[katstale]

Can't wait for the VIP program. Any type of loyalty program there will offset my fees and improve my bottomline.

[jackkkk2009]

Glad to hear their news about the new program. Unfortunately, that's nothing concern about US players since they already pulled out the US market.

[boxcutter]

New site looks fab, very clean and still just a few clicks into the markets.

[michael777]

no usa makes you irrelevant

[bigboydan]

Thanks for informing us all about your establishments latest offering sir. I will definitely check it out.

[lukahh]

so how is liquidity on eu football recently? decent for major leagues?

[boxcutter]

Romanello at 5/1 to cash

[Monte]

no usa makes you irrelevant

No, the currency problem made them irrelevant.
As soon as this is fixed they will be a factor again, and it's good to hear you work on it.
Even thou we have to ask why it took so long, but whatever let's get this online.

[5mike5]

no USA market=lame goose

[skrtelfan]

Just checked the Texas/Detroit line out of curiosity, unless you're betting tiny amounts you can't do any better on Matchbook than you can get at Pinnacle.

[stig99]

no live in game trading markets on nfl ncaaf or baseball playoffs makes them utterly useless

[Justin7]

Oh yeah, and of course we are less then half their commission with NO PREMIUM CHARGE/TAX!

Complaints against Matchbook for stealing player balances under a variety of guises: 0.
Complaints against Betfair for stealing player balances under a variety of guises: too numerous to count.

[Hareeba!]

Yes Mike, I discovered the new look on logging in this morning.

But yet to discover any advantages over what it was delivering yesterday. What am I missing?

In fact I've just discovered a negative ... it won't hold my choice of odds format.

Seems you guys are putting too much effort into cosmetics rather than tangible benefits for players.

Taking FAR too long to introduce additional currencies.

And removal of the commission charge on every trade instead of net market result would improve liquidity immensely but it seems that's not even on the horizon?

[avndly99]

This is coming. We are making sure we have third party market seeders ready to go before we start. We want to offer the best product.

Why not offer them anyway? It only costs you money 'not' to put up a live market... and it is costing me money as well.

@ Hareeba

[BAUS]

-Holding the odds format is important.

-The clock seems to be 60-90 seconds off from current EST.

-I like that NHL markets have been busy.

-Having ALL NCAA football halftimes available (instead of just a handful) would be great.

-NFL has been very good this season.

I'll probably think of more things.

BAUS

[BAUS]

Great format. Sadly no liquidity. You can put up an offer at a price better than Pinny on a SUnday morning for the nFL and watch it not be matched for 2 hours.

How much better? If it's 1 cent better, then it isn't actually better when factoring in commission.

BAUS

[BAUS]

no usa makes you irrelevant

Not to the rest of the betting world!

BAUS

[greatski]

Some good thoughts here Mike.

More half time markets the better!

Also, it might increase liquidity if instead of reacting to line changes, you put up and array of lines.

So if the 49ers/Lions game opens the week at +4/-4, make 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0 available place and accept offers. (same for totals)

[Hareeba!]

Another problem with today's 'new look':

Once logged in the balance panel covers up the log out button (and half the Deposit button) so there is no effective way to log out!

(I use Firefox)

[KEdge2k]

Please come back to the US market. Please.

[Hareeba!]

Please come back to the US market. Please.

That would be entirely up to the US Government doing a complete about face.

[Hareeba!]

And Mike, can we please get an increase above the paltry $2500 limit on Moneybookers withdrawals?

[QQPALLADIUM]

Just checked the Texas/Detroit line out of curiosity, unless you're betting tiny amounts you can't do any better on Matchbook than you can get at Pinnacle.

wonder why they didn't post volumes like bf does

slow payed when they took over...

and still no mm'ers 6 months later...

pinny still #1

[bookie]

I've put up money lines that were 10-20 cents better than anywhere else and they've sat for hours.

Did you mean moneylines when you said they're NFL was dead? Moneylines aren't deep markets, and obviously you didn't put up scalpable numbers--so I'm not as alarmed as I was by your last post.

[Hareeba!]

They never cared about any of our feedback when they were open to US gamblers - now they care???

new ownership and management

[Quarius]

Would be nice if they went back into U.S.

[Santo]

Beating a dead horse I know, but your commission structure is *not* better than Betfair for traders, only straight bettors, which seems to defeat the purpose of an exchange.