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Bettors Now Getting a Better Deal
By bettingfool | March 19, 2008
Gamblers looking to find a bit of the old glory in new Las Vegas may not realize that things have actually gotten better over the years.
In fact, the image of Vegas ‘back in the day’ with its smoke-filled casinos and shrewd bookies is something that many of today’s bettors hope to find when they arrive in town looking for a good line on a game.
“I understand the feelings people have toward those days,” said Art Manteris, vice president of race and sports book operations for Station Casinos at Red Rock Resort. “I was part of it. I was there. But there is a ‘pro’ side to today’s world that is underreported, in my opinion.”
First of all, thanks in large part to better technology, today’s sports books offer more variety and greater value.
“I remember going into those places when I was young,” Manteris said. “I distinctly remember as if it was yesterday walking in at 10 in the morning and there were no lines up on baseball games for that day. I asked when they were going to put the lines up. ‘Whenever the manager gets here.’ ‘Well, when’s that?’ ‘I don’t know.’
Read the rest of the Las Vegas Sun article, “Bettors’ Good Old Days are Now“.
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