Originally posted on 12/03/2012:

Opinion: Should a Book be allowed to confiscate a Player's entire balance because of one mispriced bet?

Say a player wins $3000 on a single bad bet (should have won just $30). The rest of the player's action is perfectly fine and he runs his balance to $43,000. The Book then notices the original error and confiscates the entire balance instead of just the $3000 overpayment on the one bet. Player points out that the Book's own rule calls for the bet in question to get reduced to its proper odds (loss of 3k in profit), but the remaining action stands (+40k in this case). Book counters that the rule doesn't apply, because the player wouldn't have won so much w/o the original 3k he should have never received. How do you rule?