Top 5 MUST HAVE Sportsbooks in your arsenal

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

I have pretty close to "full confidence" that my money is safe with sportsbooks again.

I recently pulled all of my money out of all of my accounts, except Pinnacle.

I will be starting new accounts and get back to line shopping within the next week or so. Wanted to see if anything has changed, and get some input as to what sportsbooks are a MUST in my arsenal.

I'm not funding 10 different accounts. 3 would be ideal. But I'll go as many as 5.

So what is everyone's top 5 sportsbooks?

Not top 5 in terms of the best books. I want 5 books that make a well-rounded line shopping arsenal.

I want:

1. Reliable sportsbooks with no poor history. Lightning fast payouts, etc. (Pinnacle)
2. A good underdog book
3. A good favorite book
4. A good wildcard book, like a good bonus book or with good props or something
5. Good teaser book
etc

No crazy betting exchanges and all sorts of shit that I dont want to learn

Seems like Cascade is a good book.

How about skybook? They still doing free half points?

5 dimes seems good?

Labeeb · Nov 28, 2006

"Learning" the exchanges take about 5 minutes to do. We know you're sharp enough to be able to do it. Assuming you're a traditional sides player, not having one of the exchanges in your arsenal is a BIG mistake.

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

Labeeb said:
"Learning" the exchanges take about 5 minutes to do. We know you're sharp enough to be able to do it. Assuming you're a traditional sides player, not having one of the exchanges in your arsenal is a BIG mistake.

I can live with 5 minutes.

So is matchbook an exchange or are we talking more like betbug? or are they the same thing?

Labeeb · Nov 28, 2006

Matchbook and Mansion are your top two exchanges. Once you go and do it a few times, you'll be just fine. Especially if you're just accepting the offers that are presently available and not making offers of your own. MANY people just accept offers like they were betting at a traditional sportsbook.

You'll be fine. Plenty of us here to guide you through it. Once you learn it, you'll wonder how you made it without them.

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

ok, im gonna do a little research on it, if i have any questions, i'll be sure to post

Labeeb · Nov 28, 2006

To answer your other questions, I'd say (in order of your questions):

1. Pinnacle, which you already have.
2. BoDog or SIA depending on how much you play.
3. Cascade
4. Olympic
5. Don't play teasers, so I don't have much to suggest there.

Good luck and welcome back into the pool. Water is nice and warm.

gynecologist · Nov 28, 2006

Bro Matchbook is a must have!! Better lines than Pinny most of the times..

I think I have the best 5 books right here bro--- (not inclding pinny)

1.Matchbook
2.Cascade (-105)
3.5 Dimes(Teasers)
4.CRIS- (for early lines & reliability)
5.The Greek (for early lines & reliability)

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

Labeeb said:
To answer your other questions, I'd say (in order of your questions):

1. Pinnacle, which you already have.
2. BoDog or SIA depending on how much you play.
3. Cascade
4. Olympic
5. Don't play teasers, so I don't have much to suggest there.

Good luck and welcome back into the pool. Water is nice and warm.

nice and warm?

welcome to my "ool" as you can see there is no "P" in it. :thumbsup:

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

gynecologist said:
Bro Matchbook is a must have!! Better lines than Pinny most of the times..

I think I have the best 5 books right here bro--- (not inclding pinny)

1.Matchbook
2.Cascade (-105)
3.5 Dimes(Teasers)
4.CRIS- (for early lines & reliability)
5.The Greek (for early lines & reliability)

i used to have the greek because they have great college baseball lines

they usually had -20 cent juice on a lot of things though

uke1:

It's looking like:

Pinny
Matchbook
Cascade
5 Dimes
Greek

Pinny and CRIS are practically interchangeable arent they?

(as you can tell i dont know a lot about all of the different sports books)

i used to have

CRIS at one point
Pinny
Greek
Betonsports (was a great underdog book, all of their lines were overinflated for the favorites)
Bodog

gynecologist · Nov 28, 2006

Great selection there

Pinny
Matchbook
Cascade
5 Dimes
Greek

I don't like CRIS to tell you the truth.. Don't know why just don't

Labeeb · Nov 28, 2006

I'm not a huge fan of CRIS, although they will put up college hoops totals earlier than most. -110 juice, free WD on Fridays only (up to $2.5k). Not much in the way of props if that's your thing. Can get down a boatload of money there though without problems. They do put up horse matchups, so I personally like that.

If I had to choose between the two, Pinny hands down. Not even close in my estimation.

goodcall · Nov 28, 2006

Boxslayer said:
Pinny and CRIS are practically interchangeable arent they?

Except that CRIS is twice as expensive

goodcall · Nov 28, 2006

I like how things are going now with my 3 top books being Pinny, Cascade, and Matchbook. I also have some money in numerous other books for scalping, middling, different overnights, bonus whoring, etc but the majority of the BR is in those 3. Once baseball comes around again I'll throw some money in 5Dimes for their overnights and a bit more into BetJamaica.

hope this helps, gl

NICKYTHEFISH · Nov 28, 2006

I feel safe with funds in any of these books in no particular order

wsex/matchbook
cris/diamond
greek/oly
pinny
carib

Currently that is all

Seymour · Nov 28, 2006

Box, I have a question for you - what have your 6k posts been about?

Boxslayer · Nov 28, 2006

Hmmmm

-About 2,500 posts have been picks/writeups/analysis/sports arguments
-About 2,500 posts have been a review of my pick after the games win or lose or discussion/debate/defending of my selections or answers of questions about my selections
-About 1,000 rubber room posts

dont make my way around the offshore forum much, and i dont get involved in many "the future of gambling", "laws of gambling", "which sportsbooks are best" and "general sports betting theory" threads

AlwaysKeen · Nov 28, 2006

pinny
matchbook
cris
cascade
betjamaica...

Labeeb · Nov 28, 2006

I'm trying to figure out who is uglier. Yoda or Willie McGee.

Fishhead · Nov 28, 2006

gynecologist said:
Bro Matchbook is a must have!! Better lines than Pinny most of the times..

I think I have the best 5 books right here bro--- (not inclding pinny)

1.Matchbook
2.Cascade (-105)
3.5 Dimes(Teasers)
4.CRIS- (for early lines & reliability)
5.The Greek (for early lines & reliability)

MATCHBOOK is unquestionably my #1 book at the current time.

EVERY damn poster here at theRX should have an account there.........anyone that doesn't is simply doing this as a "hobby" more or less.

BAGIANT · Nov 28, 2006

For teasers and parlays there's not a better book around than BetPOP a First Fidelity company.

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