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Topic: #1 RATINGS and REVIEWS of SPORTS BOOKS thread. Poster input appreciated. - page 22. (Read 89509 times)

legendary
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Anonibet World Cup contest. 22 BTC

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Anonibet World Cup Contest with 22 BTC up for grabs!

It comes once every four years, which is why we have decided to make it worth remembering. Anonibet brings to you the 2014 World Cup Promotion where exciting 22 BTC is up for grabs.

CONTEST RULES

•   Bets with a minimum stake of 0.1 BTC qualify for the promotion.
•   Promotion will run from the 19th of May 00:00 GMT until 10 minutes before kick off of the opening World Cup match(Brazil vs Croatia).
•   The player who has the MOST WINNING ACCUMULATIVE ODDS at the end will win the Grand Prize of 10 BTC (if a betting slip wins, all the odds are put into your points basket).
•   Second Prize Receives 5 BTC while 3rd place will get 3 BTC
•   There will be a consolation prize for the unlucky loser i.e when your slip misses by 1 game, the remainder of the odds will be put to your losing basket. Biggest loser receives 2 BTC.
•   In order to participate to the promotion, customers should copy and paste their betting slip (with the bet slip number) to the Bitcointalk.org Anonibet.com thread. This will be done so as to show transparency as we are running this promotion FOR the players, we would want the players to observe as well on the forum.
•   Customers can participate with an unlimited amount of betting slips.
•   Anonibet is doing this to thank OUR players for believing in us and for promoting our beloved BTC therefore prizes from the contest will be deposited into the winning player`s Anonibet account, and they can withdraw the prize immediately without placing any bet.
•   Posts made after the expiry of the contest duration will not by any chance be eligible for the contest.
•   In the event of tied points, prizes will be split respectively among the  participants.
•   For the World Cup, our Facebook page will run a World Cup Bitcoin Meme contest where the meme with the most Likes will receive 2 BTC. For more details on this promotion, visit our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anonibet/139078896207240).

•   Because we are doing this for the players, player feedback will be greatly appreciated.
legendary
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Darkbet to be down a couple of days.

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Website is now offline a few days until our temp. Landing page is ready.

Thomas
oXo
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Just writing a small feedback on nitrogensports, They at least deserve some praising:

I have used them for 6 months now, I didn't have any problems with the websites nor grading/slip placing . Grading for 90% of the events occurred within less than 10 minutes of it ending regardless of the time. I get my withdrawals instantly (not playing E-sports), Most comfortable User-interference since Old Bitbook days.

They also have teasers and I doubt anyone else has those on current BTC bookies, Best sport bookie I have used so far.
legendary
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Two new bitcoin sportsbooks have entered the ratings this week. Webetcoins.com and Gobetgo.com both opened the ratings at D+. Webetcoins.com is offering extremely low juice in baseball: 5 cent lines on sides and 10 cent lines on totals.  Gobetgo.com also talks openly about a desire to offer the lowest juice of all bitcoin books, but that isn’t the case yet. A quick look at Friday’s lines for MLB shows Gobetgo.com is using 17 cent lines for sides, and 12 cent lines on totals.

It bears repeating once again: The popularity of bitcoins has led to a number of new businesses using the digital currency, with casinos and sportsbooks near the top of the list. New sportsbooks, dealing either with bitcoins or postup, are likely to fail. It has been estimated less than 10% of all sportsbooks make it at least one year before folding. Anonibet and Nitrogen Sports have passed the time test; one can feel relatively confident they are planning to stay for the long haul. The newer books haven’t had the opportunity to show this endurance, so are riskier to the average player. Caution is advised.

