Choose a sportsbook that pays, and pays quickly. This may sound obvious, but you would be surprised. World Sports Exchange (wsex) takes two to three months for payment. Some other sportsbooks never pay at all. There are stories…at BetUs.com and Oddsmaker.com if you win too much, you will be labled a “professional” and your account will be frozen. Basically, these sportsbooks only cater to fools who bet small and lose often.
Choose a sportsbook with decent customer service. It can be aggravating talking to or emailing a person who barely understands English. Bookmaker.com and BetJamaica come to mind; their agents are very difficult to deal with. Also, choose a book with a modern website. Bookmaker.com and 5dimes.com have archaic websites that were built in a third-world country many years ago and have never been upgraded. Try navigating a website built in the 1990s and you will become frustrated.
Some sportsbooks offer very low maximum bets. This might be okay for some, but if you prefer higher max bets, look around. Bodog.com is famous, or infamous, for offering the lowest max bets in the industry. This brings up another point, choose a sportsbook that puts their pointspreads up early, as opposed to late. Bodog is always the last sportsbook to post lines on games. Sportsbook.com is usally the first.
Lastly, avoid online sportsbooks that promise you the world in signup bonuses. SBG Global and Bookmaker.com are perfect examples. SBG Golboal promises a 295% bonus for new members. Read the fine print and you will see it’s a complete farce. Oddsmaker.com is nearly as bad. Know this, the worse a sportsbook is, the more desperate a sportsbook is, the higher the bonus they will offer.
Also, don’t believe online reviews with links to a particular sportsbook. For example, Covers.com and Sportsbookreviews.com are paid by sportsbooks to give positive sportsbooks reviews.
If it sounds like there aren’t many good choices out there, now you begin to understand the industry. No recommendations, but now at least you know the pitfalls of the online sportsbook world.
Dr. VanLocke
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About the Author:
Dr. Van Locke has been a leading handicapper and sports enthusiast for 15+ years. As a founding member of Lock Of The Day, he writes about sports and poinstread matchups on a daily basis. Lock Of The Day is the oldest online sports handicapper, online since 2002. Specializing in football, Dr VanLocke offers daily insight and in-depth football betting analysis.
This entry was posted on Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 5:20 am and is filed under Bookmaker Reviews.
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