Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It doesn’t look like well greyhound man Mark Stollery is too happy with the corporate bookie UpCoz. I don’t know what the background is, but clearly there is a dispute going on about them not accepting bets with the money he deposited in his account with the outfit, and them refusing to refund his cash. […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
Archie That study you quoted is ancient history. There’s one reason problem gamblers are problem gamblers and it’s the same for every type of addiction, sex, drugs alcohol rock ‘n’ roll, and that’s the pleasure pain balance in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. You can listen about it here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8 Anna Lembke, Psychiatrist and Chief of […]
Abstract Physiological arousal is purportedly a key determinant in the development and maintenance of gambling behaviors, with problem gambling conceptualized in terms of abnormal autonomic responses. Theoretical conceptualizations of problem gambling are discordant regarding the nature of deficit in this disorder; some accounts posit that problem gamblers are hypersensitive to reward, and others that they […]
Tony Obst, Dolphins legend No matter what any of us think, the truth is that modern racing is all about wagering turnover. The equation is simple. The more you get in through gambling, the more you can pay in prizemoney and improvements to the sport. Only a blind bugger can’t see that. So why is […]
It tells you a lot about Australia’s historic obsession with horse racing and betting that the man who invented the totalisator, George Julius, was knighted for his work. The complex machine, initially designed to count votes, found flight as an on-course method of calculating dividends for horse racing and having started out in New Zealand […]
This one is hard to explain in simple terms to mug punters like us, but I will try. Betmakers Technology Group Ltd is a con. It’s main business is creating wagering platforms for online bookies, but they are shit. Think BETR, who is at the centre of this story. Do you like betting with them? […]
Curly Seal (pictured at top) is a controversial and well known rather infamous character in the Australian bookmaking diaspora. A man renowned in racing circles for taking bets and then betting them back to shave a free slice, Seal came to national prominence when pro punter Steve Fletcher and his then backer Eddie Hayson played […]
One of one readers wrote in this morning after seeing our story about Matt Tripp and Texbet. This reader is what some would call a severe problem gambler. He bets up large, but when he cops a severe hammering he often falls into a self loathing depression and rings up the bookie who has taken […]
Factual background The following factual background sets out some relevant events and circumstances that have given rise to the Commission’s concerns that are not disputed; they are acknowledged by BetEasy. Gambler was a self-excluded customer of CrownBet, BetEasy’s predecessor. His self excluded status was known to BetEasy and BetEasy’s affiliates John Dow and Jamie Myers. […]
