posted Sep 12, 2008

Betfair also made a LOT of money in the farce that was in Newport, then the scoreboard was showing Isner thrashing Levine, but they'd actually got it the wrong way round. As there was no TV coverage, people were blindly putting thousands of pounds on Isner even though he was getting soundly beaten, but they didn't pay up when all became clear the next morning.

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posted Sep 12, 2008

For a player who has had a fine imposed on him (later retracted, but still!)for "not giving his best effort" and has been warned by an umpire on a second occasion for same reason, this scandal all seems a little close to the bone to be just fears from a betting company about potential losses.
After all, these companies have a duty to report any seemingly 'strange' betting patterns to whichever sporting body is involved.
Inevitably, so long as betting on professional sport is permissible, there will be players willing to accept money to either provide extra info about a possible outcome or to "take a dive".

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posted Sep 12, 2008

i think there were several people who bet lots on Davydenko to lose in that match and their bets were canceled. Sure, they got their stakes back but if i were them i would now demand the winnings and hold betfair to account too as he and the other guy were cleared.

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posted Sep 12, 2008

The players and their associates were cleared of any complicity in a fix. That's about the extent of the report. No that there was not a fix in by others. Don't hold your breath in betfair recanting now

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posted Sep 12, 2008

There's too much of this that remains hidden to be sure of anything. It's not about Davy losing a match from a winning position, that can happen, it was about the implausible(to put it kindly) betting pattern that accompanied this.
I quite like Davy and even then, I couldn't imagine why he'd do this voluntarily, but it's what we still don't know that is the legacy of this case.

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posted Sep 13, 2008

I don't know the rules regarding Betfair but with most other bookmakers all bets placed on unfinished matches are void even if one player was only one point from victory.

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posted Sep 13, 2008

Lol.

Remember what happened: Davydenko was playing a complete nobody, in a match that would normally attract only tiny betting. He wins the first set. Some group then bets 8 million he would lose, basically betting against Davydenko at _any_ odds possible. Coincidentally, he then completely folds in the next set and retires.


Betfair's investigation find the source of the bets were a group of Russians, and subsequently void the market and refuse to take bets on Davydenko for a while.

Make of that what you will. Nobody on the betfair forums was in any doubt.

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posted Sep 13, 2008

Of course they never found any evidance, who really thought they would?. If the fix was in the player would be paid in a manner impossible to trace. The only evidance would be the match itself, but when you can lose a set by playing a couple of intentional errors that also becomes a near impossibility.

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posted Sep 15, 2008

"Nobody on the betfair forums was in any doubt"

If you go on them now, you can still read some of the conversations from people who bet on that match

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