Hello,
First time poster just looking for some advice. The situation is essentially that I am a very casual sportsbettor who bets the NBA pretty small with my husband as a hobby. I only bet on Bodog.
Last week I made a parlay bet on Damian Lillard (a couple props parlayed, the night he got 50 points) that hit for about $4,000 on Bodog.
I took that money and made a bunch of other paraly prop bets the very next night. A long shot on Kevin Durant hit for about $11,000. At this point I was super excited obviously as I had never won more than a few thousand on anything in my life despite a few trips to Vegas.
Of course, I made even more bets the next night and another long shot came in on Rudy Gay for around $8,000.
I did the same thing for the next couple of nights but ended up down a little bit. I had already made a bunch of the same bets for today and was currently up about $20,000 for the week.
When I logged in this morning, my account balance was back to where it was one week ago. After crying, I contacted Bodog through the chat and they explained that the bets were cancelled as they were deemed to be 'correlated parlays'. They essentially were very firm on their stance, quite rude, and even kind of threatened some type of legal action against me.
I tried to explain that I am a very casual bettor, had made a big production to all my family friends about my winnings, and even spent some of the money already. This is a HUGE amount of money to me and I am obviously devestated.
Now, I did think it was a bit weird that they were offering these long shot bets that didn't seem to be that unlikely but until I googled 'correlated parlays' I didn't realize that is what I was doing. It just seemed like good odds but after researching it now I guess the bets were 'correlated parlays'. Was I trying to make money? Yes.
The point I tried to make to them (unsuccessfully) is that I rely on them to tell me what bets I can and can't make. If they accept the bet and put $20,000 in my account I couldn't understand how they can go back a week later and say "you violated our terms".
Obviously they made a mistake offering these bets but I would assume the honourable thing to do would be to honour the bets made and cancel any future action. It sucks for them if someone made a mistake but I assume $20,000 isn't a huge sum of money for Bodog.
When doing some research I see that someone had the exact same situation happend in Feb. of 2014 but I don't see any result of that incident. So here is where I guess I am asking for advice.
I am a casual bettor and mother of two young kids. I don't really want to make a huge stink about this but I feel like Goliath just stomped on David. Is it worth my time trying posting this all over the internet and contacting anyone who will listen to me to try and get my money back? Or should I just try to cash out the last little bit of money I have on Bodog and move on with my life?
Sorry for the long post and any advice is appreciated. I really don't know what to do here.
First time poster just looking for some advice. The situation is essentially that I am a very casual sportsbettor who bets the NBA pretty small with my husband as a hobby. I only bet on Bodog.
Last week I made a parlay bet on Damian Lillard (a couple props parlayed, the night he got 50 points) that hit for about $4,000 on Bodog.
I took that money and made a bunch of other paraly prop bets the very next night. A long shot on Kevin Durant hit for about $11,000. At this point I was super excited obviously as I had never won more than a few thousand on anything in my life despite a few trips to Vegas.
Of course, I made even more bets the next night and another long shot came in on Rudy Gay for around $8,000.
I did the same thing for the next couple of nights but ended up down a little bit. I had already made a bunch of the same bets for today and was currently up about $20,000 for the week.
When I logged in this morning, my account balance was back to where it was one week ago. After crying, I contacted Bodog through the chat and they explained that the bets were cancelled as they were deemed to be 'correlated parlays'. They essentially were very firm on their stance, quite rude, and even kind of threatened some type of legal action against me.
I tried to explain that I am a very casual bettor, had made a big production to all my family friends about my winnings, and even spent some of the money already. This is a HUGE amount of money to me and I am obviously devestated.
Now, I did think it was a bit weird that they were offering these long shot bets that didn't seem to be that unlikely but until I googled 'correlated parlays' I didn't realize that is what I was doing. It just seemed like good odds but after researching it now I guess the bets were 'correlated parlays'. Was I trying to make money? Yes.
The point I tried to make to them (unsuccessfully) is that I rely on them to tell me what bets I can and can't make. If they accept the bet and put $20,000 in my account I couldn't understand how they can go back a week later and say "you violated our terms".
Obviously they made a mistake offering these bets but I would assume the honourable thing to do would be to honour the bets made and cancel any future action. It sucks for them if someone made a mistake but I assume $20,000 isn't a huge sum of money for Bodog.
When doing some research I see that someone had the exact same situation happend in Feb. of 2014 but I don't see any result of that incident. So here is where I guess I am asking for advice.
I am a casual bettor and mother of two young kids. I don't really want to make a huge stink about this but I feel like Goliath just stomped on David. Is it worth my time trying posting this all over the internet and contacting anyone who will listen to me to try and get my money back? Or should I just try to cash out the last little bit of money I have on Bodog and move on with my life?
Sorry for the long post and any advice is appreciated. I really don't know what to do here.
