Wednesday, June 25, 2014

I find this hard to chew



I know, I know... part of me feel bad for all the zingers Suarez has to put up with for his alleged biting attack. But then again, he did bring it on himself.

For the outcome of the game I'm actually more upset by Marchisio's red card, I think we have seen many situations much worse than that not even result in a yellow card.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

N.J. challenge to sports betting ban on U.S. Supreme Court's conference schedule - News - NorthJersey.com

The legality of sports betting in the US has always been a subject of intense debate. Here is a story on the latest challenge to the ban in N.J. "New Jersey’s appeal by Governor Christie — arguing that two lower courts have erred in upholding a 1992 federal law prohibiting sports betting in all but a handful of states &mdash...N.J. challenge to sports betting ban on U.S. Supreme Court's conference schedule - News - NorthJersey.com

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Keeping your bookie from closing or limiting your account

How To Stop Bookies Shutting You DownA problem that serious sports bettors may run into sooner or later, even if you aren't doing arbitrage betting, is that the bookmaker you are using will shut you down. Michael Wilding from raceadvisor.co.uk recently delved into this topic and what to do about it summarizing it rather neatly:

The bookmakers business is based around losing punters and if you start winning then you taking your winnings from their profits. If they allowed every winning punter to place bets with them then they would simply go bankrupt.

Read the full post How To Stop Bookies Shutting You Down.

Like many other I commented that this is absolutely unfair, possibly not a legit way of doing business at all. As much as I'd like to wish that this wasn't going on the need for a campaign for bookie fairplay is speaking another language.

Talking (Fair) Betting With......Peter Ling - BettingExpert

Thu, 22 May 2014 12:29:40 GMT My second point would help to make it very clear that if opening a bookmaker account, you do run the risk of having it closed if winning too much. The vast majority of punters have no idea that this goes on, so by listing a clear ...

Be that as it may you still may want to follow Michael's advice and use several different bookmakers. If nothing else you get the added benefit of selecting the one with the best odds.