BOOMAKER PADDY POWER SAYS while his company regrets odds posted in error for last night’s Carling Cup clash between Crystal Palace and Crawley Town, punters affected by the correction of the mistake cannot expect to be compensated.
Some football fans who logged on to paddypower.com noticed that the handicap market had ‘Palace +1′ running at 100/1 up until the 43rd minute of the match.
One reader told us that he and some friends placed money on the Eagles to win on the handicap market of +2 at a price of 30/1.
The Championship side won 2-0, with winnings initially paid out by the company. However, that money was later said to be “taken back”.
The accounts of some of those who had also sought to take advantage of the error were also suspended.
Paddy Power, head of communications with the bookmakers, admitted that a mistake was made during the match but that no compensation will be paid out to those affected.
“Unfortunately it’s just one of these situations that comes up every once in a while,” he told TheScore this afternoon.
“It’s a pain in the backside but there are so many matches that take place, sometimes these mistakes are made.”
Power said that the company has the right to address any errors on its site immediately, and retract payments in extreme circumstances where the odds offered vastly differ from those intended.
“I hate to hide behind the rules but it is in there that we retain the option to correct these very obvious errors.
“For instance, were odds of 1000-1 on Manchester United winning the Premier League to appear on the site, we could not be expected to pay out on such a ridiculous bet.”
When asked if customers could expect to receive some sort of compensation following yesterday evening’s error, Power insisted that the company has always acted in a fair way, but that they would not be contacting the individual concerned.
I’d agree with the above, far too much credence put on the Bath win, who are a second tier English side, nearing third tier. We’ve beaten nothing this season really so far, just been consistent enough to keep winning. The toughest games were probably Munster and Cardiff last week to be honest, and we scraped a win over Bath away.
I do think that if we get a home QF and SF in the Aviva we can go back to Twickers, and anything can happen then, but Toulouse would be faves at the moment in my book, they’ve just got everything.
I’m a little worried about our second row options, Leo seems to be slowing and Browne is not really up to the white heat of a big HEC game I think. Today’s selection should be very interesting.
I certainly don’t fear Sarries or Quins though, Quins in particular have nowhere near the experience needed, and Sarries are one paced.
Agree completely! We seem to have forgotten that we have a relatively soft pool this year! To be anything but well in charge at this stage would be a disaster!
My big worry is what happens when we play a team with a serious pack and a good backline (eg Northampton for H1 of Heino Final). Defensively we leaked a lot of scores in that first half! If you were to have thrown some fitness and an out and out 7 into that Northampton team – what would the result have been? Haven’t forgotten what Clermont did to us in the RDS a couple of years ago (except on the scoreboard of course).