Just How Easy?

[smallon]

I've been using 5Dimes as my main book but I'm wondering, just how easy and how useful is it to use Matchbook?

I see the little blue boxes - they're empty - can I enter any odds or is it more a matter of I can enter any odds I want but need to get someone to buy those odds?

If I enter a figure of say $25 in one of the blue boxes at -200, does that mean I'm trying to get someone to buy this so I can get the other side of the bet at whatever it is?

Also - is it possible to bet both fighters, trying to get both sides bought so I make the arb, assuming there is one?

About 50% of my play is in parlays. If Matchbook isn't really feasible for me, what other A-rated books allow boxing parlays?
BMP

[smallon]

Bmp

[Dark Horse]

It's the easiest thing in the world. You can try it even without being signed in. Just enter any odds and amount you want. It will show up on the right side of the page. From there you do have to be signed in to confirm your offer. You can take existing offers or enter your own.

You can bet both sides.

You can parlay games, synthetically; i.e. as long as they don't overlap. Matchbook has free transfers to a number of A books that do offer normal parlays.

[smallon]

It's the easiest thing in the world. You can try it even without being signed in. Just enter any odds and amount you want. It will show up on the right side of the page. From there you do have to be signed in to confirm your offer. You can take existing offers or enter your own.

You can bet both sides.

You can parlay games, synthetically; i.e. as long as they don't overlap. Matchbook has free transfers to a number of A books that do offer normal parlays.

So if the odds are already showing, these are the odds that people have already entered? I'm not clear on a few things...

If another book shows Federer as a -1500, I can enter -200? How does this work? Does someone need to accept this offer or? What is the advantage to Matchbook and why does it seem many, many people think everyone should use them.

[rake922]

you place bets among other people ...

you have 2 options:
place offers (and wait for somebody to bite on them)
or match offers

That's not complicated at all

[SBR Lou]

It's very simple once you get the hang of it, might I suggest just placing down a $1 bet on something and also creating an offer yourself just to get the hang of it?

[smallon]

So Marketmaker is for making an offer? When there are no odds showing, does that mean the odds you put in are the offer you're making to another person and the opposite is what you'll win? I know I'm just missing something here and it's probably alot less complicated than I'm thinking...I think I'll stick $50 in and see what happens.