NY Times article on local bookies just went up.

[yydouble]

Beginning of the end?

[dogthebountyman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/sports/bookies-using-new-technology-for-old-fashioned-betting.html?_r=1&hp

[jjgold]

Old news

[Bluehorseshoe]

Is the NY Times kidding posting that article? It's outdated by at least ten years. lol

[InTheDrink]

Settling up — and the threatening that occasionally goes along with that for those who try to evade paying — is still done locally.

[thetrinity]

always amazes me how little non gamblers knowing about gambling.

[OMGRandyJackson]

Did they just dig this up from an archived news paper and decide to put it online ahahah. This shit so old.

[OMGRandyJackson]

Some of the comments are jokes too like this one:

"knew a guy who was probably the second biggest bookmaker in the region after Jimmy the Greek Snyder.

Although he did lay off large bets with big operations, there was nothing sordid about his business. He ran the bookmaking like a public utility. if your tab got too high, and you did not pay, you got cut off and no more play. There was no violence or physical threats of any kind.

And utech (supra), you are benighted about how bookmaking works. The good bookie sets a line or point spread that does not move. Then he gets an equal number of bets on each side of the ledger, and makes money on the vigorish or juice, paid in interest by the loser."

hahahahahaahaaa