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C-BASS asked in Games & RecreationGambling · 1 decade ago

Which online gambling site do you prefer?

I'm looking to bet primarily on sports. My main concern is trusting the website with payouts. When I win a bet, will they pay me quickly and fairly? Which website(s) is/are the best?

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  • Niki S
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    If you look for a website that is basef mainly for sportsbetting check this link for more info

    http://nadalbg.proboards61.com/index.cgi?board=and...

    It is basically the best sportsbetting site, because you play against other people, that means if you win you dont take the money of the site. So they will never have any limits for you and the payouts are fast.The odds are better than bookmakers, because of the people factor. I play there from 1 year.

  • 1 decade ago

    Online Casinos can't adjust the odds on sports betting. If a team wins, they win. Go with a site that is reputable and has good customer service. Try http://www.casinounreal.com/sportsbook/

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have bet with sportsbook.com. They had some issues with payouts a while back but seem to have their stuff together now. Offer lines on all sports as well as an online casino and poker room. You can deposit using US credit card and you get paid via check

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Excellent question!

    The payment issues you so astutely raise are the result of U.S. prohibitions against remote gambling (see Sermons and Soda Water http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=76... prohibitions America is prepared to fight to keep no matter how much it costs - and it's gonna' cost plenty because eight countries have now filed notice of intention to seek money damages from the U.S. for breaching GATS. See America's OUCH! case at http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=93... Europe (representing 27 countries) is already in negotiations with the U.S. Trade Representative (U.S.T.R), apparently, for ga-zillions.

    Basically, the U.S. has determined to change the very hard-won WTO agreement (that would be GATS) requiring it to allow remote gambling Web sites access to the super-sized American market. The U.S. instead wants to remove gambling from GATS. The WTO rules say that changing such a fundamental agmt so screws things up for other signatories that each is entitled to claim money damages - and we're talking USD $BILLIONS! - for the breach EVEN IF those countries have little or no domestic gambling industry to protect.

    Gamblers in the U.S. need to worry about this because remote sites that are still accepting bets from U.S. residents are at risk of prosecution, which means frozen accounts and late or no payout. See Neteller prosecution http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=78... BetonSports prosecution http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=69... PartyGaming in talks with DoJ to discuss PAST U.S. bets, which DoJ claims were illegal http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=92 and the Discovery/Paradise Poker settlement agreement http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=28 to name just a few.

    Gamblers OUTSIDE the U.S. need to worry about this because, again, if remote sites are still accepting bets from U.S. residents, there is the same risk of prosecution. If so, ALL accounts will likely be frozen - not just those of U.S. bettors.

    PartyGaming avoids the U.S. market today, making it probably the "safest" site at which to make a wager.

    Sites that currently accept U.S. players, on the other hand, appear to include PokerStars, FullTiltPoker and Bodog.

    We should say here, too, that the just because DoJ TO DATE has only gone after online sports betting, it doesn't mean poker sites aren't on the roster. And if the U.S. was to go after a poker site, PokerStars and FullTiltPoker are the likeliest candidates by virtue of being the largest.

    It's hard to tell whether Bodog with its combined sports betting, poker and casino business might even be first. The company's recent move to Antigua, the nation ultimately responsible for these super-sized exit-GATS U.S. payouts, probably doesn't put Bodog too high on DOJ's 'DON'T TOUCH' list. The move might be seen as sleeping with the enemy, thereby raising a red flag.

    Bottom line: If you're in the U.S., don't place a bet online PERIOD. Spend some energy instead on one of the campaigns listed helpfully at http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/viewtopic.php?t=60 to (a) pressure the U.S. to comply with its original GATS obligations, (b) accept that Americans are mature enough to make their own decisions about Internet gambling (which is ultimately safer and greener from an ecological viewpoint) and (c) start regulating and taxing such a profitable industry, maybe using the proceeds to create programs like - um, I don't know - national health care (wayyyy cheaper for everyone), decent public education (America's future), weather disaster relief.... ad infinitum.

    If you're OUTSIDE the U.S., place bets only at sites that don't take bets from U.S. gamblers.

    Source(s): http://www.pokerpulse.com/ - tracking Internet poker, gambling law http://www.pokerpulse.com/legal/index.php and gambling in the arts worldwide http://pokerpulse.com/news/viewforum.php?f=12.
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  • 1 decade ago

    I have very good experience with Bodog.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Gambling is for losers. the only winner is the house.

    want to really Gamble take up sky diveing

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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