Re: Computer-Robotic Wagering (965 Views)
Posted by:
GChandler (IP Logged)
Date: November 19, 2015 07:16PM
JB,
They do NOT have any direct access to the tote. All CAW players wager through licensed account wagering companies who push those bets to their individual tote provider. Virtually all the major U.S. ADWs have CAW players. So do a number of foreign ones.
As far as tracks identifying who these groups are, most of them have individual TRA codes, different from the ADW's TRA code, so tracks know exactly who they are. Virtually all of them go through background checks that very few players could pass from firms like Kroll. The approval process can take as long as six months to a year at the larger tracks.
Most of what has been written or posted about how they operate is at best half true or in most instances flat-out wrong and I would be in a position to know.
GC
P.S. Long time lurker first-time poster, I love the figure making and handicapping discussions your customers generate. I'm not being sarcastic.