[blix177]

I know they don't take U.S. player but why not. I mean the other leaders, matchbook betjamaica, 5dimes, greek, betcris family, all takes U.S.

Another thing I notice is they offer a lot of live betting base on U.S. sports, nfl, nba, mlb... if they don't take us clients who are betting on these sports?

What I want to know is, is there a backdoor program where they let select U.S. base player in?

[Hareeba!]

if they don't take us clients who are betting on these sports?

I know this may come as a bit of a shock to Yanks but there are intelligent life forms on other parts of our planet

[sinkhole]

hehehehe

[digimedia]

What I would like to know is why they do not take Dutch players, I've tried to apply but they reject without explaining why.

[Pareto]

@digimedia

It seems Holland has very strict gambling policies. I remember a few years ago you could not bet on dutch soccer at Betfair. Even though you could bet on every other big or small football league in the world.

And you can see from the below article that there are still issues between the bookmakers and the Dutch government.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...n-1681084.html

"Ladbrokes is also involved in a long-running legal dispute with the Dutch government, which relates to an injunction taken out in 2002 that prevents the bookmaker from accepting sports bets from Dutch citizens on Ladbrokes.com"

Maybe its the same injunction that prevents Pinnacle from taking bets from Dutch citizens.

[noyb]

most books ignore the dutch ban on gambling as it isn't enforced and disputable under european law

pinnacle is different since they are licensed on curacao, which is part of the netherlands antilles. it's a bit more difficult telling the dutch government to F O when you're practically based there (same goes for all other curacao gaming sites btw)

[RickySteve]

Pinnacle owners have deep ties to United States and aren't willing to risk prosecution.

[JoeVig]

if they don't take us clients who are betting on these sports?

I heard their limits have tightened up on some US sports from what they used to be back in the good ol' days.

[swede71]

if they don't take us clients who are betting on these sports?

Asian clients!

Pinnacle have no problem to live without US clients..I have hear that most of the clients at the top rated sportsbooks are from Asia..

But I don't know if it's true

[Stumpage]

Pinnacle is not banned in Canada either, which is a large land mass sharing a common border to the north of the United States Empire. From time to time there have been reported sightings of humans there.

[digimedia]

most books ignore the dutch ban on gambling as it isn't enforced and disputable under european law

pinnacle is different since they are licensed on curacao, which is part of the netherlands antilles. it's a bit more difficult telling the dutch government to F O when you're practically based there (same goes for all other curacao gaming sites btw)

That would explain a lot, I didn't know this. Thanks!

[swede71]

i have a hard time believing that asians are putting 30k on nfl and college football games, and canada may have only 33.8 million people but we have more money than billion asians,

Asia is very big with big money..NBA and MLB is very big in Japan and South Korea and I think there is a lot of big players there.

I think sportbetting is big business in many countries in the asia

[durito]

i have a hard time believing that asians are putting 30k on nfl and college football games, and canada may have only 33.8 million people but we have more money than billion asians,

the type of players putting 30k on an nfl game from the us figured out a way to keep playing a pinnacle