Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=17268898'>posted</a> on 12/27/2012:

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Horse View Post
Hard to believe how the sleaze factor has gone off the radar in CR. These low lives have no idea what a bad name they're giving offshore gambling. Offshore industry should be self-policing, because this image is now affecting them all, good or bad.
Dark Horse there was once an offshore industry. 2004/2005 you could play with relative safety at 15- 20 or more books. You know that you were around. UIGEA comes along and the choke hold is applied. Dire results didn't happen at once and weren't meant to happen at once.

When the giants of the "industry" left not much of an industry remained. Now maybe 3 good books, a few more that you might count on for a payout today, but unsure of tomorrow. Man there are more watchdog/forum sites than decent books left. Plenty of hustlers, scammers and other bottom feeders left to fight over what doesn't go to the top books. This includes the forum sites. Just a dwindling customer base that can be trusted for them. The forum sites will do what they can to survive and that does not bode well for the average poster/gambler.

Sadly what we have left is not an industry. It is, with a few exceptions. a den of thieves. SBR and other such sites are left with this shell of a crumbing industry. Just look at the banners flying at the other sites. It will be the same here.