“A” rated books
Anonibet A (2011)

“B”rated books
NitrogenSports B+ (2012)

“C” rated books
Casinobitcoin C+ (2013)
Cloudbet C+ (2013)
SBObitcoin C+ (2013) *
Betcoinsports C (2013)
DirectBet C (2013)
Jetwin C- (2013)
BetOWI C- (2014) *
Bitbm C- (2013)

“D” rated books
Coindraft D+ (2014)
Roadbet D+ (2012)
BetVIP D+ (2014)
Webetcoins D+ (2014)
Gobetgo D+ (2014)
Bitcoinlivebets D- (2013)

“F” rated books
BetCas F
Bitcoinsport F
Coinbet F
Sportbet.im F
StakeBTC

* longer accepting cash deposits

 

Maximum grade based upon time in business:

A – 2 years
B – 1 year
C – 3 months
D – 1 month
F – reserved for books that are slow paying or stiffing pla
http://news.rouletters.com/the-may-15th-bitcoin-sportsbook-ratings-0002199.html
hero member
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Initiated a withdraw for 1357 credits (1.357 BTC) with BetcoinSports at 11:23 PM CST. Will update when payout has been sent.

Edit: Withdraw received approximately 30 minutes after request. Thanks betcoin.
legendary
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Info@Anonibet - [Re: statement in T&C that withdrawing without 1x play through will be charged 5%]

"Dear Gogo ppp,

Thank you for your comment. As I have already explained, we do not want to become a safe box. We have never applied this rule so far. I do not understand why this disturbs you..."




Michael - Since you said you don't understand...


I leave a few coins in various books that I feel comfortable with, in case I find a bet I would like to make in the future and can save time this way.

I would feel comfortable doing this with Anonibet, except I don't want to be charged 5% if I decide to withdraw (a few coins). Part of the positives of bitcoins is they can be moved for a few pennies, not 5%.

So it makes me uncomfortable for that reason. Yours is the only book where I see that charge.
If I leave 4 coins valued at ~$500 usd each it will cost me $100 if you change your mind/someone other than you applies the charge, etc.

You say the charge has never been applied.
But then, as I asked, why not remove the language, and give individual warnings that you will apply the 5% charge in the future to people you feel are using Anonibet as a safe box.

So this is why it disturbs me and why I mentioned it for a 2nd time.



OK I see your point now. You might be right, we shall remove it from our T&C.

We have set this rule in order to prevent large amounts of BTC kept in Anonibet. Bitcoin is very attractive for hackers and we do not want to attract "bad guys" thinking we keep large amounts of BTC. This was the only purpose really. We do not even charge withdraw fees, we pay the network fee at each withdraw so that our customers receive the exact amount they have withdrawn from Anonibet.

Regards,
Michael

The above re: the following in Anonibet's T&C:
"2.02
In order to withdraw funds from your account, you are required to place bets as much as the amount deposited. If you make a withdrawal request without placing bets 5% handling fee shall be deducted from the amount you have requested."


Michael - "OK I see your point now. You might be right, we shall remove it from our T&C."


Peeps Place - "Nice work by both gogo and Anonibet working together. It's good to see a book take our opinions seriously."


Yet I notice it is still there 9 days later. Perhaps you forgot to remove it?



Anonibet - What is happening with the above situation?
Did you decide not to remove the 5% charge for withdrawing without rolling over a deposit one time?

  Posted May 4th


Hi Gogo,

- We will remove this %5 from our T&C. I have requested from our IT team to remove it. They will certainly do it this week.


Huh


legendary
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DirectBet- I think that you should offer both sides of wagers. Many times you just offer one side such as Mia/Brook in game. Brooklyn is +166 but no odds on Mia.
legendary
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Bitcoinsportstrade opened a couple of weeks ago. They don't have lines for full game. It's only for props and they only list one or two props per day such as

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Dirk Nowitzki total points+assists+rebounds starting in 7:10
Dwight Howard total points+rebounds starting in 9:40
legendary
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Gobetgo and Webetcoins open at D+

"A" rated books
Anonibet A (2011)

"B"rated books
NitrogenSports B+ (2012)

