How Many Books Will Have To Close-Up Shop ?

Sam Odom · 01-18-07, 11:33 AM

Just my guess:

Come baseball season there will be only 5 worthy (A or B rated) books taking USA Action.

Doug · 01-18-07, 11:43 AM

80-90 %

bigboydan · 01-18-07, 11:46 AM

It's a good question to ask Sam. The problem is I really don't have a guess right now though. I think it will all depend on how these books can find a solution to these funding issues there having right now.

Yoshi · 01-18-07, 11:50 AM

time to get out of small books fast now, so you dont have to worry about shops closing...imo

Sam Odom · 01-19-07, 12:58 PM

Originally posted by SBR_John

I could see 50 books dropping in a month.

jjgold · 01-19-07, 04:21 PM

Will be about 10 books left in 2 months

Dark Horse · 01-19-07, 04:28 PM

According to my calculations the storm will have passed on January 28th. Until then it's open season.

tblues2005 · 01-19-07, 05:35 PM

I think it will pass after the Super Bowl. The Feds know that books make alot of money on the super bowl so they are trying to make it harder for them to make their income. It may work for a certain percentage but the hardcore players it will not work. The hardcore players they will find a way to get money to the books even if it means flying there in person to deposit money in there for the while season before the season starts no matter the sport.

Starion · 01-19-07, 05:41 PM

This whole event will show which books are real quality and which aren't. Any marginal book at all will become defunct.

Make no mistake, the US market is too large to be stopped. It's like drugs and prostitution. Even when there is crackdowns, it's only temporary.

In the end, I really believe the new transfer methods will be safer and more low-key than what's been going on. A friend of mine has been saying for a while that the offshore gambling thing has been "too out in the open" to not be targeted in some fashion. I thought he was fulla shit, but looks like he was right.

This is probably a good thing long term......whether you see it or not right now. In the short term, it sucks ass.

Dark Horse · 01-19-07, 06:21 PM

Whatever happened to laying off employees? Folding shouldn't even be an option for books B and higher. Not if they consider this a temporary problem. They did something right to get them a B rating, so why would they suddenly have no business sense at all?

Obviously, I mean folding completely. Not leaving the US market and paying everybody like Pinny did.

4FUN.AND$$ · 01-20-07, 01:30 AM

sportsbook.com has a heavy US custoemr base. I tihnk they will be one of the last ones standing but everyone here says they are a shit book but I have had good luck with them. I have heard from a few people who work there that things are not all that bad there but I don't have any indication on what that means..

koko · 01-20-07, 01:34 AM

Originally posted by 4FUN.AND$$

sportsbook.com has a heavy US custoemr base. I tihnk they will be one of the last ones standing but everyone here says they are a shit book but I have had good luck with them. I have heard from a few people who work there that things are not all that bad there but I don't have any indication on what that means..

the thing is sportsbook.com (and skins) is reportedly going though a massive bonus banning of account phase right now. That will cut down their traffic (but maybe not their profits).

It seems like they sure picked a bad time to do anything that would keep deposits coming in right now.