Bookie refuses to pay out £7 million on snow bet

My lucky 15 today is:

0-0
No Goalscorer
Draw/Draw
Draw

10% bonus if all 4 cop

He has little chance of getting paid, they are covered with these kind of one event effects the other types of bets. They are however guilty of very poor management of these bets. It would be trivial to make the rules clear or even electronicallt bar the placing of the bet

Excellent, Baggers! :^0

** -
He knew what he was doing.
Hope he enjoys spending the £31.78

Since when does snow in one city impact on the chances of snow in another city.

Thats like saying because a front runner won the 1st horse race, the front runner in the second or later race had an advantage because he knew what tactics to deploy.

Morrigan 09 Jan 11:38
Since when does snow in one city impact on the chances of snow in another city.

Thats like saying because a front runner won the 1st horse race, the front runner in the second or later race had an advantage because he knew what tactics to deploy.

I'm sure you can't be serious. But if you are:

LOL!

I posted this over on the footy forum yesterday, a few funny comments, particularly like this one fro gashwan


GASHWAN 08 Jan 19:21
would love to have seen they bloke trying to pick up

"that's £31 mate"

"I made it more than that."

"what did you make it?"

"£7 million innit"

Since when does snow in one city impact on the chances of snow in another city.

Thats like saying because a front runner won the 1st horse race, the front runner in the second or later race had an advantage because he knew what tactics to deploy.

Maybe, and that would be factored into the price of front-running horses in the later races (although the impact would be minimal).

Are you seriously saying that if I said to you 'there's snow in Leeds' you wouldn't think that the chances of snow in Manchester would be increased?

Since when does snow in one city impact on the chances of snow in another city.


When they share a boundary like Leeds and Bradford, two of the selections.

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If it had snowed in 23 out of the 24 towns, would they have voided the acca and paid out on singles instead?

Not usually, but in this one instance they would because the guy knew full well what he was doing and would have gone to collect.

The guy was trying it on, and it didn't work. Regards staff training , it's impossible to cover every eventuality.
What he should have done was just had a double on two cities close to each other and it may have slipped beneath the radar, but then only if he was dishonest and wanted to **.

^^correct^^

It's the bookies job not to take the bet, if they don't like it.
Why should punters be expected to have a better knowledge of the rules than the staff?
The whole thing is typical of a disgraceful industry which has been getting away with murder for years.

If you were trying it on..they why try it for a stupidly high figure like £7 million.

Reminds me of when I worked for City Index in their Tresusry Department and one of the junior messed up a forex trade and put £9,999,999.99 into a client's a/c.

Yep that figure.

No one new anything for a couple days...infact I doubt anyone of us wouldve realised...

it was only until the client rang up and requested a cheque for the amount that the mistake was realised. what a clown.

He wasn't trying it on. The Lads sales rep suggested he make his bet an acca.
So he said yes. What would you have done?

you cant listen to the smaller guys at bookies - i have seen mistakes, phoned up to let them know, been told that it definitely was not a mistake so could freely bet on it and it would not be voided, bet the mistake, had the mistake voided.

Ladbrokes should have made their rules clearer, he added.

Obviously need to learn the rules himself LOL

What colour snow was it?

Moonlight, you are wrong. The onus is on the punter to make sure his bet is valid.

Having checked that bookies rules the maximum payout for these type of bets is £10K anyway so the guy never had a bet in the first place that could return 7 Million. Memo -- always no a bookies limits. They all have them !!!!!

imagine how many posts about this there'd be if they HAD paid out.