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My Petra Refund

Posted by Aidan at 4:11pm October 31st, 2009

Category: Justice Payouts, Racing 536 Comments

“It’s always everybody else’s fault.”

Any one who backed 4/1 joint favourite to win the 2.20 Wetherby might be feeling that way right now. She looked almost certain to claim victory heading into the home straight, but the jockey pointed her the wrong way and she snatched instant disqualification out of the jaws of triumph. Blame your bookie, blame the jockey, blame the horse for not saying something sooner, but you can’t blame Paddy Power. We’re refunding all single bets on My Petra to win the race.
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Putting Money Back In Your Pocket!

Posted by Chris at 10:20am August 21st, 2009

Category: Golf, Justice Payouts, Sportsbook 3 Comments

Following his defection from the Wyndham Championship, Tim Clark cited a “pain in the neck” as the reason for his withdrawal. Something he passed on to anybody who backed the short-priced player to win the PGA event. We’ve refunded all bets on the South African. Steve Flesch also pulled out early, but he didn’t feel like telling anyone why. The extremely poor weather conditions and being eight shots behind the leader probably had something to do with it. We’ve refunded bets on the American too. And some people think all our refunds and payouts are just cynical PR gimmicks. What did your bookie do with your money? A new villa in Monte Carlo, that’s what.

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Have I Goth News For You!

Posted by Cartoon Vampire at 11:46am August 20th, 2009

Category: Cricket, Football, Have I Goth News For You!, Justice Payouts, Novelty, Rugby, Sportsbook, Tennis, US Sports, Videos 5 Comments

Today’s news is just nuts
- Man, I Feel Like A Gold Medal
- Dude, Where’s My Lescott?
- You’ve Got Male (that one doesn’t really make sense)

Quite A Balls Up
There were joyous scenes at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin last night. After crossing the line first in the 800m final, Caster Semenya raised her suspiciously hairy arms triumphantly aloft in the night sky. Overwhelmed by emotion she let out a basso bellow of delight. Then she scratched her balls, said sorry for not even lasting two minutes and then feel into a deep sleep when all the other women wanted to do was a bit of cuddling.

That is the somewhat dramatised version of events that have lead to the South African being ordered to undergo a gender test. “The gender verification test is an extremely complex procedure,” said someone from The International Organisation Of Unnecessarily Short Shorts And Nipple Chaffing. Extremely complex? What? Finding out is this woman is in fact a man should take about 2 seconds – one if she’s got a semi at the time. Apparently, this gender test will take a few weeks to conclude, but if anyone from the IOOUSSANC is reading, you can have my patented Sack-detector kit for free:
Gender Test

If he/she answers ‘no’ to at least one of the questions, then it’s almost certainly a dude.

The Football Bit
After yesterday’s completely unfounded speculation, Liverpool’s managing director says that Rafa will be fielding not quite his strongest XI and then wondering why they’re dropping points at the likes of Spurs for some time to come. Stoke’s remarkable ability to make Glen Johnson look like Pele has lifted the pressure on Benitez that I’m not convinced ever existed. A bit like global warming. Just because I’m on the topic of Liverpool, Rafa has flexed some financial muscle by signing … em … Greek centre-back Sotiris Kyrgiakos for £2 million from AEK Athens.

Showing the aptitude that has won him pretty much every league title for the last twenty odd years, Alex Ferguson thinks scoring that penalty against Burnley would have definitely helped Man Utd’s chances of winning. Meanwhile Spurs looked pretty impressive in hammering already relegated Hull (I’m speaking mentally rather than mathematically – for the moment). Pretty impressive that is until you see replays of the goals and notice Boaz Myhill’s uncanny ability to miss shots that are pretty much straight at him. Elsewhere some other team beat some other team and has anyone had enough of the football season already?

All Joleon Lescott’s door slamming and playing his Jonas Brothers’ records too loudly has finally gone too far for David Moyes. The Toffees manager has grounded Lescott until Mark Hughes calls around with a bag filled with thirty million pounds worth of non-sequential notes or injury prone strikers to the same value. One person’s view of the whole story.

A Blinkered Round Up Of Everything Else
Harlequins vow that they will never ever be caught cheating again after taking a “huge reputational hit” - which is corporate makey-uppy-speak for “everyone thinks we’re cheating basterds” – hey, if it’s good enough for Tarantino. Plans to enforce include warning joke shops not to sell blood capsules to any of their players or staff. Stink bombs and whoppie cushions are fine.

In their regular bout of getting a bit bored with tennis, the Williams sisters are reportedly interested in buying a stake of the Miami Dolphins. That’s a trifle unnecessary – if they wanted to play that badly, then surely their physiques would merit a place in the offensive line. Apparently they float some people’s boats, although personally I’d like to reveal that they were the inspiration behind my patented Sack-detector kit above.

In other hut-hut-hut news, the Philadelphia Eagles’ signing of the dog fighting host with the most, Michael Vick doesn’t mean that companies are any less likely to pump millions of dollars into the organisation. It’s a victory for honest to goodness money over pesky little morals. I wonder what Vick would opt for here?

