<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>By mid foots next year, P2P betting will be standard. Hence, no need for Don Best anymore.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I think that is what you HOPE but that doesn't mean it will be so. I, for one, both hope and think you are wrong. How you can be so sure that people are going to jump for this have no idea. Change doesn't come easy, Lou. What looks great to you doesn't always interest others. I think P2P and traditional can coexist. It doesn't have to replace traditional. Two of the problems with P2P is liquidity and properly creating the market (odds and spreads). If everything is P2P then you will have to have 50% on each side. But that is awfully hard to get. There is often one side that just keeps getting the action. I don't believe this market would be efficient enough and when you essentially make the gambler the bookmaker over the internet you open yourself up to the potential for internet connection troubles, confusion and on and on. P2P is out there and most people are not clamoring for it. It sounds to me like you have a stake in this and you are trying to convince everyone that what you hope will be true is going to be true. I'm not buying it. Bookmaking isn't going anywhere. Don't underestimate the importance of what people are used to...and people are used to traditonla bookmaking. P2P isn't nough of an improvement to overturn the existing framework.
