[shari91]

Originally posted on 02/24/2012:

"Paul recounts placing six different $2,000 wagers one weekend. He placed picks he thought would lose, and bet the opposite side at Las Vegas sportsbooks. It wasn't Paul's weekend, as each of the six wagers won in his Oddsmaker account."

I fell to the ground laughing. At what point did this tool realize that making bets at an F rated sportsbook has no revelance to what he was betting at another sportsbook?

Ok but after you've turned $2k worth of deposits into 12k, what would you honestly do? The only options I can think of are either requesting a payout even though you're now doubting you're even going to see it, using the strategy Paul used so you can hopefully get get paid elsewhere or just write your $2k off as dead money.

As for those who wonder why he'd never bother to look at the forum 1. the article stated he was looking at a site like SBR Odds and 2. even if he had used SBR Odds, many people only come here for the odds service and never venture into the forum at all. You Google "free live odds", SBR is the first result; "free sports odds" = SBR is 3rd behind Don Best and one other site.

It's probably easy for us to judge because most of us are well aware of Oddsmaker but that's because we're on the forums. If you're not, I can see how people would get sucked in. They're not a small company. They have massive marketing campaigns with attractive bonuses and even if every active SBR poster went on a mission to warn people about this happening, sadly it still will. But at least Lou's investigation and article, and threads like this across the various forums will help to raise awareness even if realistically they'll never reach everyone.