[Bill Dozer]

It looks like the rumor was indeed true. They will be pulling out of the US as soon as tonight.
With this change, MB will announce the separation with WSEX in principal. As they cashout the majority of their clients, it will be telling.

[Richkas]

Good.

[Mr KLC]

What's their reasoning behind this?

[oiler]

another one bites the dust

[relaaxx]

son of a bitch

[d2bets]

Please tell me it's April 1st.

[cloudagh]

How are they going to survive without their US players? Weren't they a majority of the customers?

[rm18]

Balance$-674.06
Free Funds$-674.06
Com Credits$0.00

**** them

[mr. leisure]

That sucks with baseball coming up

[CarpeDime]

ha WOW

Jeez

well I think this is officially the deciding factor.....Bill Frist, Bob Goodlatte, John Kyl....the Republicans won

it's over, the Republicans won

amazing

[Bill Dozer]

What's their reasoning behind this?

We'll have to wait for their statement. They'll likely work hard at low juice option in Canada and we'll have to see what ins they have for UK and Asian betting. They have some software work to do before they get much back there.

[yisman]

It was only a matter of time. I was sick of hearing from FISHHEAD about how great Matchbook was, when I never felt confident they'd stay in the American market.

[Statman]

It looks like the rumor was indeed true. They will be pulling out of the US as soon as tonight.
With this change, MB will announce the separation with WSEX in principal. As they cashout the majority of their clients, it will be telling.

Bill,

Just to confirm, does this mean they are no longer accepting US players but will still be serving existing accounts elsewhere throughout the world including Canada? Alternatively, could this mean they are closing the doors permanently and no longer serving customers?

[Pareto]

wow....this is really bad news. I am not from the US, but i doubt this will do wonders for the liquidity on US sports.

[Bill Dozer]

Bill,

Just to confirm, does this mean they are no longer accepting US players but will still be serving existing accounts elsewhere throughout the world including Canada? Alternatively, could this mean they are closing the doors permanently and no longer serving customers?

They state they fully intend to build on non-US market but up until just recently they said they had no intention to leave the US.

The most important thing at the moment is their first act independent of WSEX... to pay out most of their user base.

[trumpdown]

So WSEX can now get caught up.

[Pegasus]

Head to head with Betfair?
They can't survive without US players, that is/was their captive market.

Betfair is not good at US sports and Matchbook is not good at soccer. They are in different markets.

[bubba]

im asking them on livechat and they tell me this is not true. if it was this imminent, wouldnt the employees know?

[Mr KLC]

im asking them on livechat and they tell me this is not true. if it was this imminent, wouldnt the employees know?

They might have been told not to answer anything until a statement is released.

[KGambler]

If true, this is devastating.

[ChileCheese]

Is there any reason to be concerned about payouts?

[bubba]

Trinity: Hello. Thank you for contacting us at Matchbook.

Trinity: How may I help you?

: is matchbook not accepting us clients anymore?

Trinity: yes we are

: is there any intention of leaving the us market?

Trinity: no sir

: are you sure? i am reading otherwise

Trinity: yes sir i am we are not leaving

[JoeVig]

The liquidity in US sports will immediately go to nil. Just freaking amazing.

[wtf]

I assume they will not operate in usa same reason betfair does not

extrapolate whatever you want from that

[B1GER1C828]

with baseball right around the corner. ouch