Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
China is a good sportsbettor and they've been banning him from a ton of books.
This is kind of bullshit when you think about it, because they are basically only accepting losers or people who barely break even. These giant books shouldn't be doing such a thing. It's more understandable when the neighborhood bookie can't afford to have you keep beating him. Large, regulated books should not be allowed to ban winners. I can understand not taking huge action from known winners, but to ban them or cut them down to almost zero limits, that's a load of crap.
China is trying to circumvent this. I have no problem with that. As Sanlmar said, he's not cheating. He's placing sportsbets legitimately and just getting around the dumb bans they keep putting on him for not being a fish.
Allow me to play devils advocate here Druff which was my point in this whole thing and try not to claim hypocrisy generally but at the same time point out the fact those ok with this are in fact a little hypocritical. IÂ’m going to ask a few questions.
1. As somebody who supports a companyÂ’s right to make decisions on who they do or donÂ’t do business with (say a baker who opposes gay marriage). Should not a business have the right to refuse to do business with somebody they believe is bad for business and their bottom line.
ItÂ’s no different then casinos (outside of NJ obviously who canÂ’t do to regulations) back off card counters legally and refuse action
2. While IÂ’m not suggesting China would do so at all by using other peoples accounts to bet it does somewhat seem a bit unethical and similarly to the card counter who wears a disguise to re enter a casino he was backed off of to continue play. Additionally it creates a massive tax mess as legit online books such as DK, MGM, etc are going to potentially file W2-Gs with incorrect social security numbers and people could end up with tax bills for amounts they shouldnÂ’t owe not to mention China would be essentially committing tax evasion and arguably identity fraud (even with the other parties knowledge and permission) itÂ’s no different then some illegal alien using somebodyÂ’s SSN here to work which we all knows happens.
Just some food for thought was my point and the real life potential issues heÂ’s creating not to mention some people indeed wouldnÂ’t view it any different then somebody having multiple accounts on a poker site to play while not using them at the same time still amounts to a TOS violation at minimum but could still run legally afoul of regulators.
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