Alot of the information about bookies on here is just plain wrong,very wrong.for those of us old timers who have been wagering for 20 years or longer,before the age of online books, most likely used locals for all their action an many of us still do for certain things.
I played poker with bookie in my neighborhood growing up in baltimore and actually used to work real estate with a guy who ran numbers at the tracks and wrote for a book and I can tell you that alot of this is nonsense being written is by people with very little knowledge about bookies and what they do,or at least a very narrow idea of what a bookie is.
1,first off,the notion that a bookie would be scared to post online because of the feds is so far past the point of being ridiculous it defies imagination.The whole idea the feds are monitoring the supposed big wagering on the rx and some of these clowns is just plain silly.newlywed would be in prison a long time ago for all the millions he has won
2.the idea that bookies don't know what they need until tip-off or kick -off of is ridiculous as well.no bookie is the same.my bookie wouldn't even answer the phone half the time in my 15 years of wagering with him unless it was certain hours.you got in touch with him,he didnt call you and he could have cared less about last minute action.he had a regular job and did this to make extra money.I wish my local would have had his phone on every night before a game ,but the fat ass was too busy eating pizza or screwing his wife probably
how big was big bookie ,i don't know,but there is no written rules to being a bookie or writing for a book.
3.I doubted big bookie at first but I really do believe he was a bookie. Maybe he was just a college kid who took local action or who knows but he had an original idea for posting and was a great poster.its a shame that people are spreading misinformation about locals and claiming he was a fraud.there are no laws on what type of action you take and what being a bookie means in terms of some sort or unwritten laws about when you take wagers
in an age of betting syndicates and the growth of online wagering who knows what type of action locals take anymore but I did enjoy bigbookies posts.very original way of posting and quite successful
cheers