VG race 4 Hope my eyes are reading right??

[growler79]

This is not a rort
Someone made a boo boo...

Gotta love a boo boo

[brod]

Story in the news ltd. papers tommorow about it.

IT looked like the dumbest bet you have ever seen -$50,000 on a greyhound without the prospect of winning a cent.

But it was actually a simple error – an accidental plunge – and yesterday it sent Australian racing circles into a spin.

The Courier-Mail reports the industry was awash with rumours over the reasons why a punter would place $50,000 on the unspectacular greyhound Sweet Keeping at Ballarat with UNiTAB on Wednesday night, when a win would have only returned the punter's money.

Apart from the $50,100 bet, there was only $3116 in the pool which meant Sweet Keeping would have returned a money back dividend because of the size of the bet in a small pool.

But the dog ran second so the money was lost.

It turns out an operator with betting firm Betezy was laying off a small bet and had meant to press an amount of $50 or $100 with the firm's UNiBET account but keyed in $50,100 and did not have time to cancel the bet.

Sweet Keeping chased hard down the straight, going down by two lengths to Rocks Back who paid $2.30 on the NSW TAB, $2.80 on SuperTAB and a staggering $44 on UNiTAB, enabling some small punters to celebrate Christmas four months early.

A Betezy spokesman denied there had been a mistake but said the result "hurt a lot".

The $50,100 bet came so close to starting time that other UNiTAB punters did not have the chance to jump on the huge odds offered on other dogs.

[Dutchy]

As long as bookies keep relying on paying tote divvies and being too lazy to set their own markets this will happen

[mal]

Keyboard error
A worker at the corp bookie firm Betezy made the error
From whats been bandied about
was a $50 bet
changed to $100
the $50 was not cancelled out
bet went thru as $50100

Just an honest mistake made by an unfortunate staff member

In the end the TAB made about $10k commission


Keyboard errors can easily be made
There is the story of a certain dopey punter
He took a P4 in a 7 dog field a couple of years ago
FIELD-4 FIELD-FIELD
He put the bet thru as a FLEXI bet for $11
The FLEXI bet didnt work and the bet went thru for an $11 unit
Instead of investing $11 the punter spent $1320 on the P4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The punter frantically rang up the TAB who refused to cancel the bet
AND
AND
AND
And the dog ran 2nd
His return was about $1450
That punter FIGures prominently on SAFOOTY ....