Quick Question on Settlement Rules

[manwithaplan]

Some idiot (ie me) wrote the following on a betting slip:

€5 each way Some Horse 5.00 Somewhere
Some Other Horse 5.30 Somewhere

I had intended to do two fiver each way bets on two separate horses but forgot to write the stake the second time. You know what’s coming, don’t you!

Some Horse won at 10/1. Some Other Horse was unplaced. The next day, I went to collect my winnings only to discover my error. The bet had been recorded as a fiver each way double and the printed total stake was €10.

I certainly didn’t register that I had got €10 extra in my change when I staked my bet but I may have. They are going to check the video and will pay out in full if they took €20 off me. If not, do I have any grounds for claiming that the stake should have been divided across the two selections i.e recorded as two €2.50 each way bets?

I know that the answer is probably to check the terms and conditions of the bookmaker in question but on a first inspection, it’s not that clear. Given the enormous sums of money in question (!), I thought I would turn to you guys for a steer. If nothing else, the anoraks among you may enjoy a challenge.

[MikkyMo73]

I’m afraid I don’t need to be an anorak on this as the bet will be (rightly) settled as an each way double if (after checking the video) they took the right amount of money from you.

For your sake I hope they have short changed you and decide to pay you out £5 e/w on both horses (sorry don’t have a euro sign but you know what I mean).

However, if they did only take £10 from you, then you have wrote £5 e/w and you have wrote two horses – therefore the logical decision for the bookies to come to is that the bet is a £5 e/w double. It will be very kind of them (and a gesture of goodwill) to pay you out £2.50 e/w on both horses, but I can’t see it.

I hope for your sake they took £20 from you and pay you out on £5 e/w on each horse.

Good luck.

Mike

[manwithaplan]

Thanks, Mikky. I won’t be a tit about it so and will take my medicine if the video ref presses the ‘No Try’ button.

This is the first time I’ve made an error on a slip. I’m glad it wasn’t too expensive.

[MikkyMo73]

Did you complete the box at the bottom for total stake? If you wrote £20 in there then obviously this will be on your copy and proof that you did intend to stake £20 (£5 e/w on each horse).

If this is the case then they will pay you out £5 e/w on both horses if the video shows they took £20 from you, or they could quite possibly pay you out £2.50 e/w on each selection.

Sorry for the contradicting replies but I wasn’t thinking. If you haven’t wrote anything in the total stake box then my first reply will be true. If you have wrote £20 in the total stake box then you might have a chance of getting paid as they will know that a £5 e/w double doesn’t come to £20.

Let me know what’s on your slip.

Mike

[manwithaplan]

No – I didn’t complete that box. As you say, it would have removed the doubt as to my intention. I usually only complete it if I use shorthand like ‘Trixie’ or similar on a slip.

[MikkyMo73]

Ah nevermind, then I think you’re knackered lol.

Hopefully they will pay you out £2.50 e/w as a goodwill gesture if the video shows that they did only take £10 from you.

Just be polite and smile at them

Good luck.

Mike

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