[bradthebloke]

no line on the miami, tennessee, kentucky games

[bradthebloke]

just got off live chat with them. they said they are not doing college hoops for the forseeable future. I dont have accnt with them but i like to use the lines. dont know if they are closing up after football or that college baskets garner no interest overseas

[jjgold]

They are basically done

[ZetaPsi808]

[jjgold]

They could not make it without usa market

no Euro exchange can compete with BetFair

[minet123]

No credit=no markets
I wager they get bought out again or you will see some more "private" US based operations as we saw in the thread that was in sportsbook and industry this week(to lazy to post link)

[Masu485]

wtf the whole site's down now. they are the only legit book I can play at. this sucks

[jjgold]

Its all over for matchbook
they never had a clue what they were doing

[ZetaPsi808]

corbin they should have hired you as a marketing/public relations manager.

they would have never left the US market then

[Masu485]

JJ call Matchbook and ask them if they are going under. make a video. goodnight.

[BAUS]

Still plenty of action happening at MB. There was 50k available on South Florida NCAA Football.

BAUS

[jjgold]

Still plenty of action happening at MB. There was 50k available on South Florida NCAA Football.

BAUS

its matchbook's money you nit wit

they are done

[katstale]

Amazing they think they can survive without offering college hoops? Now that is a business model all will want to emulate. SBR reporter needs to check in on this and how does Match retain its rating if they don't offer college hoops? If the NBA comes back will they put that up?

[JoeVig]

I chatted with them this morning. They say they might add in the "near future".

John says:
Hello xxx. My name is John how can I help you?
xxx says:
Hi John. I was looking for NCAA Basketball lines and don't see them.
John says:
We are not currently offering NCAAB as the moment. We hope to be adding it in the near future.
xxx says:
Man I hope so. With the NBA lockout, you guys are missing out on a lot of volume, and so am I !!
xxx says:
No idea what "near future" is ?
John says:
No, I am not completely sure but there are people looking into it to get it back on site
xxx says:
Ok - well please pass along to management you have one more customer begging to get it.

[jjgold]

There is hardly any players there
Volume is shit
They are using their own money to make it look active

[Monte]

"near future" can mean anything up to 9 months at MB, as i found out while waiting for their damn currencies to go online..
looks like they have no pressure and don't care about the money wasted, JJ Betfair is horseshit for US sports.
Well Betfair is horseshit in itself, but that is another topic.

[noyb]

Amazing they think they can survive without offering college hoops?

uhh what?? if i were targetting an europe and asia audience i would drop college as well. nobody outside of n-america gives a **** about college basketball, same with college football.

[jjgold]

There is ZERO market for exchange betting in USA

Americans are not into it other than scalpers

Everyone has tried and all failed

END OF FUKKIN STORY

[skrtelfan]

Pretty lame on Matchbook's part.

[ZetaPsi808]

There is ZERO market for exchange betting in USA

Americans are not into it other than scalpers

Everyone has tried and all failed

END OF FUKKIN STORY

not true. we would all love to bet into 1 cent spreads and moneylines... -107 +106, etc

[Monte]

Bullshit JJ...everyone of you should aim to bet on -102 lines rather than -110.
Unless you want to stay a loser for life.

[BAUS]

Even when MB was at its peak in the US market, there wasn't much action on NCAA BB.

What I'd like to see MB do is post maybe 5-10 of the "bigger" games on Saturdays, and let people trade those. Posting the entire board of 80-100 games isn't necessary, IMHO.

BAUS

[Hareeba!]

There are far more important things that MB should be addressing than college sports.

They no longer have US resident customers. I know of a handful of online chaps who do dabble in those sports but I've never met any non-US punter who has the slightest interest in them.

There are many more popular sports outside of the US which they should be offering.

[jjgold]

There are far more important things that MB should be addressing than college sports.

They no longer have US resident customers. I know of a handful of online chaps who do dabble in those sports but I've never met any non-US punter who has the slightest interest in them.

There are many more popular sports outside of the US which they should be offering.

They do not have a clue about anything therefore will go bankrupt

I am rarely wrong about a book

[minet123]

I am rarely wrong about a book

Someone find the thread where JJ claims Lenny and Cascade are the next great thing

However on this subject about matchbook,JJ is correct
What move US facing offshore is credit
And the real "players" could give three rats about arbing dollars across multiple books
Whatever chance Matchbook had when they had US facing credit was quickly destroyed by there complete lack of focus and having agents who where as clueless and unreliable as the early platform was
the only chance for rec exchange for US facing sports is if TVG can put a successful version on TVG than explain after every race why it made more sense to use the exchange,players may than realise that it might save/make me money on those football bets too

[Monte]

We all know the first step would have been to involve other currencies asap.
You can't be an Euro facing exhange and only have the USD, the time they are taking with this is ridiculous.

I can't be the only one who doesn't want any USD crap, the way this currency is bumping up and down, paying exchange fees etc etc.
NCAA hoops means nothing right now.

[SBR_John]

As Harbee eluded to, ncaa sports, especially basketball, outside of north america are not popular. They are not televised either.

[QQPALLADIUM]

There are far more important things that MB should be addressing than college sports.

They no longer have US resident customers. I know of a handful of online chaps who do dabble in those sports but I've never met any non-US punter who has the slightest interest in them.

There are many more popular sports outside of the US which they should be offering.

basketball is only the 3rd most watched sport in the world...

[BAUS]

There are far more important things that MB should be addressing than college sports. They no longer have US resident customers.

I agree that adding more currency options is more important, but adding 5-10 NCAA BB games really shouldn't be difficult. There are people out there in the world who would trade it.

BAUS

[jjgold]

As Harbee eluded to, ncaa sports, especially basketball, outside of north america are not popular. They are not televised either.

Yes they are...approx 2 per night..live betting all over Europe

Weekends approx 5

Walker i know everything its why you pay me


College Basketball. 15th November, 00.05 GMT.
Live coverage on www.ncaa.com and ESPN America (Sky Digital Channel 430).
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[jjgold]

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