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Betting on sports |
| Sports and sports fans go hand in hand all over the world and these sports fans so whatever it takes to follow their favorite sport, sportsmen, or team’s progress. They die to see their teams win and carry their loss in their hearts for a very long time. This aggression and passion towards sports is the genesis of sports betting. The popularity or the fame of the sports betting though grew because of the money that could be made in the deal. |
| Today, betting in sports is one of the high end businesses that churn money that range to the highest in the business. Gone are the days when we used to bet on the baseball match with our neighbor and the bet used to be a dinner or a drink after a dinner. Today bets are placed at such high values that they even have crossed even the value of the prize money and the fee that is played to top players. This is the cause for concern and many people feel that betting in sports could lead to disastrous outcomes where the spirit of the sport itself is lost in due course. That is why betting is considered illegal and banned in most of the countries. |
| Though some countries say a sport betting is illegal, there are places like Nevada and Las Vegas where a sport betting does happen and it does not have any legal implications, while in European countries it’s widely spread. There are also a lot of places on the internet where people wager on sports. The huge amounts of money that are ready to be made on such a betting is what is alluring many a sports fan to this money making deal. Online betting happens in very huge margins and there are certain clever ploys of wining such bets. It is advised to bet on strategy games rather than chance games if one is looking at winning such online bets on the free games that are available over the internet. |
| Betting in sports has to be done through bookmakers who are also called bookies and these bookies scheme and plan the bets. They decide the bet amount on a victory or a loss and then the parties pay up the specified amounts. While the common say is that such betting activities in sports hinder the actual flow of the game and money comes into play there and to win money there are many games that have been won or lost – thereby beating the essential aspect of the sport and giving more importance to the betting event itself. But what the resources who are involved in the activity of such sports betting say is that never the case and never ever will the booking agents let the game suffer for causes of the betting as such. |
| Author: Keijo Abijuan |
| © Gambler Awards, 2008 |
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