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Direct Deposit Betting Sites

"Direct deposit" covers any method that moves money straight from your bank account to your betting account, with nothing in between. No card, no e-wallet, no third party holding…

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…

Super Bowl Betting: Markets, Props and Overtime

The Super Bowl is the NFL's championship game, and the one betting market a great many people read once a year. That makes the rules deciding how a market settles worth more than…

Emmys Betting: Eligibility and the Size of the Field

The Primetime Emmy Awards are decided by votes under rules the Television Academy publishes, and one of those rules makes Emmy markets different from other awards markets: in most…

Grand National Betting: The Race and Its Markets

The Grand National is a handicap steeplechase run over the Grand National fences at Aintree, on the final day of a three-day festival in April. The Jockey Club dates the race to "…

Cheltenham Festival Betting: Races and Markets

The Cheltenham Festival is the championship meeting of National Hunt racing, held at Cheltenham over four days in March. The Jockey Club, which owns the racecourse, describes the…