I recently deposited a few bitcoin on cloudbet in anticipation of betting on some baseball games. However, I've been blown away at how terrible the lines are. I'm consistently getting lines that are 5 to 25 points worse than what is offered by Bovada and Carbon. Your site says that your lines are "very competitive", but they appear to only be competitive if you are betting on favorites. All of your underdog lines are pretty much unbettable. I've been watching the lines for about ten days and have yet to find a single line worth betting. Is this to be expected going forward? Do your handicappers intentionally place lines that are unfavorable to underdog bettors like myself? If so, I will have to give my business to someone else, but I'd like to be able to use cloudbet if I can.
Last week, I almost found a line that was so ridiculous, that I was only 1 point away from being able to bet the max bet on the favorite at cloudbet and max bet on the underdog at Bovada for a guaranteed profit! That's remarkable. I've never seen lines even close to this disconnected in Vegas. Usually you'll see lines that are 5 to 10 points apart, but I'm finding differences of upwards of 25 points!! That's a lot...
As a sample, here are the lines I found using American Odds at Bovada and Carbon along with their corresponding lines at Cloudbet from yesterday and today...
I'd really prefer to place my bets via bitcoin, but if this is standard practice at CloudBet (and it certainly appears to be, with a Sigma of about +4 over my statistical sampling of your lines...) then I simply can't justify placing any action here...
| Date | Bovada | Carbon | CloudBet | Point Diff |
| 8/7 | 124 | 127 | 122 | -5 |
| 8/7 | 100 | 101 | -107 | -8 |
| 8/7 | 161 | 161 | 150 | -11 |
| 8/8 | 110 | 106 | 102 | -8 |
| 8/8 | 173 | 168 | 164 | -9 |
| 8/8 | 125 | 123 | 114 | -11 |
| 8/8 | 105 | 103 | 102 | -3 |
| 8/8 | 112 | 109 | 108 | -4 |
| 8/7 | 118 | 116 | 108 | -10 |
