Originally posted on 11/30/2012:

Quote Originally Posted by Bill Dozer View Post
A misgrade is wager graded incorrectly as in team B is the winner instead of team A or miscounting who covered the spread. An example is the Baylor vs Texas game when Don Best posted the score backwards and books graded it. 5 minutes later it was corrected and books regraded it. The 5d rule, which should be more detailed in how its applied, is meant for that kind of scenario. It's not there so that players can take advantage of an obvious payout table or line/price error then bet the ill gotten sum and keep half of what ends up being a big free play roll.

This falls under obvious gross error without question. Come to find out the player got paid 100x the correct payout where we were talking 10x initially. Sure the book made a mistake that should be pointed out, but does that mean the player gets a 3,500 free play? Where do you draw the line, $35,000? Every book has had an extra zero added on at one time or another. In this case it was two zeros. No book is going to let 225,000 in bets stand because he bet it right after he was supposed to be paid only 25k and this rule listed doesn't change that.

Usually when the error is this large the book catches it and reverses it right away. When it's not so obvious the player gets the benefit of the mistake. In this case the player has the best of both...the book makes a big mistake and he gets paid on it. He bets the pleaser only because its 7000-1 instead of 70-1 and scores 3500 and subsequent 11k cashout.

If you argue that well, he would have made those bets anyways, ya maybe he would have and maybe they would have lost and he'd save money. You don't know. All we know is that if you bet with 3465 dollars of the book's money you might run into problems...or you might cashout 11k.
That's really sickening, Bill. You guys are losing every ounce of reputation you've built over the years. A lot faster than you earned it too.