Looselines? Their name should be Expensivepayouts.

Looselines is a sportsbook from the JAZZSports family – not to be mixed up with the unreliable Jazette Sportsbook family – and they are a book for the old school bettors.

They are a secure sportsbook and they do offer some big limits on their bets, but you can tell they are old-fashioned because of their out-of-date payout fees and their limited variety outside of the main sports.

Aside from credit cards, Looselines charges a pretty penny to withdraw your funds and in an era where many sportsbooks are offering at least one free payout per month, Looselines is behind the times.

1. Who Bets Here

Looselines has a mixed customer base between the wise guys and the public players. The public play there because it’s fairly easy to get their money in, the bonuses attract them and the reputation is decent.

The sharps bet at Looselines because their sportsbook offers very high limits – particularly for NFL sides.

Depositing
Moneygram (fees covered on deposits of $300 or more)
Western Union (fees covered on deposits of $300 or more)
Credit Cards
Bank Wire (fees are covered)

Withdrawing
Moneygram
Western Union
Credit Cards
Bank Wire
Money Order ($80)

Normally, we just list the deposit and withdrawal methods without much comment since it is fairly straightforward information, but it is worth noting that unless you are using credit cards to deposit and withdraw, there are no free methods to pull your money out of the account. In fact, they are fairly expensive. We all know that Western Union and Money Gram is not cheap, and we were quoted $80 for a FedExed Money Order, which is outrageous.

On the flipside, at least you’ll get your money fast – even though there will be less of it overall.

2. Customer Service

Looselines has fairly decent customer service but you might notice a few quirks in their system. Sometimes you call them up and they answer with just a “hello”, as if you called the wrong number (they should have a formal greeting since they are in fact a business). Also, sometimes you have to be transferred – or automatically connect without request – to the JAZZSports phone lines, which isn’t a big deal but it’s not ideal from a professional sportsbook. Surprisingly, they aren’t open 24/7/365 like most other places. Late night their phones might go unanswered and their live chat may be offline.

Aside from that, their customer is on-point for the most part. They can be contacted regularly over the phone, live chat or e-mail.

Methods of Contact
Phone
E-mail
Live chat

3. Placing A Bet

Methods of Betting
Internet
Phone

4. Variety

To be frank, Looselines doesn’t have the variety you would expect from most sportsbooks.

As per usual, you’ll find your football, basketball, baseball and hockey but their soccer is thinner than most books and their fighting odds (both UFC and boxing) are lacking. It is entirely possible that they open those lines closer to the main events, though. Even tennis isn’t readily offered, which is a surprise.

To most people, it’s not a big deal. We all know that the bulk of the betting is done on the major American sports but really, the menu is fairly short here.

Limits
NFL: $10,000
NBA: $5000
MLB: $5000
NHL: $3000

5. VIP Program/Loyalty Program

Looselines offers no VIP or loyalty program at this time.

6. Bonus & Rebate Program

Looselines has a couple of different bonus programs, which gives the customer some variety.

On an initial deposit, you can either take a 40% free-play bonus or 20% cash bonus on your initial deposit. Either way you go you still have to roll the money over five times.

For your re-ups, which hopefully you’ll never have to do since you’re a winning bettor, is 15%.

On the whole, this is slightly above the industry standard but it doesn’t blow your socks off.

7. Website & Usability

Looselines has a decent website. Again, it’s nothing that would make you link to it from your Facebook page but it’s not as ancient as some of the other prehistoric sportsbooks on the internet.

Their first cool (and potentially unsecure feature) is that after you register for the sportsbook, it immediately fills out the login and password for you in the form before you have ever done that before (before you’ve had a chance to allow the browser to remember the password). That’s a nice, convenient feature but it does make us wonder a little bit about whether or not that is a security risk at all.

Once you are in, you’ll notice the good ‘ol checkbox system that seemingly hundreds of sportsbooks use. The good news is that theirs is dressed up nicely. Note to other sportsbooks who use the checkbox system: simple graphics and a simple layout can indeed cover up the ugly betting engine.

As we digress back to the review, the checkbox system really makes it simple to bet. Check off the sport, check off the line, enter the amount and submit. Clearly, the checkbox system is old school, which fits into a lot of other characteristics with this book, but it is a system that is tried, tested and true. Their old school fan base isn’t hoping for that new Ajax/Java/Flash website update any time soon and if it happens, they might revolt if it is not as dumb easy as this betting engine.

Aside from those points, it’s worth mentioning that the layout is very clean. It’s easy to find what you’re looking for.

8. Reputation

This is a sportsbook of industry veterans. They have a large old school based and they live off of it, for the most part. Hence why their policies for payouts are out of date and why their lines don’t offer much variety outside of the major sports (their bettors probably don’t consume those lines as much).

Their reputation among older bettors is a good one but it lacks appeal to new bettors, which is why they don’t share the same opinion.