[rara51]

hey guys , has anyone ever heard about this costa rican book? are they any good or are they shady etc? any info on them would be much appreciated.

[SBR Forum]

There was a forum complaint recently which was resolved and the player paid in full.

Management has said they're open to addressing player issues with SBR.

[Foxx]

Scroll down a bit in this subforum. There is a thread about an issue they had recently. They said they might make a statement on the forum but have not done it yet. I wouldn't touch them.

[rara51]

and why is that?

[rara51]

Scroll down a bit in this subforum. There is a thread about an issue they had recently. They said they might make a statement on the forum but have not done it yet. I wouldn't touch them.

and why is that?

[SharpyUSA]

and why is that?

Because they take several weeks to pay you via check. No decent sportsbook does that. The max. wait any player should have to wait is no later than 10 working days!

There are much better books out there, like wagerweb, youwager, JustBet. 5Dimes is good too, but the owner tony has been walking around with a giant tree twig up his B-hole. I'm sure he has splinters there now, thus the horrible personality/attitude he has. Those kind of people should not allowed to be successful.

[rara51]

Because they take several weeks to pay you via check. No decent sportsbook does that. The max. wait any player should have to wait is no later than 10 working days!

There are much better books out there, like wagerweb, youwager, JustBet. 5Dimes is good too, but the owner tony has been walking around with a giant tree twig up his B-hole. I'm sure he has splinters there now, thus the horrible personality/attitude he has. Those kind of people should not allowed to be successful.

duly noted. how do you know the owner tony btw?

[SharpyUSA]

I am with 5dimes. The guy has a horrible attitude. He literally is the meanest A-hole in the world. Have you read some of the threads about him? Lol, the guy says he's the god of sportsbooks and no one can touch him. He's just a bad person in general.

[TopNotch]

My experience so far:

1) First payout today, mid 4 figures, paid into bitcoin wallet within 2 minutes of request. Down over lifetime of account, but obviously happy with first payout speedwise.

2) Tons of betting options. Opinionated lines as well.

3) Service has been good so far. Unique model in the sense that you deal with dedicated account rep. I've always heard back quickly. If they're not available apparently you can call someone else though I've never needed to.


Obviously some people will avoid a book like this that is unknown (and call me crazy for doing so). Fact is that I'm a recreational bettor who extends his gambling budget by taking advantage of promos/good value, so I've been known to play with fringe books from time to time. So far I've gotten good (but not over the top) bonuses, good service, have found betting value and was paid quickly the one time I requested it.

In no ways am I suggesting people play there - everyone needs to make their own decisions - just reporting on my experience so far. It's tough to get a gauge on just how big they are or who is backing them, so certainly I am taking a risk. So far I've been pleased though.

[BoKnowsBest]

Personally played here since late February and pros / cons

- did not get off to good start as first day Amy (account mgr) put the bonus in my account after I told them not to, as I do not do bonuses. Quickly fixed

- have gotten 7 payouts totals some as low as a few hundred highest 5k all through bitcoin. when sending to blockchain money hits account instant. once I sent to circle account and took almost 90 mins.

- limited my MLB props from 500 to 250. they have a prop where you can bet on MLB gametime played. Won seven in a row and cut off quickly. limits on games have not been touched even though I am + money. my cousin has been them for 20+ and limits has not been touched at all. he does not play props. he actually hit a lottery tix for 950 as well.

- lot of crazy wagering options

- cust service not over the top great but good enough. live chat was decent

[BoKnowsBest]

and Bill sent you a msg that went unanswered

[BettersAnom]

I had an issue with ML718 today. Won't pay out $1900 and wants to close account if I don't agree to 30X rollover. Thinks friend who comes over to bet on occassion is a duplicate account of mine (NOT EVEN MAKING MAX BETS!) Got no where talking with the owner "robbie."

[BettersAnom]

If anyone had an issue with ML718 and had their issue resolved please contact me! Needing help!

[Seanthewinna]

That's what you get for playing at some shady place like that

[Seanthewinna]

If I were you, I will just ask them to refund me the deposit amount back and run away from that site.

[BettersAnom]

SBR is already looking into the case for me, thankfully. How does a sportsbook expect just 1 person from a huge university to be the only one allowed to use their website and the moment someone else joins who goes to the same university so they are on the same wifi, both accounts get closed with all the money inside gone? How can you expect that? Also, they are located in the United States, piss enough players off and enough reports will get circling that could lead to much larger things for the book. I'm going to give them a day or two to calm down and see if they come to their senses. SBR said they will be contacting them too.

