by RG30 »
12 Jul 2010 17:02
Tony Le Mesmer Does it not depend on how the bookmaker titled the market?
If it was "Tournament Leading Scorer" should be paid as a 3 way dead heat.
If it was "Golden Boot Winner" should be paid out to Mueller only meaning any Spain/Villa doubles would be a loser. You would be gutted though.
The attraction of the bet itself is the enhanced price for scorer/winner combination, but given it was a dead heat on half the selection, I'm not sure how you decide fairly whether in this particular market you just pay out for the win. For me anyway, I would have paid out fully on this bet and then any top goalscorer only bets paid out in accordance with the dead heat rules.
That Friday Feeling I'll bow to your itk but surely if a punter offers a wager "Thomas Muller to win Golden Boot @ 7/1" and the bookie accepts his stake, marking the betslip accordingly then that is the bet/contract that has been made.
Other markets quoted in the shop are irrelevant to the wager offered and accepted.
If a customer had said to me "I want to be XXX on being Golden Boot winner" then I and I'm sure nearly all betting shops staff would have assumed they meant top goalscorer market as until yesterday I'm sure 99.9% of punters,fans,pundits didn't even know was there to be a dead heat then it went to FIFA rules, otherwise we would have released a seperate market. But it is the customer's resposnibility to check the bet before leaving and given it was the World Cup and a crucial event I'm sure some discretion would have been used if necessary.
