Random

Your brain is both your greatest weapon and your worst enemy in betting. It gives you the ability to analyze the odds and make informed decisions. On the flip side, the way the human mind works often results in confusing feedback that plants the seeds for poor decision making in games of chance and skill….

UK National Lottery operator Camelot may prosecute the grandmother who claimed she had a winning lotto ticket worth £33 million but had accidentally sent the winning ticket through the washing machine inside a pair of jeans. Now, it may be the lottery that takes Susanne Hinte to the cleaners.

Update 2: Amazingly, nobody won Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot, estimated to be worth nearly $950 million. This week’s surge in ticket sales indicated that a winning combination was imminent, but nobody managed to win the top prize. However, lottery officials did report that 25 people won $1 million prizes while three more people won $2…

One of the most recent trends to come from the online sports betting industry is the “cash out” feature. No, it has nothing to do with withdrawing your winnings to the bank. The betting cash out option allows you to call in your bets early before the match has finished, thereby locking in a win…

Online betting probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Oscars and the Academy Awards show. Nevertheless, all the major online bookmakers are now accepting wagers on who will win an Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. Once the Academy Awards nominees are announced it doesn’t take online betting…

And it also got them arrested. Wired.com came out with a very interesting story a couple days ago and I had to share it with our good readers here at OnlineBettingSites.com. The story describes, in great detail, how two men found a glitch in a certain brand of video poker machines and exploited the glitch…

Daily fantasy sports leagues are immensely more profitable than season long leagues for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is one of simple volume. If you’re a winning player, you can play in many more daily or weekly leagues than season-long leagues. Log on to any major fantasy betting site and you’ll find hundreds…

Two New Jersey men connected to an offshore sports betting site were sentenced to prison on August 5th. Pat Pirozzi and John Breheney were sentenced to several years in prison in a case that revolves around the mob-backed sportsbook BetEagle.com (now located at BetEagle.ag). A third man pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is facing up…

Yahoo Sports ran an eight part series on the toughest jobs in sports last week. One of those articles covered the professional sports gambler. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from Yahoo but it proved to be an interesting read. See it here. If you know anything beyond the absolute basics of gambling, you’re probably all…

I stumbled across a very informative article yesterday while doing research for yesterday’s post. The author of this article, Simon Kuper, runs a consultancy called Soccernomics and his specialty is bringing data analysis to soccer. He’s a New York Times best seller and his wisdom is sought by clubs around the world. Basically, he’s legit….