Gil Gives the Lads a Free Kick
Here’s Tabcorp Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan at today’s Hobart Cup. It’s nice of him to give the opposition a free kick. The Lads say good on you Gil.
The NT Racing and Wagering Complaints Resolution Process is a Joke
The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission is established by the Racing and Wagering Act (NT) 2024. Its purposes are to: promote probity, integrity and fairness in the racing and wagering industries and among its participants; establish a fair and efficient system of governance over the racing and wagering industries protect the welfare of animals […]
NT Racing Commission – Time Taken to Resolve Complaints and Investigations – Decisions in Past 12 Months
1. A v BETCHA Lodged 15/11/22 Decided 26/11/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 2. E v ENTAIN Lodged 15/7/20 Decided 22/11/24 Time Taken: 4 YEARS 4 MONTHS 3. F v PLAYUP Lodged 29/7/22 Determined 24/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 3 MONTHS 4. L v ENTAIN Lodged 3/1/23 Determined 22/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS 5. […]
NT Racing and Wagering Commission Members and Meeting Dates
The members of the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission are: Alastair Shields (chair) Cindy Bravos (deputy chair) Susan Kirkman (member) Scott Perrin (member) Rachael Shanahan (member) Ian Curnow (member). Below are the commission 2024 meeting dates: Thursday 1 February Thursday 7 March Thursday 4 April Thursday 2 May Thursday 6 June Thursday 4 July […]
Who Protects People That Punt With Bet M? – Bloody No-One, That’s Who
In the wake of our story yesterday about the collapse of BudgetBet and the need for better protection of punters funds we were sent this. It’s a disclaimer that the online bookmaker BetM includes in its Terms and Conditions. They couldn’t be plainer about it if they tried. Should BetM be unable to meet its […]
Regulatory Changes are Needed to Protect Punters in the Wake of the BudgetBet Collapse – Here is a Good Place to Start
Three months ago we raised concerns on this website about the solvency of online bookmaker BudgetBet, and asked questions about how the money in punters betting account would be protected and by whom. They were valid questions as we are all now finding out in the wake of BudgetBet’s collapse, leaving customers stranded with their […]
Standardizing the Scale of Deductions
One of punters biggest bugbears is the scale of deductions for scratchings. Different wagering service provider (WSP – once upon a time we used to call them bookies) apply different deductions when a horse is late scratched, with the number of cents in the dollar taken from the face value of tickets seemingly left to […]
The Overlay of the Century
I almost fell off my chair yesterday morning after seeing that the bookies were betting $2.55 about Novak Djokovic beating Carlos Alcaraz. It was the overlay of the century The Joker has an outstanding record un hard courts, having won 71 of his 99 titles on the surfaces. Coming into last night’s match Djokovic boasted […]
The Sportsbet Class Action – Brought to You by David Layoff McLauchlan
Top law firm Maurice Blackburn is suing Sportbet in class action being taken against the leading bookmaker by punters who placed allegedly unlawful live bets on sport with the firm using ‘fast codes’ it supplied to customers. You can bet live in the run on races, gallops and trots in Australia, but you can’t bet […]
Life’s Not Fair
The simple answer to this bloke’s question is that life’s not fair, and bookies don’t have to bet reasonable prices. They only have to bet what the market will bear, and even then they don’t have to if they don’t want to. It’s called the free market. People sell at a price, and people buy. […]