Best Site For New Member?

**bigboydan** · 03-31-08, 07:16 PM

BetJamaica (SBR rated A+), part of the TheGreek family of books and use the ASI software, which I feel is pretty nice overall.

BetJamaica is more of a recreation book and does offer a 20% signup bouns ($500 max, with a 5x's rollover), however since they are a recreational book they could cut your limits if your chasing steam and or other things of that nature.

Their banking options for U.S. players have actually improved some over the last few months, because they are now offering Echecks (which is very nice feature these days). Not to mention they do free book-to-book transfers ($500 min) with: TheGreek, Legendz, Pinnacle, 5Dimes and BookMaker (note: Bookmaker will charge you incoming fees).

The payouts are very prompt really for overnight checks (3-5 business days), and the withdraw fees are actually quite reasonable if you exceed the 1 free payout via fedex per calender month (min. $200/$35 flat fee if you exceed the freebie).

Another thing I should make mention of since we have seen some DDos attacks this weekend is that they have a couple of mirror sites for emergency purposes.

BetJamaica:

http://mirror1.betjm.com

http://mirror2.betjm.com

The lines they offer are very competitive with most other books IMO, and the use a dimeline up to -190 in baseball. Which I feel is great!

Here is the baseball vig breakdown and betting options they will be offering this 2008 baseball season.

.10 up to -190
.13 up to -195
.15 up to -200
.18 up to -205
.20 up to -240
.25 up to -250
.30 up to -280
.35 up to -290
.40 up to -300
.45 up to -310
.50 up to -320

Overnight Lines: Yes
Reverse Run Lines: Yes
5-inning lines: Yes
Reduced Juice Totals: No
Grand Salami Totals: Yes
Team Totals: No

The drawbacks I do have about [iSBRFORUM]BetJamaica[/iSBRFORUM] is they only accept U.S. currencies, and they don't offer a live chat service. But they do answer their emails within 5-10 minutes.

Below is an A- book that does offer some nice bonuses and they do offer the credit card option your seeking:

BetOnline (SBR rated A-) currently have no complaints levied against them and no processing issues to speak of at this time, which is a positive these days. The limits are $2,000 (Sides & Totals) which isn't bad at all really, however they will collar you if you start to beat'um up at a pretty good clip. So needless to say they don't like professional players at all. (recreational book).

To answer your question about acceptance of credit cards. BetOnline does accept **** at this time, however you have to phone-in your transaction from my understanding though.

As far as their bonuses go. They offer 2 different types of bonus options.

#1. Low vig (-105)
#2. Up to 45% with 7-1 parlay odds on 3 teamers

The also offer a mirror site in case their main site goes down at any time, which I have listed for you below.

Betonline: http://bb.betonline.com/

Here are just a few of the things that they will be offering for baseball in 2008:

Overnight Lines: Yes
Reverse Run Lines: No
5-inning lines: Yes (ML & Totals)
Reduced Juice Totals: No
Grand Salami Totals: Yes
Team Totals: No

Here are their money line breakdowns:

.10 up to -189
.15 up to -199
.20 up to -209
.30 up to 224

Their are a couple of things I don't like is that they charge $50 for fedex checks and they don't do book-to-book transfers.

**BrUno0** · 03-31-08, 09:18 PM

Thanks for all the help man, and yeah, BetJamaica was my 1st choice actually.

And i think they do accept **** and **********....i saw pay options for it.

Also, I tried boomaker, but my Credit Card Declined, does betjamaica or Betonline get through that somehow since you have to fill a sheet out for betjamaica, and Phone in to betonline?

**bigboydan** · 03-31-08, 09:28 PM

BetJamaica credit card deposits for U.S. players are totally hit and miss these days, while BetOnline can process them over the phone. Now as far as BookMaker being able to process them or not these days. The last I remember reading (roughly 5-6 weeks ago) they can process **** over the phone (filling out forms before making withdraws are stanard these days).

Of the three books you were asking about, I feel like you totally made the right choice in making BetJamaica your first choice.

**BrUno0** · 03-31-08, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by bigboydan

BetJamaica credit card deposits for U.S. players are totally hit and miss these days, while BetOnline can process them over the phone. Now as far as BookMaker being able to process them or not these days. The last I remember reading (roughly 5-6 weeks ago) they can process **** over the phone (filling out forms before making withdraws are stanard these days).

