What was your first ever online sportsbook?

Kaabee · 08-27-10, 10:23 PM

sportsbook.com
they were so good back in the day. 7 years i think it was.

brxbmbers42 · 08-27-10, 10:27 PM

Players Superbook.

Sean81 · 08-27-10, 10:32 PM

Sportsbook.com. 2006 Steelers at Broncos AFC championship game.

increasedodds · 08-27-10, 10:44 PM

Globalsports

OldSchool75 · 08-27-10, 11:02 PM

Pinnacle back in the day

sosoon · 08-27-10, 11:04 PM

Partybets lol What a lame bookie !

TGHMak · 08-27-10, 11:06 PM

bookmaker and they are still one of my primary books.

RollPlayer · 08-27-10, 11:10 PM

I got into sports betting for mma and guys on sherdog were saying bodog was the best book for it. If only I knew back then there weren't any mma props in bodog and 5dimes had them all...

jgilmartin · 08-27-10, 11:18 PM

Legends

makaveli66 · 08-27-10, 11:21 PM

For me it was sportsinteraction.com. I used them because I didn't have a credit card and they accepted money orders. I deposited $30 and it took about 2 weeks for them to finally credit it to my account. I turned it into $650 though, which was kind of alot to me back then. Got a check for it. Only took something like 4 weeks to get it via FedEx.

Then I just had to find a bank that would actually cash it for me.

craigpb · 08-27-10, 11:29 PM

the great and hopefully not totally dead Pinny. Maybe one day we will meet again.

rise · 08-27-10, 11:30 PM

first bet offshore bowman a book from england put in 100 cash out 600 had a hard time cashing check but did

mdemps9190 · 08-28-10, 12:21 AM

Wagerline

CrimsonQueen · 08-28-10, 12:37 AM

WSEX I believe... then Bodog. Or perhaps it was the other way around... ?

been awhile. Probably 7 years?

lovetobet · 08-28-10, 12:47 AM

sportsbook.com back in 99 or 00, I think they were publicly traded on the London stock exchange back then for a while. I always thought they were a stand up book, I never had any issues with them, think I got lucky. Got wise by 04 or 05.

sweethook · 08-28-10, 08:29 AM

Originally posted by lovetobet

sportsbook.com back in 99 or 00, I think they were publicly traded on the London stock exchange back then for a while. I always thought they were a stand up book, I never had any issues with them, think I got lucky. Got wise by 04 or 05.

well - ive been with them sents 02 or 03 and still there ,but would like to know what is it you got wise to ? i do think they chalk up the fav. a little extra

hokim · 08-28-10, 09:00 AM

bwin.com (formerly, betandwin.com)
They gave me free $20.

increasedodds · 08-28-10, 09:01 AM

I wonder if these guys were the same as globalcasino. I honestly can't recall the name, but they were the first I used.

They would routinely leave games up after the games were over. I did very well with them.

Eventually they closed up shop because they were located in PA and not Costa Rica and ended up getting busted.

Then moved on to betanything. They were an even bigger joke. They would let you bet $5 on the browns -7 and then if and only if Browns -7 won, $2500 on Browns -250.

It was so easy 15 years ago!

Also, I remember bettorsworld - it was the most active forum around 1995.

-Sean

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Back around 1996-1997 or so, global sports connection. Does anyone remember them? maybe called GSC as well?

Internet wasn't big around then, but i know there was a site called bettorsworld.com back then (just checked they've been around since 1995 - just a sports info site).

anyways a quick story about Global sports connection. they had some problmes with their software, and when a line changed odds, they kept multiple lines out there for same game by mistake, sometimes there would be 5 or 6 lines out there (some the same). people were parlaying one side for huge payouts. it was usually just 2 lines after a line change. they lost alot of money on that.

skilz4milz · 08-28-10, 09:14 AM

Mine was Bodog. The pretty interface attracted me, lol.

mikebell32 · 08-28-10, 10:28 AM

DSI and Little NASA back in 1998 when the books where just getting hot .....

kaos7613 · 08-28-10, 11:00 AM

ladbrokes

pimpinaces · 08-28-10, 11:08 AM

Sportsinteraction

GGZOLA · 08-28-10, 11:40 AM

1997 s.o.s. (sports off shore) man those were the days easy money in/out no headaches.

tatommack · 08-28-10, 11:46 AM

Belmont

blueghost · 08-28-10, 01:42 PM

diamond

Actionbrett · 08-28-10, 01:46 PM

Blowdog and I deposited by paypal. What a square i was!

k13 · 08-28-10, 01:46 PM

The Greek.

NuNo · 08-28-10, 02:14 PM

sportingbet

HAPPY BOY · 08-28-10, 02:28 PM

ESB English Sports Betting cock suckers took me for 3k but thats how I found SBR. I found them before even the forum existed and JJ was jerking off old men for gambling $$ lol

thisisit · 08-28-10, 02:45 PM

Caribbean sports, they stiffed, and I learned all about offshore betting after that. I think I found them in a Jim Feist mag lol.

SpiderMonkey · 08-28-10, 05:00 PM

Originally posted by cadillac pete

Gibralter starting in 1997

Me too.

Boner_18 · 08-28-10, 05:13 PM

Def sportsbook.com. Say what you will about it, ive only been slow payed... Not ever a terrible experience.

jasont · 08-28-10, 05:23 PM

Bodog.

jasont · 08-28-10, 05:23 PM

BTW: I dont play there anymore, obvious reasons.

Chopsticks · 08-28-10, 06:39 PM

Think it was expekt.com. They had some No Deposit bonus going so I signed up. This was of course before I was 18, so I lied on my age. Years later when I was over 18 I had forgotten all about this so I opened an account with them and run up quite the balance, then they hit me with the fact that I had an account with them from years ago, and that the details did not match up.

Fortunately they were cool about it and paid up after I explained what had happened.