With what sportsbook.com has done in the last week, COVERS SHOULD BE ADVERTISING FOR THEM.
I have the utmost respect for this website, and I realize that they need these ads to keep the site open, but this irresponsible on Covers part.
They have confiscated over $180,000 from 31 people for something that wasn't even in the rules! How is that fair? How can you be advertising for these thiefs?!?!?!?
For more info:
https://forums.lasvegasadvisor.com/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=255558
https://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/44100-opinions-recent-sportsbook-com-theft.html
https://www.eog.com/news/full-article.aspx?id=31342
Online Gambling: Sportsbook.com Accused of Stealing From Over 30 Players
October 18, 2007
We try to give each of our advertisers the benefit of the doubt whenever possible. There is no way to defend the blatant THEFT that occurred to some of our posters and fellow gamblers with accounts at Sportsbook.com and their associated properties.
Up until today, Sportsbetting.com, part of the Sportsbook.com family, was one of our advertisers.
Eye On Gambling is dropping them due to the fact that they admitted to stealing money from 31 accounts; the total amount is at the minimum in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
EOG will not and cannot condone this behavior.
Sportsbook.com can't retroactively cancel winning parlays because they finally recognized there is a higher than normal correlation between certain events. They have been accepting these parlays for years. It was their poor internal controls that allowed them. They need to lick their wounds, adjust their software, and move on.
Until Sportsbook.com makes this situation right with the players being STIFFED, EOG refuses doing business with them or any books associated with them.
Furthermore, although just a mere drop in the bucket, EOG intends to PAY OUT the players who were robbed from the pro rated amount of money we have left from their advertising contract with us. Eye On Gambling urges all of its competitors to do the same.
Sportsbook.com should not be given a pass here. They need to know there are consequences for their actions. The gambling community needs to take a unified stance here.
If Sportsbook.com reconsiders its position, EOG reserves the right to do likewise.
-- THE SHRINK (EOG.com)
Its time for Covers to be responsible and drop these ads.