For most people, winning the lottery is the ultimate dream. People who couldn’t ever hope to have millions of pounds in their bank account buy lottery tickets every week in the desperate hope that it could prove to be a life-changing moment. Yet what lengths would you be willing to go to to have a […]
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What Is Edge Sorting?
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 […]
Female Jockeys in the Grand National
Female jockeys are, gradually, being looked on in the same way as their male counterparts in the world of horse racing. The likes of Rachael Blackmore, Bryony Frost and Lizzie Kelly were at the forefront of the modern day movement of female jockeys to the extent that they were gradually just referred to as jockeys […]
What Happened to Blue Square?
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, […]
What Was Betfair’s Zero Lounge? A Fair Fight Between the Savvy Player & the House
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
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 […]
Are Jockeys & Trainers Allowed to Bet on a Horse Race?
When it comes to watching horse racing, there are plenty of people that so in order to admire 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
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
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 […]
What Was The World’s First Casino?
Nowadays casinos can be found in pretty much every major city and town in England, such is their popularity. There are plenty of different casino chains operating, with Las Vegas in America being a city that welcomes millions of visitors every year precisely because of the number and size of the casinos that have been […]