Posts Tagged ‘results’

Beginner’s luck

Posted by Nicolae on September 15th, 2008 under Gambling terminology
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When someone with limited experience achieves better than expected results it is referred to as beginner’s luck. The term is most often used in reference to a first attempt in sport or gambling. For example, if Mike beats veteran golf player Joe in his first game, Joe might attribute this to beginner’s [...]

Football pools

Posted by Nicolae on June 9th, 2008 under Football (Soccer), Sports Betting, Sports betting guide
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Football pools, often referred to as “The Pools”, are competitions based on predicting the outcome of association football matches set to take place in the coming week.
British Pools
Several different companies such as Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters and Brittens have organised similar games, the most famous of which was historically known as Treble [...]

Yahoo! and online gambling search

Posted by Nicolae on January 3rd, 2008 under Online Gambling, Search Engines
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It seems that Yahoo! already started the campaign against online gambling. For a search with the keywords “online gambling”, the first two positions belong to a same site that was shuted down by the web hosting company for the violation of the ToS:
#1:
Site Status Message
Site Shut Down. www.xanga.com. gambling72’s site has [...]