FanDuel blinks, will pay Jersey bettor despite pricing error

A New Jersey sports bettor is more than $82k richer after the FanDuel Group agreed to pay his winnings despite an obvious software glitch.

On Thursday, the Associated Press broke the news that FanDuel had agreed to pay out $82,610 in disputed winnings to a bettor who’d wagered on last Sunday’s NFL tilt between the Oakland Raiders and the Denver Broncos.

In case you’ve been trapped under something heavy these past few days, a bettor claimed to have been stiffed by staff at the Meadowlands Racetrack’s FanDuel Sportsbook, who refused to honor his late-game wager based on the company’s insistence that the odds were incorrectly offered.

Late in the game, FanDuel offered in-play odds of +340 on the Broncos coming back to defeat the Raiders. Shortly before the Broncos came on the field to attempt a last-minute 36-yard field goal, FanDuel’s odds on the Broncos winning inexplicably shifted to +75,000. During the 18-second period these odds were available, the book accepted a “small number of bets.”