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If so, what did sportsbook do? Did they refund your bet?

Will the betting site collect money from those that won the match? Remember that some people that won the bet would have withdrawn the money on the gambling site.

Any matches that are played to the end and the result known to people and the people that won the bet have been credited while those that lost are not credited but lost the bet, if the match is later known to be fixed, there is nothing that the betting site can do anymore.

It is indirectly on the betting sites terms of service that nothing can be done with such matches.

This is the example on how some casino handle fix match https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5498092.0

Some casino allowed the win while others confiscate the funds and will insist that you knew that you are betting on fixed match.

It’s a case to case basis but reputable casino will pay your win if ever your betting history doesn’t have a lot of record for betting on fixed matches since they consider too a coincidence bet.

Yes that's true because the gambler made a prediction and his production didn't come out in the final result. Was there a result in the end Yes, did it go your way NO. The gambler can't prove that the match was fixed. And even if it was fixed it's not the business of the gambler. The only business the gambler was the pick the possible outcome to win and he failed. If he had got it right, he wouldn't have bothered if it was fixed or not.

I never heard of this, and even if a game is confirmed fixed, I doubt the casino will pay. Most bets get graded instantly or within 24 hours max. Those “fixed game” investigations usually take days or even longer before they’re officially confirmed, so by that time the sportsbook can’t really take back the funds that were already withdrawn.

Casinos are for games like roulettes, dices, blackjack, baccarat, crash and others that are not sports but games, but this is more about sports which are bookies or bookmakers.

Not that I doubt it, I am certain that there is nothing that the gambling sites will do as long as the match was played finish.

It is likely that the Sportsbook will not refund the bet, this makes sense with your explanation where the match fixed will not be discovered after the match ends, it needs to be investigated first with a long time before the organizers find out.

Even if we bet on a match fixed means we have to give up the bet, right?

how do you know that a match was fixed. It is only when there is an evidence that a particular match was fixed that is when I think sportsbook will return or even think of refunding. It has always been rumours that some matches are being fixed the reality of it is something I can't say for sure. If there is evidence that a match was fixed them sportsbook won't have any options but to return the money used in placing the bet.

I don't think I ever did one but I guess not or I may have been in one but the sportsbook didn't award it was a fixed one. I think reputable sportsbook will refund you if a match turns out fixed because they'll surely be flocked by customers asking for a refund but I doubt those sportsbook that aren't reputable will ever do so. Besides, a fixed match will only be known fixed after an investigation which may take time to process.

I agree because casinos have no enough time to go beyond and do things which hurt their reputation and also create chaos for their customers even fixed or suspicious games are now part of many leagues but it's never been easy to find them out quickly.

Recently too many telegram channels are involving in this activity even mostly are run by scammers and on this, peoples are losing their money in name of fixed matches, but there is no solid way to check things like these. but many of those who big network and have deep roots are enjoying easy profits from fixed matches. Here casinos are just doing only middleman work so they are not in a position to do anything about fixed matches.

Answering to the question in the title, no I have never bet on a match that turned out to be fixed, at least afaik. A different thing is that I used to bet on matches where FC Barcelona played, and last year we all knew that they could've been manipulated because of a referee they allegedly bought. But I'm not much worried about it, to be honest.

I don't have experience like that, but I guess sportsbooks wouldn't do anything. What they do is give a rating when the match is over. They pay those who win and don't give anything to the losing bettors. 
Because decisions determining a fixed match go through an investigation process that takes time. And I guess it wouldn't affect the outcome of bets that have already been paid.

Always check the sportsbook’s TOS because they’re the only ones who can really answer that. From what I know, only postponed or cancelled games get refunded. But for “fixed” games, it’s hard to say. Most of the time it’s just rumors, and even when something is reported as fixed, it’s usually not the whole game that’s rigged, it’s people trying to influence the outcome for their own benefit. That’s the difference.

Nope, I never had this experience.

But, I have an experience where I bet on a match where the match change the results after few days. It was a boxing match, the match was tight and the decision was controversial which make people think the match was fixed.

I was pick the winner and I received my winning, even the results change after few days, it didn't affect the sports bookie's decision and they didn't ask me to return the winning/they deduct my winning.

