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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