Originally Posted by
Bill Dozer
There are different kinds of service providers from complete turnkey hosts to cost consolidators. We can't always pass along what we know about book relationships. Here, we can say that no BI player money passes through Jazz and BetIslands which has their own mgt, CS and are hands on with their lines. I agree being on the same servers negatively impacts BetIslands. Despite being a forum voted top 5, they are rated for how long they've been in business and where they are now. Jazz needs to cough up some cash for Ricky.
The people behind BetIslands have been around a lot of years and are known by other books you may play with. BetIslands is rated B.
They aren't.
Jazz had a bring it on bookmaking style for all and got beat up. When you take unbalanced action that way it is a risk and then when it's a bad foots season, you don't have the square money to balance it out. BI has a $500 limit on halftimes and doesn't take Billy Walters crew. Jazz was downgraded to C in June of 2010. Most players can react when there are signs of issues. Unfortunately players who hold six figure balances are the ones most likely to see the hiccups before they grow to bigger problems. Unfortunately with a big balance you are many more weeks away from getting out than the typical player. The average balance holders often have the big guys to thank as canaries deeper in the mine. Most of the sharp folks know what they are doing and they know that with a $X max per week, that they are Y weeks away from getting out. They would rather have those big balances in A+ books but then the question is if they were at a typical A+ book, would they have been able to run the balance up that high.
Hopes are still high for those stuck at Jazz. The feeling is they kept enough money to stay in the game with their other business and it's been a decent season for books. Obviously it's not a place you want to win a 8 teamer at.