lot of bets, and everyones totals all seem to have updated fine...

...Apart from my own.

I don't know whether it's because I'm the Bookie and I've kept the losses of everyone else, but I've now got a total of 18446744073709539756. There were a couple of 50/1 shots that didn't fare so well but surely that number is incorrect.

Any help would be appreciated.