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Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16151946'>posted</a> on 09/25/2012:

Yeah. Yeah. It's the fundamental right of sportsbooks to prey on losing, degenerate gamblers. I keep forgetting why players would actually support that. Probably for the same reason they continually lose money and keep gambling. They aren't too bright.

It's exactly that logic that helps to prevent any traction in the United States for allowing offshore sportsbetting.

Books don't get to make their own rules in Vegas. They don't get to cancel wagers after they've been accepted. They don't get to deny paying out a possible beard. They don't get a chance to freeroll players.

But it's not only perfectly acceptable to players here. It's actually encouraged by some. It's hilariously pathetic.

What I find most amusing here is that the player was playing a -EV game, its not like he was beating them up on derivative markets.

Heritage stood to profit the entire time they allowed the player to play and then turned around and cried foul when the player suddenly got lucky.