Columbia SC Bookies

Bookies serving the Columbia, South Carolina area are plentiful as this is the state’s largest city.

Sports bettors in this city and the surrounding region are most likely to wager on the South Carolina Gamecocks as well as the hugely successful NFL Panthers. Despite low expectations for the Gamecocks in 2016, bookies will want to take full advantage of a Price Per Head service in order to improve profit potential.

Columbia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.  Columbia is a military town: the armed forces employs 12.77% of the workforce.  Education and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 14.27% and 13.25% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Columbia real estate is some of the most expensive in South Carolina.  The most expensive Columbia, SC neighborhoods that local bookies will want to target are Pontiac, Trenholm Road/Adger Road and Blossom Street.

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Moriarty’s Irish Pub, Baker’s Sports Bar & Grill, Jake’s are just some of the popular sports bars where bookies and bettors go to mingle.

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.

With a crime rate of 65 per one thousand residents, Columbia has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 15. Within South Carolina, more than 89% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Columbia.

In the world of Columbia area bookmaking, the one name that stands out more than any other in recent years is Brett Parker, once among the state’s biggest bookmakers (perhaps the biggest).

Parker, his dad Jack Parker and an associate Douglas E. Taylor were each sentenced to prison for illegal bookmaking in December 2013, just days before Christmas. 

More notably, Brett had already been placed behind bars and was serving a life sentence, not for bookmaking, not for conspiracy and not for the usual charges levied against people of his ilk.

Parker was serving time for the murder of his wife, Tammy Jo, and his business partner, Bryan Capnerhurst.

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.

True use of such services essentially converts a bookie and/or agent into a law-abiding revenue sharing affiliate but with a role reversal whereby it is you who receives the larger cut of the revenue share.

Pay Per Head companies also offer live in-play betting, thousands of proposition bets and a live online casino platform that locals simply cannot offer.  Many of these businesses also offer online poker platforms.

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