Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=17214888'>posted</a> on 12/22/2012:

The fact that SBR was THE affiliate for Betislands brings up yet another interesting/damning point. They knew that BI was horribly run and was hemorraghing money year after year (they get regular reports on how their referrals are doing). The original backer would have had to have been a true whale for them to just assume everything would be A-OK with an idiot (or straight scammer) like Jon running the book into the ground. So when they found out (by their own admission) a few weeks back that the original backer was out and that Jon had to scramble to find a new backer, they had to know it could only end one way. This book had huge expenses (same day P2P, very expensive to pay out like that) and was easy for sharps to crush. You basically couldn't lose there due to the incredible half point promo, let alone the other weaknesses a sharp would find to exploit.