Myrtle Beach Bookies, Pay Per Head Businesses
The Myrtle Beach area is ideal for bookies and the Pay Per Head companies that serve them.
Myrtle Beach, a city of just over 27000 people, also has a certain degree of wealth that makes the region especially enticing for bookies.
Sports bettors will be skewing more favorably towards the Clemson Tigers and Carolina Panthers in most games along with the South Carolina Gamecocks, though the later is not expected to be a very good team in 2016.
Utilizing contracting services is common in many successful industries. In the case of a local bookie, the Pay Per Head provides a prudent means of adding that necessary layer of security, not just to protect from savvy sports bettors, but also by minimizing the potential of becoming victimized by criminal elements. A known area bookie residence will typically mean “cash on hand”, sometimes lots of it.
Clemson Odds to Win Championship | 9-1 |
Clemson OVER/UNDER Season Wins | 10.5 |
Clemson Odds to Win ACC | 4-1 |
South Carolina Odds to Win SEC | 70-1 |
Panthers Odds to Win Super Bowl |
11-1 |
Panthers Odds to Win NFC South | -220 |
Panthers OVER/UNDER Season Wins | 10.5 O -125 |
Despite the wealth that exists here, crime is significant in the Myrtle Beach area proper with one's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 6. More than 100% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Myrtle Beach.In fact, after researching dangerous places to live.
A Pay Per Head runs all aspect of the bookie business with the exception of handling financial transactions. They charge a small weekly fee per customer (per head), often starting around $10. In the long run, bookies and agents alike save money while minimizing the headaches involved in running such a business entirely on their own.
South Carolina has some of the most archaic gambling laws on the books. Even home poker games are illegal in the state. There are no casinos and no horse tracks. With that said, the Penalty for Simple Gambling and Penalty for Aggravated Gambling are both misdemeanors.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com