PinnacleSports.com

[California]

From time-to-time, most sites survey those who visit it either as guests or members . . . mostly I do not respond to surveys unless I have something that I want to convey.
When I visited the Pinnacle site today (http://www.pinnaclesports.com/) I was offered a survey rating Pinnacle.
I welcomed the chance to enter in the survey over and over again (mostly in the "other" categories and at the end when it asked for comments) the mantra of "LET US CITIZENS BET WITH PINNACLE".
However, a few years ago, Pinnacle stopped allowing US citizens to wager with them . . . but with their tight quotes, they are still a valuable resource to validate other book's quotes.
I encourage you to visit their site now or soon . . . (maybe this is survey time, or maybe I just received a random one), and lobby for US citizens to be allowed to bet with them.
I primarily use Matchbook but Pinnacle offers other opportunities, such as parlays, teasers, etc., that MB does not.

[Todd73NJ]

Not sure they have the option to open to US customers.. being that they are so highly regarded - its probably that they want to keep the US govt off their backs.

Not saying that they wouldnt love more business - but maybe not the type of business/attention they want.

[California]

[quote=Todd73NJ;5797]Not sure they have the option to open to US customers.. being that they are so highly regarded - its probably that they want to keep the US govt off their backs.

So if a book is "highly regarded" it can't service US customers?

Does that make all the other books that service US customers not "highly regarded"? . . . there are some rather large and highly visible books out there that do service US customers, including the very popular leader, Matchbook.

[Todd73NJ]

Not exactly how I meant it - But if you have enough business - why struggle to get the additional business. With all the dep/wd problems from US customers, if I had a Intl customer base and was making a nice profit - Id stay drama free.

Once you start involving US customers - now complains may start arising from the difficulty of moving money, slow pay, etc.

[California]

I guess that I am not aware of how Pinnacle would have any more or any less difficulty of dealing with the problems, that you have correctly noted, than would any other book that presently does business with US customers.

[California]

As I understand it, Pinnacle made the decision to not continue with service to US customers . . . if they were to resume servicing US customers, their reputation and ability to provide services to all should not be diminished.

Indeed, by re-opening Pinnacle to US customers, their bottom line should be enhanced (since fixed costs should not materially increase) thereby allowing them to have greater resources to provide even better services to current customers.