I think if this really happens and is officially confirmed, then all bets placed on that match will be considered invalid, and the sportsbook should return the bets to all players who placed them. However, if there is no official decision, the sportsbook has no legal basis to cancel the results. Although this is very rare in sports betting.

Yes I have, But my funds were never refunded. My vendor just acted like nothing happened.
I'm most certain that was as a result of poor customer care and relations, not having an empathy about customers and their needs-- even would confiscate them if it ever got refunded and delete traces.

However,if a fix match had played and ended with a winner as well, who were perhaps aware of the match fix, the vendors would have also been on the loosing end. In summary, in match fixing,there must always be a victim, either the vendor or the customer.

Just because it's a fixed game doesn't mean that everybody is is going to end up losing the bet so you can expect the game to be a refund for every bettor. When we say that a game is fixed most times is usually when it doesn't go according to our prediction but instead of assuming that the game is fixed what if we are just unlucky? There's no way to prove that a game is really fixed, it's possible that the outcome of the game might have been affected by other factors that we haven't really considered, betting can be quite complex sometimes

The problem is that we never know which match is being arranged, only bookies and sports parties are playing the gambling manipulation, but matches which are being regulated legally violate the rules of sporting integrity. If it is discovered later that after the game is finished, certain parties are playing a match that was arranged, everything will be lost, they can be punished and fined.

I haven't had this experience, but from the cases I've heard about, it seems the algorithm is always the same (at least for bookmakers who value their reputation): the game is declared "abnormal" (there are different formulations) and all bets on the outcomes of this game are returned with odds of 1.0. In other words, bookmakers essentially simply return bets to players. It seems to me that there are many more of these suspicious games than we know about, but in many cases bookmakers simply don't care because, thanks to the margin, they still make a profit even in a strange game.

What is not easy to get is justice for such victims,  they most time lose the lega battle along the line, but the sport betting platform always do thos to gambler's whose game was intended to end in a huge amount and this time the game fixing come off live and before you know it the session will end and you see that the game is settled against you.

I mostly noticed this fraud on virtual games but if is live matches,  is hard to get them fixed, so for that the presence of match fixing lately is near unavailable unless virtual games.

I’ve never had a confirmed “fixed match,” but a few games felt suspicious when odds swung sharply before kickoff. That’s why I track line movement and avoid markets with sudden, unexplained drops.
Even then, you can only control your stake, not the integrity of the event.

Have you ever seen odds shift in a way that made you rethink your bet?

I've been playing bets of different kinds, but never accused of been conscious of a fixed match, neither do I have to bother myself on whether the one I played is fixed or not, am sure the sport book will mostly reward your winning, except if they try to take that as an excuse which is not supposed to be, if we make use of a reputable casino, this will not be a problem at all, if we are using a reputable gambling casino, they will know how to handle this without anyone being affected.

They all know the 2 most suitable ways to handle an organized, malicious pool of fixed matches, but since it involves shutting down those casinos and making them pay for their long-term fraud, which means losing even more since they'll rather get a settlement benefit and act like nothing ever happened. However it is, the game don't favor the final consumers down the chain of distribution at all. If they can make millions of dollars collectively from all the bet, they can settle a certain committee with whatever the request and the chain still continues.

No.
Obviously, they will return the bet of the victims unless they are simply a scam casino where they won't bother, as they run away into thin air.
However, the casino does take money from bettors right? So yeah, they are meant to return the money whenever there is news that the match was fixed. This will create more reputation for them.

I've never been among the category of gamblers that bet on a game which turned out to be a fixed game but if that happens and the information have already spread that the game was fixed, the casino will void the game and will return bettors money to their account but if the game have already ended and cash out have been made by bettors that won the games, the casino won't give back losers their money and winners won't  return the money they have withdrawn.

Is it possible that gambling operators will openly disclose information related to fixed matches? We will only suspect match manipulation based on our own observations during the game. Information in the media will also be published at different times. The result will only give us the feeling that we should have won that bet. The bookmaker will not pay for cases like that.

Didn't really experience something like this but in my opinion this was very unlikely to happened since I dont really think that its impossible to have a say to something like this, its very difficult to prove that the sport is fix or have some kind of cheater maybe, and still the website for sure is going to refund anything some player is going to lose and some is going to win, They surely going to just recognize the official winner or the declare winning as the winner whenever if its fix or not.