"C" rated books
Casinobitcoin C+ (2013)
Cloudbet C+ (2013)
SBObitcoin C+ (2013) *
Betcoinsports C (2013)
DirectBet C (2013)
Jetwin C- (2013)
BetOWI C- (2014) *
Bitbm C- (2013)

"D" rated books
Coindraft D+ (2014)
Roadbet D+ (2012)
BetVIP D+ (2014)
Webetcoins D+ (2014)
Gobetgo D+ (2014)
Bitcoinlivebets D- (2013)

"F" rated books
BetCas F
Bitcoinsport F
Coinbet F
Sportbet.im F
StakeBTC

* longer accepting cash deposits



Maximum grade based upon time in business:

A - 2 years
B - 1 year
C - 3 months
D - 1 month
F - reserved for books that are slow paying or stiffing players
legendary
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New broker opened. Evolvebets is similar to SBOBitcoin.

Books include SBOBet, IBCbet and TBSBET.


Anybody know anything about them?

Offhand I'd prefer SBOBitcoin.com, as they have 24/7 live chat and 24/7 withdrawals, while this place is down for 7.5 hrs/day and their chat currently says "Leave a message" so if they do have live chat it is not 24/7 either.
I never heard of them but it doesn't make any sense to use them unless you like TBSBET and I've never heard of that book either.
legendary
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New broker opened. Evolvebets is similar to SBOBitcoin.

Books include SBOBet, IBCbet and TBSBET.


Anybody know anything about them?

Offhand I'd prefer SBOBitcoin.com, as they have 24/7 live chat and 24/7 withdrawals, while this place is down for 7.5 hrs/day and their chat currently says "Leave a message" so if they do have live chat it is not 24/7 either.
legendary
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DirectBet - The default goes to
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Flexible Odds. Recommended In-Play. Confirm bet at the best available odds by the time the bet transfer is received. Odds might be higher or lower than current quoted odds.

My personal opinion is that the default should be firm odds. Most that play live aren't use to being able to receive worse odds.

Every time I go in to make a new bet it switches to flexible odds. That's blind betting.

I agree with Peeps on this one. Live or not players aren't used to receiving worse odds.

I clear cookies several times per week, and I'm only interested in Fixed Odds bets.
legendary
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DirectBet - The default goes to
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Flexible Odds. Recommended In-Play. Confirm bet at the best available odds by the time the bet transfer is received. Odds might be higher or lower than current quoted odds.

My personal opinion is that the default should be firm odds. Most that play live aren't use to being able to receive worse odds.

Every time I go in to make a new bet it switches to flexible odds. That's blind betting.

When you place a bet, the default betting option is what you selected for the last bet.

If you never placed a bet before, or if cookies are disabled, the default is the "Flexible Odds" option.

The reason for that is because this is now the recommended betting option for all bets and because it is the most used option, even at times when it wasn't the default.

In the past, when you selected the "Firm Odds" option, if by the time we received your bet the odds decreased, we tolerated it up to a certain point and still confirmed your bet at the higher ordered odds.

Now that we are offering the highest possible odds, we can no longer provide that tolerance, therefore, to improve your betting experience and avoid rejections, we recommend the "Flexible Odds" option for all bets.

If you order a bet long before the event start time, when odds rarely fluctuate, and send out your bet immediately, your bet will confirm at the ordered odds virtually every time.

Note that when odds fluctuate, the "Flexible Odds" option does offer you some protection. If by the time we receive your bet transfer we do not have odds or have unreliable odds, your bet will be rejected. We will not confirm your bet at unfairly low odds that do not truly reflect the probability of the bet outcome.
legendary
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DirectBet - The default goes to
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Flexible Odds. Recommended In-Play. Confirm bet at the best available odds by the time the bet transfer is received. Odds might be higher or lower than current quoted odds.

My personal opinion is that the default should be firm odds. Most that play live aren't use to being able to receive worse odds.

Every time I go in to make a new bet it switches to flexible odds. That's blind betting.
legendary
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New broker opened. Evolvebets is similar to SBOBitcoin.

