Circa Sports director Jeffrey Benson accused of unfairly banning sharp bettor, Benson accuses player of past posting

[Dan Druff]

An interesting argument broke out on Twitter, regarding the vaunted Circa Sportsbook.

Circa, the classiest and newest downtown Vegas property, runs a customer-friendly sportsbook. They claim to welcome sharp action (though they do limit sharps regarding max amount bet), and they swear they won't ban anyone for simply being good.

Jeffrey Benson, the young director of the book, is very social media savvy, and is well liked in the industry.

On April 28, a supposedly sharp bettor who posts as "Pointsux" on Twitter, alleged that Benson banned him from Circa Sports:

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Interestingly, he quotes his own November 2023 tweet from when he was limited to no longer betting second halves, at which point Benson accused him of past posting (placing bets when already knowing the result):

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Benson posted a response stating that he was tired of Pointsux "taking shots" at them, and finally had to ban the guy. Pointsux then posted a weird response modifying Benson's statement:

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https://twitter.com/#!/x/status/1784757562363232377

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https://twitter.com/#!/x/status/1784780879501594927

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https://twitter.com/#!/x/status/1784781626003911024

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https://twitter.com/#!/x/status/1784783319240216620


Pointsux does not seem to be denying that he past posts, making it highly likely that Benson is correct. It's also unlikely that Benson would state this publicly if Pointsux wasn't really doing it.


I had always wondered about past posting vulnerabilities in live betting. I even mentioned it to my son when we went to a Dodgers game a few weeks ago. I said to him, "You know that home run we just saw, if I was sitting on my phone on a betting site, I could have bet on the game right when the ball hit the bat, and gotten the odds like the home run hadn't happened yet. That would be a big advantage. I wouldn't do it because it's cheating, but I bet this would work. There has to be some delay to this."

Looks like I was right.

[kewlJ]

Even calling this "past posting" seems a stretch to me. When I hear "past posting", I think of a player making or adding to a bet in say roulette, after the time that bets are allowed to be made. Often times this involves an associate creating a distraction. This is illegal. You can be arrested and prosecuted for this activity.

What is described here is not anything that even approaches being illegal. I would call it a player using all available information, even up to the second information to make his bet. If the sportsbooks, electronic or B&M, can't keep up to moment, they should not offer the up to the second "live betting". Maybe their live betting should be limited to between innings (in baseball), or during timeouts in other sports.

Frankly the vig in live betting is so ridiculously high, I assumed that was part of the protection of this type of thing for the sportsbook.

[MDawg]

This dude is a fraud. He just tries to piece together things that he imagines goes on based on a culmination of bits and pieces of stories he pulls from the Internet. Clown world.