There are some wierd bets on sportbetting like if a nba player cry, or if the player is going to cross the line first that is going on, there might be a huge chances of it becoming a fix or cheater something like that, I mean if you actually know the player you could capitalize on it, but wasnt really going to be consider as cheating right?

Maybe if thw case turns out to be fix and it was admitted that the game was fix, I can see a forfeit bet and then refund everyonebut there where for sure going ti be a lot of complaints for the winning side having there bet forfeit.

I do hear about fixed matches, but I haven’t experienced it before, and I haven’t seen any match which is a fixed match before. How are you even going to know that a match is a fixed one, if a match is fixed, am sure the match will be played normally, they won’t want anyone to know the match is a fixed match, because what they are doing is illegal, and they know the punishment attached to it. so how do people do end up discovering that a match is a fixed match?

I don’t really know how the sportsbooks are going to do in a situation like this. If you lose and you decide to request for a refund, what if you win, what are they going to do? Or is it that if you win, they won’t allow you withdraw your money?

How can a person even guess that a match is going to be fixed? Therefore, why shouldn't they be paid out any winnings? I believe bookmakers should take all factors into account when accusing players of knowing something without proof. This is a blow to their reputation, which will subsequently impact their traffic. However, I know of cases, and I've already mentioned this, where team management can sometimes bet on fixed matches, meaning they have a direct hand in them. Fortunately, this happens in local leagues, where the events aren't widely publicized.

I have never had a personal experience but I know that there is nothing a bet site can do about it, after the end of a game so far winners are credited if the game was later proven to be rigged they cannot ask the winners for a refund. Likewise losers cannot demand to get credited because it was confirmed that the game was fixed. If things like that were possible gambling sites will have to unnecessarily withhold funds of winners for some days to hear if games that they bet on was rigged or not. What matters is what happens at the end of a game and that is where the focus of gamblers and gamblinng sites should be..

As i said before that it's not easy to identified any games which fixed or not until the autoritize are investigate and decide it but regarding the sportbooks whether they will refund or not i think it depend on the policy from those sportbooks but based on the experience of some people if founded that case most likely sportbooks will never refund the costumer money

I have never any experience like this before and i think the games which i placed the bets is honest games and impossible to fixed because i was given some advices to those who very experience in sport betting that if you want to avoiding match fixing just stick and bets to the games from big league or popular league because the games like this is near impossible to fixing

If I ever did, I wouldn't have known because once I bet, depending on the outcome, I don't really care much about what happened in the game unless I'm watching it live; it's just the outcome. If there is cheating involved, it's their conscience and not with me. I know that, with the proper risk management, I can bet and just let it be. Not overthinking too much.

My thoughts too, a game being fixed or not u cannot knw, u just place ur wager after doing ur own due diligence and forget about it,, at least ur staking what you can afford, dats reduces the worry on the stake as it's a fifty-fifty bargain, it's either the game plays well for you or it's cuts, that's the choices that are their, so whether it's fixed or it's isn't doesn't really matter cause their is nfin you can do about it anyways.

How do you identify a fixed match? What if you had won from the fixed game and the betting site refuse to credit your winnings, wouldn't that be unfair?

It goes the opposite way too, there is no way the betting site would refund your stake amount just because of a game which status was identified as"fixed".

In some cases, the stake would have already being assigned as rewards or used to accumulate a prize pool so it's locked until the game ends and that makes it inaccessible.

To be honest, I haven't bet on a match that turn out to be fixed. It's because I don't bet on low tier league in which game fixed are prevalent. And I don't know if crypto based bookies do list them out in their platform.

But in any case that you win, perhaps there will be terms that the sports bookies are not going to refund your bet because it's a fixed match. It might be good though to review the ToS of the casinos that we play regarding this issue.

Maybe it's considered as void, thus our bets are refunded.

It's very rare to happen, so I have never really heard of how they will fix such an issue.

What I did experience was the game not being played because of sudden weather issues, and every gambler who took a bet early or while the game was available was refunded with the same exact amount they bet.
I think they should just do the same and give it back to the gamblers, but that's if it's proven that it was a fixed match. The problem here is those who won that match, how can they get back the money from them, especially if they withdrew after winning. Or, they could just file a case to those who fixed the match and pay back the money that was taken from them. I don't know if that will work. It's going to be a tough case.

