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Did anyone ever notice this about Hollywood Sportsbook?

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Mudcat

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Whenever you place a bet at Hollywood - any bet - it immediately gives you a message about some other betting information.

For example you might confirm your play and in the same screen where you get yout confirmation #, there will also be a message saying something like 81% OF WAGERS ARE ON BOBCATS POINTSPREAD.

It is programmed to do it - I don't know why. I guess they hope you are in a betting frenzy and it will motivate you to place more bets?? Whatever.

But here's the thing: I never really paid attention to what the messages were saying until recently. The last three times I have actually looked at them and every time they are saying that people are betting like crazy on the other side of what I just bet.

Like I confirm my bet on Team A and I immediately get a message saying 79% of bets are on their opponent. So I'm like FUCK YOU! Out of curiosity, I check SBR lines where they show those betting percentages and the number Hollywood is giving doesn't even come close to matching. Hollywood is saying 79% but really the betting is evenly spread (if SBR's numbers are to be trusted and who knows about that?)



None of this really matters. I place my bets and don't really care what anyone else is doing. It's not like I'm going to do something additional because of these (totally inaccurate? manipulative?) auto-messages at Hollywood SB.

Mainly I just wanted to say WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
 
I dont know if they are related to hollywood poker. At hollywood poker i turned 5k into 11k playing chris elliot. mike stanley was there too but i won it from chris. it was the 3 of us. it was weird. they are now illegal in my country.
 
It was probably a coincidence that it kept giving me messages that everyone was against me. I placed a couple bets there today and the alerts were for different bets. Like I bet the UNDER on no/DAL and it is saying 73% of the action is on the Saints to cover the spread.

Since we are apparently exchanging unsolicited bits of information, he is my return message for HSB: "I don't give a shit."