Books include SBOBet, IBCbet and TBSBET.
legendary
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I would suggest you offer competitive odds with  lower  limits, and raise the limits later.


Thanks for your suggestion Gogo.

In response to your feedback we have significantly increased the odds across the board for most of our bets, especially pre-game.

You will now find that for many bets our odds are the greatest among all other Bitcoin Sportbooks.

In order to provide you with greater odds, we had to reduce the maximum amount that can be wagered at once for some bets, but we are still accepting relatively large bets.

Those of you who are interested in placing larger bets may still be able to do so at slightly reduced odds, as explained in more details here :
http://www.directbet.eu/FAQ.cshtml#MaxBet

When comparing our odds, keep in mind that we offer the most rewarding VIP program in the industry, where you can earn up to 10 BTC in bonuses every month, so essentially, when you bet frequently at DirectBet the odds that you are getting are actually higher than the quoted odds.

Thanks again for your feedback, please continue to let us know where we can improve.
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Player states that he's not being paid by Bitbet (unrated). https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-advisory-bitbetcom-598409

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I deposited .10 BTC on bitbet.com, requested a cashout for roughly the same as was deposited, and have not received any kind of payout. Despite multiple status inquiries, I have not received any contact or payout. A transcript of a chat session is copied below. Keep in mind, this is a cashout of .10 BTC - we're not talking a lot. If they can't handle .10 BTC...

Given the delay, the multiple inquires that turned up flat, what reasonable person could read the below, and feel confident they were dealing with an honest company?

Chris: BITBET.COM CHAT REQUEST Hello. I am for the 3rd time requesting status of cashout request for ID BITXXXXXXX. Thanks

You are now speaking with Carolina of Payouts Questions.

Chris: hello.

Carolina: Hi Chris!
Chris: hows your day going?

Carolina: Good Chris! Thanks for asking!
Chris: i requested a cashout a week ago, perhaps longer now. i thought the expected wait was to be around 24 hours. im just concerned. reading a lot of negative stuff, and this being my first cashout attempt, you kind of want that to go smoothly to build up trust.

Carolina: Ok sir let me check
Carolina: Ok Chris
, I passed your information to my supervisor, and she goes to commission for resolving.
Just be ready to have your information, we will be sending a confirmation.
We will give you as soon as possible the payout.

Chris: is there an explanation for the delay?

Chris: and i don't understand why i would not receive any kind of confirmation to my email immediately upon requesting the cashout

Carolina: Yes sir,
we have delays with Bitcoins, but we will prioritize you to have the information as soon as possible

Chris: What am i confirming in the confirmation?

Chris: or are you confirming my cashout?

Carolina: That
has already processed your payout

Chris: i see. so, everyone lately has been experiencing delays due to issues with bitcoins?

Carolina: There are enough in the process
Chris: ok. thanks for your time. i hope to see a successful cashout so that trust is established. as of now, im still worried.

Carolina: Your welcome sir
Carolina: Have a good day!
legendary
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If someone knows how to get a line history on 4/19 match between Olympique Lyon - Paris St. German , France Coupe de la Ligue, can you PM it to me. I use Sports Options and it doesn't have it. I'm looking for what the line was during all of 4/15. Thanks

What is the sport / Team name you are after. It is probably in the webetcoins.com database ; can probably retrieve it for you
PM sent. I was looking for the line at the time that the player placed his bet on this soccer wager. Thank You
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If someone knows how to get a line history on 4/19 match between Olympique Lyon - Paris St. German , France Coupe de la Ligue, can you PM it to me. I use Sports Options and it doesn't have it. I'm looking for what the line was during all of 4/15. Thanks

What is the sport / Team name you are after. It is probably in the webetcoins.com database ; can probably retrieve it for you
legendary
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DirectBet has been making changes and their pre game lines are becoming competitive.

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In response to your feedback we have significantly increased the odds across the board for most of our bets, especially pre-game.
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