I am lucky not to have placed bets on match that is fixed because I think I only bet on major leagues, major events, big promotions and top athletes. I believe that in major leagues, top teams or athletes will never be involved into fixed matches, because risk getting caught is too high compared with outcome. There are always millions of cameras around, big money are involved, sponsors contracts, advertisement. If someone wants to risk one and cheat with result, but that person might lose hundred millions of money in future, that would be stupid. I believe that fixed matches are in small leagues or local events, who watch 1.5 spectator watch.

I don't think losing bets ever get considered for the fixed matches... If we look at some of the cases that have been brought to the forum for sportsbook refusing to honour their obligations, you will notice a pattern of player wins (big or small) amount and before you know it.. the bookies in its defence just says player was involved in fixed matches but the funny thing is why that Sportsbook while others don't declare those matches fixed, sometimes I feel it's using the system against the player.

But anyway regardless, yesterday saw a YouTube video by Al-Jazeera saying the Turkish football federation was investigating both referees and players over this match fixing & players betting and some players have already been suspended for the same offence which really takes the fun out of the sport.

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I have never gambled on a match that is confirmed to be fixed game.
However, sportsbook have never withhold my payment before as I haven't associate myself with fix game,
or even use illegal way to gamble on betting site or casino site.
Usually I hardly believed on fixed game or matches because it is always a game of unknown and even the players can't really give the exact ways which such game should be ending at as the results is always undefinable.

Same question that got into my mind when I came across this topic, I mean it's not the gamblers fault that their prediction on that particular game was correct even if the match was fixed or would be platform just assume that every bettor who bet on that particular game and won is linked with the match fixing? If so then that's not fair on a bettors end cause I can just pick a random game I like and make my predictions without knowing it's a fixed game, and if I win I expect the platform to pay up since am not guilty of match fixing, they either pay up or refund the stake amount.

Identifying fixed games always takes long investigations that could last for years. You might become aware that the game you bet on five years ago was fixed. I don't think you would expect a refund since it might be assumed that it has been overtaken by time. Anyway, I am not aware of any bet that I have lost due to match fixing.

I don't know if you are talking about void match because I have never bet on a match that turned out to be fixed. But I have bet on a match that turned out to avoid and after the match was decided I was refund, although sometimes it used to take them time before they would credit the money. But the truth is that, there was a game called pool in my place, most times after betting on the matches you would notice later that few of your games have been void while you have already bet on them.

I have placed some bets before that the bookie ended up to cancel the bet but I didn't know the reason behind the cancelation, I just saw that it was cancelled but could it have been that they discovered that the game was fixed? That I don't know but I'm sure that if such actually happens, bookies will give back players their staking amount on that game.

I’m sure that’s not the reason. It’s wrong to assume that way because a fixed game isn’t something that gets declared instantly.
I don’t even know if there are cases where they confirm it right away, and if it does happen, it’s probably very rare. Most “fixed games” are just rumors in my opinion.

You should make a research for the reason, im sure it's publish public.

And hard to identify if we are end up betting in that situation. I don't bother much to research more information after the game ends especially if there's a controversy happening.

I also make sure to bet only on big sports since on big leagues we have less chance to experience that kind of situation.

So far it didn't happen to me that I bet on sports which end up being rigged by the team I bet or even the opponent. I just read some news that this is happening in small leagues.

I have a hard time believing that most would refund our bets especially if they are also oblivious about the fixed matches happening. They can argue that they had nothing to do with the fixed match anyway so in a way they were also fooled. I guess it depends on the general rule based on the law but if the casino can prove there was no manipulation on their part then they might not need to refund.

Fortunately, to this day I have never placed a bet and then, at the end of the game, discovered it was a fixed match and the betting site cancelled the bet. And you see, there are times when I bet on games from second division leagues and the main leagues in Africa, and even then I have never seen a case of accusation of match-fixing on a game I bet on.

This is a good thing and shows that cases of fixed matches are very few and far between. Eventually, this type of criminal scheme will cease to exist because sport is moving very rapidly towards professionalization at all levels.

You can only get refunded when you bet on a match that gets cancelled or suspended, fixed matches might not even be a real thing and even if it is that's not really a valid reason for it to the bookies to consider a refund or partial pay out..we can't really tell if we got unlucky or if the game was really fixed, a lost bet is a lost bet, there's no where it is going to be indicated or stated that it was a fixed match.

