[I Bin Bookin]

"Every time I try to get out they pull me back in..."

Michael Corleone Godfather III

The term you were looking for is "take back" not "buy back".

"take back" is the other side of the "lay" price.

Example: Yanks -1.60 (LAY)
Mets +1.50 (TAKEBACK)


"buy back" more accurately refers to pointspread sports.

OPENER:-1 (-1,-1.5,-2."ORIGINAL NUMBER"-those 1st and 2nd numbers where "originators" send out their "open orders".)
CLOSER:-3.5 (+3.5,+3 "BUY BACK"- the number necessarily for "middlers" to close out their "middle attempt)

<<Do they give the buy back numbers? NO,>>

This statement implys that books who CLOSE a game at 3.5 in their line histories may or may not have actually had the game 4 but because the "pros" played + 4 the book never posted that available number in their line history...

"buy back" would be the extended final number a "middler" loks for to close his "middle" OR the EXTENDED NUMBER a book posts in his effort to reduce or balance the level of decision he is comfortable with.

REALITY


In regards to Don Best I would ask the more intelligent posters here to consider this:

http://www.majorwager.com/fusetalk/m...=%20DON%20BEST

Thread Title: Regarding The Recent Problems At Don Best From REALITY...

Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:21 PM

A few weeks ago I stopped by the offices of DON BEST to visit with Dana.

During the course of our conversation we got on the subject of the recent DON BEST service problems.

I have to admit if I didn't know Dana and the professionalism of his staff and organization I would be screaming "bullsh*t" when they released the story of getting "hacked by Russians".

They didn't just hack DON BEST they actually attempted to extort them.

The story is true and serious as a heart attack.

Dana has spared no expense in the infrastructure he has put together in an effort to maintain his perch atop the line information industry.

Please spare me the "if he spared no expense why wasn't his security up to the task to prevent this hacking?".

If the U.S.Government's data bases are getting hacked and they have all the resources in the world at their disposal it is not a stretch to realize that a private business could be exposed to this threat no matter how much money they throw at the problem.

If you are still not convinced think about this.

Don Best is as close to a legal monopoly as you will ever see.

To say they have a captive audience would be an understatement.

They have provided the best real time odds in the business for the longest time.

They are a profitable business which is smart enough and has the financial resources to reinvest some of that profit in continually upgrading and refining their service.

This is not a question of Dana saying,"I'm the only game in town,my clients will just have to deal with the problems as they continue to arise".

Dana knows the position DON BEST occupies on top the real time odds line service industry.

He and the staff at DON BEST are not sitting back idley and waiting for this problem to go away on it's own.

Dana is using every resource at his disposal,financial and otherwise to solve this problem and he is making every effort to insure it dosen't happen again in the future.

I'm not here to be an apologist for Dana and his business because he is a friend of mine,I'm just trying to give an insight from the other side of this situation.

If anyone here were fortunate enough to own a profitable business that sat alone atop any industry wouldn't you use every resource at your disposal to correct a situation that was threatening your very livliehood and that leadership position?

Especially given the fact that some aspiring "pretenders to the throne" are smart enough to take advatage of this window of opportunity provided by this unfortunate situation from Don Best's perspective.

IF you were lucky enough to have a business in a situation like DON BEST and would do anything to preserve and protect it,doesen't it stand to reason that Dana who IS in such a position with DON BEST is doing EVERYTHING possible and will do ANYTHING possible to remain the number one provider of real time odds in this industry?

Any argument to the contrary simply does not hold water...

REALITY