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  2. Sports betting systems - Wikipedia

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    Sports betting systems are sets of events that when combined for a particular game for a particular sport represent a profitable betting scenario. Since sports betting involves humans, there is no deterministic edge to the house or the gambler. Systems supposedly allow the gambler to have an edge or an advantage. Sportsbooks use systems in ...

  3. Handicapping - Wikipedia

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    An example of a championship using this system is the International GT Open. The advantage of this system over ballast weight systems is that vehicles have the normal performance on track, so better drivers will be able to recover time and overtake slower drivers. Contrarily, horse race handicapping is implemented using extra weight.

  4. March Madness pools - Wikipedia

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    March Madness pools are a form of sports betting based on the annual NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament each spring in the United States.The annual tournament bracket can be completed online or printed out and completed by hand whereby, prior to the tournament, participants predict the outcome of each tournament game.

  5. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies". The term "book" is a reference to the books used by wage brokers to track wagers, payouts, and ...

  6. Betting strategy - Wikipedia

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    A betting strategy (also known as betting system) is a structured approach to gambling, in the attempt to produce a profit. To be successful, the system must change the house edge into a player advantage — which is impossible for pure games of probability with fixed odds, akin to a perpetual motion machine. [ 1 ]

  7. American Totalisator - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded by Harry L. Straus, a computer engineer from Baltimore, who became interested in developing a fairer system of calculating and displaying odds and payouts on parimutuel betting after an incident at a Maryland racetrack in 1927. When a horse listed at 12:1 odds won, but paid off at 4:1, Straus recognized the need for a ...

  8. Tote board - Wikipedia

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    Behind the betting windows at Ascot racetrack, Australia February 1939. An automatic totalisator is a device to add up the bets in a pari-mutuel betting system. The whole of the pot (the stakes on all competitors) is divided pro rata to the stakes placed on the winning competitor, and those tickets are paid out.

  9. Daily double - Wikipedia

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    The following month, daily double betting was introduced at the Hamilton Jockey Club in Hamilton, Ontario, on the second and fourth races of the daily program. [9] In time, racetracks typically offered the wager for the first two races of each day's program, as an enticement for spectators to arrive early for the entire program.