Originally Posted by
KVB
Exactly, the agreed upon market is often discovered after the fact.
Like I said, what's to stop them from adding a zero to the dog sometimes, creating a rush, then calling it a mistake to the winners.
Online it's pointless, all bets get voided, but in a sportsbook, the losers are screwed. They aren't taking their ticket back up the counter for their money back unless the book offers it out loud before the game ends, somehow.
The books get a freeroll and even more incentive than the outright difficulty to not review some live tickets before hand.