When did Mansion go to 22 cent lines?

bigboydan · 11-10-06, 07:21 PM

talk about changing there bussiness model to such drastic proportions.

Dark Horse · 11-10-06, 07:22 PM

They're a mystery all around. $1000 bonus play at start of NFL season, now -111 juice. Perhaps they're trying to give people an incentive to go to the exchange?

acw · 11-11-06, 12:12 AM

Mansion continues to fascinate me.
Whatever they may have had in their mind when "giving" money away, it surely has been a lot more than they intended.
Are they no more an advertiser here?

moses millsap · 11-11-06, 12:19 AM

This is their 2nd increase of vig in the sportsbook, right?

pags11 · 11-11-06, 01:26 AM

bill,

this is exactly what I talked about...mansion is going to shit...

tacomax · 11-11-06, 01:34 AM

Originally posted by acw

Are they no more an advertiser here?

Unlike most other gaming portals, SBR actually stops taking advertising money from books that are worthy of a downgrade. Quite a novel approach in this industry, but I kind of like it.

tacomax · 11-11-06, 01:35 AM

Originally posted by pags11

bill,

this is exactly what I talked about...mansion is going to shit...

Don't tell me - you've been looking at the Mansion accounts, right? I'd love to hear your analysis.

Sam Odom · 11-11-06, 01:41 AM

I have a bad feeling about their future... Altho I took them up on their 100% bonus the other week. I hope to be back to -0- after this weekend

pags11 · 11-11-06, 02:00 AM

**** off tacomax, you are a piece of trash...

sam, I agree with you...I don't have a good feeling about them either...

GPC · 11-11-06, 10:15 AM

Only -111 on basketball (college + NBA) I see. Still -110 on NFL.

Now that they are non U.S. player only (in the sportsbook) I suspect that they don't really want much action in basketball - so many games and relatively few players means they'll always have lots of one sided action. Most European oriented books don't offer basketball - the only American sport such other books cover is NFL.

I see that Mansion are still seeding the exchange in basketball at -110 (aren't they supposed to not be doing that any more since the exchange is open to U.S. players?)

jjgold · 11-11-06, 10:22 AM

Mansion is a non factor book anymore, they will be gone in one year

Lol

chano · 11-11-06, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by tacomax

Unlike most other gaming portals, SBR actually stops taking advertising money from books that are worthy of a downgrade. Quite a novel approach in this industry, but I kind of like it.

Tell that garbage to someone else, nobody refuses $$.

Dark Horse · 11-11-06, 11:47 AM

Dude. The WWTS banners disappeared immediately when that book blocked US accounts (unlike at therx). It may be rare to find people with integrity, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. To automatically assume that they don't would have to qualify as some other character flaw.

Bill Dozer · 11-11-06, 11:51 AM

Originally posted by chano

Tell that garbage to someone else, nobody refuses $$.

Chano,
Sportsbooks know coming in that they need to maintain a minimum level of quality to be displayed here. Unfortunately it has happened a few times.

chano · 11-11-06, 12:37 PM

So they went to -111 and that got them removed from here?

Bill Dozer · 11-11-06, 12:39 PM

Originally posted by Sam Odom

I have a bad feeling about their future... Altho I took them up on their 100% bonus the other week. I hope to be back to -0- after this weekend

I think Mansion players will be fine and they are steering users where they want them like they have always done. StanJames and some other UK focused books had -115 in NBA.

Bill Dozer · 11-11-06, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by chano

So they went to -111 and that got them removed from here?

Mansion hasn't been here since October. Canceling bets and not alerting the user, software issues and dramatically reducing their offerings were reasons behind the recent downgrades.

JoshW · 11-12-06, 04:50 PM

Mansion never had much of a business plan so hard to say whether they will be better off taking fewer bets. Unlike many books when they took bets they were generally losing money.

I can't see them stiffing anyone after all this, but in this climate who knows.

LGBoots · 11-12-06, 05:28 PM

Mansion were all over the sports pages of the UK papers today.

Apparently they are helping to finance a deal to take Real Madrid player & former England Football Captain David Beckham to Spurs (Who Mansion currently sponsor).

I really don't think Mansion are going anywhere. The guy in charge seems to just run this Sportsbook as his 'Hobby' -Admittedly a very expensive one

but when you a Billionaire I guess you have to relax somehow

pags11 · 11-13-06, 04:39 AM

lgboots,

with all due respect, I see people all over the net with that same feeling about mansion...you never truly know how much money this guy really has, or if he's going to stick around for the long haul and support a business that may be losing money each year...