Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by guest columnist The Broker From the sidelines, it’s hard not to notice the explosion of bookmaker brands in the Australian market. By a rough count, there are now well over 130 licensed operators – a bewildering mix of corporates, boutique start-ups, and rebadged clones. On the surface, this might look like healthy competition. In […]
Story by guest columnist The Broker Racing’s Broken Model: Why VBA, ABA, NT and NSW Bookmakers Are Draining Industry Funds The backflip by Harness Racing SA (HRSA) on its $2,000 annual levy for bookmakers may have seemed like a small win for wagering operators. In truth, it exposed a much bigger flaw in Australian racing: […]
Story by guest columnist The Broker Ever wondered why so many corporate bookmakers hold so many multiple licences? It’s all about reducing their tax, specifically in Queensland their race field information fees. How do they do it? Split their bets to stay under the threshold. Like this. Operator Turnover Thresholds – Queensland Race Fields (2025–2027) […]
By Mark Geenty ANALYSIS: Some cash-strapped national sporting organisations (NSOs) are in line for a funding boost as Sport New Zealand decides how to distribute a $20 million windfall from the newly-passed Racing Industry Amendment Bill. The big question is: how fairly will it be dished out, and will sporting codes who receive very little in […]
A bloke had a dispute with Sportsbet over $37 000 in winning multis he had on an NBL game. Sportsbet cancelled his bets, claiming that there had been an error. The bloke lodged a complaint with the NT Racing and Wagering Commission that licenses Sportsbet. After he did, Sportsbet paid. In full. A betting inspector […]
Dr Georgia Whiting PhD does it again. Whoever said that you don’t need a university degree to win on the punt? They were lying.
Boom! Naked form study must work. Dr Georgia Whiting’s best bet of the day lands. And at $7.90 on the tote no less. Excuse me for a moment. I’m getting my kit off and grabbing the Winning Post.
World renowned racing academic Dr Georgia Whiting, whose privately published study of the methods of the world’s most successful gamblers Naked Zen and the Punt: Finding Winners in the Full Monty is in hot demand around the globe, has broken new ground this week by joining the tipping team of the seminal racing tome the Winning […]
We have been writing for some time now about what appears to be an ongoing rort with the TAB fixed odds prices. Our contention has been that an insider at the TAB involved in setting the opening markets for the Albion Park trots has been deliberately putting up horses at inflated odds so that someone […]
Mr Y was a punter who had closed his account and permanently self-excluded himself from betting with BetR. Despite this BetR permitted Mr Y to open a new account. The obvious problem gambler deposited and lost $988. It is a breach of a bookmakers NT license to knowingly permit a self-excluded person from opening a […]
