Sports Rules

Specials

Specials is our description for bets on, normally, non-sporting events such as politics, current affairs or financial matters.

Bets on "Special" markets are available as singles only, unless otherwise stated on our site.

Specific rules and conditions relating to each individual "Specials" market will be displayed on site as these markets become available online.

The maximum payout on any bet which includes a selection, or selections, from a "Specials" market is £10,000, unless otherwise stated for a particular event. This maximum applies to the payout to any one customer, in any one day.

Poker Tournaments

Betting on Ladbrokes Poker Finals involves predicting players to win specific tournaments staged on the tables at Ladbrokespoker.com.

If a player withdraws from the tournament before it has started all bets on that player will void. A deduction will be made in line with Tattersalls Rule 4(c) in these circumstances.

In the unlikely event of tournament play being disrupted by system or communication problems a winner will be decided at the promoters discretion. This may involve the tournament being replayed. All bets will be settled on this final declared result.



Politics

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UK Politics

Seat Total Betting
1. Any MP elected as a sitting Speaker of The House Of Commons will not count for seat total or majority betting.
2. If the next general election is run under a significantly different electoral system (e.g. not single member FPTP constituencies) seat total bets, majority bets and individual constituency markets will be void.

Party Leader Markets
Unless otherwise specified, temporary or “caretaker” leaders will not count.

Constituency Markets
1. All markets are for the next General Election, unless stated.
2. Other runners may be added at any time as they declare, or on request.
3. Bets on parties or candidates who do not stand will be losers
4. Constituency betting is available as singles only, unless explicitly specified.

US Presidential Markets

Next President
1. This will be settled on the winner as declared after the General Election for President, allowing for any relevant legal or constitutional challenges.
2. Electoral College vote shares will be settled on the results declared by individual states rather than the votes cast by electors at the subsequent college.

Party nominees & vice-presidential nominees
These will be settled on the nominees as declared at the Party Conventions in election year.
Primaries & caucuses
May be settled on either delegate counts or vote share as specified on our markets.



Big Brother

Any departure other than by public vote - e.g. a housemate leaves voluntarily or is expelled from the house - will not count as an eviction for the purpose of 'next eviction' betting.



Christmas Snow

For a bet of a white Christmas for 2009 within in a specific post code area ("Bet") to win. A snowflake, sleet or a snow grain (together "Snow") must be officially recorded as having fallen within the postcode area which is the subject of the Bet between 00:01hours and 23:59 hours on 25 December 2009 ("Christmas Day"). For these purposes:

(a) the relevant "postcode area" will be the postcode area as recorded by the Royal Mail having the first two digits in the order stated on the relevant [Betting slip]and shall exclude those areas within in the relevant post code area that are in excess of 250 metres above sea level;
(b) snow, sleet or any other like substance which fell prior to the commencement of Christmas Day (including that which remains on the ground on Christmas Day), hail or ice pellets (irrespective of the time at which they fall) are excluded from the definition of Snow for the purposes of any Bet; and
(c) "officially" means as determined by the British weather Service in its absolute discretion.

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