AUSSIE SPORTS BOOKS

[EAGLEEYE]

Any info on good sports books in Australia that take American sports? I already use canbet, and I understand centrebet doesn't take customers from America. Please leave web addresses. Thank You.

[PaulieDV]

http://www.read-interactive.com/usa/

[AussieVamp2]

never used them - there are others, but these guys are online and seem to have more US stuff now - www.sportodds.com.au, although no real US focus and 1.90 type odds, so perhaps better value elsewhere, but a lot of other options

[Alex]

Read Interactive. Solid, fair place.

[AussieVamp2]

yeah, and with the new American sports bit, DAS has had some good odds recently

[BigMoney]

I'd second the recommendation to International All-Sports, Mark Read's outfit. Only real drawback here for me is having to bet in Australian dollars and remember to convert for currency. I really don't know why they can't solve this problem.

[BigMoney]

AussieVamp2, I'm curious about this "sportodds.com.au" - I've never heard of them. Should we assume that any sportsbook operating in Australia is solid?

[AussieVamp2]

Solid? Yeah, generally speaking - bookmaking probity is very rigorous plus all the financial guarantees etc, sportodds guy even gets on tv on Friday

you wouldn't have heard of National Sportsbet or Sydney Sportstab either, but they are multi-billion dollar companies

they have a NSW licence and have not heard anything bad about them

[Cons]

Places like TAB Corp. are more solid than any of the Caribbean books OR their governments even. Why? Because a place like TAB is run by the government, either in New Zealand or Australia. These companies are state-run giants, and just like the Tote in England they pay no matter what. Putting their "solidity" aside, their betting options might be an entirely different matter, but from what I hear there are lots of interesting bets to be made at these places.

[This message has been edited by Cons (edited 01-16-2000).]

[Fred]

I would say any sportsbook licensed in Australia is solid. I'm with 7 of them.

AV2, I'm also with sydneyallbets which take phone only wagers on only aussie sports plus premier league soccer. They have an undeveloped site at sydneyallbets.com.au

Some price variation but they bring out their odds for NBL too late compared to other books.

A toll free number would be good too.

They got a $200 bonus though for sign up of $1000

[AussieVamp2]

yeah, there are a few phone only places that will take footy bets etc., being the biggest game in town, pretty much bookies at racetracks that are allowed to do sports phone betting - another one like the one you mention is Bill Hurley - has a website, but just phone betting
www.sportsbook.com.au I think it is

always good to have more footy opportunities

[AussieVamp2]

the thing about places like National Sportsbet, that don't bet on a lot of things and have worse odds due to the tax regime - still might be opportunities - for instance Townsville a couple of weeks ago was -17.5 or -18 at a lot of places, but they had -15

so do you take 1.85 rather than 1.90 and a couple more points?

Similarly for the NBA, don't think they are watching Don Best screens, as they have the 1.85 thing, so could be spreads out a couple of points as well - no idea if they will take Americans these days though

[Fred]

Good question regarding 1.85 + some extra points verses 1.90.

Should be possible to work that out. I'm not sharp but want to get sharper so I'll try working it out sometime.

btw, excellent unofficial NBL site at nbltoday.waus.net/

Official site has good stats for each game too...I guess you knew that.

Is National Sportsbet the victab sports arm?

I was holidaying in QLD recently and noticed their TAB take sport wagers too.

[AussieVamp2]

yeah, that is the best NBL site around

the offical one is ok for boxscores, but they get the scores up fast - am on a nice NBL run too

National Sportsbet is Vic TAB yeah - evils rumors/stories of a SuperTAB type deal going ahead where smaller ones will get in on National Sportsbet, so that would be a bit of a bummer, linewise

QTab privatised recently, yeah, and wants to get in on fixed odds sports betting

[boris]

Hi guys, I'm back.

TabQld and TabTasmania now use National Sportsbet's prices.

Stay tuned for a couple of big new operations opening up within Australia this year, online and with big budgets.