Poor Bookmakers

People who gamble through a bookmaker do demand a showing of honesty and morality. As a gambler one can never change ones mind. A placed bet is a placed bet. The least one can demand of a bookmaker is that they honour their odds. If one plays with sure bets this is a necessity, if one bookmaker out of 3 you bet with cancels the bet you have placed at two more and risk losing the whole investment. I have experienced three bad bookmakers.

Internet1X2.com did not pay out my win. Learned that this was quite usual. I wrote a letter to the Belize Gaming Board, contacted MasterCard who I used to pay with, pressured Internet1X2 every day, contacted Visa and told them that they helped criminals by allowing them to use their payment system. Internet1X2 first stopped answering my mail but finally when I contacted Bill Dozer as well as requesting a search engine to blacklist them, the money arrived and they apologized. I would never dare to use them again.

Betshop.com. My first bet with them was on a sure bet that was nothing out of the ordinary. I then received a mail that they had not accepted my bet because the odds were too high, they had “entered it wrong”. According to the small print they were “going to cancel the bet”. I then requested my money back, but according to the small print this was refused referring to the small print again. One must play one for them.
After this they removed all single bets from the site, one was forced to play combi (3 right nearly impossible). Many months afterwards they allowed certain single bets, I gambled and won 3 times the money. I asked for payment. There was trouble with the papers for three months, asking for authorisation and the like.

Finally they run out of excuses in the fine print and paid but deducted 35 Euro’s as a “charge”.
Never play using companies who don’t stand by their odds and do not respect your ownership of your own money.
I complained to IBAS to see if they were a serious organization. They are probably not, I got my complaint returned with the message that they could only investigate “ingoing bets”. That I had both placed and paid was not enough. IBAS protects bookmakers and my view is that they are a frivolous organisation giving unserious bookmakers business so that the player has someone to complain to without possibility of help.
In principle one has only the good name of the bookmaker to rely on and 99% are good.

Europlay.at returned a bet a day later. When I struck the odds were good, later all bookmakers sank their odds drastically. They cancelled the bet and referred to the fine print. So I used another bookmaker. Europlay.at returned my money when I requested it so at least they were honest. But never play at bookmakers who subsequently cancel bets. Odds change all the time and a good bookmaker always honours placed bets.

Vieerkle accepted a valid bet – which I won – and then cancelled everthing except 100 Euro’s. Because I often won they then reduced by maximum bet to 100 Euro’s. Bookmakers such as Vierklee are many.

Such bookmakers should display a notice “Only losers are welcome”. It is these heartless mean bookmakers, which are the reason for the success of Betting Exchanges. If you gamble at Betting Exchanges you must re-calculate the odds to take account of their commission. Well-known Betting exchanges are betonbet, betbull and redbet.