Bookie refuses to pay out $11 million on snow bet - Yahoo! News

LONDON (Reuters) – Bookmaker Ladbrokes is refusing to pay out more than 7 million pounds ($11 million) to a man who gambled on a white Christmas across the UK, as the bet was accepted by mistake.

Cliff Bryant, 52, had placed two 5-pound accumulator bets that snow would fall on 24 towns and cities across the north of England on Christmas Day.

"We have apologized to the customer for any confusion and for mistakenly accepting an accumulator bet when our own rules state that only single bets are available on a market of this nature," said a Ladbrokes spokesman.

"We are happy to void the bets and to pay the customer his winnings on the relevant singles."
They however amount to just 31.78 pounds, rather than the 7.1 million Bryant was expecting.



Come on now...
you lose, you pay. A player (let alone the house!) should never welsh on a bet! Once in Vegas at the Venetian I placed $3K on the tie bet in Baccarat. I just felt it! I won, they paid me the $24,000.

Soon afterwords the phone in the pit rang. Obviously upstairs - the eye in the sky. There was some back and forth discussion. A lot of hand gestures and pointing. Eventually the pit boss, an old friend by now since he had seen me gamble so often over the years, came by and explained that their limit was only $2K. (The tie bet limit at most of the other high-end casinos in Vegas was the $3K I had placed.)

But did they ask for the extra $8000. back? Of course not. A bet made is a bet that must be paid!