Tabonline Bipot dividend

Either finger trouble or outright theft... official dividend for Chelmsford BP declared as R650 but only a total of 70.9 winning tickets from a pool of R54520 should pay R769 ??

Don't suppose it's any good phoning the TAB to complain.....

Sounds like a big Bipot pool for a UK night meeting?

You maths seem correct

There were three qualifying numbers in the last leg (incl the scratching) and a total 70.9 winning tickets. They declared a dividend of R650.80 so they paid out a total of R46141.72 out of their nett pool of R54520 - a nice profit of R8379 for somebody ?!
And that's a minor event - makes you wonder how much is being skimmed on the big days!!

Cometman you go to phone them and query this,it just doesn't add up.
Don't let it be swept under the carpet,make sure you get a response from them.
Surprised Bob didn't get an answer from them.

Good morning Bob

With regards to the Bipot thread, please find an explanation below.

In race 2 at Chelmsford, the incorrect tote favourite was entered into the system, #3. The correct tote favourite was #4.

Win
#3 R7.70
#4 R2.30

Due to this, the tickets on the scratching, #5, were not brought into the original combinations going forward, therefore the tickets displayed going forward would have been incorrect, short by the #5 tickets. This can be seen by the screen shot supplied where the 2nd leg only had #1 and #4 qualifying.

Looking at the final results, numbers #1, #4 and #5 were the qualifying numbers for the 2nd leg. So any tickets on #5, would have qualified and therefore changing the dividend.



This was picked up by the auditors, in the final checking stages before the all-clear, at 21h47.

I will furnish you with the breakdown of tickets going into the final leg as soon as this is received by me.

This would have only affected the Bipot, as the only other exotic bet offered was the Jackpot, which started in race 3.

We do apologise for any inconvenience caused by this and we will be looking at what further steps need to be put in place to prevent something like this from happening going forward.

Thanks for following that up Bob - I can see what happened now - just don't understand why it was only picked up at final audit.
Appreciate the help...

Good morning Bob

As promised, here are the correct tickets going forward into the last leg of the Chelmsford Bipot, which includes the scratching of #5 in the 2nd leg:

1. 6,43
2. 77,09
3. 30,85
4. 48,36
5. 3,52
6. 39,29
7. 4,56
8. 32,14
9. 32,86
10. 57,42
11. 1,86
12. 3,55
13. 0,67

The last leg qualifying numbers were #3, #4 and #7, totalling 83.77 tickets.

I hope that this has assisted in answering the query.

With this error being picked up prior to the all-clear, it does show that processes/checks that are in place are proving to be successful. Additional processes will be looked at within the division to try and circumvent issues like this from arising in the future.

As a software developer I can never understand what the TAB software is doing. Why do they have to enter numbers manually for the exotics. Once the correct result including scratchings is posted and audited all exotics should be updated and posted automatically and immediately. There should never be any room for error once the correct result is posted.

I wonder how old the software system is that TAB uses?