Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See this market? It is Sportsbet’s odds on a race at Redcliffe yesterday. The basics of a bookie’s market is that betting to odds that when totalled together equal 100% is a ‘true’ market reflective of each horse’s nominal percentage chance of winning the race. When a market is framed at odds that add up […]
It is illegal under various State laws for a bookmaker to offer inducements for members of the public to bet. An inducement includes a matched sign-up bonus deposit. Bookies are allowed to give them, but they are not allowed to offer them as bait to get a new customer to join. The above ad showed […]
Boardshorts Mick is a TAB agent from the Gold Coast. On a Friday he tips horses on the radio, although not very successfully. Mick is also a commission agent. A commission agent is a person who puts bets on for others with bookmakers at the races. Recently Boardshorts Mick has been placing wagers with the […]
Kodai was examined by the vet before the first race at Innisfail because it hadn’t run for a rather long period of time. It was only 655 days, what are they talking about? The vet from the Tableland Vet Service examined the mare and passed her fit to run. You wouldn’t want to be taking […]
Well it appears we made an innocent mistake yesterday when we (wrongly) described Brisbane’s second biggest bookie of the 2000’s Uncle Lindsay Gallagher – who tells us is a distant relation of Jill, the Order of Australia winner – as a member of the Taribelang Bunda people from Bundaberg. Uncle Lindsay has written in to […]
America is like Australia, the States regulate gambling, not the Federal Government, however it is different in one hugely important respect. Put in simple terms, that difference is that certain Native American tribes have their own land (reservations, not the type we think of in indigenous terms, but massive tracts of land) and recognition as […]
The mail out of the Brisbane ring is that veteran bookmakers Con Searle (pictured above) and Ray Karangis will be hanging up their satchels and packing away their betting boards at the end of the year, and sailing off into retirement. “So what?” the 99 percent of modern day punters who never have a bet […]
What you see in the picture is race 8 at Te Aroho (which by the way means Love) in New Zealand. There are eight starters in the race, and Atomic is one of them. Atomic runs third. Neds and Ladbrokes pay a place dividend for him, so do the TAB. So does everyone actually, except […]
