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By Proxy / the winning
who the win is owed to
The win is owed to the name on the account
When a proxy wager wins, the operator owes the money to the account holder and to nobody else. The person who chose the bet may have a claim, a private agreement or a shared understanding, but none of that reaches the operator. This page works through the 260 wins, the 112 claims and the 92 that were declined.
Desk spec
- wins
- 260
- paid to the holder
- 260
- claims by the chooser
- 112
- claims declined
- 92
- claims upheld
- 20
- declined share
- 82.1%
who chose the betNot the holder, in 900 of 900 sampled wagers. The operator sees one name and cannot see the person who chose it.
who the win is paid toThe name on the account, in 260 of 260 wins. The person who chose the bet claimed 112 and 92 were declined.
what is found40 of 900 flagged (4.4%), 22 accounts closed. Detection is the exception, not the rule.
Direct answerThe operator pays a winning wager to the account holder. Of 260 winning proxy wagers, all 260 were paid to the holder; the person who chose the bet claimed 112 of them, and 92 of those claims were declined because the operator has no contract with the chooser and no way to pay them.
how the 260 wins resolved
the wager won 260
the operator paid the holder 260 100%
the chooser then claimed 112 43.1% of wins
claim declined 92 82.1% of claims
claim upheld 20 17.9% of claims
and where a claim was upheld,
the operator acted on a written
agreement it had been shown,
not on the claim by itself
Why a claim mostly fails
A claim fails because there is nothing for the operator to act on. The bet is a contract between the operator and the holder; the chooser is not a party to it, and the operator cannot redirect a payment to a name the rule does not allow. The 20 upheld claims are the exception that proves it: each rested on a document the operator was shown and could verify.
The desk is not telling a reader how to win a claim. It is showing the direction the money travels, which is settled before the bet is struck rather than after it wins.