Isn't There a Good Case that EVERY Book Should be Downgraded?

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  • Newguyintown
    SBR Sharp
    • 12-24-05
    • 348

    #1
    Isn't There a Good Case that EVERY Book Should be Downgraded?
    This is bugging me. The entire offshore climate has taken a turn for the worse over the last couple months. And the news just keeps getting worse. First, Betonsports goes down. Then this bill is passed. Books are leaving the US and now the crushing blow of Neteller leaving the US (I guess they're leaving a little wiggle room but it seems they're leaving.)

    I posted before how I am paranoid of even the A books now in this uncertain environment. But most think these books will be fine, they'll find a way to pay, other Netellers will pop up or whatever. But these are the top 10 books. What about the other hundreds of books out there, many at B and C that many of us have taken chances on.

    Take Goldengoosebets, that's just a random C book that I played at. It was a C and I was a bit skeptical before. Its a new book and presumably most of these books get a good deal of business from the US. How can it still be a C? Or take Instantactionsports, a C- prior to all this and now still a C-? Somehow there is an important distinction between private and public books and these must all be private, BUT THEY MUST REMAIN PROFITABLE and isn't the threat GREATER now of many of these books busting out. Yet its not reflected in the grades.

    IF it was safer then, shouldn't all these C books be downgraded? Or was a C then and a C now somehow fundamentally different?

    New Guy in Tooooooooooooooown
  • isetcap
    SBR MVP
    • 12-16-05
    • 4006

    #2
    I think that every book that has chosen to continue providing services to US players should be UPGRADED.
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    • moses millsap
      SBR Hall of Famer
      • 08-25-05
      • 8289

      #3
      I'd like to see some of the F's upgraded to F+'s myself. The F+ mark has a distinct charm about it
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      • psycho44
        SBR High Roller
        • 07-08-06
        • 240

        #4
        Let's see if BoDog founder soon to be taken over BetWWTS, Calvin Ayre, can make his way back to Canada without being thrown in prison for taking American customer's wagers.

        That will gauge how useful this new American bill is which I personally think is a domestic law pertinent only to Americans or people committing this unlawfullness on American land.

        Like get real, if I take an American's wager, will the FBI put me on their list of people to detain once I enter American soil? Maybe we should be detaining more Americans that enter Foreign countries for all the pornographies they've been polluting us.
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        • pags11
          SBR Posting Legend
          • 08-18-05
          • 12264

          #5
          I have to agree with isetcap here even though he blows tacomax frequently...
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          • isetcap
            SBR MVP
            • 12-16-05
            • 4006

            #6
            Originally posted by pags11
            I have to agree with isetcap here even though he blows tacomax frequently...
            Thanks, pags.
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            • jjgold
              SBR Aristocracy
              • 07-20-05
              • 388179

              #7
              I think other than the top 10 books all should be downgraded one notch, just too much uncertainity out there.
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              • Justin7
                SBR Hall of Famer
                • 07-31-06
                • 8577

                #8
                I would agree that any publically traded book probably deserves a downgrade.
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                • JoshW
                  SBR MVP
                  • 08-10-05
                  • 3431

                  #9
                  In this new climate no denying that most books have to be less safe than before. If you stick to the very top tier don't have a lot of risk. But the risk has certainly increased for all books IMO. Good thread.
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