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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

He bet on losing his own seat? Essentially no different to a boxer taking a dive. Not only would no bookmaker in their right mind take that bet, it'd probably class as fraud.

That aside allowing an £8k bet on that at all is crazy, I can't see more than about £1000 being authorised.

Of course ultimately it's the actual bookmakers decision - the folks you see in shops are not actually bookmakers, the decisions on big bets like that (for the big bookmakers) are made by a handful of blokes in a few offices in London. Literally a small number of people covering the whole UK. Sometimes you'd get to talk to them on the phone if it was an unusual bet request. It was like getting a call from a celebrity .

Yes sounds like Fraud.