When it comes to playing poker, secrecy is paramount. Whether you’ve got Pocket Rockets and are hoping to lure the rest of the players you’re up against into a trap that hands you a decent pot or you’ve got two-seven unsuited but are planning to bluff, your plan depends entirely on no one else knowing […]
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F1 Street Circuits: Formula 1 Racing Around City Streets 6dy1m
Formula One seasons are made up of different Grand Prix, which take place on circuits all around the world. The cars are the fastest road-course racing vehicles in existence, which is why the surfaces that they’re raced on have to be specially modified. There are a number of street-based circuits used, though, and we’re going […]
Camelot Refuses to Pay Out on Winning Lottery Ticket Bought With Stolen Card 47513p
For most people, winning the lottery is the ultimate dream. People who couldn’t ever hope to have millions of pounds in their bank buy lottery tickets every week in the desperate hope that it could be their turn to win this time. Yet what lengths would you be willing to go to to have […]
What Is Edge Sorting? 2n4z69
Elsewhere on the site we’ve written about The Players Who Cheated The Casinos, with a particular reference in there to Phil Ivey. He is probably the most famous example of someone who used Edge Sorting to win card games, winning £7.7 million but not being paid it after the Supreme Court turned down his appeal […]
What Happened to Blue Square? 684i42
Those that are interested in the world of betting know all about the biggest companies. The likes of William Hill, Ladbrokes and Coral have been around for decades, so they’re well respected in the market. Even those that have only really made a name for themselves since the advent of online betting, such as Betfair, […]
When it comes to having a flutter, bettors dream of a world in which the House doesn’t have an Edge. It would mean that the games being played are a chance for the most skilful to win, not just the one that has stacked the odds in their favour. No such place exists, though, because […]
The Dominance of Gambling Sites in Football Shirt Sponsorship 1q5215
There has always been a relationship between gambling and sport, with some sports having a more closely aligned one than others. Horse racing, for example, depends on gambling to such an extent that if that relationship was disrupted it would have serious and lasting consequences for the sport. Don’t forget the first legal bookmakers were […]
When it comes to watching horse racing, there are plenty of people that so in order to ire the beauty of the horses and the skill of the jockeys. The vast majority of us, though, do so because we want to place a bet or two on the outcome of given events, enjoying the possibility […]
Match Fixing In eSports 2n2k4l
The explosion of popularity of eSports in recent years has had both positive and negative influences in the industry. eSports is perhaps one of the fastest growing of all sports, leading to a professionalisation that allows people to make a good living doing something that wouldn’t have been possible as recently as twenty years ago. […]
A Complete History of Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium 5u3054
Once described as ‘the most charismatic greyhound track in Britain’, Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium was as pleasant to look at from the outside as it was to watch racing from on in the inside. In fact, it was so iconic that the band, Blur, chose to use the site of two dogs running on the track […]