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Bookies Are Doing Well On Baseball This Year
While baseball does not garner the fanatical attention and huge crowds given to football and basketball, this summer’s baseball action has been good for bookmakers thanks partly to the added convenience of on line wagering which allows bettors to place their wagers from anywhere they might happen to be via their new mobile devices. Never before in history has it …
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Are Parlays Really Sucker Bets?
Wagering of sports these days can be a complicated business. Just when you think that you have it all figured out, some other factor sneaks in from left field and tosses all your careful calculations out the window. There always seems to be something else to learn about the world of wagering. Perhaps that’s one of the things that keep …
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Belize Players Asked To Take A Dive Against USA Soccer
Three members of the national soccer team of Belize were reportedly approached by a man in Guatemala and asked to throw the upcoming match with the USA team for the CONCACAF Gold Cup match in Portland, Oregon. 7 News in Belize released a report after the match had already been played and Belize had lost to the USA team by …
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The Development Of College Football Win Totals
Although early lines have already been posted on next seasons win totals for college football teams, the college football betting market takes a bit longer to develop over the summer months than does the NFL numbers. The major sportsbooks in Las Vegas and offshore put up the NFL Week 1 odds way back in May. The odds on the ‘NFL …
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MLB Mid-Season Streaks & Strokes
If you had bet on the Yankees throughout their season high 6 game winning streak, you would have been up about $550 for a $100 wager on each game. That’s a pretty good run. Streak bettors continue to do well this baseball season as some teams seem to be on roller coaster rides through 2013. Of course, if you had …
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Betting On The Saints
When the vice president of race and sportsbook operations at the giant LVH Superbook in Las Vegas, Jay Kornegay, was asked about the chances for the New Orleans Saints in the coming NFL season and what effect the return of head coach Sean Payton would have on those chances he replied, “I think he’s worth a game and a half”. …
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Court Of Appeals Considers Jersey’s Bid For Sports Betting
One of the most highly contested issues on the agenda these days is the question of legalizing sports wagering in the state of New Jersey. Several other states are awaiting the outcome of the Jersey situation before submitting their own plans to make placing a bet on a sporting event legal. A couple weeks ago the case was presented to …
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Underdogs Rule At Wimbledon
It’s been a long, long time since an actual Britt won the title at Wimbledon but some big books in the UK took a beating on the victory of Andy Murray who won the Gentlemen’s Singles crown at Wimbledon for 2013. It was the days of the underdog from the very beginning as both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal went …
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CFL Bettors Winning Big On The Over As Season Kicks Off
If you followed tradition and bet the over on the four games of the first week of the Canadian Football League, you did pretty well. All four games went over as predicted with an average of 69.25 points being scored in each of the opening contests. The Stampeders of Calgary scored the most points during the opening weekend of action …
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Celtics Fans In Shock After Mass Exodus As Odds Tumble
All at once the Boston Celtics are unrecognizable. The iconic players… not to mention the iconic coach… are almost all gone and Celtics fans are left wondering just what the identity of their favorite team will be for the next NBA season. Everyone thought that future Hall of Famer Paul Pierce would retire as a Celtic. He was drafted by …
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