Mr Fezzick, this is my idea of a great LV sportsbook. It should open at 8:00a everyday, just like a bank. It would put up its own numbers never seeing any other numbers from other books(no screen). There would NEVER be a game off the board. They would have added games because they wouldn't let schedule makers and line services dictate to them. They would have so much business that they would need to invent a lottery system with mabey seventy/eighty limit players signing up every morning. After the openers went up, the first flurry of action would see 120 limit bets in the first 20 minutes, also 120 new numbers. Some days the action would be so heavy & fast that 700/800 changes would be made (EVERYONE of them according to action, no screen remember). The supervisors and writers were all sharp and a mistake was a rarity (usually resolved in the players favor, this book would appreciate their players). I would like a sportsbook where the action was so fast that the 'boards' would be rendered useless. A customer would understand and ask and the writer would know what he was talking about. Comps would be wasted because serious players wouldn't want to leave the book in case their #s came up and they would miss them. A book so geared to players that some would actually turn down a comp. There would be NO PROPS. NO PROPS because they get in the road of serious players and supervisors and take away from the mission of a good book. This book would be so popular and bring in so much $$$ that hotel management would actually MOVE SLOT MACHINES TO EXPAND THE SPORTSBOOK. And lets not forget a phone business that had hundreds of customers that on a basketball or football saturday would bet a million or so (lots of it the book would actually need to even some lopsided counter games out). My ideal book, Mr Fezzick, would 86 drunks, sleepers and fleas.
Lastly, but mabey most important, the ideal book wouldn't sweat games because they would understand that both sides of the counter passed the same $20 bill back and forth. The book just held it for 20 days a month. Getting middled or a losing day was part of a bigger picture.....ScottyS
Lastly, but mabey most important, the ideal book wouldn't sweat games because they would understand that both sides of the counter passed the same $20 bill back and forth. The book just held it for 20 days a month. Getting middled or a losing day was part of a bigger picture.....ScottyS
