The first big horse racing festival of 2014 starts tomorrow and the bookies are after your money with gusto! You can tell when a sporting festival is going to be a bonanza for the bookies by the amount of giveaway bets they advertise. Giveaway bets are those enticing bets where the bookies either give you […]
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Bookmaking As An Art Form
It seems to me that the art of bookmaking is dying. The bookmaking industry is ran by computerised accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Let me explain, bookmaking should be about taking a view on a event and placing you money where your opinion lies. However, the way the […]
Why Are Bookies Cowards?
Why is it difficult to create a market on pool tournaments? Officially betting firms run miles away from pool tournaments. They may even pile into a tournament but wont lay any prices. It is not that there isn’t information out there. Like nearly all sports, pool has rankings which have been collected over a number […]