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3. 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 ...

4. Online gambling - Wikipedia

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   Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Usually, the wager is in the form of money. Many online sports betting websites offer in-play gambling, which is a feature that allows the user to bet while the event is in progress. A benefit of live in-play gambling is that there are much more markets.

5. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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   Even if the gambler can tolerate betting ~1,000 times their original bet, a streak of 10 losses in a row has an ~11% chance of occurring in a string of 200 plays. Such a loss streak would likely wipe out the bettor, as 10 consecutive losses using the martingale strategy means a loss of 1,023x the original bet.

6. Fantasy sport - Wikipedia

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   Fantasy sports are generally considered to be a form of gambling, though they are far less strictly regulated than other forms of sports betting. [75] Unlike traditional sports betting, fantasy sports are generally viewed as "games of skill," rather than "games of chance," thus exempting them from gambling bans and regulations in many ...

7. Vigorish - Wikipedia

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   Under proportional vigorish, a "fair odds" betting line of 2.00/2.00 [b] without vigorish would decrease the payouts of all outcomes equally, perhaps to 1.95/1.95, once it was added. More commonly though, disproportional vigorish will be applied as part of the efforts to keep the amounts wagered balanced, such as 1. 90 /2.00, making the outcome ...