Do you still trust SBR's ratings?

No coincidences · 12-18-12, 11:28 PM

Originally posted by LVHerbie

SBR used to be solely focused on ratings, advocacy and critique of offshore sports books. While their ratings still have value and, on the whole, are probably better than their competitors given their primary interests often lie elsewhere these days seems like an obvious mistake if they are your only source of verification before sending money to a sports book.

The end.

importmoon · 12-18-12, 11:35 PM

To trust a book is crazy,to trust a book offshore.... GOOD LUCK you r on your own. In God We Trust....

billysink · 12-19-12, 12:10 AM

SBR is not a players anything. It is a business with a model that is fueled by affiliate kickbacks, advertising and now clickpay revenue as well. This site will generate as much revenue as they can from the posting community. The customer base is not the posting community. The customer base is comprised of any book that advertises or sponsors events for the posting community and is now expanded to those that advertise directly in the forum threads and gives a share of it's clickpay revenue to the site for the privilege.

No matter how the site presents itself with all the pretty giveaways, contests, book ratings et al, there is a price tag on all of it. You are the markup on that tag. It is what it is.

I have said it many times here folks. You are not the customer. You are revenue. Customers complain. Revenue does not.

Those that cannot see it that way will continue to be taken for what can be had. Simple as that. No one including the siteholders here ever want to see anyone crash and burn on a sinking ship. Don't for the life of you as a poster think you will be the first one in the lifeboat though.

Participate as you see fit for your own personal wants and needs moving forward.

Smoke · 12-19-12, 12:19 AM

Ryan "I'll do anything for the player" Rossi aka Wager Chief Shawn got the inspiration for the name change by watching the Real Housewives of Orange County, he is a big fan of Gretchen Rossi

CollegePro · 12-19-12, 12:22 AM

hell fukking no.. SBR is shit now

Albert Pujols · 12-19-12, 12:27 AM

Rest in peace, sbr.

mikefromsd · 12-19-12, 12:40 AM

Will any of the other SBR rated A+ books realize that they're overpaying to advertise on a website with diminished credibility?

Cuse0323 · 12-19-12, 02:29 AM

SBR

Trust

daneblazer · 12-19-12, 01:19 PM

some pretty pissed off people around the internets betting community now

5mike5 · 12-19-12, 01:23 PM

www.rouletters.com

looks like its just not us seeing it for what it really is

pavyracer · 12-19-12, 01:33 PM

SBR Forum - Sports Betting Talk - Sportsbook Review Forum

http://forum.sbrforum.com/nfl-betting/1857742-official-posters-poll-august-2012-vote-your-top-sportsbooks.html

Sports betting and handicapping forum: discuss picks, odds, and predictions for upcoming games and results on latest bets.

BetIslands voted #5

(you can now figure out the shills)

5mike5 · 12-19-12, 01:43 PM

disagree

u cant call them shills for playing there when everything was good

(most of them anyways)

Sam Odom · 12-19-12, 01:53 PM

The Books you should play into were SOLID before SBR was invented

TxAaron · 12-19-12, 02:04 PM

Lou sold player info?

The Kraken · 12-19-12, 02:15 PM

Good post Billy and spot on. John loves the drama right now. Great for site hits. As for US players, he could not care any less whether they go pro or not and I suspect he'd rather US posters not go pro now. Basically all he gets from new US posters going pro is a lousy 200 dollar tax write off when before he was getting kick backs on their losses. Huge difference.

zsr · 12-19-12, 05:51 PM

No clue why anyone would have a big balance at BI anyway.

To the question the answers obviously no.

zsr · 12-19-12, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by billysink

SBR is not a players anything. It is a business with a model that is fueled by affiliate kickbacks, advertising and now clickpay revenue as well. This site will generate as much revenue as they can from the posting community. The customer base is not the posting community. The customer base is comprised of any book that advertises or sponsors events for the posting community and is now expanded to those that advertise directly in the forum threads and gives a share of it's clickpay revenue to the site for the privilege.

No matter how the site presents itself with all the pretty giveaways, contests, book ratings et al, there is a price tag on all of it. You are the markup on that tag. It is what it is.

I have said it many times here folks. You are not the customer. You are revenue. Customers complain. Revenue does not.

Those that cannot see it that way will continue to be taken for what can be had. Simple as that. No one including the siteholders here ever want to see anyone crash and burn on a sinking ship. Don't for the life of you as a poster think you will be the first one in the lifeboat though.

Participate as you see fit for your own personal wants and needs moving forward.

Completely agree. Spot on.

I posted something like this last year and everyone came to the rescue of SBR talking about how they are here to help the players not for money, etc. In fact, many of those people are the ones now starting the threads bitching about BI. Weird, huh?

thetrinity · 12-19-12, 07:13 PM

honestly, the fact sbr had them at a b is a bit troubling, but why are people using less then a rated books anyways?

daneblazer · 04-25-13, 01:54 PM

An A+'er bites the dust. At least the funds were transferred...

vyomguy · 04-25-13, 02:17 PM

stick to bookmaker fools.

shitty lines...but safe as a bank.