Read Stephen Nover's lead story on the home page and see if you agree that posting props -such as the guilt or innocence of Kobe Bryant -is hurting the offshore sports book industry. www.theprescription.com
The sportsbooks should stick to the core business of SPORTS! The crazy props about weird events like which player will score first used to be restricted to highly analyzed games like Superbowl. Now, you can find these bone-headed props evey week.
Betting on the outcome of trials is fairly low-brow. If it was your family member that was raped/killed/etc, would you want some sleazy sportsbook trying to make money taking action on like it was some game?
However, I hope that the owners of sportsbooks that post Kobe Bryant and similar trials wind up on trial themselves, so they can see how they like it. (Though most of the scum I've met would try to bet on the outcomes of their own trials to cover the legal costs.)
Betting on the outcome of trials is fairly low-brow. If it was your family member that was raped/killed/etc, would you want some sleazy sportsbook trying to make money taking action on like it was some game?
However, I hope that the owners of sportsbooks that post Kobe Bryant and similar trials wind up on trial themselves, so they can see how they like it. (Though most of the scum I've met would try to bet on the outcomes of their own trials to cover the legal costs.)
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True, it does drag in players that liek to bet on crap. However, a sharp player with the right inside information (and outside the normal network of sports handicapping) can really kill a book. WWTS was lucky the idiots betting got greedy (and stupid getting so much action down from the same region). If the insiders spread their bets one to a shop, no one would have detected a pattern.
True, it does drag in players that liek to bet on crap. However, a sharp player with the right inside information (and outside the normal network of sports handicapping) can really kill a book. WWTS was lucky the idiots betting got greedy (and stupid getting so much action down from the same region). If the insiders spread their bets one to a shop, no one would have detected a pattern.
