Pinnacle Sports suspends wagering on the Australian Open due to suspicious activity

[TheMoneyShot]

They believe the games are being fixed.

Every match??

When are you ever going to believe me about these crisis actors Giant?

[Snowball]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/sp...s-betting.html

no question that one was rigged. Marrero is 35 he must be hooked with Spanish groups.
Arruabarrena is only 23 she has a more serious career to lose so if someone would look
into who made the mistakes we can have an answer as to whether they worked together
or if it was Marrero acting alone. All it takes is 1.

[Snowball]

Unfortunatelly every tanker will be confused as a fixer from now on.

Hard to believe that in the heat of the controversy, a player would fix their match. Some of the two Spaniards was most likely injured and that information reached someone in the betting business. The poor guys just wanted to tank and collect some appearance cash and are now considered fixers.

if you're going to tank you should be stopped from playing.
tankers don't deserve "appearance cash". it is ripe ground for corruption.

one way to fix this is penalize players points for bagels and breadsticks.
maybe the point system needs to be reforumulated to protect the sport's
shattered integrity. if nothing changes we could see blackouts on tennis gambling
from more and more books.

[jjgold]

such chump change too

hilarious

[darrell74]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/sp...s-betting.html

Little lengthy, but good read

[Albert Pujols]

I remember that Fed Davydenko match at the Aussie open about 5 years ago. I don't know if that was fixed, because he really looked like he was trying to win. Just got flustered. I doubt he would fix a major with the purse being what it is. However, Davydenko fixed another match that was pretty much proven and nothing was done. He has ties to the Russian mafia. So who knows, maybe they made him fix the Fed match too.

[Russian Rocket]

He has ties to the Russian mafia.

...and you know this exactly how again?

[Lookingtostart]

You gotta laugh. They suspended it due to suspicious betting activity. Not because it's fixed. The have no problem leaving alone fixed matches otherwise. Nothing new...

[KVB]

[HeeeHAWWWW]

...and you know this exactly how again?

There's a youtube out there of a mafia guy giving him a lift to Roland Garros.

It's not exactly surprising, all the top Russian guys who played in the early/mid 2000s did - that's not some daft conspiracy theory either, they admitted it to the media.

[Nova99]

Heard some believe its just a publicity stunt, no big action on this match in other books... no doubt some matches could be fixed but some believe this book just wanted to throw their name for some cheap publicity with all the stories in the mainstream press.

[yisman]

DSI isn't offering betting on the Konta/Zhang match, but they have this:

TENNIS - WTA MATCHUPS - Feb 01
WTA - AUSTRALIAN OPEN @MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA GAME MONEYLINE & SET HANDICAP
*** TENNIS SPECIAL PROPS ***
Will a current (at Jan 1, 2016) WTA top 10 player be suspended for Match Fixing by the end of 2017?
<small>9:00 PM</small>	YES <label> +700 </label> Added NO <label> -1200 </label>
Will a current (at Jan 1, 2016) WTA top 50 player be suspended for Match Fixing by the end of 2017?
<small>9:00 PM</small>	YES <label> +350 </label> Added NO <label> -500 </label>

TENNIS - ATP MATCHUPS - Feb 01
ATP - AUSTRALIAN OPEN @ MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA GAME MONEYLINE & SET HANDICAP
*** TENNIS SPECIAL PROPS ***
Will a current (at Jan 1, 2016) ATP top 10 player be suspended for Match Fixing by end of 2017?
<small>9:00 PM</small>	YES <label> +500 </label> Added NO <label> -1000 </label>
Will a current (at Jan 1, 2016) ATP top 50 player be suspended for Match Fixing by end of 2017?
<small>9:00 PM</small>	YES <label> +170 </label> Added NO <label> -210 </label>
How many Top 100 players in both ATP and WTA be suspended for Match Fixing by the end of 2017?
<small>9:00 PM</small>	OVER <label> 2.5 -115 </label> Added UNDER <label> 2.5 -115 </label>

[KVB]

I'll take "no" on both props for the max Alex. Except that I don't like tying up dollars that I can churn for the rest of this year.

[yisman]

I'll take "no" on both props for the max Alex. Except that I don't like tying up dollars that I can churn for the rest of this year.

I would also think no, but it's pointless to tie up money for 11 months on a -1200 or -1000 play.

[johnnyvegas13]

sports betting is legal in aussie land

they are just walking down street before match and make bets ...

[spankmythighs]

Im looking for a decent tennis player in the 200-400 rankings playing in ITFs and Challengers against >500 opponents who is highly favored and easily persuaded. Lets create a group and spread the money out over >20 books creating no suspicion with smaller bets. Anyone have any leads?