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  2. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    Patent, Lucky 15, Lucky 31, Lucky 63 and higher Lucky bets form a family of bets known as full cover bets with singles which have all possible multiples present together with single bets on all selections. An examples of a winning Patent bet has been shown above. The other named bets are calculated in a similar way by looking at all the ...

  3. Paddy Power - Wikipedia

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    Paddy Power was founded in 1988 by a merger of the forty shops of three Irish bookmakers: Stewart Kenny, David Power, and John Corcoran. [1] Stewart Kenny and Vincent O'Reilly had sold Kenny O'Reilly Bookmakers to Coral in 1986, and then opened ten shops of their own by 1988; Kenny was group CEO from 1988 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 to 2003 ...

  4. Full cover bet - Wikipedia

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    Lucky 15 - four selections; Lucky 31 - five selections; Lucky 63 - six selections; The Lucky bets are so named because of the bookmaker's practice of offering bonuses for one or more winning selections; most common of which is 'double the odds' for one winner.

  5. How to Calculate Your Lucky Year, Month, and Day Using ... - AOL

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    Finding lucky days in the year is as easy as noting any day that adds up to your Destiny Number or is a multiple of that number. For example, because my Destiny Number is 9, the 9th day of any ...

  6. David Power (bookmaker) - Wikipedia

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    David Henry Power (16 January 1947 – 8 July 2024) was an Irish bookmaker. Power's grandfather started bookmaking in Tramore , County Waterford in 1896, having earlier worked as a draper. [ 1 ] The business passed to his son, Paddy, who died suddenly in 1963, leaving it to his son David.

  7. Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of traditional and popular bets offered by bookmakers in the United Kingdom.The 'multiple-selection' bets in particular are most often associated with horse racing selections but since the advent of fixed-odds betting on football matches some punters use these traditional combination bets for football selections as well.

  8. Flutter Entertainment - Wikipedia

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    In May 2018, Paddy Power Betfair announced its intent to acquire FanDuel, one of the two leading daily fantasy sports operators in the United States. The deal was part of an effort to bolster the company's assets in the United States, following the overturning of a federal prohibition on sports betting. [12]

  9. Lucky number - Wikipedia

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    Continue removing the nth remaining numbers, where n is the next number in the list after the last surviving number. Next in this example is 9. One way that the application of the procedure differs from that of the Sieve of Eratosthenes is that for n being the number being multiplied on a specific pass, the first number eliminated on the pass is the n-th remaining number that has not yet been ...