Tell Me More About Matchbook

Dark Horse · 09-23-06, 12:12 PM

About as good as it gets. I understand why Mansion and TS are B and C-rated, but Matchbook is A in my book.

moses millsap · 09-23-06, 12:28 PM

Don't they have some weird fee structure or something? Like credits or something similar; I just never bothered. I believe IMG plays there a lot or at least he did in the past, so he may be the poster to pose questions to in regards to Matchbook.

tacomax · 09-23-06, 12:31 PM

You're all a bunch of losers.

moses millsap · 09-23-06, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by tacomax

They charge fees for deposits but then give you back the fees in terms of commission credits so each time win, you don't pay the commission - it comes out of your pool of commission credits. If you play there regularly then depositing is essentially free.

Paging pags11. An informative post by Taco.

tacomax · 09-23-06, 12:39 PM

Sorry about that. I've edited my post accordingly.

jjgold · 09-23-06, 01:04 PM

It does seem to lack volume but then again every set up like these type books only has small volume.

justbet · 09-23-06, 02:16 PM

i have played a ton at matchbook. they tend to have decent limits in the exchange. i stopped playing there when mansion changed thier commission fees so that it is free to take offers. at matchbook you are charged 2% of your win, which adds up. i have calculated that the 2% commission adds about 3 "juice points" to the line you are seeing should you win, making most of the lines worse that those you would find at mansion. that said, i have never heard of matchbook deleting bets, which seems to be a problem at mansion right now. also, when you deposit they take some of your money in the form of commission credits. this is really no big deal since you were going to have to pay commission eventually (hopefully), but it makes you feel like you are already down before you even start.

Sam Odom · 09-23-06, 02:23 PM

Coach, sign up & post up, dont look back

jjgold · 09-23-06, 02:26 PM

Sammy it looks like after all the hidden costs at matchbook, the numbers at Pinnacle are the same long term.

Sam Odom · 09-23-06, 02:30 PM

JJ, MB can be a lot slower than Pinny

pags11 · 09-24-06, 12:24 AM

JJ,

other than their commission credit system, I think they are awesome...one of my top 3 books (along with pinnacle and cascade)...

jjgold · 09-24-06, 07:38 AM

I will give it a try

Thanks

pags11 · 09-25-06, 02:16 AM

gonna make some plays there tommorrow morning...anyone know if they are planning on doing away with the commission credits anytime soon?...