bettor put it, 'If you try to win, they don't let you play anymore.' Gaming experts say sportsbooks might have closed as many as 50,000 betting accounts in recent years, and just as many punters have had their betting limits restricted to mere pittance.Īs one U.K.
is difficult to determine, but it's believed only a small fraction of the roughly 8.5 million 'punters' (the European term for bettors) are impacted. Won and done? Sportsbooks banning the smart moneyĪlready a hot-button issue in the United Kingdom, a controversial bookmaking practice is starting to spread in the U.S.'s growing legal sports betting market, too.īookmakers from London to Las Vegas are refusing to take bets from a growing number of customers whose only offense might be trying to win. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
