It had all started when Sportsbet announced it was running a book on what colour tie the political commentator would be wearing during Nine's election program.
"All I can tell you is that I am the punters' friend. Sportsbet ran a book on what colour tie I'd wear tonight and the six choices were gold, red, blue, black, green and any other colour," the politics reporter said.
Sportsbet later issued a statement saying that when the political editor appeared at the start of the program wearing a red tie - which was the $2.00 favourite - the team at Sportsbet were patting themselves on the back thinking they had got it right.
Five tie changes later and they realised they'd been had been out-manouvred by the wily journalist.
Sportsbet paid out on all bets
