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stolen from hoss racing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6951494/Snow-stories-bookmaker-refuses-to-give-7.1-million-payout-on-banned-snow-bet.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6951494/Snow-stories-bookmaker-refuses-to-give-7.1-million-payout-on-banned-snow-bet.html
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obviously. as if you can accumulate something like that
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AS I cant 200ew at 7-2, its no real shock
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poxy 31 quid, and i dare say the kid that took the bet gets sacked off
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The bad thing, is the fact they only offered him the 32 quid as fi they were single bets.
Should have bunged him 10k at least as a gesture of goodwill :D |
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wow, can I have a job?
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obviously the bloke was a chancer. bad publicity for the scvmbag bookies either way tho.
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Non-story. Most obvious related bet you could get, as the punter would have known fine well. Trying to pull a fast one-tough sh!t.
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I'll try and get on an argentina to win group/world cup and messi top scorer accumulator with them :)
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Was just going to post what Rock said.
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i totally agree rockm. but any chance to have a go at the crooks that are the major bookies and i'm fine with it.
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'We are happy to void the bets and to pay the customer his winnings on the relevant singles.''
I bet they are. |
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they could've just given his cash back ^^^^
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they've probably sacked the unfortunate shopworker(s) that took the bets too. you can't blame the employees either - they get treated like sh1te so who can blame them for being disinterested?
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He said ''They are one of the leading bookmakers in the country and I think they ought to do their homework a bit better in future.''
No you pillock, you should do YOUR homework. Everybody with half a brain knows this bet is a related one. Either this man was incredibly stupid or he is a thieving scoundrel. |
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David Hood a far better PR man than any other bookmaker will ever be
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should have read the small print, wanna use my telescope?
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snow joke
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I think they should pay him in full, but only if he prices up and takes all first player to score/correct score combo' bets for the rest of the season and the world cup.
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he's obviously a donut
as good PR tho they cud have done a little better |
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a chancer trying it on imo
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Reminds me a bit of when Pompey got promoted. Some clown wanted £1 at 1000/1 on them staying up, when 1000/1 was the 'win the league' odds.
He whinged that once the bet was taken, they should pay. In a busy bookies, its not possible to vet every single bet when you take it. Chancer. |
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He was probably going to have £3.55 million each way on Oxford for the boat race with his winnings.
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Cupra
u serious ? |
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i take it they gave him a f*ck off tablet
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The papers love this. Journos never understand it, do they?
The staff in the shop either didn't look at or didn't understand the bet - which is the fault of Badcrooks, and the bloke is trying it on. If he'd done it in my shop I'd have explained the rules to him, clearly. Then told him to feck off. It's like the chav a few years ago, who claimed (also at badcrooks) to have got a £5 Acca up on ALL 59 matches on a footy coupon. He'd obviously just added the 1s 2s and Xs after placing the bet - and it would have paid £billions, the NOTW still made it a front page story. |
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study try employing people with a knoweldge of the subject instead of birds that sit there stuffing thier chops all day.
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But Study is stuffing the birds that sit there stuffing their chops all day.
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fair one
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Study knows the score ffs!
It is no big secret that the big 3 invested in software rather than personel when computerised EPOS ext came in. They work on the basis that they can save more employing cashiers rather than managers with any real working knowledge of the game than any **c ups they make will cost them. A decent manager sets the tone for any bookies, promotes product, conversation and atmosphere. The lack of such folk these days is why most decent judges bet at home and betting shops are mainly dives being subsidised by chavs hammering away at the FOBT's. |
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kingfisher I don't purport to employ them.
As I said it's badcrooks fault they don't know what they're doing! All the bookies want now is supermarket type cashiers, they don't want their staff to know or understand anything. Possibly because many of those at Head Office don't know anything either. Irrespective of this, the punter is a **ing dirtbag, who deserves nothing. |
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I used to do a similar thing (to the 59 results) study. In the days of the duplicate slips I'd put a piece of card between the bet I was about to place (it would just be a throwaway £1 or similar on the dogs) and then I'd remove the card and write it so my duplicate copy would read something daft like '£1 double, elvis and shergar to both be alive 1000/1' or '£2 ben hur, 315 chariot race' and then take it down the pub and show it to people so they'd think I was a loon. I probably am. It used to make me chuckle tho.
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nutter ^^^
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Its the booie thats the dirt bag, look at the odds on any football coupon and tell me otherwise
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cant believe ppl still use bookies
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kingfisher - nobody is holding a gun to your head and the percentages on football were much worse before the exchanges.
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tbf owl, if you're going to try and put a bet like this geezer's on then you'd have to go to a shop.
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well you can't get an accumulator on it snowing all over england on-line, can you :)
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What are you saying, Kingfisher. The bloke should be be paid out???
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A PUNTER PLACING A BET IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KNOWING THE RULES BEFORE HE PLACES THE BET. IF HE PLACED A BET WHICH IS NOT WITHIN THE RULES IT'S HIS OWN FAULT.
THE CASHIER IS NOT THERE TO CHECK YOU BET OR THE RULE FOR YOU,BUT JUST PROCESS THE BET IN THE BELIEF THAT MUG PLACING IT KNOWS THE RULES. IF I WAS LADBROKES I WOULD HAVE JUST REFUNDED HIS £5 AND THEN BANNED HIM FOR LIFE. CHEEKY RAT |