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prl_lover t1_jed919e wrote

Reply to comment by Victor_Korchnoi in Tennis umpire handed lifetime ban for manipulating scoring by PrincessBananas85

He wasn't changing the actual score, he was just not inputting the scores to the handheld computer in a timely manner, or was deliberately making 'mistakes' and later correcting them.

Basically when a player won a point, his friends would bet on that player before he actually awarded them the point on the system. So bookies and other gamblers who rely on the score feed were getting shafted.

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lol-ban-me t1_jeff7r0 wrote

Woah. That sounds like it could be a pretty big fraud case

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thesecondfire t1_jefyiaz wrote

People can really bet on the outcomes of individual points in tennis, am I understanding that correctly? If that's the case, seems excessive.

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NonsensePlanet t1_jegsxbc wrote

I think it’s more likely that the odds change after each point. But maybe?

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