Graphic Designer seeks legal advice after £7.1m bet payout is rejected
Graphic Designer seeks legal advice after £7.1m bet payout isAccording to reports, a bookmaker is refusing to pay out on a bet worth £7.1million to South Western graphic designer Cliff Bryant who placed money on snow fall on Christmas Day.
Bryant placed two £5 accumulator bets on snow falling across 24 towns and cities in the North and Midlands on Christmas Day, but bookmaker Ladbrokes refused to pay out claiming that the bet was accepted by mistake.
The company has, however, paid out on the single bets which it says are relevant – a sum of £31.78 instead.
Each bet would have netted Bryant £4.9million and £2.23 million, but Ladbrokes has apologised to Mr Bryant for the mistake.
The graphic designer is now seeking legal advice on the matter.
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Surely if the money was accepted and the bet wasn't questioned right away then it's tough!
I think everyone who's placed a bet at Ladbrokes and lost in the last year or so should pay them a visit tomorrow and demand their money back, claiming that they did so 'by mistake'. W*****s. Good luck, Cliff.
Redcar Beach on Christmas day, I was chased by an angry rotweiler.
Took a chunk out of one of my meaty calves.
Bloody painful.
Thinking of suing the owners but as Chav family, probably not worth the effort.
I'm a Planner from the North West.
Would you be interested in publishing a more detailed account?
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If I'm not mistaken Ladbroke's are referred to as "The Magic Sign" in racing circles(see John McCririck Ch4 racing most Saturdays). This should now presumably be interpreted as "Now you see it, now you don't..."
Surely any bookmaker of this size will have squillions stashed in insurance? For once, Cliff, you may be onto a winner here! Good Luck.
Its called a 'palpable' error. The bettings rules will stipulate that the bet is null and void as they are related contingency - one happening makes the next more likely and therefore they can be multiplied. It will have been an error by an individual in the bookmakers and an individual error is called a palpable error.
I used to be a bookie you see!
they accepted your bet therefore entered into a contract with you.
they have to pay you. don't go to a crap local brief, go to lincolns inn and get a barrister.
you're quids in. good luck to you.
and don't worry about a palpable error. contact the sun newspaper immediately.
they won't have bad publicity ruin their rep.
If it was one million they would have paid you and splashed it all over the papers.
Good old ladbrokes. Hunt them down. They took your bet as a company, not as a stupid individual.
takes these cockroach mother lovers down. good luck.
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The punter hasn't got a leg to stand on - as the former bookie below points out these events were contingent and so the bet was accepted in error. If Ladbrokes have any sense they'll give him a £100 free bet voucher to spin the PR out for another day or two and that will be the end of it.
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Thanks for the comments about news on the website - I'll take them on board.
More articles like this I say. It's more interesting than reading about some printers in Milton Keynes that won the account to do the menus at the Stag and Hound.
unfortunately gambling wagers between punter and bookie are not enforceable by law - probable no case here. There's a latin term for it - canot remmeber it though - contract Law at university was so long ago!!
Feel sorry for the guy however - Ladbrokes should pay out some kind of "goodwill gesture" as they are at fault for taking the bet under false pretences.
I wonder however if the wager had been lost whether Ladborokes would have noticed their error so quickly and payed the stake back!!
... or should I say paid
Even if the events weren't contingent I'm fairly certain that most bookies will have a maximum payout for a bet of this nature and therefore the £7 million was never an option. Good job they don't pay out to this extent or the odds the rest of us are offered would be a lot less favourable, not that they're entirely generous at the moment. Tough luck but read the rules!
Doesn't each bookies have a maximum branch payout of £300,000?
Wonder if the legal advice will cost more than £31.78?
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