Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

WVU

EOG Master
Something I have wondered about for a while. Wouldn't it be a conflict of interest for a sportsbetting forum, who relies on post ups from its members to survive, to employ someone who takes bets from other members? Doesn't that eventually cut into the profits of the site?

I know there are several local or wannabe bookies who are posting here and scooping up clients. It is hard to stop that, but shouldn't it be discouraged? How about actually hiring them as mods. That does not make sense to me.

Someone please make some sense of this
 

TomBrady#1

EOG Dedicated
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

You have a point but all gamblers flock together in one form or the other. There are not that many gamblers around but the ones out there stick together. Buyer beware.
 

Journeyman

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Well not that I should post in this thread but, this was a big beef I had with my old place.

Then we're losing money and meanwhile employees are running a side business off of it which in turn was taking away from the forum 'handle' if you will...not to mention Wilheim goes and hires everyone under the sun and we all had to take the same cut, which was ridiculous.

Can you say 'mismanaged to the hilt'?
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

When advertisers come here and elsewhere to hang a banner, I am pretty sure they are under the assumption that they are not going to be in direct competition with the mods of the forum. Other posters would be hard to stop, but certainly side income from booking bets should not be allowed by forum employees for many different reasons. Problems are bound to occur and the site and even the advertisers eventually takes some of the fallout.
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

many people thought the same thing when a forum hired a known thief, yet took advertising dollars from casino's...things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
 

ballwonder

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Is it a possibility when these individuals are hired that the owner does not know they are locals?
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

many people thought the same thing when a forum hired a known thief, yet took advertising dollars from casino's...things that make you go hmmmmmmm.


Teazeman, are you a local?

:smokesmal
 

Journeyman

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

When advertisers come here and elsewhere to hang a banner, I am pretty sure they are under the assumption that they are not going to be in direct competition with the mods of the forum. Other posters would be hard to stop, but certainly side income from booking bets should not be allowed by forum employees for many different reasons. Problems are bound to occur and the site and even the advertisers eventually takes some of the fallout.

I know exactly what you're saying....it is amazing and I could have taken the same route before all this, but I didn't want to end up forced to live on an island....I don't blame those who have taken that route, nobody said they couldn't...some of the wannabe bookies though, just plain Bad Co.
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

many people thought the same thing when a forum hired a known thief, yet took advertising dollars from casino's...things that make you go hmmmmmmm.


The rx does not take advertising dollars from casinos. Only books that also have casinos. All the casinos on their banners are owned by Marty.
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Something I have wondered about for a while. Wouldn't it be a conflict of interest for a sportsbetting forum, who relies on post ups from its members to survive, to employ someone who takes bets from other members? Doesn't that eventually cut into the profits of the site?

I know there are several local or wannabe bookies who are posting here and scooping up clients. It is hard to stop that, but shouldn't it be discouraged? How about actually hiring them as mods. That does not make sense to me.

Someone please make some sense of this

Where is the conflict of interest? It's the gambler who initiates the bet. Does it matter whom he wins or loses against if he is the one deciding to make the bet in the first place?

Make it with the MGM Grand Hotel.
Make it with the Banana Del Sur Casino of Paraguay.
Make it with Julio down by the schoolyard.
Make it with Shrink's shrink..

You make the call, and if you win, you win; if you lose, you lose.
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Where is the conflict of interest? It's the gambler who initiates the bet. Does it matter whom he wins or loses against if he is the one deciding to make the bet in the first place?

Make it with the MGM Grand Hotel.
Make it with the Banana Del Sur Casino of Paraguay.
Make it with Julio down by the schoolyard.
Make it with Shrink's shrink..

You make the call, and if you win, you win; if you lose, you lose.


If a mod is taking the action of one of its members (or another mod) then the advertisers are not going to get a shot at that money. Pretty simple. Jman could just as easily owe Betjam instead of TT
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

If a mod is taking the action of one of its members (or another mod) then the advertisers are not going to get a shot at that money. Pretty simple. Jman could just as easily owe Betjam instead of TT

You think gamblers bet out of a sense of loyalty to a particular bookie because they feel bad that that bookie isn't going to get a shot at the money?

