When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Parimutuel betting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parimutuel_betting

   Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.

3. Michael Kent (computer specialist) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kent_(computer...

   They do not account for personal bets made by Dr. Mindlin, or Billy Walters and Glen Walker or by the dozens of other associates who had access to the Computer Group's information. By the time everyone had exhausted Kent's forecasts in the 1983-84 sports year, the group was estimated to have earned $10 to $15 million.

4. Parlay - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlay

   A parlay, accumulator (or acca), combo bet, or multi is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers, usually seen in sports betting. Winning the parlay is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. If any of the bets in the parlay lose, the entire parlay loses. If any of the plays in the parlay ties, or "pushes", the ...

5. Sports betting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting

   A parlay is at least two bets, but can be as many as the bookmaker will allow. The possible payout of the parlay is determined by the combined likelihood of all bets placed. A parlay of riskier bets (more underdogs) will pay greater than a parlay of more likely bets (more favorites). In a parlay, all bets need to win in order for the parlay to win.

6. Progressive parlay - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_parlay

   A progressive parlay is a joint wager on multiple events, for example team sports or horse races. Generally a progressive parlay involves a joint wager on four to twelve separate events. [ 1 ] Should all the selected bets win, the bettor receives a relatively large payout, because of the sizable odds against this happening.

7. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_mathematics

   The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

8. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_bookmaking

   In gambling parlance, making a book is the practice of laying bets on the various possible outcomes of a single event. The phrase originates from the practice of recording such wagers in a hard-bound ledger (the 'book') and gives the English language the term bookmaker for the person laying the bets and thus 'making the book'.

9. Spread betting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_betting

   Spread betting was invented by Charles K. McNeil, a mathematics teacher from Connecticut who became a bookmaker in Chicago in the 1940s. [5] In North America, the gambler usually wagers that the difference between the scores of two teams will be less than or greater than the value specified by the bookmaker, with even money for either option.