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The online gambling industry is a target-rich environment for scammers, thieves and other miscreants. It offers the convergence of three things scammers like: the anonymity of the internet, large sums of money and easy prey. Today, we will be looking at the most important warning signs to watch for so you can protect yourself from…

The differences between buying actual lottery tickets online and simply betting on the lottery can be major or minor depending what type of lottery betting sites we’re talking about and how those compare to the websites where you do actually purchase tickets. It can cause some confusion, so today’s post is designed to explain the…

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…

As we enter November, spare a thought for the millions of Christmas trees that are about to be slaughtered, and turkeys which are set to follow. In between the warm and bustling holidays will be many cold, short days with people huddled in their living rooms anticipating those delicious turkey dinners – and passing more…

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 see those ads for the Oscars every five minutes. Nevertheless, this is actually quite a popular topic for gamblers around the world. All the internet’s major bookmakers are now accepting wagers on who will win an Oscar at the 87th Academy Awards…

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…