Any experienced sports bettor already knows that. We’re all aware of the sportsbook rules when it comes to fixed games or whatever. It’s sports, and rumors like that have been around forever. Even that NBA player who was betting against himself on his own player props, that’s basically fixing on his part. But did the bettors who won get their winnings taken back? Did the ones who lost get refunds? None.

Most times fixed matches are not favourable to the majority of gamblers , and may be the few that will win such bet would be as a result of information being revealed by an insider. So in this case the betting sites makes the most profit as people would loose massively.

Match fixing is always done by the teams involved in a match. They fix this match for one reason or the other that is best known to them and such game can be highly unpredictable.

There were different result. Mostly they returned bet and KYCed me or set bet limit. More interesting was situation when bookie changed odd and i had an opportunity(and did it) to hedge a bet. After the game ended, booker cancelled and returned only win bets. All loss bets were ok, like a common match.
PS. As for me - it is cheating from casino. If the match is fixed - they have to cancel all bets.

I have done but in the only game everyone in the world knew it was fixed. It was many years ago and the X or draw was 1.70 before the game started yet the bookies were the only one in my country to believe that. It was the game between Denmark vs Sweden that only a draw would make them both qualify and Italy out of the World Cup or Euro-s and it is what just happened. I had max about 100 dollars at that time which I was a teenager, 18 years old and bet all of it on the draw, I won 70 dollars and I wished I had a whole lot more money to bet on. The bookies did not void it as they wanted somehow to void after the game ended but not before so most people complained and they were forced to payout the winners at that time. I have never tried any fixed games like this as I don't know one more flagrant than this one.

I don’t think I have ever had any experience with a fixed game before. But wait! Let’s say a game is confirmed to be fixed and you won it instead of losing the game will the bookie cancel your bet?

I know that if it’s confirmed that it was a fixed game and you lose the game they’ll most likely not do any refund for you, but when it comes to you winning and then the get an update that the match was fixed they’ll take your winnings and leave you with your initial money.

I think I’ll read through other responses because I’m a bit curious to see if bookies actually refund you for a lost bet when it was confirmed to be fixed.

I guess they should refund those bets... but this is actually a very tricky subject. They confiscate & ban players accused of betting on fixed games, of course, that happens to the ones they catch doing it, but I doubt they can find them all. In most situations, we find out that some game was fixed days or weeks later, how many winners cashed out, how many losers forgot about that game?

So, yes... the fair thing to do would be sportsbook to refund all lost bets, but it would also be fair for all winners to return their winnings... which is impossible. The situation is tricky, the best is to avoid betting on some games from low leagues, and you will not have to think about these things.

Well, if you suspect that a game was fixed based on how the game turned out there isn't anything the sports book or casino is going to do about it. To be honest bettors say this but no one can actually prove it and whatever you can't prove is just an assumption. It is frustrating when a game you consider to be a sure bet ends up as a loss and you might be quick to jump into conclusions that it's fixed but it might not be

A full match is ninety minutes then extra time, after the game ends, bettors waste no time to withdraw profits, if they cannot detect a fixed match in between when its live, as long the match has ended, nothing will be reversed. What about those who lost from the bet, are the bookies to return back their bet amounts?

It usually takes days, weeks or months before fixed matches are detected, we can only be aware if both culprits are exposed.

I have never bet on a fixed match myself but normally if a match turn out to be fixed already, the ordinarily legit casinos are supposed to refund you for your bets to keep their name clean because it is not the fault of the bettors but that of the company or so. It is only when a casino is not pure in their dealings that is when they will just disappear with your money since they care less of the reputation.

But for the proper ones, they are responsible enough to care about their reputation so they don't joke with people's money or refund because they know those people are most likely to come back tomorrow for bigger deals so they need to maintain that trust to the fullest.

Fortunately, I have never bet with any match that turned out to be a fixed match. There are a lot of discussions about the same subject but having to experience that one seems to be a rare thing.

If you're a fan of those smaller leagues, it's very likely that you'll get to experience even at least once of it.

I do bet in smaller leagues sometimes but that just never happened to my bet. It seems that if someone ever experienced that, it's interesting to read what their thoughts on it and if they have ever bet big on the losing team.