offices [QUOTE=mrbowling300;11168]I was curious if the places off shore are just in office buildings that operate on the Internet, or do these places also house vegas-like betting parlors where you can go in, sit down, make bets at a window and watch games on large screen tv's?[/QUOTE]
When I was doing some work down there I saw both large operations and small operations, but never saw a sportsbook/casino combo. Not that they didn't exist, I just didn't see it. I know of at least one former larger operation now run out of a private home with three or four people and I have had the same person answer the phone almost every time I have been restricted to phoning in bets at another book. I would assume that every day the percentage of bets processed online vs. on the phone gets higher and higher and thus fewer people are needed.
BetOnSports (which had a few floors of a huge office building and hundreds of employees and phone/computer stations) was building a lounge environment that included some table games but it was more designed for entertaining big customers and not intended to be a public facility. Don't know how that facility ended up before they went under.
There are casinos down there and I was in one once that I was told also doubled as a house of prostitution, which I think was legal down there. It was a decent sized casino. Several hotels in San Jose had casinos, all pretty small, with maybe 2 or 3 21 tables, a single roulette wheel, a single craps table, etc.
