Sportsbook Review joins sportsbetting watchdog

July 9, 2004

Last week we reported on the initiative of leading sportsbook watchdog sites to get together for a cohesive approach to bad business practice in the industry, and plans seemed to pick up speed this week.

SportsbookReview.com has joined the list of attendees and others are likely to follow. The founders of the initiative, Sports 911, TheRx.com, Majorwager.com and TheOffShoreWire.com will be pleased at the latest development. Many industry analysts look at this event as a truce in a bloodless but competitive war that has been carried on between these sites for some years. SBR had it right in stating, "This mostly fragmented group will meet for the first time to explore ways to work together."

All of the attending sites have one common goal in mind: to make the online sports betting industry safer for both players and operators alike.

Sports911 owner Chris Costigan says, "It is recognized that there are scammers in both the operational and player sectors of this industry. This issue will most certainly be discussed as both elements pose a serious danger to everybody involved in online gambling."

There are a few items that will be stressed next month at the first gathering which takes place appropriately in Las Vegas. Among them are better communication and sharing of pertinent information whilst still respecting privacy between a network of participating websites, due diligence when taking on new advertisers, how to better assist in the BetPanAm situation and what remedies may be available to players during times of dispute and slow payment.

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