Originally Posted by
Scooter
If "Book the bet, Pay the bet" was the rule, we wouldn't have these disputes which are apparently occurring increasingly often.
I make mistakes.
This can range from betting more or less than I intended, sometimes due to selecting "Risk" instead of "Win" or vice versa, or not selecting either and getting whatever the book's default is, to not noticing that "Under 9.5" has become "Under 9.0", etc.
I have to eat the mistakes. The books get the benefit of a myriad of player betting errors.
Can I start calling the books and demanding they refund a wager because the price I paid is 7% worse than the market average?
Or does the Player always eat the loss from a mistake, but a Book gets to freeroll?
This is really absurd - every bet it seems has to be individually evaluated these days:
"What was the book's intention? Let me take a few minutes and check other lines at other books.
Hmm... the mean line seems to be 6 cents worse - should I not bet it?"
This is absurd.
We not only have to handicap, we have to evaluate each bet to try to decide if the book is going to claim bad line and cancel the bet.
Then we have to pay for a payout, and sweat that as well.
Cancelling Prop bets seems to be becoming the norm for all books now, even the "A" ones.
What effect do you think this has on the marketplace?
How many players decide NOT to make that offshore deposit when they read of these situations on a daily basis?
Disaster.