Lol @ anyone letting me lay ten dimes on something and then only cutting me off if I didn't pay. I would free roll them so quick it would make their fucking head spin. Haha. There is nothing wrong with using a south philly book, who cares if it's "the mob", just pay them when you loose like a man should.
Laugh all you want. Fact is that's how the Mastronardo's ran their bookmaking business and they were successful because of it. A lot more successful than any of the mob affiliated bookies. They didn't need to use the threat of violence to get paid, then again, they didn't take bets from bums. They were international with their books extending all the way to Costa Rica.
You wouldn't free roll anything, because until you paid up, you wouldn't be able to place any types of bets with them.
Most mob wire rooms and Internet sites are offshore - Costa Rica, Panama, etc - as well and have been for some time. And the mob also has increasingly cut off dead beat gamblers rather than roughing them up. Neither were unique to the Mastronardos. It may have been a different clientele but there were/are books run by the NY families that dwarfed anything the Mastronardos had. And they weren't completely mob-free. They were laundering money through a Genovese associate in Florida.
The Mastronardo's were unique though, and pretty much all the sources have said so. They were unique for Philly. And there's no mob books dwarfing what the Mastronardo's did. Not in NY, not today at least. Theres not much sources of NY families in 2015, or even during the time when the Mastronardos were active, taking bets of 10 grand. And we aren't talking about the global mob, we're talking about Philadelphia. They weren't cutting guys off, they were beating guys up and threatening them, and they still do it today for loans and bets as low as $500. Like I said, the Mastronardo's were never kicking up to the Philly family, or any other one. Laundering money through an associate of the Genovese still isn't kicking up, it means they were using that associate to clean their illegitimate profits.
Another thing that most sources on the Mastronardos had them being unique for, in regards to Philly, were it's off shore betting accounts and international clientele. So the Mastronardos were unique in many aspects.
