Mansion?

[nikosgr]

Any experience with Mansion? www.mansion.com
They look quite well and i think they ll try to beat betfair.They are not currently a member of IBAS, i d like to hear anyones experience with them before i register my cc.

[jjgold]

They are ok, not betfair volume

A decent book though with some lower juice

[Brick Tamland]

Never miss a payout, great software, good customer support who will put up with drunks. Dumb to charge fees to bet like they do. Hate that.

[Senator7]

I haven't heard anything negative about Mansion. Solid book from everything I've been told. I'm not a fan of exchanges, but I like Mansion's Sportsbook.

Senator 7

[Mudcat]

In terms of dollars put in action, Mansion is my number one out right now. Love 'em.

I don't have time for a major essay at the moment but if you do a search under Mansion, you will find quite a lot more good info.

[Doug]

I like them a lot, used to like them even better before fees (1%) on winning exchange bets. Book part is now worthless. They pay quick !

[Bill Dozer]

I wish they would call it a sportsbook and add the fee to the price. There is no p2p taking place in this "exchange".

I think if they called it a sportsbook people wouldn't be so intimidated. All the new format does is prevent them from getting nailed for max betting limits before they can change the line. It lets them offer high limits without those high limits causing them to have huge exposure.

If the market doesn't move after a wiseguy hits a line, they can offer the same bet again. But, the same wiseguy can't have a buddy bet the play for the max right along with him at the same time.

Still, it's a very nice option for those players betting above $1000 and looking for value.

[nikosgr]

Thank you all.

[d2bets]

I wish they would call it a sportsbook and add the fee to the price. There is no p2p taking place in this "exchange".

I think if they called it a sportsbook people wouldn't be so intimidated. All the new format does is prevent them from getting nailed for max betting limits before they can change the line. It lets them offer high limits without those high limits causing them to have huge exposure.

If the market doesn't move after a wiseguy hits a line, they can offer the same bet again. But, the same wiseguy can't have a buddy bet the play for the max right along with him at the same time.

Still, it's a very nice option for those players betting above $1000 and looking for value.

Bill, there is some P2P, not a lot, but there is some. I put up offers sometimes that get accepted.

[bookie]

d2bets...would you mind describing your experience putting up bets? Roughly how much do you put up and roughly how often and how fast is what you put up taken?

I wouldn't mind putting consensus numbers up at +100 so they'd be available at -101. You would think they'd get filled right away, but my experience has been that they haven't and of course you're always twitching doing that becasue if the number changes somewhere you're taking the worst of it.

[bookie]

Dozer,

Absolutely agree that calling it a sportsbook+ and having commissions figured into prices make a ton of sense if they're after Americans.

Euros, I think, work with the BetFair interface because it's clearly such a good deal for horse and soccer bettors and all they have to know is that it's cheaper than Ladbrokes. Price-sensitive american bettors clicking around like crazy don't want to have to remember what the commission is and figure into their comparisons. I'd call it sportsbook+, though, because the hope of getting enough layers to make it into an exchange-like something doesn't seem unfounded--it's just gonna take a few years.

[Bill Dozer]

Bill, there is some P2P, not a lot, but there is some. I put up offers sometimes that get accepted.

That's a good point, especially if you consider the house a "peer". Mansion should eat up any deals that are better than what they are about to change the odds to. Buying up offers at a good number secures a profit for them and promotes exchange activity.

What do you think? Are they buying up your good offers because they know what a good price is before the player does (and before the players' other sportsbook does)?