[rcgills]

Sorry, Cinny, but it's the only way we can really do it. Although I can see you started the thread before the game kicked off, I can't actually see what time you placed your bet on the event. Potentially you could've opened the event without actually betting on it, then placed the bet 5 minutes before the end of the game for all we know. Not saying you did do that, obviously, but it's a possible loophole as things stand.

Add to that the fact that at some stage you could have people opening events on, for example, MLB or NFL, which are played at times when there's virtually no-one online to actually check whether bets are placed in time, etc. That means that really the only fair way to deal with incidents like this is to void any event where the closing time is later than it should be. There will obviously be some innocent mistakes which are punished as well by that method, but unfortunately that's just the way it has to be.