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    reigle9
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    I want to be a local, best PPH site to use?

    Did a search, lot of threads with no real information. Also a lot of them were outdated. Does anyone have a recommendation? Tried to look over reviews, but there's no real definitive answer which ones are the best.

    http://www.payperheadglobal.com/ and http://www.realbookies.com/ are two I'm currently leaning towards.

    Any useful feedback would be appreciated.
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    To play at or use to run your own book?

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    Run my own. Want to start with friends of friends, local old bar guys that play those terrible parlay tickets and eventually move on to college kids.

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    I imagine it's much of a muchness Reigle. Any that have a reliable site and decent player management tools will work and your players wont care if you dont like the first one and shift anyway.

    Think you need a thread title like "I want to be a local, best PPH site to use" so the right people find you for proper advice.

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    I'll see if anyone drops in the thread. The ones I've tested out seem fine, but always good to get some info from people that have done it.

    You can go ahead and edit the title if you're able.

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    Done

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    why would you want to be your friends' bookie? obviously you don't care much about your friendship.

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    I helped a local book games in college. Gave me a cut of the action, but more importantly he backed me financially. Your friends can get hot and break you. Real question is do you have enough $ to start up. Takes more than you think.

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    old local bar guys have no money and will just be taking shots at you, eventually stiffing you and laughing about it. college kids definitely have no money and think they know everything and could care less about stiffing you after they take their shots. you need to rethink your customer base as you can't win money off people who don't have any.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghenghis Kahn View Post
    why would you want to be your friends' bookie? obviously you don't care much about your friendship.
    I think that is pretty obvious.

    Money > Friendship.

    I think people use the term friendship lightly these days. I know some people who think just b/c they know a professional athlete or have met them once or twice they think they are friends with them

    how about all those jerkoffs with 200 friends on Facebook????

    Those aren't really friends.

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    good way to go to jail

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    Quote Originally Posted by unusialsusp5 View Post
    old local bar guys have no money and will just be taking shots at you, eventually stiffing you and laughing about it. college kids definitely have no money and think they know everything and could care less about stiffing you after they take their shots. you need to rethink your customer base as you can't win money off people who don't have any.
    Uhh that totally depends on the college. if it's any college in California the kids is probably loaded to the gills with parents money.

    all those Ivy League schools in the north east same thing. many of those kids have black cards.

    If you take c r e d I t c a r d s then u will be str8.

    People love to spend money they don't have by using ************

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    good way to go to jail
    Get rich or die trying Holmes

    Nobody gives you chances , You gotta TAKE chances.

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    Bear not worth it

    kids do not pay ..then what??

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Bear not worth it

    kids do not pay ..then what??
    Then you make them pay.

    all you gotta do is make an example out of one of them.

    send your goons to break some legs, maybe cut off a finger?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Bear not worth it

    kids do not pay ..then what??
    Don't u ever watch mafia stuff?

    or see the show the Wire?

    Barksdale and Marlo never had trouble collecting money

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    break their kneecaps obv..

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    Guy is right. Not the most stable of customer bases. You have to plan for a % of no pays. Thus another reason you better be rolled.

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    If I was a local given my current financial situation I would have to set low limits and not allow parlays.

    i would be worried that somebody would hit one of these 10 team parlays and totally bury me

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    the days of sending out goons and breaking kneecaps are obsolete. just because a college kid has money (of course some have lots of it) doesn't mean they're going to pay when they find out their schoolmate betting chum stiffed and only ended up getting shut off. college kids don't care about the code of the bookie. lose you pay win you get paid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    Uhh that totally depends on the college. if it's any college in California the kids is probably loaded to the gills with parents money.

    all those Ivy League schools in the north east same thing. many of those kids have black cards.

    If you take c r e d I t c a r d s then u will be str8.

    People love to spend money they don't have by using ************
    They can just as easily do a charge back burr

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smoke View Post
    They can just as easily do a charge back burr
    forgot about that.

    cards are bad news.

    absolutely no checks.

    cash only.

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    rookies

    kid your out of your league and if you want to get into trouble DO IT

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    Only jj could pull off something like this kids would be scared shitless to stiff him

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    good way to go to jail
    you'd never go to jail if you got caught. only about a 3000.00 fine at most. but, the real risk is paying off customers (especially college kids) for a short period of time and then when they lose it back they say i don't have it. i spent it. sorry. that would happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    Then you make them pay.

    all you gotta do is make an example out of one of them.

    send your goons to break some legs, maybe cut off a finger?
    No need to cut off fingers Bear. Just send the stiffs a toe that has already been cut off, tell them they are next.

    You need a toe? Hell, anyone can get a toe, I can get you a toe by 2 o' clock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KVB View Post
    No need to cut off fingers Bear. Just send the stiffs a toe that has already been cut off, tell them they are next.

    You need a toe? Hell, anyone can get a toe, I can get you a toe by 2 o' clock.


    lmfao big lebowski style

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    Why worry about pay only if you give them an account after they pay you beforehand? Just don't do credit accounts. Instead give some sort of bonus and add a ridiculous roll over and they will all cave in....

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    Book me. I'll bury you pal

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    Quote Originally Posted by unusialsusp5 View Post
    the days of sending out goons and breaking kneecaps are obsolete. just because a college kid has money (of course some have lots of it) doesn't mean they're going to pay when they find out their schoolmate betting chum stiffed and only ended up getting shut off. college kids don't care about the code of the bookie. lose you pay win you get paid.
    yes you cannot even touch someone..all they have to do is go to police and your done

    Even threat is at least 3 years prison time zero tolerance now

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    Quote Originally Posted by KVB View Post
    No need to cut off fingers Bear. Just send the stiffs a toe that has already been cut off, tell them they are next.

    You need a toe? Hell, anyone can get a toe, I can get you a toe by 2 o' clock.


    foreal?

    how do you get a toe?

    this is a genius idea. I want to mail someone a toe right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    yes you cannot even touch someone..all they have to do is go to police and your done

    Even threat is at least 3 years prison time zero tolerance now
    how do they prove a threat?

    its just hear say.

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    Bear...is not like the old days

    I had a bookmaker dangle my ankles over a fukkin ledge because I did not pay...well I started paying then

    I was scared shit and looking straight down 25 floors and goon was just holding my ankles

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    Quote Originally Posted by FlipsideRM View Post
    Book me. I'll bury you pal
    with whose picks?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    foreal?

    how do you get a toe?

    this is a genius idea. I want to mail someone a toe right now.
    Did you need a toe with with or without nail polish?


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