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Originally Posted by thaskalos
If horse racing suddenly decided to severely restrict the wager sizes of the game's best players...won't that make the toteboard odds much more lucrative for the game's recreational bettors? Similarly...disallowing the large wagers of the sharpest sports bettors allows the odds-lines on the games to be a lot less accurate, and much easier to beat, than they would otherwise be.
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My thinking was exactly as Thaskalos says above, and the CEO from Pinny and sports bettor and author Jeff Ma say in the article -- why not take the action of the sharps and use it as signal to tweak your line, as many books have always done?
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AH... Now I get your point.
I thought you were saying that a banned player could use it to his advantage. Now I understand.
A decade ago a couple of off-shore bookies that I know of were always on the lookout for consistent, small winners. They'd track those, and bet as they bet but for more money.
Of course, very few players qualified. LOL
As a general rule, most people who play with bookies have to be losing players, otherwise the book loses money on them. Philanthropic they are not.
