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By Vampula
9 months ago
On August 8, 2025, I placed a bet on the 20Bet website on a Finnish U20 football league (P20 Ykkönen) match: U20 Sapa vs. U20 Kontu Ita-Helsinki.

I bet on the 1x2 market, picking option 2, meaning a win for U20 Kontu Ita-Helsinki, with odds of 6.00. I placed multiple bets of €10–€50 each, totaling €500. The match ended 0–4 in favor of U20 Kontu Ita-Helsinki, so my bets won. The bookmaker initially paid the winnings into my account, bringing my balance to €3,000.
The next day, when I checked my account, my balance was only €500, and my bets on that match had been voided. I asked in their live chat why my stake had been refunded, and most likely a bot replied that my stake had been refunded because the match result had been known in advance. I responded that I had placed my bets a day before the match started, so I could not have known the final result. They only replied that the team had made a decision and it could not be changed.

On August 10, 2025, I also sent an email to [email protected] about the matter, but I have not received a reply. Now I am wondering whether it can really be the case that a bookmaker can freeroll my €500 stake by declaring after my winning bets that the match result was fixed, without providing any proof of that. In that case, a bettor would have no chance of winning if the bookmaker refunds the stake from winning bets. Would my stake have been refunded if I had lost the bet—if Sapa U20 had won? I doubt it.
A bookmaker should void bets before the match starts if they intend to do so, not after the match when result is known. Of course, I have no information that the match was fixed, and there has been no news or information anywhere in the media or on the internet suggesting it was, so this seems to be a completely made-up explanation. I placed the bet purely on a hunch, and now I feel cheated. Therefore, I want 20Bet to pay my full winnings, as they rightfully should in this case.
Disputed sportsbook 20bet Sportsbook
Reason Void bet
Amount €3000

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Dear 20bet Sportsbook,

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Hello.

I am still waiting for my €2500 winnings to be paid into my gaming account. The process has been long and arduous.
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Dear Vampula,

Thank you for your patience. Our colleagues are still reviewing your case, and we sincerely apologize for the delay. We understand that waiting can be frustrating, but please rest assured that our team is doing everything possible to finalize the review as soon as possible.
User name loyalty-level-2
Hello!

I have now submitted a withdrawal request for the €500 I deposited, but despite everything, my gaming account is still missing the €2,500 that rightfully belongs to me. After all this effort, I truly hope that my winnings will soon be credited to my account so that I can withdraw the full amount as well.

20bet Sportsbook Complaint Stats

Resolved 12 / 13
Avg. Amount $942
Avg. Complaint Duration 11 days
Avg. Response Time 2 days

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Witholding funds and abusive attitude
My account was limited to 0 betting, therefore I decided to withdraw my funds back to my Skrill account on july 7th 2025, however both my original deposits and profits are being held hostage without any valid reason by 20Bet.

On july 9th they cancelled my request and proceeded to ask me for a selfie holding my ID which I promptly uploaded and was approved. Still, they refused to process my payment for the second time, all I got was an email demanding 3 more documents to be uploaded: a Skrill statement with all the deposits I made to their sportsbook since january, another selfie with a code and ID and a second proof of address. All this can be verified in the attached screenshots.

This is a repetitive pattern: every time there's a withdrawal request they simply reject it in advance to keep asking for more documents to be uploaded. In my case the information I sent was approved in vane simply because they systematically refuse to process the payment. I did my part, but they obviously didn't. Their only defense it's to keep using their T&C to justify their actions.

Once again I requested a withdrawal (for the third time) on July 17th, which they also rejected and another one (4th attempt) on July 19th which is in "pending" status. This is the complete list of documents I already provided:

1-Passport
2-Utility bill as proof of address
3-Proof of deposit
4-Picture of debit card (front/back)
5-ID (front/back)
6-Selfie with a code written in a paper
7-Screenshot of Skrill personal account details
8-Selfie with ID
9-Selfie with code and ID
10-Another utility bill as a second proof of address
11-Skill statement of deposits made to 20Bet (2 pages)
12-Bank statement with all Skrill transactions in PDF (may-june ’25)

However, they still refuse to process my payment. Even worse: they're now also demanding another "skrill statement for the period from May up to and June with all ongoing transactions visible in PDF format" when their own site doesn't even support the PDF format. 

All this without giving me any valid explanation about why exactly I'm being requested to provide all these details. This is sensitive information which could be possibly being used in a fraudulent way by this operator. After so many attempts to work this out, I think I reached a frustrating dead end with this abusive company and their useless copy/paste "costumer service department".
Status solved Resolved
$374