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Old 09-08-2006, 08:34 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by evman150 View Post
Attracting high rollers. Unlike a poker room where the rake is capped, a sportsbook makes way more money from high bettors.

Since you have to have $1000 around to make the bet, presumably a lot of the people doing this have lots of money to throw around.

Plus they most likely hedge their bets elsewhere to guarentee a smaller loss that is more manageable.

Mansion was also probably hoping that for the people that won would leave some of that extra cash behind in their new account and gamble a bit.

I also wonder how much interest they earned on those deposits.
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