Thought this was appropriate as to the naming of this thread.

Mystery punter takes advantage of price error

Nic Ashman - 14/07/2014

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported one TAB punter was offered odds of $2250 about Good Job Bro running a place at Doomben on Saturday.

The TAB put up $9000 about Good Job Bro winning and the punter quickly seized the opportunity to back the John Sargent-trained horse for the place.

The punter locked in $12 at $2250 and when Good Job Bro hit the line for third he collected a cool $27,000.

"It was an error when the prices were put in manually and our policy has always been is to pay on the price that customer has taken," the TAB's Glenn Munsie said. "Good luck to him, I'm available for a drink any day this week with him. There was only one punter who got the big odds as when the bet came through it alerted the attention of the trader to the error."

The Herald went on to report that $9000 is the default price for a scratching in TAB fixed odds markets.

Wasn't me unfortunately.

Cheers.
Garyf.