The World Cup promises to be the biggest betting event ever, offering punters hundreds of unusual proposition bets. The Indepedent Betting Arbitration Service believe that a single statistical provider for the whole betting industry would be ideal to keep the numbers of betting disputes to a minimum.
Gambling Commission Chairman Peter Dean asked the Association of British Bookmakers that operators include in their rules the circumstances under which they will void a bet, how errors and related contingencies will be treated and the means or medium by which the outcome of an event will be determined.
“Operators will say in their rules that they will accept the decision of a particular news supplier and customers will be able to check this against published results,” Dean told the ABB.
IBAS Chief Executive Chris O\’Keeffe welcomed the Commission\’s requirement that operators include in their rules what news supplier they will use to determine outcomes and hopes that the whole industry will adopt a single statistical provider.
“It can\’t be right that a punter can get paid out one an event with a firm and not with another. If bookmakers want to make goodwill payments than that\’s up to them but it would certainly help us if there was a single statistical provider,” commented O\’Keeffe.
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