What happens to my bet if the match gets abandoned?
so basically i put a tenner on a sunday league type fixture in a lower league and it got abandoned at like 70 mins cos of floodlight failure apparently lol. my bet was on over 2.5 goals which had already hit at that point. do i get paid out or does it just void? bit confused cos ive never had this happen before
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depends entirely on the bookies rules tbh but generally if a match is abandoned and not completed within a set time (usually 48hrs or rescheduled) markets that have already been decided get settled and the rest get voided. so for over 2.5 if 3 goals were already in before it got called off you should still get paid. ive had this exact thing on Rolletto and they paid out the goals market because it was already settled, but my correct score bet got voided and refunded. just check the rules section under their football betting terms, every bookie words it slightly different
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yeah can confirm this. had a game abandoned at half time last season and anything thatd already been decided got paid, rest came back as stake returned. honestly was a nice surprise getting my over 1.5 paid when i thought id lost the lot
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honestly ive been done over on this before. had a bet where the goals had clearly hit and they STILL voided the whole thing claiming the market wasnt officially settled at point of abandonment. took ages arguing with support and got nowhere. absolute joke
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that sucks mate but in my experience thats not how it usually goes. when mine got abandoned the already-decided markets paid out no problem. sounds like you got unlucky with whichever bookie that was or maybe the goal happened after the abandonment was called? timing matters a lot
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fwiw the general industry standard is that if a match doesnt resume within 48 hours its considered void unless the outcome was already determined. so a goals market that hit before the stoppage stands, but things like next goal or final result get refunded. its all in the rules under abandoned matches usually
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wait so does this apply to accumulators too? like if one leg of my acca was in an abandoned game
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yeah good question. usually that leg just gets treated as void/non runner and the odds get removed, so your acca still runs on the remaining legs at reduced odds. it doesnt kill the whole bet, the void leg basically becomes a 1.0
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what counts as abandoned vs postponed though? is there a difference for settling
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yeah theres a difference. postponed means it never kicked off so usually everything voids straight away. abandoned means it started but didnt finish, so then the already-decided markets can stand. thats the key bit people miss
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idk this all sounds a bit too neat. surely bookies just void everything when they can to avoid paying out? feels convenient that they only pay the settled stuff when it suits them
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nah thats not really fair. theyre bound by their own published rules and theres regulators watching. ive had abandoned matches pay out the decided markets multiple times without me even asking. if anything voiding everything would be against their own terms so they cant just do whatever they want
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just to add, different sports have different timeframes too. football is usually 48hrs but ive seen tennis and cricket have their own specific abandoned/suspended rules. always worth reading the sport specific section not just the general one
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can back this up, had a floodlight failure game myself a couple months back and my over 2.5 paid out fine since 3 goals were already in. rest of my bets on that game came back as stake. exactly how kev described it, no drama at all
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