I am a regular "poster" on AFL and gambling forums but continuing the early posts on this thread I have a " hard luck " story in regard to TABs


Probably 10 years ago I was living in Tassie and at Saturday races at elwick ( when they were still on saturdays ) and had a couple of early collects.. a mate of a mate come up and told me that their horse was running in Adelaide and that they were confident. When at Tab window collecting early winners I placed a $20 e/w bet on their horse , which was called "Minegold" from memory.

About 20 mins later the TAB went down and was to remain down for majority of day... U guessed it.. Minegold won in adelaide and Supertab divs showed it as a $56 winner s it passed post and I was pumped. I kept betting with bookies as TAB was down and dropped a couple hundred, not that concerned as I had a ticket worth close to $1300 in my pocket to collect when TAB was restored. Imagine my surprise when i was told that my ticket was only worth $250 odd as the horse only paid $9 odd on the TAB as in the case of TAB breakdown they revert to Tasmania pools only not supertab. So I had backed a $56 winner and lost for day, could have been worse, the guy who tipped it put $1500 over bar!!!

At least he got prizemoney