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Event cancelled, free bets doubled?

  • I started matched betting last week so I’m still very much a noob so if there’s anything glaringly obvious about what I’ve experienced I apologise in advance.

    I’ve worked my way through to my 5th sign up offer (bet £10, get £30 in free bets) and placed a bet on the 5.30 Chepstow race today. Logged into my Smarkets account 5 minutes ago to see my balance exactly where it was before I placed the lay bet. Weird. A quick google revealed the races were cancelled due to safety concerns. I logged back into my Bookie account to not only see the full £30 welcome bonus returned but also another £30, giving me 6x£10 in free bets with the Bookie!

    I’ve no idea if this is a system error or whether this is common practice but I’m tentative about using the extra £30 in case I get shafted by a small print I hadn’t bothered to read. Has anyone had any similar experiences with bets being voided? Seems far too good to be true.

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    magnawjc
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    August 27, 2018 at 7:25 pm

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    Col 1 August 27, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    No experience of having bets voided, but I figure you’ve got like 3 options

    1. Ask them on chat what the situation is – worst case scenario they remove the incorrectly credited £30 FB and you continue as normal.

    Or you could…

    2. Back and lay the first £30 FB you’re entitled to, and then punt the other £30 FB and if you win hope they don’t ask questions at withdrawal

    Or higher risk…

    3. Back and lay both the FBs and hope you lose it all to the exchange. If you don’t, and they remove the winnings from one of the bets from your account, then you’re proper screwed.

    Personally I’d go for option 2, and back and lay the first £30 FB, if it goes to the exchange – happy days, if not and you win at the bookies’, I’d withdraw my winnings first, then punt the other £30 FB on something around odds of 1.8 – 2.0 (without laying) hope for a win, then withdraw. If it gets refused and they realise their mistake – no loss.

    Maybe someone else here has had experience of this ?!

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    dan42 8 August 28, 2018 at 11:18 am

    I don’t know if they will take the £30 free bet back even if it was incorrectly given to you, they’d likely have no reason to even notice it.

    One time, I deposited into my Ladbrokes account, to do a casino offer, it was some kind of deposit £10 play with £50 type deal, only when I began playing it started taking from my cash first, and not the bonus,

    So I got on live chat and asked to cancel the bonus, and he duly obliged, only he gave me all the bonus, in withdrawable money into my account, I told him, hey you’ve given me too much.

    And his reaction was along the lines of, well, you can withdraw it straight away and you’ve nothing to complain about, which I found quite amusing to be honest, so basically I think it’s not a simple thing to remove cash from someone’s account, and the fact this guy on live chat would rather just ignore his own £40 error proves this.

    I think it depends on the firm, if they are a UK one, as in based here, strong presence here etc, good reputation, I’d just back and lay both of them, but if they were some dodgy outfit from Asia or relatively unheard of, I’d back and lay one and punt the other after the first one settled, as Col says above. ^^^

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    magnawjc 0 August 29, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Thanks for your thoughts guys. I went for option 3 in the end – figured I’d got lucky enough so I’d give it a go.

    Won it all at the bookie, everything came into my account. I put in a withdrawal request and it just came through today! Not bad for a £10 deposit offer…

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