Unreal, this is my conversation with someone from covers.com, their owner tony

This will be my last post on this topic. The house made a mistake, pay up! It's definitely not stealing. You could make a case for a blackjack dealer paying a losing/tying hand being unfair. But in this instance the house posted a line and that's a CONTRACT. I don't care how big or obvious the mistake was. 

Can't believe several people think it is just ok for a book to take the OPs 8-10k.Take the bad bet money,close his account and ban him from your site.But closing his account and fn stealing his money?It what fn world is that an ok thing to do?

I heard a story (i forget who posted it, and it couldve been with 5dimes, but not 100%)  but someone got a bad F5 on cinci when they played san diego.  Line was -120 and they said it was supposed to -140 and after the wager won the book cancelled the bet saying the line was incorrect, pushing all the cinci F5 money, but HIGHLY doubting they refunded all the san diego F5 money (if the line was wrong on cinci, the line was obviously wrong on san deigo, but it wouldve lost anyway).    I thought that was rough and a massive scam for 20 points. To have them literally cancel and take all pending wagers, along with all the money in your account, not giving you access to it, completely shutting you out, is beyond a massive dirty rotten scam.  Tony does not seem like he is the kind of guy with the power he has, who should be in full control of anybody's money without any accountability.     I havent heard anything so sickening.  As previously said by other posters, get this out to every forum, every bettor with a book at 5dimes.... This is a f*ckin joke. Best of luck  though man getting your money

Alcar,

Just to confirm- (as I don't remember all the details and don't feel like reading all of that again)

Read this

https://sportsbettingsites.org/news/5dimes-confiscates-over-32k-balance-2500/

sad story

 

I took my local for about 7-8k on bad lines for a few months and finally told him (he uses pay perhead service) , he just laughed and did not blink a eye lash, he let me keep every it all.

lol

I love my local, so rich that 8k is pennies for him

I actually believe there's a law called "taking".  It's not the same as stealing, as you did not "steal" the property. I'm pretty sure I heard some case like this with a bank misappropriating funds accidentally and a retail client account of the bank got a massive deposit. The idiot (who without a doubt knew this money didn't belong to him) thought it was free money and went and blew a ton of it in hours.  The bank in a day or 2 noticed what happened and demanded their money back... The bank won in court. 

 Your story  is nuts ,you deserve to get the money taken out of your account .,you 1st new it was a bad line  2nd you frigin told them ,of course shes gonna tell you they wont ,she didn't want to hear you complain after telling on yourself .3rd of all your playing poker on 5 dimes ?? dude get a grip Theres5 games going on live in a mile radius of where you live ,and if you want to play online go somewhere repuatable even WPT where I play is honest  not like the fixed tornys on 5 dimes or Bet U or even where I bet online Wager 123 I would never trust online poker on these sites  are you crazy??? 

U live in NY  why are you dealing with these 5 dime ripoff books that charge you for deposits charge you for withdrawal,, need your credit card bank info ect..I don't get it ... There are plenty of good locals  .Im in my 50s have dealt with 2 guys my whole life. And if my original guy wasn't such a old timer and would get down online it would be 1. All these stories of locals beating people ,usually stem from guys being to young to know whos legit and  go with someone in collage or a friend who knows someone at work ,There not real bookies but someone taking a shot with a few guys  and when they get hit for 10 large they disappear. Time to grow up brother

Screw 5dimes!!!!

Just a note also wanted to add that when I first found that bad line that I reported, this was like 7 years ago (long time ago) and I had never seen or heard of any mistakes like that before. I always trusted the casinos would be 100% accurate with something as important as this, and with as much money that goes down on these games. Why can't they get it right? It simply takes someone to double check before they post it. Maybe they don't have time? lol I just thought when I found the bad line that it was SERIOUS and that they would be very appreciative of me reporting that huge error. (The exact error I found was that BOTH Sides of the same game had UNDERDOG Payout, so if you bet both you were guaranteed profit) that is of course, if 5dimes would honor the bet, and now we KNOW they would never do that, unless they didn't catch it...

Ahhhh Duh....I see now, they wait and ban you once they see YOURE WINNING. They never liked winners. They probably only let you stay up until that point, because they thought, and hoped you would lose all of your money back and then some. 

Wow this is totally messed up...I can't believe anyone would bet with 5 dimes after reading stories like this! What a fkin slimeball this tony is

All the stories I have read so far about this Tony guy going off on people have had a couple things in common.

1. Seems it was all with people betting bad lines. Yes casinos aren't perfect but if you bet a bad line you should know your play will be voided. If you keep looking for bad lines and constantly betting them I'm sure the book will just say F U

2. Some of the people were betting games that had already started. Some international games had been moved up and they didn't get a chance to switch it in the computer. If you place a bet on a game that is in progress well then 1 you are an idiot and 2 dont be a dickk

3. People creating multiple accounts trying to break limits. There is a reason they set likitsm if they find out you created 3 or 4 accounts dont you think they will get pissed?

Anyways that is all

same thing happened to me, i tried to bet a bad line and tony got involved.  now i don't look for bad lines!!

fkked up story bro, tony is a slimeball eesh

sry to hear man. its not right when the bookies make a mistake and then punish their customers for using their site . thanks for sharing despite the tragic loss. hope everything works out

Lol 5dimes is awful, signed up and deposited with them, lost my deposit so I tried to make another deposit but this time they didn't accept my cc (the same one). Spoke to someone on the phone she said it doesn't work with their processor even tho it had a few days before, basically said I was sh.it out of luck, I try logging back in and my account no longer existed.  

its a longshot but if you go to s b r forum I know they have helped others negotiate with sportbooks on disputes like this

SportsFan9698 - your a douchebag dude...."I have a gun and I know where they live.  I let it go".

"tony" - you seem like a scum owner

Yes the guy melo is stupid for telling them about the line and expecting to keep his money but "tony" handled this terribly esp for being the owner... In business the customer is "always right" obviously they always aren't but you do what you can as a owner or employee to ensure a customer feels the transaction or any thing business related wise was handled fairly and both parties walk away feeling justified... which was clearly not done in this situation ...I will be informing any and all people I know of this and will STRONGLY suggest to the betting community to avoid 5dimes....