Emmatat78 said:
[member=920]katykicker[/member] can you help, so I placed my £30 free bet today using the calculator at back odds of 4 and lay odds of 4.3 which states I should get around £20 profit... great
So I have just checked the bet and it won, so I lost the liability of £69.89 but won £135 says odds 4 but underneath says best odds applied selection settled at SP?
Although again this has worked in my favour I feel like I am missing something, not ticking a box?
I thought I was following the rules but now i'm not sure i'm getting it!
Thanks
Emma
[member=5151]Emmatat78[/member] Don't worry - you did everything right! What happened is that 'Best Odds Guaranteed' will have been applied.
'Best Odds' is an offer that a few bookies have on horse racing where they will always give you the best price on the horse you bet on, so say if you put a bet on 60 minutes before a race at odds of 3.0 and then when the race starts the odds have increased to 5.0 - then if your horse wins then the bookies will pay out to you at those increased odds of 5.0, which is called the Starting Price (SP) of the horse.
So, in other words...it's a great thing when this happens! I've had it happen to me on the odd occasion (it really doesn't happen very often...well, maybe if you're putting a large volume of bets on the horses it might happen to you a few times). It should say on your betting history on the bookies website what the SP odds were that they then paid out at...I think based on the returns they were probably 5.5
What bookies is this with? They may have only suspended your account until your identity has been verified (by sending your ID, proof of address etc) then they should open it again. They can't just keep your money, winners or not!
It's really annoying when they do that everything is on the side of the bookie!!!
