BDO betting scandal

Evolution Enter

Now I'm not looking for a BDO bashing thread here - but anyone else read the article in todays paper on match fixing at the BDO world finals? Free Willy v some dude called the Badger - a tonne of money went on Willy to win 3-0 3-1 to the point that the odds went to halves and were eventually suspended

Big talk of the match being fixed as more money went on that score line than all other bets on the match

I know the money is poor in the BDO for a televised World Championship, but this could deal a severe blow to the BDO's credibility - I know Barry Hearn is strict on it in PDC/World Snooker, and must be next near impossible to fix games in the mid to high 90 plus games as is regular in PDC.........

Anyone any thoughts??

monkey9

15 January 2012
BDO STATEMENT

DAVE PRINS v WILLY VAN DE WIEL

The BDO has been advised that there are betting patterns relating to the above match that may warrant further investigation. It has not yet been provided with the detail but is expecting full cooperation from the bookmakers affected.

The BDO takes its responsibility to protect the integrity of the great sport of darts very seriously. To that end, it has put in place a detailed Code of Practice on Betting and Related Activity (http://www.bdodarts.com/uploads/files/Betting.pdf) that gives it broad investigative and disciplinary powers in matters such as this. Using its powers under the Betting Code, it will now open a formal investigation into this matter.

It has already instructed its lawyers, who are specialists in this area, to assist it in pursuing the investigation robustly and efficiently, so as to ensure the integrity of the sport is protected while at the same time respecting its obligation to treat those being investigated fairly.

As part of the investigation, information will be gathered from all pertinent parties, including the players themselves, the match officials, the bookmakers, and others, in order to determine, based on the available evidence, whether or not there is a case to answer for breach of the BDO's rules. If it is determined that there is a case to answer, the BDO will pursue it vigorously.


http://www.bdodarts.com/1634/15-01-2012/BDO_STATEMENT

Evolution Enter

Good to see - myself and the lads at a Laois ranking tournament were chatting about it today - really all you'd have to do is bribe the loser - all he has to do is win one leg in the second set and avoid hitting doubles from there on in - still a blow for the sport if proven

Dicie

Anyone that could read could have told you Davy prinns wasnt in the right state of mind in the last few weeks leading up to the event.

It would not take a brain surgeon to work it out, he has never played well on that stage, that along with him publically playing out and planning his own suicide 8 days before he was due to play on stage might have given any half decent punter a nice bit of info. Like a 2 horse race, with the 2nd fav and slow horse lame on top of everthing else!

The bookies dont like losing money, and will always flag things up when they get it wrong, take the mardle game in the uk open, where his opponent was a speedy hire employee who scored 142 with 15 darts to get that that stage, the bookies got stung, and asked for an enquiry. Is that also cheating cause people knew your man wasnt a dart player but the bookies didnt!

stylie

What happened with Wayne Mardle's game ? Did a guy just get a high score and that was good enough to play Wayne ?

I dont understand this bit

where his opponent was a speedy hire employee who scored 142 with 15 darts to get that that stage

Dicie

stylie wrote: »

What happened with Wayne Mardle's game ? Did a guy just get a high score and that was good enough to play Wayne ?

I dont understand this bit

The speedy hire company that sponsored the event where given 8 or 16 places in the UK Open from the pdc. One of there qualifiers was this player that faced mardle in the pre lim round on the main stage, he qualified in a 15 dart shoot out, and scored 142 in 15 darts

The bookies priced up this match and had mardle as 4/6 fav
They also messed up on players such as steve douglas and a few other BDO players

Healio

Dicie wrote: »

The bookies dont like losing money, and will always flag things up when they get it wrong

The markets were suspended on saturday evening with the match played on Sunday afternoon/evening. Its not a case of them calling foul because of losing money imo.

ArmaniJeanss

Its similar to Whitlock v Dennis Smith in the PDC last 64.
Rumours of the extent of Whitlocks injury, and then pictures of it on the day, saw a big gamble on Smith who went from outsider to 1/4 shot.
Ditto in the days before the Prins/WillieVanDerViel game there were plentiful rumours that Prins wouldn't play or was injured etc.

Obviously the Whitlock/Smith gamble failed, but had it succeeded there would have been talk of 'betting coup/betting scandal'. And comments about how more was taken on this game then any other.

Just because the BDO gamble succeeded doesn't neccessarily imply that there was anything corrupt in it. In fact because the bets were on both 3-0 and 3-1 (or Van Der Viel -1.5) would imply to me that it was most likely just an honest gamble with a gang of punters putting their money where their mouth is. If you can fix a game for 3-0 why waste stake money on 3-1?

stylie

Thanks, a darts punters dream