About The Bookie
AskTheBookie is a directory of the people who want your betting money: sportsbooks, pay-per-head services and handicappers. We review them, explain how the business works, and answer the questions players and bookies actually ask.
What you'll find here
The directory is the heart of it. There are reviews of sportsbooks, of online casinos, of pay-per-head services for bookies who run their own players, and of handicappers who sell or give away picks. Around the reviews sit the Gambling Guide, which explains the bets and the books one subject at a time, and Ask The Bookie, where short questions get short answers.
The address itself is old. askthebookie.com was registered in November 1999, and the Internet Archive has the site on record as a sports-betting page from March 2001.
My name is Kyle Parker. I spent my working life taking bets, and I'm out of that business now, so I have no book to protect and no line to sell you. What I know is how a book thinks, and most of what puzzles a player stops being a puzzle once you've seen it from the other side of the counter.
What we don't do
We don't take bets. We don't sell picks. Nothing on this site is a tip to follow, and a review is not a promise about what a company will do next month. It records what we checked and when we checked it.
How the reviews are made
Every review is scored against the factors set out in the review methodology, and each one shows the sources it rests on and the date it was last verified. A rating can't be bought, and the rules behind that are in the editorial independence policy. When we get something wrong, it is fixed in the open, as the corrections process describes.
I'd ask you to read any review the way I would read a betting line: as the best number we have today, open to being wrong. If you bet on the strength of anything here, keep the stake to a figure you can lose without missing it.