At the very beginning of the summer ESB was kicked out of their premises in Ballinasloe, Ireland.
They tried to re open in Jamaica, from where they operated for a couple of weeks writing hand tickets.
At the end of August they re opened at an unknown location in Ireland. They dropped their original name, EnglishSportsBetting, and tried to revamp their brand under their URL, telebet.
At the beginning their new general manager "Tom" promised ESB's players that he would have taken care of them. However he required them to rollover their balances 5 times and no cashout would have been processed prior to October 3rd 2005.
Needless to say none of the 19 ESB players that I've been in touch with and opted for the rollover ever cashed out.
Once the rollover was completed they began getting the usual runaround ESB had already accustomed them to.
The latest info on these "fine gentlemen", as reported by two players last week, is that "Tom" told both individuals separately that they had to close telebet due to the "smear campaign" put up by north american watchdog sites against them.
The really bad news is that "Tom" told both bettors they would soon re open for business under a brand new, non smeared URL and brand.
We are monitoring what is going on and especially trying to spot which will be these guys' new URL to renew warning players.
FWIW....out of the 46 complained received by ESB's victims between April 2004 and today I know of only 1 very lucky player who managed to get paid. The remaining 45 have given up hope.