If you ever find yourself frustrated with the bookmakers and their sometimes morally dubious practices, you will LOVE this story! The name Barney Curley is one that strikes fear into the hearts of all bookmakers. I have been restricted on a fair few occasions in my time but everything I have won pales into insignificance…
One of the many means by which bookmakers make a profit is punter error. Following the law of small numbers is one of the most glaring of these errors, yet most bettors either don’t know what it means or don’t give it a second thought.
UK and Irish punters were left feeling frustrated after online betting site 188Bet.com suddenly announced its exit from the British gambling market. 188Bet has so far given no reason for the abrupt exit beyond it being “a commercial decision in a very competitive market.”
I’m sure that most of you have heard of the concept of the mug punter. That is the individual who places poorly-researched wagers at poor value odds. This type of bettor is a bookmaker’s dream and the sort of person who will never be restricted. However, it sometimes seems as if the bookies are playing…
As I improved my skill as a bettor, I came across an unexpected obstacle. You see, I naively believed that as long as you didn’t cheat and obeyed the rules, a bookmaker would be unable to prevent you from winning.
Multiple media outlets have reported that unauthorized online gambling and other adult-oriented apps have been taking advantage of Apple’s Enterprise Certificate program to bypass App Store safeguards designed to prevent those types of apps from being distributed.
The government of Alberta is interested in shelving its rather dubious trophy as one of the only two provinces in Canada without some form of online gambling. In an effort to change that, Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis (AGLC), is looking for technology partners to run an Alberta online gambling platform.
Ladbrokes finds itself in hot water once again after allegedly letting a gambling addict spend hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of stolen money and then paying five of the gambler’s theft victims £975,000 in return for a promise not to tell regulators.
Barclays has become the first major bank in the UK to offer its own version of a self-exclusion program for gamblers who need to take a break from betting. According to early reports, the feature works similarly to the self-exclusion programs offered by UK gambling sites that allow customers to voluntarily ban themselves from betting…
After looking at legendary horses last month, let’s have a little fun this week and take a look at some of the worst horses of all time. Of course, it is extremely unfair on these horses because their owners and trainers should have known, at least deep down, that their entry simply wasn’t up to…