Nowadays it is easy to find a site online where you can engage in pretty much whatever form of betting takes your fancy. From bingo sites through to electronic casinos via sportsbooks that offer odds on events as obscure as you’d like, the options are numerous and plentiful. The thing that started the whole industry […]
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Counting Down The Biggest Placepot Wins in Horse Racing 1m6f5d
There’s nothing sweeter than the notion of winning a Placepot bet for the simple reason that it sees huge returns come in for a relatively modest amount. That is because it’s a tricky bet to win, of course, with those that pull it off quite rightly seeing their story in the newspaper if the pot […]
What Happened to All the Super Casinos That Were Planned for the UK? k5c12
Anyone who re the New Labour government will have been more than aware of the idea of so-called ‘Super Casinos’ being a big part of their manifesto ahead of the 2005 general election. The idea was that the 1968 Gaming Act would modernise, seeing the industry dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, from […]
You might assume that people who work in certain jobs like to avoid taking their work home with them, like those who ply their trade in fast food not eating burgers and chips when possible or masseurs telling their parents that they don’t do it for friends or family. Likewise, you might think that bookmakers […]
Could Horse Racing Take Place on Britain’s Streets? 3016k
It seems a ludicrous question at first sight, but there is a hope from some that horse racing could soon be taking place on Britain’s streets and roads in a move to revitalise the sport. You would be forgiven for thinking that there isn’t a desperate need to revitalise racing, but there is a reality […]
How Much Money Do Jockeys Earn? 4j356x
Horse racing is an industry that people generally accept is awash with money, but when we think about that money, it’s the bookmakers that we consider to be the highest earners. Those with more than just a ing interest in the sport will know that the biggest races in the business have prize money that […]
Where are the MIT Blackjack Team Now? 174o70
We’ve written elsewhere on the site about players who have taken on the casinos in a less than fair-minded spirit, with a brief mention of the MIT Blackjack Team in there. After all, it would be impossible to write about people who have cheated the casinos and not talk about one of the most famous […]
The Players Who Cheated The Casinos 1h3u4o
Everyone who has ever placed a bet in a casino knows that the house always wins. It’s a cliché about the industry, but it’s also true. The nature of gambling is such that you might get a big win every now and then or even a consistent run of small wins that mount up, but […]
The Players Who Beat the Casino 5h2qe
Elsewhere on the site we’ve written a piece about players who have cheated the casinos, whether by using elaborate devices that can predict the speed and drop of the ball on the roulette table or by using a technique called ‘edge-sorting’. The examples we spoke about there required a degree of nefarious play, either misleading […]
Few things can affect the horse racing industry quite as badly as equine flu. As the name suggests, it’s a version of influenza that specifically targets horses, although donkeys and mules also susceptible to it. Horse flu can be fatal to younger animals and debilitating to older ones, in much the same way that it […]