[luctens]

I had an issue with ML718 today. Won't pay out $1900 and wants to close account if I don't agree to 30X rollover. Thinks friend who comes over to bet on occassion is a duplicate account of mine (NOT EVEN MAKING MAX BETS!) Got no where talking with the owner "robbie."

SBR is already looking into the case for me, thankfully. How does a sportsbook expect just 1 person from a huge university to be the only one allowed to use their website and the moment someone else joins who goes to the same university so they are on the same wifi, both accounts get closed with all the money inside gone? How can you expect that? Also, they are located in the United States, piss enough players off and enough reports will get circling that could lead to much larger things for the book. I'm going to give them a day or two to calm down and see if they come to their senses. SBR said they will be contacting them too.

Firstly, you and your mate are complete idiots for betting at such an unknown and unproven bookmaker. There is literally no reason for you to risk your money at this kind of bookmaker when there are reputable bookmakers available to you.

You and your mate's second piece of idiocy is you and him betting from the same internet connection, that's a complete no-no. Never bet from the same internet connection as somebody else under any circumstances whatsoever. I don't care if you're legit or not, bookmakers will generally look down on this kind of activity very suspiciously and take the default view that you are dodgy, especially a crap bookmaker like the one you're playing at. I don't care if it's a wi-fi connection, you and your mate need to stop being such tight-arses and pay for your own individual internet plans rather than bootlegging off the university's wi-fi.

And your third piece of idiocy was you saying that if they don't sort it out in a day or two, reports might get put into the USA authorities to grass them up. When a sportsbook that is already unknown and unproven so probably dodgy have your funds under hostage and under massive threat of confiscation for good, blackmailing them by threatening to grass them up to the USA authorities if they don't sort things out in a couple of days is an awful way to go about things, and is only going to result in an even more hostile atmosphere towards you by this bookmaker.

If you and your mate are lucky enough to get your money in the end, you need to count your lucky stars, both of you need to request withdrawals of your full balances from this bookmaker immediately and both of you need to go and play with some proper bookmakers, never make the mistake of betting from the same internet connection as anybody else ever again and you need to count yourself extremely lucky that threatening and blackmailing a bookmaker hasn't resulted in your funds being confiscated for good and you need to never make that mistake of making those sorts of threats ever again.

Or if you get your funds confiscated for good, both of you need to see this as expensive lessons learnt that you need to only bet with reputable bookmakers, don't ever leave a dodgy bookmaker with an open goal ever again to confiscate your funds by betting from the same internet connection as anybody else ever again and don't ever blackmail or threaten a bookmaker ever again.

Whether you get away with this or not, you have to dealt with this situation in an utterly awful manner and you have many lessons to learn.

[Optional]

SBR is already looking into the case for me, thankfully. How does a sportsbook expect just 1 person from a huge university to be the only one allowed to use their website and the moment someone else joins who goes to the same university so they are on the same wifi, both accounts get closed with all the money inside gone? How can you expect that? Also, they are located in the United States, piss enough players off and enough reports will get circling that could lead to much larger things for the book. I'm going to give them a day or two to calm down and see if they come to their senses. SBR said they will be contacting them too.

It happens at books all over the world. Agree it's a genuine problem but people working or studying together are often penalized for using the same connection.

If you are not betting the same markets for a combined over the limit amount a reasonable book should not take punitive action like cancelling bets etc though.

[jayemaitch]

Will be very interested to hear how this goes for you. Don't you get assigned an agent at this book? Did you go through him or straight to the owner? I see they've been making payouts but that's always been to the same person so I don't know.

[BettersAnom]

I completely disagree with your post. People are at smaller books for a number of reasons. I have won a healthy amount from that site, so even if I never see those funds again I am still up a good amount. So if you come out from a book being up money, I don't think you can call that person an idiot. The goal is to make money…and I did.
Nextly, I think you misinterpreted my comment. I said that if a lot of bad reviews get swirling about a bookmaker/site it will only hurt the site in the long run.
You can't expect only 1 IP address per site. University that I am at propbably has 1000 kids with Bovada sites, all on the same IP. ML718 didn't like the amount won so they tried to make up rules. This was probably the 7th payout. If the IPs were the issue they would had said something day 1.

