Edit by SBR: Hi Lancy,
Please check your account - Bovada has returned your bet.
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Hello (my first post)
Let me set the stage. I'm 75 and have been betting sports for 50 years and still don't know how to win or how to quit.
my ave loss approx. 1kplus a month. Not proud, but, its entertainment and I can afford that. I like the gimmicks or the also called sucker bets. Multi-team parlays and teasers. I know I take the worst of it but its fun.
Here's the scenario:
On Wednesday Dec.26 I bet a 5 team 13 point teaser for $100. For those that don't know, it takes 4 teams to make a qualifying 13 point teaser. It can be more but not less than 4 teams. Prior to getting fully underway, a unique and very rare thing happened. Two of the 5 plays were Boise State and over. THEY GOT RAINED OUT. (An act of God).
That left three legs. An obvious non-qualifying bet. I lost one of the remaining three legs but to me that was inconsequential as I was sure I had no bet. If I couldn't win a bet, then I couldn't lose one.
Bovada ruled that I had to win the other three legs just to get my bet back. WTF? I was stunned and felt they would see the error and make it right.
We exchanged about 6 e-mails and they wouldn't budge. I used baseball betting as one example. I said that if I bet over 8 in a baseball and my team scored 12 in the first and the game rained out (an act of god) prior to 8 and a half innings than I had no bet. UNLUCKY. Conversely if I bet under 8 the result would be the same. LUCKY.
Whats the difference.
They just didn't get it.
They quit talking to me. For $100 they lost a good customer. Ironic thing about this is I bet the last $500 I had in my account on Notre Dame. Loser. It would have been six and I would be depositing more $$ if they had returned my bet. Perhaps I'm getting senile, but, does anyone see this any other way?