Can Players use the 'Bad Line' argument to have bets they made cancelled?

SportSavant · Aug 5, 2005

say a player takes a shot at a future at Book A & gets odds of +500.....

later that afternoon he realizes from his friend who has the Don Best Screen that 95% of books have the exact same bet at +1200 or higher........

can the player call the book & have the bet cancelled claiming "Bad Line"?

rhetorical

PO69 · Aug 5, 2005

Sportsavant, did you receive your prize money from betwwts yet? Mine has not reached my account as of yet

SportSavant · Aug 5, 2005

not yet, but dont worry, I spoke with Jman via IM tonite & we both sent another email to the marketing dept to nudge them along....

they are working on 'carabean' time I guess :icon_conf

JohnBuzz · Aug 5, 2005

No they can't.

Everything is based on the rules you agree to when you sign up at a sportsbook. You could not agree to the rules and add in your own bad line rule and see if the sportsbook would agree.

Every dispute is goverened by those rules. You cant create your own Bad Line rule just like you can't create a Do-Over rule if you lose. (hmm a Do-Over rule?? that would be coool)

SportSavant · Aug 5, 2005

of course, the player is at the mercy of the book.....

if they bet into a 'Bad Line' they cannot cancel their own bets....

why is the reverse not true?

Pokerking · Aug 5, 2005

Sportsbooks need the bad line rule because they can make some serious mistakes. For example sometimes when a line is changed the line from say -107 to -105 sometimes an extra 0 can end up there and the favourite will be -1005 and the dog will be something like +850. It's easy for this to happen when there's a 100 basketball games you're managing like on a busy Saturday.

ElmerTLee · Aug 5, 2005

Pokerking said:
Sportsbooks need the bad line rule because they can make some serious mistakes. For example sometimes when a line is changed the line from say -107 to -105 sometimes an extra 0 can end up there and the favourite will be -1005 and the dog will be something like +850. It's easy for this to happen when there's a 100 basketball games you're managing like on a busy Saturday.

In my opinion, boo fuckin hoo. Books make enough money, employ some people who are vigilant enough not to fuck up, and if they do, only once in a blue moon.