HELLLLOOOO.
 

IGAMBLER

EOG Addicted
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

I do not think it is possible . Betting disputes would spill over into the forums, and it would get ugly. Bookies get exposed. EOG could be accused of bookmaking by the Feds, with Ken in big trouble.
 

Illini

EOG Senior Member
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Probably due to demand. The stiffs out there have to somehow find a way to bet once they are tapped out.
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Jeff Jones, you are not making sense. Jman is in this mess because another mod took his action
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Probably due to demand. The stiffs out there have to somehow find a way to bet once they are tapped out.


I am not even talking about stiffs. Jman could have gotten down anywhere, but his pal and co-worker took his action. Otherwise those bets might have gone through a sponsoring book
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Jeff Jones, you are not making sense. Jman is in this mess because another mod took his action

no you dumbass.....jman is in this mess because he bet what he could not afford and wasn't honest with the bookie....nobody made jman call the bets in

fucking idiots
 

Illini

EOG Senior Member
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

I am not even talking about stiffs. Jman could have gotten down anywhere, but his pal and co-worker took his action. Otherwise those bets might have gone through a sponsoring book
Jman couldn't have got down 6K in action with $200.
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

The mods are booking? Are you sure?


I am not naming any names, but it isn't tough to figure out. No one will admit it for obvious reasons
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

no you dumbass.....jman is in this mess because he bet what he could not afford and wasn't honest with the bookie....nobody made jman call the bets in

fucking idiots


you missed my point completely.
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Anyone ever consider idea that TT could have been an AGENT and not the book himself, and therefore one of the sponsors could have, in fact, been taking Journeyman's action?

TT would still be on the hook for any stiffjobs in that scenario.
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

you missed my point completely.

No I did not...you're trying to blame someone else for jman's stiffing....fuck dat shit....take responsibility for your own actions

who cares who took his action....if he was betting with a sponsored book he would have prolly used a CC to fund and would have charged back anyway when he couldn't pay those bills

seen it a million times
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Anyone ever consider idea that TT could have been an AGENT and not the book himself, and therefore one of the sponsors could have, in fact, been taking Journeyman's action?

TT would still be on the hook for any stiffjobs in that scenario.


Yes I considered it but I know different. I am not saying he was not an agent, but I am saying he wasn't going through a sponsor
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Yes I considered it but I know different.

it has been posted a ton of times that TT was just the middle man and is on the hook for the debt now and that Jstiff should call the book and make good

goddamn you are dense
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

No I did not...you're trying to blame someone else for jman's stiffing....fuck dat shit....take responsibility for your own actions

who cares who took his action....if he was betting with a sponsored book he would have prolly used a CC to fund and would have charged back anyway when he couldn't pay those bills

seen it a million times

do you book ballrash?
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

it has been posted a ton of times that TT was just the middle man and is on the hook for the debt now and that Jstiff should call the book and make good

goddamn you are dense


I understand all that you are saying, but my point is the sponsor and the site loses out on potential income. It is not like the agents are collecting for the sponsoring books.

I am not blaming anyone for someone else's debt. Jman knows it is his debt. I am only stating that forum owners should not allow employees to act in this manner. It is a lose lose situation for them
 

WVU

EOG Master
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

or more likely you are just one of the many wannabe bookies.
 
Re: Why do sportsbetting forums employ locals?

Although using a local as an out does less to support the offshore book sponsors, I don't see why employing a local should be avoided by a sports betting forum. For starters, locals know bookmaking and they can give thoughts more freely about the subject, how their weeks/months/NFL Sundays go than the offshore bookmakers who don't post messages at all here. I also tend to feel that a local is "one out" of someone - for anyone taking this seriously enough, you need a decent number of outs and that's going to include offshore books. Lots of locals even need accounts at offshore books to lay off their action and such.
 
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