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    A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds...
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    Ocean Resort Casino in the state of New Jersey. On 3 August 2020, the bookmaker opened the first full-service betting operation housing professional sports...
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  • Look up bookmaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bookmaker (often abbreviated "bookie") is a person or organization that calculates odds and accepts...
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  • Bookmaker Ratings is an online publication covering topics related to sports betting and disputes between players and bookmakers. It is published in seven...
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  • discrete events. Betting exchanges offer the same opportunities to bet as a bookmaker with a few differences. Gamblers can buy (also known as "back") and sell...
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    Liga Stavok (category Bookmakers)
    name of its founder Oleg Zhuravsky, a significant Russian lobbyist of bookmaker business interests. Zhuravsky was born in 1969, served in the Western...
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  • A bookmaker is an organisation or a person that takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed upon odds. 888sport (Gibraltar, owned by 888 Holdings)...
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  • appearance and devoid of any comforts. Coral arranged a merger with another bookmaker, Mark Lane in 1971. By 1979, the company had become the Coral Leisure...
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  • and bookmaker. Waterhouse is the son of Bill Waterhouse, he is married to thoroughbred horse trainer Gai Waterhouse, and is the father of bookmaker Tom...
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    George David Freeman (22 January 1935 – 20 March 1990) was an Australian bookmaker, racing identity and illegal casino operator. He was linked to the Sydney...
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    Topaz is a bookmaker in Azerbaijan, a commercial trademark of Caspiantech, was launched in 2011 as a single legal sports-betting game operator in Azerbaijan...
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  • SBOBET.com is an online bookmaker. The website has operations in Asia licensed by the Philippines and operations in Europe licensed by the Isle of Man...
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  • take, the margin, the house edge or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager. In American English, it can also refer...
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  • occurring. This 100% book is displayed without any bookmaker's profit margin, often referred to as a bookmaker's "overround" built in. A "wholesale odds" index...
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    outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to...
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  • an Australian businessman and former bookmaker, founder of International All Sports. Read was a leading bookmaker at a time when racing, particularly in...
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  • 1xBet (category Bookmakers)
    and "Dmitry Kazorin". The trio are suspected of organizing the online bookmaker 1xBet, and are defendants in a criminal case, with penalty of imprisonment...
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    Waterhouse racing dynasty and the grandson of one of the first official bookmakers in Australia. His grandfathers on both sides were involved in the racing...
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  • the English language the term bookmaker for the person laying the bets and thus 'making the book'.: 6 : 13, 36  A bookmaker strives to accept bets on the...
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    core of its income from racecourse protection rackets operated against bookmakers, it was also involved in a range of criminal activities including extortion...
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    Betfred (category Bookmakers)
    Betfred is a bookmaker based in the United Kingdom, founded by Fred Done. It was first established as a single betting shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967...
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  • not to be confused with what constitutes a Dutch book which is when a bookmaker goes overbroke (the opposite to overround). It is thought[according to...
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  • Bet9ja (category Bookmakers)
    Bet9ja is an online bookmaker company that offers betting on major sporting events operating in Nigeria. Traded under KC Gaming Networks Limited and run...
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    The Tote (redirect from Tote bookmaker)
    providing a safe, state-controlled alternative to illegal off course bookmakers and ensuring that some gambling revenues were put back into the sport...
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  • on 1 June 2024. The race will be sponsored for the first time by the bookmaker Betfred. "Derby racecard". Racing Post. Retrieved 27 February 2024. v...
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  • employed by individuals to profit from free bets and incentives offered by bookmakers. Its proponents considered it risk-free in theory-based probability. The...
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  • the wager. This allows a bookmaker to act as a market maker by accepting wagers on both sides of the spread. The bookmaker charges a commission, or vigorish...
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  • success. Asian handicaps are both good and bad for bookmakers. On one hand, they help bookmakers minimize risk by facilitating trading with parity or...
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    BoyleSports (category Bookmakers)
    2006. In February 2011, BoyleSports took over 17 new shops from Celtic Bookmakers. Later that year, the company consolidated of 15 William Hill shops. In...
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  • one win and lose their last three group matches. On 18 July 2013, UK bookmaker Sky Bet announced that they had signed a five-year agreement to sponsor...
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