From the telephone discussion recordings between Dow and BetEasy staff, there is no doubt BetEasy was aware that:
(a) the Account Holder (and her partner) had “two kids dying in hospital with a heart condition” and accordingly in a vulnerable position at the time;
(b) the Account Holder’s partner was a permanently self-excluded gambler; and
(c) men often open accounts under a women’s name to continue to gamble undetected
Further, as mentioned above, Dow referred to the Account Holder as the sole account holder with “they” and also with gender pronouns “him” and “his”. This should rightly have raised red flags to BetEasy staff regarding the use of the betting account.
It is clear to the Commission that BetEasy’s management ought to have known that Dow was breaching BetEasy’s obligations regarding account use and sufficient indication that the Account Holder was not the person betting on the account.
Finding of Northern Territory Racing Commission, 18 October 2021
The word out of the west is that Matt Tripp’s mooted potential partner in his bid for the WA TAB purchase Kerry Stokes is far from impressed with the son of the convicted SP bookies antics over the past 24 hours, in particular Tripp’s decision to leak details of his proposed consortium’s buy bid through the Fairfax press.
Stokes – who owns rival outfit Seven West media, publisher of The West Australian newspaper, the Sunday Times and perthnow.com.au – is said to be furious that Tripp chose to announce his play through the competitor, and sources close to the camp say that he is far from impressed by the attack man not the ball strategies employed by the dodger who purports to want to be his partner.
Tripp of course was the former supremo of BetEasy, and is the cousin and extremely close friend and associate of that company’s ‘rogue’ affiliate John Dow, the man who continued to seduce and induce a large scale problem gambler to keep punting and losing six figure sums while his kids were dying, betting through an account in his wife’s name that Dow had set up with the full knowledge of Tripp.
Tripp’s Man Dow
(Goes through the list of self banned gamblers and finds this mug)
Ring Ring
Self Excluded Compulsive Gambler
Hello, I am at the hospital and my two kids are dying.
Tripp’s Man Dow
That’s Wonderful Sir. Would you like a 2 for 1 matched bonus if you deposit a minimum of ten grand into the bowler account in your wife’s name that I set up so that we could rape you for a fortune? A good hard punt will take your mind off things, and make you feel a whole lot better.
That is pretty much how it played out.
Cracker hey?
And Tripp wants to throw stones.
It’s always best to look in your own mirror before you do.
We have just two questions for the potential investors in Matt Tripp’s last minute, self-spruiked consortium trying to buy the WA TAB.
How much cash of his own is Tripp putting in?
And has anyone ever come out of a deal involving Tripp in front themselves, or only him?
It’s something well worth thinking about.
Here is one for the WA Government too.
Do you really want a bloke this running your TAB?
If so, you might as well give him the contract for the children’s hospitals too.
PS – Why do you reckon Tripp really bought Texbet?
It wouldn’t have anything to do with using client lists obtained by Tripp to ‘innocently’ ring large scale excluded problem gamblers on behalf of Texbet, and offer them inducements to start betting again would it?
No never, perish the thought.
What do you think Matt is, the sort of bloke who would approve of his cousin ringing compulsives in hospital while there kids are dying, and offer them huge bonus bets as a lure?
Wash your mouth out with soap.
BetEasy – notice of conclusions and proposals PDF (492.9 KB)
