Originally Posted by
mlansky
Caramba,
Thank you for your reply. It is greatly appreciated. It is extremely extremely extremely frustrating since this was my first arb ever. I had been researching and looking into sports arbitrage for months prior to this occurring. Even for this arb, I made sure and quadruple-checked everyting to make sure what I was looking at was correct and accurate.
I know that I should have had or used an alternate sportsbook to make the hedge, but I have never had a problem with Pinnacle going down or anything like this. I mean if the site had ever been down since I was a member, it was for 5 minutes at the most and that's VERY overstating it already.
You're right, it wasn't easy thinking clearly in that situation since I was just scrambling to at least get half of my wager back by wagering +3 (-108) on the Ravens. I had wanted to go into the game knowing that I didn't have $2500 hanging out to dry on the 49ers. I knew it was going to be a close Super Bowl and any team could have won which is why I arbed this wager in the first place. It's not like I waited until the last minute to try and get the best price on Pinnacle. I tried to make the wager on the Ravens at around 4:15 pm CST. So like an hour and 15 minutes before kickoff. I thought that the site was just slow because of all the traffic due to everyone wagering on the Super Bowl. I thought for sure Pinnacle would be up and running before kickoff because like I said as long as I have been with them, the longest the site has ever been down for me was maybe 5 minutes at most. So out of all of those times and all the wagers that I have placed using Pinnacle, out of all those countless time, this has to happen to me as I'm making my first arb wager where I just need Pinnacle to just be up for 30 seconds..if that. I know that I should have gotten a friend or someone to open a sportsbook account at another sportsbook to place the wager for me, but I thought Pinnacle would be back up before game time. I had made some NBA wagers earlier in the day on Super Bowl Sunday and everything was fine.
I just don't understand how could/can one of the largest sportsbooks online not be prepared for something like this? Doesn't the company take precautions and measures against something like this from happening..especially on the day of the Super Bowl? Aren’t there safeguards in place that could have prevented (something as common as) a DoS attack from occuring? These are just some of the questions that were running through my mind during the Super Bowl when I couldn't log in or access my account during one of the biggest if not the biggest sporting event in the world.
Regards,
mlansky