This is one of the more common situations that catches people off guard, mostly because most explanations of matched betting walk through the clean, straightforward version of a promotion and never mention what happens when a game does not cooperate.
What a push actually is
A push happens when a bet''s outcome lands exactly on the number that neither side wins nor loses, most common on point spread and total bets set at a whole number. When a bet pushes, the sportsbook returns your original stake, no win, no loss, the bet simply did not happen in a financial sense.