Russian poker player, Lilya Novikova, has died after reportedly accidentally electrocuting herself in a bath. She was not only a star of online poker but also had a profile on the live streaming channel Twitch, which was big in the eGaming community. The reports that emerged from Russia suggested that the country’s Investigative Committee, the […]
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Celebrity Racehorse Owners (And How Much It Costs Them)
When it comes to horse racing, even the most casual observers will know the names of some of the sport’s most respected jockeys, whether that be retired aces like AP McCoy or household names, such as Frankie Dettori. Ask people to name some trainers and they’ll almost certainly have heard of industry heavyweights, such as […]
Insider Betting: What Are the Rules When You Have Inside Information?
It’s something of a moral conundrum, isn’t it? If you had information that you could win money from a bet with, would you use it to your advantage? Say you lived next doors to a footballer and found out from them that they’d been sold to another club, would you pop down to your bookies […]
Football’s Gambling Problem: The Players Banned or Fined for Betting
In the world of professional sport, it is generally accepted that it is wrong for sports personalities to bet on their own contests. Obviously a bet on a player to win might seem harmless enough, meaning that they have extra incentive for the team to win, but what happens if the bet is more specific? […]
What Happened To All Of The Dog Tracks in London?
As difficult as it is to believe for some now, there was a time when greyhound racing was one of the most popular sports in England. The first course in the United Kingdom to feature an artificial hare was based on Hendon and opened its doors on the eleventh of September in 1876, though it […]
Pigeon Racing: Everything You Need to Know (And Then Some)
People love being competitive. Get the right folks into a room together and they would have a wager with each other over which fly would be the first to take off from a window ledge. It’s why betting is so popular and why competitive sport will always dominate both people’s consciousness and the newspaper headlines. […]
Where are the MIT Blackjack Team Now?
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
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
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 […]
Equine Flu: Causes, Outbreaks & How it Affects Horse Racing
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 […]