[Bill Dozer]

Sportsbook Name	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Total Points
Pinnacle	20	8	6	150
Matchbook	16	7	12	144
Bet Jamaica	10	11	7	115
Bookmaker / BetCris	8	9	11	109
The Greek	4	11	9	91
WSEX	5	9	5	76
5Dimes	5	3	6	55
Bodog	3	4	3	40
BetFair	3	4	1	34
Carib	5		1	28
CanBet	1	3	1	20
Legendz	2	1	2	20
Bet365	1	2	2	19
Heritage	1	2	1	16
BetOnline		3	1	15
Sportsbook.com	2		1	13
The Pig		3		12
SportsInteraction (SIA)		1	2	10
Ladbrokes	1		1	8
Diamond Sportsbook (DSI)		1	1	7
VIP		1	1	7
BetDon	1			5
BetSOS	1			5
BetGameday	1			5
Wager7	1			5
WagerWeb	1			5
BetPop		1		4
Skybook		1		4
BetBTW		1		4
Mansion		1		4
Jazz		1		4
Bowmans		1		4
BetEd			1	3
HansaBet			1	3
ABC			1	3
PartyBets			1	3
Will Hill			1	3

See How Posters Voted
Scoring: 1st place votes = 5 pts. / 2nd place votes = 4 pts. / 3rd place votes = 3 pts.

SBR Posters Poll I: May 2007 Results

[bigboydan]

Which one of you guys voted for BetBTW in regards to ranking them #2 on your poll, and why?

[bigboydan]

Hows Tradesports volume in comparison to Matchbook in your opinion Art?

[betplom]

I like Tradesports in general.

I stopped playing there after Neteller was no longer available,payout options are limited for North American players, no **********, Moneybookers, or Fedex cheque only regular mail cheque.

If they offered ********** OR Moneybookers I'd start playing with them again.

[Dark Horse]

I used to have five figures in Tradesports. That became useless after liquidity went way south. TS isn't even a blimp on the radar now.

As to the voting result. The only book that got a distribution that looks off is Carib. A post count of 25 isn't that hard to run up, if books take this as serious free advertising.

[Santo]

Main reason I don't use them is simply that TradeBetX doesn't work with Firefox, and I have no intention to learn the contracts interface.

[vanman]

Glad to see pinny is still number 1 even though US players can`t play there.

[Dark Horse]

Dark Horse, here is something you wrote earlier this year regarding exchanges. I don't understand why you won't support an exchange like Tradesports with some action, especially after the passionate case you made for exchanges, unless you had a problem with someone there. Liquidity has increased since they made their agreements with Pinnacle/Matchbook.

Just what is your version of liquidity anyway? Are you looking to trade every game on the board every night?

They're in my books-on-backburner file. There's really not much there that Matchbook doesn't offer. Tradesports is probably best for balances around 2500. A balance of anything more than four figures is basically just sitting there. In other words, it is much easier to double 2500 than 10K.

TS seems a victim of micromanagement. I don't know what the background of those folks is, but it isn't sports betting. They rarely listen to a word of the many good suggestions thrown out by members. You can only run into a wall so many times. And that split between TS and Intrade was an absolute fiasco in terms of liquidity. (not to mention that they didn't tell anybody at the time that transferring funds to Intrade was fine, but the funds couldn't be transferred back. That was the final drop for me).

[LGBoots]

I wish Matchbook would offer a £ Account option. Like many here I have been burned by the $ lately

[greek]

this 2007 thread?

[bobbywaves]

Please start another top sportsbook poll with no expiration date, since I didn't get to place my vote.

Thanks

[THE HITMAN]

Glad to see pinny is still number 1 even though US players can`t play there.

That's precisely why I can't vote them # 1. I probably would if I could use them, tho.

[BETJD]

Howcome betus.com is not on that list?? Im sure like any other book theres some situations that gets complicated with customers at some point, but what book doesnt have issues with customers? Our job at the sportsbook is to fix that issue, thats only if we are dealing with someone who is not trying to pull a fast one, and we all know theres players that like to cheat sometimes.

I work for betUS and theres over 350,000 active players... they must be doing something good..

[bigboydan]

First off, Welcome to the SBR forum sir.

BetUS has had a checkered past with all sorts of issues that include slow pays and confiscations. My guess thats probably why SBR posters didn't vote for them.

[BETJD]

I just read about that 18 thousand dollar confiscation... Ill look into that.. never really heard about the case. We have so many satisfied players, just find it strange for a book to be degraded to that level because of one persons bad experience who most like already got payed or will get payed soon.

[SBR_John]

JD obviously you work for BetUS which is all fine. But lets not try to pretend here. The brothers that own BetUS have been ripping off players, other bookies and even employees like yourself for many years. They have done better at times recently and we are all glad about that. But lets not forget all the players who have been ripped off since the Little Nasa days.

[bigboydan]

I just read about that 18 thousand dollar confiscation... Ill look into that.. never really heard about the case. We have so many satisfied players, just find it strange for a book to be degraded to that level because of one persons bad experience who most like already got payed or will get payed soon.

That matter was resolved thanks to Mr.Dozer, Mr.Justin7, and TheShrink. Otherwise that player would have never received his funds at all IMO. However, if you really wish to revisit some outstanding complaints levied again your establishment, please feel free to send an Email to: Assistance@SportsbookReview.com and we will be more than happy to go over each and every one of them we have in our archives. Hopefully you can help overturn some of these unfair confiscations we have on file.