A message appearing on Pinnacle Sports Books website this morning made many online sports bettors cringe. The message appearing shortly after 4am eastern time this morning read like this:
After careful consideration, Pinnacle Sports have chosen to voluntarily exit the U.S. market. Accordingly, wagers will no longer be accepted from clients within the U.S. as of Thursday, January 11, 2007.
Those clients who are affected will be required to withdraw their balances using the Cashier of their account. We assure all our clients your balances are available and Pinnacle will continue providing our international clients our same great value.
Long considered one of the icons of the sports betting landscape bettors are shocked by this development. Further developments will be posted here as they become available including Pinnacle's official statement expected later today.
MC
Yah, Pinny will be missed by me for sure.
I here the owner is worth a few hundred million and spends alot of time in California. Why risk being pinched? I don't blame him.......
Hook