- A bettor at FanDuel turned a $11 bonus bet into over $100,000, and now bettors believe the sportsbook implemented new terms and conditions to prevent future substantial losses.
- FanDuel’s terms and conditions that give them the right to void wagers made by “any group of people acting in conjunction with each other” are the source of the outrage.
- This rule is not new and has been around since at least 2020, but users on X believe it’s an attempt for FanDuel to counter the sports betting community.
NEW YORK – The sports betting community on X believe FanDuel Sportsbook implemented new terms and conditions that prevent players from “acting in conjunction with each other, or any individual acting alone, in an attempt to defraud FanDuel Sportsbook” after a bettor won over $100,000 on a 9-leg MLB home run parlay. However, this rule has been in FanDuel’s terms and conditions since 2020 and wasn’t a response to Monday’s big winner.
The most recent version of FanDuel’s terms and conditions state that “FanDuel Sportsbook reserves the right to void any or all Bets made by, any group of people acting in conjunction with each other, or any individual acting alone, in an attempt to defraud FanDuel Sportsbook.” This led users to believe FanDuel implemented the terms and conditions after the winning parlay was paid out, but that’s simply not the case.
FanDuel Trying To Prevent Discord Community Bets?
The winning bettor, who goes by JB on X, offers his betting picks in a paid discord community. This means that many other people made the same winning bet as JB, likely causing FanDuel to take a big loss from the ridiculous +911600 parlay.
Blessed 🙌 https://t.co/PNfiRUPiy4 pic.twitter.com/u9YAZMiW48
— JB 🍀 (@onlyparlays_) June 24, 2025
JB confirmed on his X account that he was paid out and has since withdrawn his winnings from the $100,276.06 parlay, but many users believe FanDuel is attempting to prevent a similar big win for the community in the future. In reality, most legal sportsbooks like DraftKings, Bovada, and other companies have the same rule in their terms to prevent players from getting around the maximum winning limit for a single bet.
FanDuel’s terms state that “For all events offered, the maximum winning limit per bet (e.g., straight, parlay, SGP, or other) is $1 million US Dollars.” They also state that “The maximum winnings limit will apply to any one customer, or group of customers acting together, wagering on the same combination of selections, regardless of whether or not such bets are struck separately, at a range of different prices, on different days and through a number of different accounts. If FanDuel Sportsbook believes that a number of bets have been placed in this way, the total payment of all those bets combined will be limited to one single maximum winnings.”
Sportsbooks Need To Recognize The Hypocrisy Of This Rule
Ironically, FanDuel offers a “Popular Same Game Parlay Bets” section where they share a parlay that a high number of other bettors have placed. A bettor at FanDuel, or other sportsbooks like DraftKings and Hard Rock Bet, can see that over 1,000 people have placed a certain combination of wagers and bet it with just the click of a button.
Wait, but they don’t even follow their own terms and conditions. They literally post ‘Top Parlay Bet of the Day.’ We should sue FanDuel for violating their own rules. pic.twitter.com/K91LUdAjHN
— Rohde51 (@State4thewin) June 25, 2025
With these types of wagers seeming contradictory to their own rules that prevent “a group of customers acting together, wagering on the same combination of selections,” its time for sportsbooks to revise their own terms and conditions to prevent future controversy.
