Sports betting systems
October 25th, 2009
Sports betting systems refers to a set of events that when combined for a particular game for a particular sport represents a profitable betting scenario. Since sports betting involves humans, there is no deterministic edge to the house or the gambler. Systems allow the gambler to have an edge.
Sportsbooks use systems [...]
Point shaving
October 14th, 2008
Point shaving, in organized sports, is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread. Unlike other forms of match fixing, sports betting invariably motivates point shaving. A point shaving scheme generally involves a sports gambler and one or more players [...]
Predictions for the gambling industry
June 18th, 2008
Gambling revenue will grow to $155 billion in 2012 from a 2007 revenue of $114 billion with an annually rate of 6.5 percent per year, says PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in a report released this week.
Asia, and especially Macau, will be the world’s fastest growing gambling region.
In accordance with this report, the US revenue [...]
Spread betting
June 17th, 2008
Spread betting is a form of gambling on the outcome of any event where the more accurate the gamble, the more is won and conversely the less accurate the more is lost. A bet is made against a ’spread’ (or index), on whether the outcome will be above or below the spread. [...]
Sports betting systems
June 10th, 2008
Sports betting systems refers to a set of events that when combined for a particular game for a particular sport represents a profitable betting scenario. Since sports betting involves humans, there is no deterministic edge to the house or the gambler. Systems allow the gambler to have an edge.
Sportsbooks use systems [...]
Betting scandals
June 7th, 2008
Historically, sports betting has been associated with a number of unsavory characters, which has a lot to do with its desultory legal treatment throughout the world. Organized crime notoriously has relied upon sports betting for money laundering or funding purposes. The corruption or threat of a boxer to take a dive [...]
Sports betting
June 4th, 2008
Sports betting is the general activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. Perhaps more so than other forms of gambling, the legality and general acceptance of sports betting varies from nation to nation. In North America, for example, sports gambling is generally [...]
Hunting the gambling bonuses
May 13th, 2008
It is about a legal way to win, but take care! Such practice is considered an advantage gambling and, if the casinos see that you are a skillfull or knowledgeable player that can gain an advantage at blackjack by using the card-counting or shuffle tracking, at video poker by using a strategy [...]
Legal action by EC against Sweden restrictions on gambling
February 1st, 2008
Press Release
Free movement of services: Commission inquires into restrictions on the provision of certain gambling services in Sweden
The European Commission has decided to send an official request for information on national legislation restricting the supply and promotion of certain gambling services to Sweden. In April 2006 the Commission sent a similar [...]
Legal action by EC against Germany restrictions on gambling
February 1st, 2008
Press Release
Free movement of services: Commission inquires into restrictions on gambling services in Germany
The European Commission has decided to send to Germany an official request for information on national legislation restricting the supply of gambling services. The Commission wishes to verify whether the measures in question are compatible with Articles 43, [...]
Christina Ricci loves gambling
January 20th, 2008
“I’ve learned to love gambling,” she told People.com, “I was in Australia for a few months and gambling is like a national pastime there, so I learned to love betting on horses, and now I even put in a few football bets and I’m kind of obsessed and into it.”
She likes [...]
Gambling Media: Gambling in tennis
January 8th, 2008
Tennis launches corruption review
BBC News, UK
A series of scandals involving gambling damaged tennis’ reputation last season. A match involving world number four Nikolay Davydenko is still being …
Coaching hire draws criticism
Charlotte Observer, NC
… were appointed by tennis’ governing bodies. The sport’s leaders want to avoid more problems after a season that included [...]















































