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Tilt, Near-Misses and Tiredness: How Betting Fools Your Judgement

The reward system in the human brain did not evolve to handle randomness. It reacts to outcomes that look like wins, to outcomes that nearly were wins, and to being tired — and no…

Publicly Traded Sports Teams: Which Clubs Have Listed Shares

Image credit: Sam Valadi A small number of professional sports clubs are listed on public stock exchanges, which means anyone with a brokerage account can own a piece of one. It i…

2016 Grand National Betting: Odds and Analysis

Image credit: Paul / FlickrCrabbie’s Grand National is coming to town in just over a week. More than a quarter of UK adults are expected to place more than £500 million in wagers…

Betting Sponsorship in the Premier League

For years the simplest way to describe betting sponsorship in the Premier League was to list the clubs with a bookmaker on the front of the shirt. That way of describing it is now…

Online Bookmakers That Let You Cash Out Your Bets Early

Cash out is a standard feature of online sports betting now, offered in some form by almost every major bookmaker. No, it has nothing to do with withdrawing your winnings to the b…

Betting on the Oscars: How the Voting Works

Awards markets are settled by a vote, not by a result, and the Academy publishes the rules that vote runs under. Those rules decide how a market can settle — including the two sit…

Betting on Your Own Weight Loss: How It Works

Weight-loss betting is not a market offered by a bookmaker. It is a contract with a company that holds a sum of money against a target the participant sets for themselves, and pay…

Publicly Traded Betting Sites: What a Stock Listing Tells You

Image credit: Tjeerd WiersmaThe early days of online gambling were like the Wild West in some respects. Legislation and regulation were nonexistent and pretty much anyone with the…

VPNs and Online Betting: What the Terms Say

A VPN hides where a connection comes from. A licensed sportsbook is licensed for particular places, and writes its terms accordingly. This page is about what two of those document…

Betting on the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards

Rule 35 of the internet goes something like this: if it exists, there is a wager on it. The 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are no exception. They are coming to NBC on Monday, A…

Watching Live Streaming Sports at Bookmakers

With a great many sites offering live streams of sport around the world, it begs the question, why should I use bookmakers for live streaming? This page covers what bookmaker stre…