Originally posted on 10/23/2013:

1. Not sure. Outside of a couple of posts here I never personally met,talked to or communicated with anyone from BI. Internally changes have been made. I wish I could say this could never happen again but I can't. It is far less likely with the bigger more established books.

Medium size books with 300+ players are the ones that want to advertise on forums. If you look around Forumville you will see what I mean. BI simply blew a great business. Maybe there was fatal internal issues or maybe they were thieves at heart. They made mistakes booking sharps but they could have changed that. We were lied to so many times that we don't know what the real story was. I would guess whoever was funding it lost confidence in his partners but there may be more to it.

2. Unknown
3. We didn't like working with smaller books even before BI. Besides their instability issues they are generally high maintenance and low return. Internationally we have a few mid size. We will stay with the larger books when possible.
4. I don't know about Shari but hopefully she returns. I liked her. Justin7 is doing great. He's writing another book. I think SBR was a good stepping stone for him. We certainly shipped a lot of books. He may find something to do around SBR down the road.
5. I don't have any personal knowledge outside of a few threads that I can't recall.
6. If Opie actually ever had mod powers that would be news to me. I think he made that up and we just went along with it.
7. Strong staff. Because of our people video has made a quantum leap. The content creators like Pete, the writers and cappers have been outstanding. Our marketing dept has always been top notch as any google search related to sportsbook will attest to.
8. The idea was to nave non pros kick the tires and get something free. But to control the out of control scamming which is just inherent on the internet we had to set a limit.
9. We are building 2 new sites and looking to acquire a couple of others. You will see a lot of new stuff soon enough.
10. I guess we pissed him off. Stuff like that happens in Forumville. I would like to think SBR doesn't hold grudges. If JJ tells us off, he tells us off. He's like family though and you always keep the door open for family. Maybe Shari can find the door too some day.