Talk:Paddy Power

message: Paddy Power has (essentially) been the only bookmakers that have offered anyone a chance to bet on the Scotland referendum in 2010. They have pulled it back, just wondering if anyone knows why.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.134.28.194 (talk) 10:23, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Your question is best answered by Paddy Power's customer service. Hazir (talk) 13:02, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is just to confirm that other bookies have made it possible to bet on whether or not there will be a referendum. If I bet £10 on that it will not happen, I can have a net gain of £1 on dec 31.st in 2010. How much is that one pound actually worth, once inflation has taken its part of that money?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.134.28.194 (talk) 07:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Scotland vote

message: While I am here...
There's a few missing facts and other innnacuracies in this article. I don't really want to edit an article about the company I work for so I'm mentioning them here. Would someone be able to take a look?
We are the biggest bookie in Ireland - but not just that, we are also the biggest quoted betting company in Europe now and also the biggest corporate bookie in Australia. At a below the line level we have a b2b relationship with the French PMU and have just signed a partnership deal with British Columbia Lottery Corporation who are the only operator permitted under Canadian law to offer sports betting in BC - we're supplying their sports betting business with product, pricing and risk management services for three years.
We've now got 218 shops in Ireland and 156 in the UK.
We don't sponsor Swansea City or St Pats (although we did once).
We did pay out on New Zealand and Stoke - we do this all the time, and as with Massa we regularly refund bets if we feel punters have been cheated - a good recent example is Wales in the RWC after Warburton got sent off. 
The comments under criticism are a little unfair. The Obama bet was an absolutely standard "to serve a full term - yes or no" bet, we offer this on politicians and governments all the time and in the states it was relevant because of the Clinton impeachment story. We certainly NEVER offered a market on Obama to be assassinated and we never would - it was interpreted that way by some of the press and perhaps we should have been more aware in terms of seeing that coming.
Similarly, we don't welsh on bets - we're in the business of taking them and paying out when they are winners - our reputation is one of the cornerstones of our business. The story around Shane Lowry is a bit misleading - the odds had been offered in error over the counter by a member of staff in a shop (they were never our actual odds which had been available online etc).  When we realised what had happened we didn't just apply the rules and settle the bet at the correct odds at the time of placement, we got in touch with the customers affected and agreed a payment with them that was less than the false odds but significantly more than they would have got according to the rules (I should know as I dealt with this and spoke to everyone involved personally).  Like I said above, I don't really want to just dive in and edit this page (it's probably against guidelines in fact) but would someone look at it for me?
cheers Paddy  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Therealpaddypower (talk • contribs) 10:24, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innacuracies on the page 

message: Hi,
Could someone (not me, for obvious reasons) update the page to include these up-to-date facts and more relevant information?
Paddy Power is now the largest bookmaker in Europe (see http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/paddy-power-biggest-in-europe-2940154.html)
Group income was €444m in 2010 (see annual report on www.paddypowerplc.com)
On May 14th 2010, Paddy Power acquired a majority stake in Australian bookmaker SportsBet (see http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afzmafgveatA&refer=australia)
Paddy Power now has over 200 shops in Ireland and over 150 shops in the UK (full list at http://www.paddypower.com/bet/shop-locator)
Paddy Power was placed 6th in the Management Today "Britain's most admired companies" list (see http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/go/bmac) and was ranked 1st for "quality of marketing".
thanks. Therealpaddypower (talk) 17:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested additions to the page 

message: The section on Paddy Power Poker is unreferenced and the factual content could be merged with the rest of the article. It seems to me that it does not justify its own section and risks cluttering the page as well as perhaps possible being construed as advertisement for the service. Any objections? Reichsfurst (talk) 16:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of section Paddy Power Poker 

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message: Wikipedia is at least TRYING to be consistent in referring to companies like that this as involved in "gamBLing", not "gaming", which is about video-games. "Gaming" is a sleazy attempt to "brand" the gamBLing industry as something other than what it is: gamBLing. Wikipedia should, if it wants to be encyclopedic (i.e. not controlled by the public-relations firms that gamBLing-companies hire to sanitize the industry's image), be consistent in refusing to allow the word "gaming" to be interchanged with "gambling". The article at the time I'm typing this contains some instances of the word "gaming". That's not encyclopedic. That's PR for the industry. It's an attempt to change how you FEEL about something by using different words, rather than FACTS. It's no better than when the pornography industry refers to itself as the "erotica" industry. Don't get me wrong: I'll oppose any legislation against either gamBLing per se or smut per se, just as I'd oppose legislation against marijuana use per se, but when a friend of mine is a pot-head, I say he's a pot-head, not a "frequent recreational consumer of cannabis".2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 07:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: It's not "gaming". It's "gambling"