Free Sportbooks tips

Let's assume the worst: Your sportsbook stiffs you. What can you do? First of all, don't panic. Many situations that look truly dire at some point end up working out to where you don't get stiffed. Take a deep breath, plan your moves carefully, and be very cautious about doing anything that's irreversible. Here are several things you might be able to do (and remember, some of these foreclose others, so be careful what order you try them in): 1. Contact the book again and try to work it out without any third parties. Often a book will reverse itself if you talk to them about a matter a second, third, or fourth time, especially if you have thus far been dealing with clerks or someone on a fairly low level. Work your way up the chain of command as far as you can. Make sure you're dealing with someone who has the authority to make the decision you're looking for. 2. As far as legal or regulatory pressure, that's going to be largely a function of what country the book is located in. Some jurisdictions, such as Australia, seem to have pretty much regulatory oversight, some have basically none, and many are somewhere in between. You might want to at least look into this. 3. You can also contact the watchdog sites in private and see what they can do or suggest. When I was being slow paid by the Dunes over a year ago, I alerted the principals of Major Wager, The Prescription, and Bettorsworld about the situation. I didn't ask them to intervene, but The Shrink from The Prescription took it upon himself to do so, and I had my money almost immediately. So I know from personal experience that these guys can and do get results. 4. Also "behind the scenes," you can seek help from other "insiders." As a result of my involvement with Major Wager, I've made contact with a handful of people who are past or present sportsbook managers or who know a lot about the internet sports betting business and may have some contacts in the industry. If I was having a problem, I think I'd pick up the phone and call them, just to ask if they knew anything about this book, if their making a phone call on my behalf could be helpful, if they have any advice for how I should deal with this situation, etc. 5. Major Wager has a formal, confidential mediation process for disputes between books and players. (This is separate from the informal intervention that The Major and The Devil themselves have often done.) On the site, you will find a list of books that accept Major Wager mediation. If the book you are having a problem with is on this list, you can have your dispute mediated. These books have obligated themselves to accept the result of the mediation. 6. What perhaps should be the last resort, though many people seem to treat it as the first resort, is to bring your dispute to the forums, to publicly call out the book and demand justice, or at least to warn other people away. 7. I think it can be good also to keep in touch with other customers who are in the same boat. If, for example, a slow pay situation has been publicized in the forums and several people have revealed that they are among those waiting on payments, you might want to make contact with them, and form a sort of virtual support group. That way you can keep up with who is being paid and how much, what tactics seem to be working, who's heard some new rumors, etc., plus there's just the emotional benefit of knowing you're not alone, and of having somebody to bitch to about the injustice of it all.