[BettersAnom]

When making the withdraw (not even for my whole account balance) I got an email saying to ask for a certain guy in their chat. I believe after reading other posts that it was the owner. I heard of one other person currently experiencing issues with a withdraw from them as well. I hope SBR makes them a page (not to advertise them some) but to give people a clear picture of what they are signing up for with this site. These issues would never happen at Bovada. A Bovada agent would never call someone withdrawing a bitch/ threatening them. Hopefully SBR can work something out cosidering bad PR only hurts ML718 in the long run. Pretty had business strategy to not clear issues up.

[luctens]

I completely disagree with your post. People are at smaller books for a number of reasons. I have won a healthy amount from that site, so even if I never see those funds again I am still up a good amount. So if you come out from a book being up money, I don't think you can call that person an idiot. The goal is to make money…and I did.
Nextly, I think you misinterpreted my comment. I said that if a lot of bad reviews get swirling about a bookmaker/site it will only hurt the site in the long run.
You can't expect only 1 IP address per site. University that I am at propbably has 1000 kids with Bovada sites, all on the same IP. ML718 didn't like the amount won so they tried to make up rules. This was probably the 7th payout. If the IPs were the issue they would had said something day 1.

When making the withdraw (not even for my whole account balance) I got an email saying to ask for a certain guy in their chat. I believe after reading other posts that it was the owner. I heard of one other person currently experiencing issues with a withdraw from them as well. I hope SBR makes them a page (not to advertise them some) but to give people a clear picture of what they are signing up for with this site. These issues would never happen at Bovada. A Bovada agent would never call someone withdrawing a bitch/ threatening them. Hopefully SBR can work something out cosidering bad PR only hurts ML718 in the long run. Pretty had business strategy to not clear issues up.

You say "people are at smaller books for a number of reasons", but you fail to actually state any reason at all as to why anybody is at any smaller books. Funny that, it would be because there aren't any legitimate reasons for doing that. The fact of the matter is, in the highly corrupt and unregulated USA facing offshore market, there are only a handful of bookmakers that are tried and tested that can be trusted. If you go with any other bookmakers, you're taking far too many unnecessary risks.

You say "I have won a healthy amount from that site, so even if I never see those funds again I am still up a good amount. So if you come out from a book being up money, I don't think you can call that person an idiot. The goal is to make money…and I did."

Stop deluding yourself into thinking that just because you're up at that site that it would be in any way ok if you got this money confiscated for good. The fact is, if you were playing at reputable bookmakers, you wouldn't have to worry about if you are up based on the payouts you've previously had when taking into account getting funds confiscated. If you were playing at a reputable bookmakers, you would simply get all funds you are owed paid to you, no funds confiscations needing to be taken into account, very simple.

You most certainly can be called an "idiot" for playing at such an unproven and unknown bookmaker, it is very clearly an idiotic move to play at such a site. I don't care whether you are a good or a bad punter, for you to say "the goal is to make money…and I did", to try in any way to say it's ok if you get this money confiscated just because you are up at the book overall shows what a stupid move you've made by playing at this kind of bookmaker. The fact is, if you had played at reputable bookmakers, you wouldn't have to calculated your current profit less any funds confiscations to see if you are still in profit, you would be just calculating current profit....and that's it, no funds confiscation to take into account as a reputable bookmaker wouldn't be messing you around like this.

You've even answered how stupid you are yourself: "ML718 didn't like the amount won so they tried to make up rules." and "These issues would never happen at Bovada. A Bovada agent would never call someone withdrawing a bitch/ threatening them."

You're right, Bovada or any other reputable bookmakers wouldn't pull a stunt like this, because they are a reputable bookmaker, and ML718 isn't, so the very clear message which you've even stated yourself for goodness sake, if you don't want to be messed around like this, don't play with such an unproven and unknown bookmaker and only play with reputable bookmakers.

The bottom line is that you've given the bookmaker an open goal to confiscate your funds by playing with the same IP address as somebody else, and a dodgy bookmaker is far more likely to confiscate funds in this situation than a reputable bookmaker. So the very easy solution for this is for you to buy your own internet plan and stop bootlegging off the university's wi-fi, then no IP crossover, then no way a bookmaker can argue you were using same IP address as anybody else or anything like that. Or if you stupidly insist on continuing to put yourself in danger of funds confiscations going forward by using the same IP address as others going forward, at least bet at reputable bookmakers where you at least have a fighting chance to fight your corner, put your point across and not get scammed by a dodgy bookmaker if a dispute like this comes up.