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    When a large bet comes in, a bookmaker may also try to lay off the risk by buying bets from other bookmakers. Bookmakers do not generally attempt to make...
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  • Bookmaker Ratings is an online publication covering topics related to sports betting and disputes between players and bookmakers. It is published in seven...
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  • bookmaking firm in 1970. In 1988, Power made a deal with fellow independent bookmakers Stewart Kenny and John Corcoran to merge their Irish betting chains to...
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  • or market. Gamblers whose betting activities have been restricted by bookmakers (normally for winning too much money) are able to place bets of unrestricted...
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  • A bookmaker is an organisation or a person that takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed upon odds. 888sport (Gibraltar, owned by 888 Holdings)...
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  • Look up bookmaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bookmaker (often abbreviated "bookie") is a person or organization that calculates odds and accepts...
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  • Guinea, It threatened to relieve bookmakers of $2 million." The Bulletin - Issues 6019-6026 1996 p. 86 "He says bookmakers may not be around in 10 years'...
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    involved with bookmakers. Journalists told officials about speculation that an Australian player was having financial dealings with bookmakers, after Mark...
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  • systems integration team builds state-of-the-art production facility for UK bookmakers". SIS News. 27 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 November...
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  • success. Asian handicaps are both good and bad for bookmakers. On one hand, they help bookmakers minimize risk by facilitating trading with parity or...
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    Topaz is a bookmaker in Azerbaijan, a commercial trademark of Caspiantech, was launched in 2011 as a single legal sports-betting game operator in Azerbaijan...
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    Business. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021. Paley, Tony (26 March 2007). "Bookmakers threaten sponsorship cuts as betting shop row escalates". The Guardian...
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    Waterhouse racing dynasty and the grandson of one of the first official bookmakers in Australia. His grandfathers on both sides were involved in the racing...
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  • beating bookmakers. The dropping odds strategy involves waiting for Pinnacle to drop their odds at which point placing a bet at another bookmaker like Bet365...
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    core of its income from racecourse protection rackets operated against bookmakers, it was also involved in a range of criminal activities including extortion...
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    pools, or bookmakers may take bets personally. Parimutuel wagers pay off at prices determined by support in the wagering pools, while bookmakers pay off...
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    out of a car on University Avenue and crossed the Ormeau Road to the bookmakers. One was armed with a vz.58 Czechoslovak assault rifle and the other with...
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  • and bookmaker. Waterhouse is the son of Bill Waterhouse, he is married to thoroughbred horse trainer Gai Waterhouse, and is the father of bookmaker Tom...
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    George David Freeman (22 January 1935 – 20 March 1990) was an Australian bookmaker, racing identity and illegal casino operator. He was linked to the Sydney...
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  • two or more bookmakers or betting exchanges where at least one offers the user a free bet. When the free bet is placed the other bookmakers or betting...
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    Liga Stavok (category Bookmakers)
    ставок», ЦУПИС) through which bookmakers could be legalized via the Internet. At the end of 2014, a number of large bookmakers, including the “Liga Stavok...
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  • The Union of Bookmakers' Employees (UBE) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1974.The inaugural...
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  • Tick-tack' may refer to: Tic-tac (horse racing), a signalling method used by bookmakers Ticktack, historical English board game Tic tac (disambiguation) This...
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    term. Successful bookmakers must be able to withstand a large short term loss. (Boyd, 1981) Many of the leading gambling bookmakers from the 1930s to...
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  • 11 (77) during round 19 at the Gabba. Sydney was the favourite among bookmakers, with odds of $1.73 for the win against Brisbane's $2.10. The 2024 grand...
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  • Fixed-odds gambling involves placing bets on events with predetermined odds. Bookmakers aim to create an overground, where the sum of probabilities quoted for...
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  • traditions have grown up in how to express odds to customers. Favoured by bookmakers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and also common in horse racing, fractional...
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  • racecourses opening across the country. Cash was concentrated in the hands of bookmakers, who employed bodyguards against protection gangs operating within the...
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    killings Teebane bombing Sinn Féin Headquarters shooting Sean Graham bookmakers' shooting Clonoe ambush Cloghoge checkpoint attack Coalisland riots South...
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    second in the 2015 AFL Rising Star award after holding favouritism with bookmakers for much of the year, and he won the John Nicholls Medal as Carlton's...
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