That's great news. I thought we weren't going to hear from him again. I'll try and get in touch with him.

Webetcoins told me that payments are being processed. Those with significant balances are having their BTC address validated to prevent sending to an unsafe place.

Check in if you've had some recent payouts. Thanks

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Nitrogen has some interesting things for the poker players this week.  They have an extra 10 mbtc hourly free rolls (started yesterday), an extra Crazy Wednesday freeroll (12pm EST), poker trivia throughout the day, all-in/shove competitions, screen cap sharing contests on Twiter/Facebook for free bets, and anyone who achieves Gold status or better during the month of February will receive an additional free bet on our sportsbook.

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Anonibet is catching a lot of heat and may be wrong, in this current case, to be seen, but one of the reasons they were rated so high is that in my dealings with Michael, he has been 100% honest.

One person was overpaid 15 BTC by Anonibet.  When the player posted about it, Michael took full responsibility for the mistake. Michael said that the player wasn't a scammer. After that the player did pay Anonibet back. the player made a bet for 15 BTC and said if it won that he would pay back Anonibet. The bet won.

Anonibet didn't even bring the case to the forum. The player stated that he was overpaid.

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In other news:

SBR has upgraded SBO.ag to C- claiming all outstanding issues have been resolved. Mine hasn't and the person (Matt) who's been handling my case and telling me SBO won't talk to him about my case is now not responding to my emails. I've tried to contact SBO myself again, but to no avail. After a few exchanged messages they closed my support ticked and wouldn't respond any further. I'm gonna try sending an email to a different address at SBR and if I don't get a satisfactory reply in a couple of days I'll be posting on their forum.

Coindrafts have stopped paying me in November, I think. Last I heard from them a couple of weeks ago they were still saying they're recovering from the wallet disaster and outright told me they have no idea when they are going to pay me. Now their site is dead. They owe me 8.2btc.

We have some big announcements! We have expanded our sport section tremendously. We are still a betting exchange - so we don't offer specific odds, instead they are found by the market. However, we partner with some market makers that guarantee to offer very good odds (better than pinnacle) and we have cut the fees for sport bets from 2% to 0.00%.
We do not offer any bonuses - instead we entirely focused on cutting costs and with this setup we are confident that we offer the best odds available.
It is possible to place bets without an account - we only take a 0.5mBTC fee for the transaction. With accounts even this fee is waived.

Check it out here: https://www.fairlay.com/event/category/soccer/

We are happy to get feedback!

@Peeps Place - looks like fairlay is currently under NR AND under D.

Peeps. IMSO they are rated way too high. Most all the other popular bitcoin books, same as fiat currency ones, have comprehensive betting rules by sport. Anonibet has only a very small section in their terms and conditions that cover just the very basics. They offer a bonus that for all intents and purposes is like a 10% cash bonus on all deposits with only a 1X rollover. This bonus has no rules associated with it. The 1X rollover can be done at -20000 odds even. There is nothing else saying what is and what is not allowed. Yet, their only rules is they can adjust balances after the fact retroactively under their own discretion and with no explanation to remove past winnings. Some like their in-play betting platform but other sites use the exact same provider at lower margins (everything is a match just Anonibet has higher juice). Their prematch odds are also not very good. Those can be offset by bonus, but the bonus has major issues in the lack of terms followed by a catchall term.

Michael might be a great guy. Their company could want to operate fair. They however do not at least in print policy conform to the standards of fair gambling that the oldest fiat currency books adhere to, and other bitcoin books use. It might be due to lack of experience, but that would be a concern too. I know they are the oldest for bitcoin, but some of these other books have management with decades in the sports side of the industry. I think even B- for them is too high, but could maybe swallow it. Having them rated higher than Nitrogen, Cloudbet and Casinobitco.in I don't think is wise.

BetCoin should also be no more than C or C+ and on watch imo. By watch I mean it could go either way with further adjustments from there.

Most of the fiat books use the lessor of risk/payout for rollover requirements.

I have been  using Betbtc since they first appeared and all I can say is that the support, payments and  betting platform are absolutely excellent.
Bitcoin sports punters need an exchange in this format badly  and I suggest you give it a try.  The more that do so, the better for everybody,  since everything (odds and volumes) are determined by user vs user.
High liquidity is the only missing key at the moment. It has been growing noticeably over the last couple of weeks but more punters have to get involved.
Let's use it and not lose it guys.

Thanks tony and damakhum....................Please keep the input coming from all.

No good books have gone down but some of the books that were warned about took our money. Bitcoinlivebets was one of them and they were rated high at the other sites. Also warnings were given on StakeBTC and Coinbet.

Here were some warnings:

We have updated the first post of our thread here: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/673475.0
It provides now a nice overview of the current status of fairlay.com