An Asian Handicap is a sports betting term used to describe spread betting in football (soccer). Described as Asian because of its Eastern origins, the phrase has little else to do with the region. This form of soccer betting has gained increased popularity over the last few years and is now offered [...]

Get real on web gambling
Kansas City Star, MO
Rick’s Gambling & Tourism column in today’s Star Business Weekly looks at the US’s untenable position in the worldwide on-line gambling industry. …
State cracks down on Net gambling
Kentucky.com, KY
By Jack Brammer FRANKFORT — Kentucky is commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites in [...]

Casino Royale
3411 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthLas Vegas, Nevada 89109

Number of rooms
152

Theme
European Villa

Notable restaurant(s)
Outback Steakhouse
Denny’s
Noble Roman’s
Subway
Ben & Jerry’s

Owner
Tom Elardi

Date opened
1992

Casino type
Land-Based

Previous name(s)
Nob Hill 1979-1980

Casino website
Hotel/casino web site

Casino Royale is a small casino and motel located on the East side of the Las Vegas Strip, between Harrah’s Las Vegas and The Venetian. The casino [...]

In gambling, a Bank Job is a term for putting all of your money on a particular betting option, for instance “Yankees to beat the Kansas City Royals is a Bank Job”
It is often mocked by statements claiming people have “Multiple Banks” on a particular bet, for instance “I have 4 Banks [...]

Betting arbitrage, surebets, sports arbitraging is a particular case of arbitrage arising on betting markets due to either bookmakers’ different opinions on event outcomes or plain errors. By placing one bet per each outcome with different betting companies, the bettor can make a profit.
In the bettors’ slang an arbitrage is often referred [...]

Betfair

Type
Betting exchange

Genre
Online gambling

Founded
2000

Founder
Andrew Black and Edward Wray

Headquarters
London, United Kingdom

Website
http://www.betfair.com/

Betfair is the world’s largest Internet betting exchange. The company is based in Hammersmith in West London, England.
Since Betfair was launched in June 2000 it has become the largest online betting company in the UK and the largest bet exchange in the world. [...]

A betting exchange is a p2p gambling website acting as a broker between parties for the placement of bets. The concept is similar to that of a stock exchange or a futures exchange, where in this case the commodity being traded is a bet, rather than a stock or futures contract. Most [...]

A bookmaker, bookie or turf accountant, is an organisation or a person that takes bets and may pay winnings depending upon results and, depending on the nature of the bet, the odds. Bookmaking may be legal or illegal, and may be regulated; in the United Kingdom it was at times both regulated [...]

In horse racing terminology, a trifecta is a parimutuel bet in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third in exact order. The word comes from the related betting term, “perfecta.”
The term has been extended to the realm of politics, where it is used to describe a [...]

A tote board is a large, numeric or alphanumeric display used to convey information, typically at a race track (to display the odds or payoffs for each horse) or at a telethon (to display the total amount donated to the charitable organization sponsoring the event).
The first tote boards were manufactured for [...]