took the sportsbook selector on sbr got BetGuardian as my third selection behind pinny and 5 dimes ,have not heard or seen much written about them.any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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They're part of justbet. Pretty solid, but small limits and not very good odds.Comment -
have not played with this group of sites in a couple years. not the best lines but you will get paid and great bonuses to join or reload.Comment -
Anyone know what withdrawals are like?Comment -
Limits are low, $500 for MLB.
Minimum bet of $10.
I personally am on a delay where I place the bet, walk downstairs, pour myself a cup of coffee take a drink and savior it for a moment. Then walk back upstairs, sit down, get settled in and lean back in my chair for a moment and then BG finally confirms the bet.
As for lines, they are not too bad, I have used Bet Phoenix a little more.
BG also rounds up or down all the amounts, which can work for or against you.
Example: a line at -170
Risk $278.80 To Win $164
If you click to Win $164 your bet would be $279 to win $164
However, if you bet to risk $278 your bet would be risking $278 to win $164
Anyway, this can be a pain sometimes. You can only bet whole numbers and like I said they round off.
As for withdrawals, that I do not know about, I am still working on the $74K roll over; nearly half-way finished though
BoL,
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I havent played there in a long time. But I remember when I did, they paid interest on my balance. That was nice.
I cant see anything about that on their site anymore, so maybe they have discontinued this offer.Comment -
they use to give 10% a year. paid every month. i always kept my largest balance there. then neteller ended for the US. they paid me all my money - whatever i wanted monthly. no problems. with uderstanding about worries of neteller being shut down. other sites were already having problems getting money out. not them. 5 figures a month for a few months. they were just great about it.Comment -
they were around as long as i was gambling. i was there at least 5 or 6 years before neteller closed down for US. may have been much longer, getting old. 1st book was SBG GLOBAL, not so good anymore. then a real scam place theonlinebet, stole a couple gran from me. 3rd book i joined was BETGUARDIAN. many since. mostly bonus hunting palying steam. until there was no neteller. changed everything. bonus hunting days over. mostly a matter of who do you trust. good luck beating books.Comment -
This is the worst book I've ever done business with. I've been with them under the Justbet banner for about a month, and I've already experienced lots of problems.
-The software is very buggy. You'll frequently get logged out for no reason. If you click to look at the lines on a certain sport, you'll often get taken to the wrong sport. I had one instance where the site wouldn't accept a bet due to a bug... I eventually got it to go through on a mirror site after 15 minutes, but it was a huge pain in the ass.
-Customer service is awful and pushy. I've had emails to two different CS addresses bounce back to me as undeliverable. When I first signed up I got an unsolicited call from a guy who either needs to stop snorting coke or start taking ritalin. The spaz gave me incorrect bonus info and was so unprofessional I almost didn't deposit even though I had already planned to prior to his call. I asked them not to call me at home after this, but they called anyway later on.
-The limits are tiny. I tried to bet $150 on a UFC fight tonight... nope. The limit on UFC is only $100. It's not like they reduced my personal limits either, as I've only made like 3 or 4 bets with them and never bet on UFC before.
-The don't offer many betting options. For example, my favorite sport to bet is boxing. They haven't offered one line on any boxing match since I signed up. The offer very few props, and don't have a lot of options on really any sport that I've seen. Lines often go up very late, and they have hardly any lines up overnight.
-The freeplays aren't as good as they seem. You can only use them on straight bets with a point spread. That makes them near useless this time of year because most of the biggest events in the summer (baseball, fights, tennis, golf) aren't primarily point spread sports. And the spreads they do use, like runlines for baseball have gigantic juice. The rollover is also bigger than the other books I've used.
The whole operation is so shoddy that if it weren't for their SBR grade I would be incredibly concerned about the safety of my deposit.Comment -
Yes, you don't have the widest range of lines here - that's why I eventually left. However no reason to worry about your money, they've been around for ages, and don't have a risky business model at all (very vanilla lines, high juice). They paid me $5k or so no quibble.Comment
