No this is a big misconception in my opinion. It may be the case at bookmakers like SBOBet, Pinnacle etc. who have fewer markets and higher liquidity (but I'm not sure as I never worked for one). I worked as a trader and it was extremely rare to end up with a balanced book like that. We did sometimes move the odds slightly based on liabilities but we never wanted to move them so much as to arb with the wider market.
>Why don't they just use those people to adjust their odds faster for everybody else ? Or do they limit the size you can bet rather than just banning you ?
Some of them ban outright and some restrict your stake. When I worked for a bookmaker we had an account that had made several hundred thousand £s from us and was limited to betting relatively small amounts. He would always bet as soon as our odds would open and then we'd adjust them.
Pinnacle (not sure it's 'Asian', I believe their main offices are in Toronto) takes a lot of action on major markets. For smaller markets such as player props, Pinnacle takes very little. If you were confident in beating major markets, such as EPL or NFL, Pinnacle will very regularly take $50k a click, with rebets possible. However, if you're betting major markets, even the 'softer' books such as DraftKings would probably be willing to take a lot as well.
The soft books usually kick out or limit players if they are beating smaller markets such as player props, team props, derivatives (for example, a 1Q team total, etc). A 'sharp' book such as Circa or Pinnacle might not explicitly limit an individual player, but in general they don't offer as many markets, so it's not an apples to apples comparison.
A good helmet should prevent or at least mitigate any concussion from a beginner type of fall. Do you ride a bike? I would worry much more about clocking my head on a curb even with a helment.
Some bookmakers (Pinnacle, Sbobet, ibcbet etc.) do just that and their odds are controlled by the amount of money being bet on either side of the handicap, but it's a completely different model and most bookmakers don't have the liquidity to do this.
I worked as a trader for a UK based bookmaker and in reality it wasn't like that. You were betting against the house and it was very rare for us to make money on any outcome.
>I had to turn them up so high when outside with normal street noise that they gave me a pretty terrible headache.
You have to be really careful doing that. It's very easy to screw up your ears with bone conduction headphones if you try to drown out background noise by increasing the volume.
