Review 888Sport sportsbook

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To those who play/played there, or researched it & rejected it as an out, what are your thoughts?

Briefly IMO 888Sport offers many different, interesting & sometimes useful betting options on games than Pinnacle Sports. Also on events offered by both 888Sport & Pinnacle, sometimes 888Sport has the better line.

As to the reliability of 888, sources allege it is based in the UK/Gibraltar & is "a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange", as well as being "sponsor [to] a number of professional sports teams across Europe and hav[ing] one of the strongest reputations in the industry". Customer reviews i perused were generally positive.

On the downside, though, from my brief research into this company, two issues stand out from the rest:

(1) A report of a customer who was AFAIK never paid 12K GBP. An internet search will find this report easily.

(2) 888Sport reportedly is quick to reduce betting limits for winners. Which recalls bet365 reducing to 3.65 loonies a pick. How looney is that.

 

[RunMaker]

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Mods will probably 86 this thread if they're not a sponsor.

 

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100% bonus up to $200:


https://www.888sport.com/canadabonus.htm

 

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Mods will probably 86 this thread if they're not a sponsor.

Why is that?

"OFFSHORE FORUM - Online Sportsbetting

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Mentioned in NY TIMES, WSJ, USA TODAY, & DRF. The place to discuss all kinds of sports and gambling related subjects."

What forums & or sites allow reviews & discussion of sportsbooks?

BTW, as i'm considering other outs in addition to Pinnacle & PlayNow, I'd be interested in reading reviews of the sponsored books in comparison to Pinnacle & which of them are available to Canadian punters.

 

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Mods will probably 86 this thread if they're not a sponsor.

888Sport & the Rx-advertised Bookmaker seem to be related. Because at sherwood's site when i click on 888Sport or 888Casino it sends me to the very same Bookmaker site as when clicking on the Bookmaker banner here. Both sites also, BTW, offer the 100% deposit bonus.

 

[skoda]

I feel the on-shore possibilities are getting very close to becoming real and with those options (not sure how close your State is) comes instant deposits and withdrawals which IMO eliminates the off-shore industry at the least their practices if they are to exist. Think its time for a ONSHORE FORUM not in place of OFFSHORE FORUM but adding can benefit everyone soon.

 

[Doug]

888Sport & the Rx-advertised Bookmaker seem to be related. Because at sherwood's site when i click on 888Sport or 888Casino it sends me to the very same Bookmaker site as when clicking on the Bookmaker banner here. Both sites also, BTW, offer the 100% deposit bonus.

They don't take American customers is the reason, so they must be a part of the CRIS empire

Brian Steinburg aka as Sherwood is slightly mistaken about this book . He's advocating betting what he considers to be corrected parlays on baseball, as in taking the -1.5 runs parlayed to the over, sounds good, but the correlation isn't strong enough to make it +EV when you are paying full juice on both lines.

I called him out on this in his comments section. I experimented with this many years ago, it doesn't work unless the spread is upwards of 30% of the total, was a real cash cow in hockey back in the day . I personally put a small book into bankrupcity with these bets, I'd have like 300+small parlays a day using these in 2,4,6,8 team bets.

Many books have software that automatically rejects same game parlays even if anti-correlated like -1.5 to the under.

The very best of it would be college football games where the spread is like 75% or more of the total.

If you ever found a bookie taking that action you would easily destroy them by betting it both ways !

Dog +41.5 and under 52.5 parlayed
Fav-41.5 and over 52.5 parlayed

You will crush, kill, and destroy if any book is naive enough to take such action.

I had a book that would take it, they were stubborn and felt they had an edge over me, eventually they got to the point of begging for a few more days to pay my Neteller before going to the forums, it got to be ridiculous. I'd spend 2+ hours every morning during hockey season making hundreds of parlay bets, I almost never had a losing day, they kept on taking it and paying me !

 

[5teamparlay]

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Mods will probably 86 this thread if they're not a sponsor.

Question was asked from a longtime poster?

i miss the forum/thread of master list of online sportsbook.

I would love to see a thread of books currently open for business.

i believe a place like SBR would rate any open book whether it had a relationship with them or not.

 

[Doug]

I'll give credit where credit is due, everything I know about correlated parlays was learned from long gone poster Sean1, a really intelligent man, he's got a medical degree but never even used it to my knowledge, he'd be like that Jeopardy James dude, I never met him in person, but have talked over the phone with him many times. I doubt he's ever seen posting here again, or on any similar forum. I hope all is well with this fine gentleman, one of the finest men I've ever known !

Brian ( Sherwood) Steinburg is a great guy, I've made a lot of money with his insight, in particular on Longshot futures bets that he's given me over the years privately. I very much enjoyed talking with him, never met him in person, he was gracious enough to invite me and my then wife to stay at his home in Toronto if ever in his town

However he is just going to be treading water parlaying MLB.

There is virtually no correlation with NBA, very rarely a little bit in NFL

Soccer would be incredibly correlated !

 

[Doug]

Question was asked from a longtime poster?

i miss the forum/thread of master list of online sportsbook.

I would love to see a thread of books currently open for business.

i believe a place like SBR would rate any open book whether it had a relationship with them or not.

Good morning, Bumper !

I hope all is well with you down in the Southland !

 

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They don't take American customers is the reason, so they must be a part of the CRIS empire

The reason?..."the reason" for what?

Who "don't take American customers"? Bookmaker? 888Sport? Both?

Why would me (a Canadian resident) clicking on a 888Sport link take me to a Bookmaker site? Are they somehow related or in business together?

If so, why deposit & play with either one if they (1) reduce limits to $3.65 a bet and/or (2) might not pay you if you win big (cf post #1 this thread)?

 

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Brian Steinburg aka as Sherwood is slightly mistaken about this book . He's advocating betting what he considers to be corrected parlays on baseball, as in taking the -1.5 runs parlayed to the over, sounds good, but the correlation isn't strong enough to make it +EV when you are paying full juice on both lines.

He doesn't seem to be advocating blindly betting "what he considers to be corrected parlays on baseball, as in taking the -1.5 runs parlayed to the over". Rather he is picking & choosing certain games where a side (+/- 1.5, 2.5 runs etc) is parlayed with a total (over or under) which he considers, based on the odds, to be value plays. Whether or not it is a value play depends entirely on the odds being offered.

Yet he gives no explanation, or mathematical evidence or proof, as to why he thinks the particular plays he posts "pay way more than it should", i.e. are value or +EV plays. It should be easy enough to find out. Just put the odds for the side & the total into a parlay calculator & see if the resultant calculation is greater or less than the odds that the book is offering. I'd guess that the books are not giving away free money in offering these so-called correlated parlays. Even if most books refuse these same game type of MLB parlays, that doesn't mean there is value in them.

He claims these "wagers are only available at 888SPORT", though i'm aware of at least one other book that offers them, namely PlayNow.