Lost on Penalties? It’s not a losing Bet …
Ok – I’ve had a week to get over the World Cup final now – and I’ve just about got over the jetlag of the trip home too.
As some of you might know – I had front row seats to the World Cup Final in Berlin – as befits my status as a writer for this esteemed blog. OK – they were front row in the upper tier stand, and stuck behind one goal – but they were still front row seats.
What you may not know is that I got stuck into PaddyPowers offer of a World Cup outright bet on France at tasty odds of 12/1 and for most of the final I could see a return of €1,200 coming my way.
Of course, Materazzi, Zidane, the TV replay and a 4th official, put an end to that during extra time – and I had to watch in agony as Italy won the World Cup on penalties right in front of me.
So, after a long trip home I was amazed to find that my World Cup stake of €100 was sitting back in my PaddyPower account. Brilliant – but why?
Simply because the mad Irish bookie had been running a special promo – every punter who had an outright bet on the World Cup and who’s team eventually lost on penalties got their stake REFUNDED !!
According to the PaddyPower website that offer has cost them to the tune of €1.2 million – that’s a sizable refund … so it’s the least I can do to offer the man a bit of publicity and say “fair play” to him.
And that is why PaddyPower is one of our top 10 recommended bookies. Does your bookie stack up ?
Add comment July 16th, 2006