Of the three books you were asking about, I feel like you totally made the right choice in making BetJamaica your first choice.

Yes, but i'm not too sure how to get money on there, could i just use moneybookers and use my credit card on there and then transfer to betjam?

**bigboydan** · 03-31-08, 09:38 PM

MoneyBookers does not accept U.S. customers at all sir. From my understanding you won't need a 3rd party processor if you call the books directly and do the transaction over the phone.

**BrUno0** · 03-31-08, 09:43 PM

Originally posted by bigboydan

MoneyBookers does not accept U.S. customers at all sir. From my understanding you won't need a 3rd party processor if you call the books directly and do the transaction over the phone.

Oh, ok, that's what i'll do then, again, thanks for all the help.

**SBR Lou** · 04-01-08, 12:48 AM

I have a feeling Bigboydan would've also suggested 5Dimes to you, if not for their lack of a solid bonus structure. Truth be told, I have not even redeemed a bonus with them for this reason, however I did take advantage of a 15% of my losses cash back promotion after the Super Bowl.

They are another solid out for you, secure, check arrives within 2-3 business days at the most, 1 free payout per month if over $500 w/d, if not a flat $30 fee to be sent by courier. Good range of betting options, lots of sucker bet types if those are your thing, my only gripe is sometimes they take lines down too fast.. They have some nice ladies on live chat.

They also offer e-Check deposits however with a limit of $300, you'd need to email some documents to raise that.

**bigboydan** · 04-01-08, 01:13 AM

Good eye their Crazyl, but that wasn't the only reason I ruled out 5Dimes.

Lets not forget to mention the fact that Mr.BrUno0 also wanted to use his credit card as a payment solution. The one thing about 5Dimes and their credit card transaction rules is the fact that you can't use that payment solution for 90 days after the day of actually signing up. Not to mention the fact that using CC's there is completely hit or miss these days.

**MiamiBoy86** · 04-01-08, 08:33 AM

you can use your Credit Card to purchase Prima Pin phone cards, which is a decent out if you need some quick cash on a great book, however I just posted a thread because it caps you at around 2 deposits per week and 4 per month (ranging from 100-500$ per deposit).... So BruNo if you want to deposit around 300-500, with maybe one re-deposit and don't really care about bonuses but love low vig and lightening fast payouts (got my 3k in the mail within 3 days of withdrawing fed-ex for free, you get one every 30 days) then 5 dimes is the way to go...Best of Luck

**MiamiBoy86** · 04-01-08, 03:10 PM

What I don't understand is, why don't the REALLY good books (matchbook, 5 Dimes, BetJamaica in my personal opinion) all use the similar service that not-so-great books (BetOnline, bookmaker) use...for BetOnline, I called up, they told me I was "buying 2 phone cards each of 500$", then transferred the money right away....for bookmaker, you just buy a re-fillable card (like Prima Card, but without all the restrictions) and can put in up to 1000$ a day....but 5 dimes you can only use Prima pin a couple times a month, and matchbook you can't use a Credit Card at all, while BetJamaica is hit or miss as well....just don't see why they all offer the easy choices for US customers, I would think it would be in their best interests, as well as ours.....

**bigboydan** · 04-01-08, 06:55 PM

Some books can find credit card payment solutions while others can't (no clue why that is).

Thanks for posting that credit card info from BookMaker these days, I didn't know it and could only post what I've read on the forum. Because I use Western Union/Moneygram or book-to-book transfers as my funding methods.

As far as avoiding a 3rd party processing issue these days is hit or miss. Although, I do know (as of last week) that Carib (SBR rated B) and Intertops (SBR rated B+) both accept credit cards directly these days, so you might want to check those two sites out. The problem is that they don't do B2B transfers at all that I am aware of.

**BrUno0** · 04-22-08, 03:35 PM

so you suggest 5dimes, what is the best thing about 5dimes, low juice?

**eyeball** · 04-22-08, 03:40 PM

Best Site for a new member? GA

**Mattn3236** · 04-22-08, 03:47 PM

Bookmaker.

**fingas** · 04-22-08, 04:03 PM

betfair (for non-americans)

**katstale** · 04-22-08, 08:42 PM

trick question?