Rollover problem at betnow

**BAUS** · 05-03-18, 12:01 AM

It is not fair, but offshore books play by their own rules when it comes to fairness. Grind it out and move on.

BAUS

**HedgeHog** · 05-03-18, 05:03 AM

Originally posted by deck5

I have a $15,000+ rollover to clear at Betnow sportsbook, and they have lowered my limits from $5,000 to $200 on MLB. Though they changed the bet limits to be 25x smaller, they did not change the rollover. Does that make sense? Does that seem fair?

I filed an SBR complaint weeks ago, but never heard back from them.

It may not be fair, but you can still do the 15k rollover with $200 bets. Finish the RO and cash out would be my advice.

**Optional** · 05-03-18, 08:46 AM

Originally posted by deck5

I have a $15,000+ rollover to clear at Betnow sportsbook, and they have lowered my limits from $5,000 to $200 on MLB. Though they changed the bet limits to be 25x smaller, they did not change the rollover. Does that make sense? Does that seem fair?

I filed an SBR complaint weeks ago, but never heard back from them.

It's a bit of a no win situation. Sometimes books will let you suspend the bonus and take a pro rated payout if they reduce limits to the point where rollover is impossible. But it will probably come out to an amount you are not happy with that way anyway.

As others have said, just complete the rollover and move on is the best way.

And @Baus... why the crack about offshore? Doing this is far more prevalent among Euro facing books than offshores. Plus offshores almost never reduce limits to stupid amounts like $5.

**HedgeHog** · 05-03-18, 02:59 PM

Originally posted by deck5

I have a $15,000+ rollover to clear at Betnow sportsbook, and they have lowered my limits from $5,000 to $200 on MLB. Though they changed the bet limits to be 25x smaller, they did not change the rollover. Does that make sense? Does that seem fair?

I filed an SBR complaint weeks ago, but never heard back from them.

I re-read your first post and it finally sunk in. They gave you $5000 limits when you signed up, seriously? How much did you deposit?

**deck5** · 05-03-18, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by Optional

It's a bit of a no win situation. Sometimes books will let you suspend the bonus and take a pro rated payout if they reduce limits to the point where rollover is impossible. But it will probably come out to an amount you are not happy with that way anyway.

As others have said, just complete the rollover and move on is the best way.

And @Baus... why the crack about offshore? Doing this is far more prevalent among Euro facing books than offshores. Plus offshores almost never reduce limits to stupid amounts like $5.

Which euro facing books scam on rollovers? As far as I know only offshore does that.

**deck5** · 05-03-18, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by Optional

It's a bit of a no win situation. Sometimes books will let you suspend the bonus and take a pro rated payout if they reduce limits to the point where rollover is impossible. But it will probably come out to an amount you are not happy with that way anyway.

As others have said, just complete the rollover and move on is the best way.

And @Baus... why the crack about offshore? Doing this is far more prevalent among Euro facing books than offshores. Plus offshores almost never reduce limits to stupid amounts like $5.

And why would I not want them to just pro-rate the bonus? That is a far better option than slugging through tiny $200 bets to complete this rollover.

**BAUS** · 05-03-18, 05:43 PM

Originally posted by Optional

It's a bit of a no win situation. Sometimes books will let you suspend the bonus and take a pro rated payout if they reduce limits to the point where rollover is impossible. But it will probably come out to an amount you are not happy with that way anyway.

As others have said, just complete the rollover and move on is the best way.

And @Baus... why the crack about offshore? Doing this is far more prevalent among Euro facing books than offshores. Plus offshores almost never reduce limits to stupid amounts like $5.

I can’t even see the post I made last night. It doesn’t show up in this thread.

Maybe what I should have said is “internet sportsbooks”.

Also, when will I be off post review? I have many important things to say.

BAUS

**Optional** · 05-03-18, 06:13 PM

Send an email to forum@sportsbookreview.com about the post review. It's above my power to set or remove it.

**Optional** · 05-03-18, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by deck5

Which euro facing books scam on rollovers? As far as I know only offshore does that.

We obviously have different ideas about what constitutes a scam, but this happens more often with the barely regulated smaller Europe facing books than US offshores.

Originally posted by deck5

And why would I not want them to just pro-rate the bonus? That is a far better option than slugging through tiny $200 bets to complete this rollover.

Why don't you ask them for it?

But I can tell you now, you will lose a lot less money just betting the next 75 games one side at Betnow and the other side elsewhere.

As annoying as it is $200 is not considered an unreasonable limit by industry standards and still leaves it possible to complete the rollover so SBR would not jump in to demand anything on your behalf in this situation.

Taking a bonus at a book does not preclude them from imposing player limits. If it's some sort of bait and switch thing where everyone who makes a large deposit gets suddenly limited that would be another thing. But AFAIK there has been no other reports of it about Betnow.

**deck5** · 05-04-18, 07:09 AM

I did ask them, and they told me no.

Pro-rating a bonus is a completely fair option. Either the book wants you to bet with them, or they don't. If they want to boot the player, okay, do it. But it's pretty transparent that it's a scam when they make it so the player is effectively booted, but cannot access his funds. How is that not a scam?

**Optional** · 05-04-18, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by deck5

I did ask them, and they told me no.

Pro-rating a bonus is a completely fair option. Either the book wants you to bet with them, or they don't. If they want to boot the player, okay, do it. But it's pretty transparent that it's a scam when they make it so the player is effectively booted, but cannot access his funds. How is that not a scam?

As explained once, it's not a scam or an unfair limit by industry standards. But it sounds like you already know it all and don't want to hear that.

You just keep banging on to have them pro rate your current balance by half or whatever it may be.

Don't worry about just solving your own problem and betting it out and keeping most of the current balance.

Good luck.

**deck5** · 05-04-18, 03:40 PM

Well, yes this isn't my first time being limited at a sportsbook, and by the sound of your posts, I've definitely made more money than you have betting.

Weird that you're taking such an aggressive tone towards me, as it's not even clear you understand how bonus pro-rating works. Can you explain it?

**semibluff** · 05-04-18, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by deck5

Well, yes this isn't my first time being limited at a sportsbook, and by the sound of your posts, I've definitely made more money than you have betting.

Weird that you're taking such an aggressive tone towards me, as it's not even clear you understand how bonus pro-rating works. Can you explain it?

I'm not trying to be a dick or tell you what to do but given how tiny you think $200 is and given that Betnow have incredibly tight margins on soccer - why wouldn't you just find 30 pretty even match-ups, bet $200 on each team and $100 on each draw? You'll lose the 1.8% mark up and on $15000 that's $270. For $270 this would all be done with in less than a day.