"Man, money ain't got no owners--only spenders."--Omar Little, "The Wire"

I couldn't help but be reminded of that when reading the comment.

But back to the main topic. I have been with Bovada nee Bodog for seventeen years. They have never directly wronged me. I am disappointed in the way they handled this. Basically, I believe the fair decision was made in the end, but they could have done this instantly, instead of fostering a situation that gave them quite a bit of bad publicity over the last few weeks.

Taking a sliver of that wave going from degens to books is something though. I don’t give a shart about moral superiority or whatever, but every dollar I have net from gambling and spend on food or whatever else is a dollar that would otherwise have ended up in some giant off shore bank acct

Nonsense, if we weren't making money "from the bookie" then why are they limiting/restricting/banning sharp accounts?

If a bookies job is to mainly make the market, then the practice of banning winning users is an indication of their inability to create efficient ones.

Rather than invest in technology and personnel to improve their product offering, they consciously invest in nefarious practices for the betterment of their bottom line and little else. We all know what these are, or maybe you don't but I've seen behind the curtain and it's a business model built on predatory practices and exclusion.

Honestly it's like saying Robin Hood was only able to steal from the rich because they (the rich) took from the poor in the first place, it's so cyclical and nonsensical.

If you want to be a bookmaker put in the work so that you're able to offer a product that can survive without the need for exploitation. If you can't then **** off you deserve to be hunted into oblivion by sharps and its noble (in the sense of creating market efficiency) to do so.

Fish will find ways to lose money no matter what way bookmakers structured their services, that money is lost whether sharps exist or not. By that acknowledgement there can then be morality in redistributing this wealth.

Ok so maybe we aren't Robin Hood, but rest assured every penny I make from the enemy is better spent, than in the coffers of some book.