Whilst the rest of the cricket world focuses on the Oval, I’m bringing you the stories that matter. Kabir Khan, coach of the Afghanistan cricket team has said his team’s performance in Zimbabwe is one in the eye for all those haters out there, but he did it in a less gangster rap way. They earned a draw against their hosts, no doubt helped by some excellent Talibatting.


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Justice for Crystal Palace!!

Posted by Chris at 6:12pm August 16th, 2009

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You’d have to feel desperately sorry for Crystal Palace fans. They’ve an Oompa Loompa as a chairman, a mouthpiece for a manager and the FA don’t like them very much; they sent them a blind referee on the second weekend of the season.
 
No one at Ashton Gate, or anywhere else for that matter, could believe their eyes when ref Rob “Should’ve gone to Specsavers” Shoebridge failed to see Freddie Sears’ 30th-minute goal. Palace chief Neil Warnock said they were cheated and, in our eyes, so were our customers. So rather than spending your losing bets on updating his Playboy subscription, Paddy has decided to do the decent thing. As well as paying the official result, we’ve settled bets on the draw, the Correct Score, 1st Scorer and anytime scorer as winners. Did your bookie go to Specsavers?
 

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Paul Casey Refund!!

Posted by Chris at 9:19am August 7th, 2009

Category: Golf, Justice Payouts, Sportsbook 11 Comments

As one of the golfers labelled with the dreaded and annoyingly over-used ‘one of the best players never to win a Major’ tag, Paul Casey would have been hoping to return to form at the WGC Bridgestone in preparation for the final Major of the year, the USPGA Championship next week. Unfortunately the Englishman pulled out after six holes at Firestone, but Paddy Power punters who backed him to win in America won’t be disappointed. We’ve decided to refund all bets on Casey to win the event. Whilst other bookies would’ve taken your money and laughed all the way to Gibraltar, we’ve given you your money back!!

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Help Save Freddie!

Posted by Paddy Power at 5:24pm July 28th, 2009

Category: Cricket, Justice Payouts 1 Comment

The news that Freddie Flintoff is set to retire from Test Cricket has sent something of a shockwave through Paddy Towers. Our London office in particular has been hard hit by this devastating news, but in fine Paddy Power tradition we’ve decided to do something about it rather than just sit around moaning.

Today, on the eve of the third test, we launch our HELP SAVE FREDDIE campaign on Facebook. It’s really quite simple. We’re looking for great ideas, either financial or medical, that can help persuade Fred to turn his back on getting paid a couple of million quid for playing souped-up rounders and commit to the king of sports that is cricket.
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Kevin Pietersen Refund

Posted by Aidan at 10:34am July 23rd, 2009

Category: Cricket, Justice Payouts 1 Comment

His propensity to get out both ridiculously and cheaply meant that Kevin Pietersen wasn’t exactly shaping up to be the star of the Ashes Series. We’ll never know, but in the comfort of that knowledge, we’ll confidently predict it wasn’t going to happen. Still, as his Achilles packed up, he won’t get the chance prove us wrong and we’re doing the decent thing by refunding all bets on him to be England’s Top Runscorer, Top Overall Series Runscorer and Man of the Series in the Ashes. Other bookies would probably settle him as a loser, laugh in your face take your money and invest it in nuclear weapons, but we don’t think it’s fair, so we’re giving the money back.

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Chelsea Refund!

Posted by Tom at 10:31am May 7th, 2009

Category: Football, Justice Payouts, Sportsbook 60 Comments

We’re guessing most Chelsea fans are about as happy about last night’s goings on as Didier “IT’S A F**KING DISGRACE” Drogba. So we’re refunding all bets on Chelsea to win last night’s match and reach the final of the Champions League! (more…)


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MONEY BACK ON CARDIFF

Posted by Paddy Power at 6:31pm May 3rd, 2009

Category: Justice Payouts, Sportsbook 85 Comments

If you backed Cardiff to qualify for the Heineken Cup final or beat Leicester your getting your money back.

I’d normally be about as sadistic as you get and love watching football players miss high pressure penalties but it was the least enjoyable drama I’ve witnessed - especially when a legend like Martyn Williams missed the crucial one….

It’s just not right to take punters’ dough like that.

By the way, the final is a pick ‘em game….should Leinster not be favourites????

Click here to back Leinster at a ridiculously generous 5/6

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Horse Racing Refund

Posted by Aidan at 1:39pm April 15th, 2009

Category: Justice Payouts, Racing, Sportsbook

If we were to say that Pull The Wool and William Weasle were well fancied to run a big race in the 5.10 Exeter, the fire brigade would be putting out the inferno in our pants as we speak. The two horses didn’t in fact run a big race, mainly because they decided they had better things to do and ran away at the start line, but that’s little consolation for the people that did actually back them. We’re doing the decent thing and refunding on Pull The Wool and William Weasle in this race.

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