Tag Archives: Britain
Hubdub Hot Predictions This Week
Hubdub’s Hot Predictions this week, as decided by Hubdub users and staff, are selected based on their newsworthiness for the week. These stories are bound to be big news this week – and we have forecasts on how they’re likely to turn out.
World
The complete tragedy of Air France Flight 447 may never be known, but [...]
Meet bettor/trader Harry Findlay.
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“Nowadays, some casinos even have two zeroes on the roulette wheel. Anyone playing them should be certified. But gambling on a Champions League match, a Premier League match, you can win.” This, he explains, is because modern betting exchanges take a far lower proportion of their punters’ stakes in profit. “There is no margin, it’s [...]
How can BetFair, the world’s market leader, produce such a piece of ****?
Betting @ BetFair – The Official BetFair News Site
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… is a piece of ****.
#1. The brand name of this sub-site is crappy.
#2. The organization of the content is crappy.
#3. The content is crappy.
#4. Everything in it is totally crappy.
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My meta thoughts:
The non-media, commercial companies cannot produce interesting journalistic content —unless they partner or buy out [...]
UK Gambling Commission is taking effect this Saturday, September 1, 2007.
UK Gambling Commission:
1 September 2007
With effect from 00.01 on Saturday 1 September 2007, all gambling in Great Britain (except spread betting and the National Lottery) becomes subject to the provisions of the Gambling Act 2005.
Gambling Commission
The Gambling Commission regulates gambling in the public interest. It does so by keeping crime out of gambling, by ensuring [...]
NEXT SUNDAY, THE FRENCH WILL ELECT REPUBLICAN NICOLAS SARKOZY AS THEIR PRESIDENT.
The Economist tells me I should vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. Well… if they really think he’s “the man”…
The French presidential election
France’s chance
Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition
After a quarter-century of drift Nicolas Sarkozy offers the best hope of reform
No French presidential election in 50 years has looked as unpredictable [*] [?? - [...]
British blogger uses odds chart to debunk a journalist’s story.
In short:
#1. Peter Hitchens on Channel 4 covered the “Tory conference” (British Republican convention) at Blackpool in October 2005.
#2. Political blogger and ex-BBC News Mike Smithson strongly disagrees with the Channel 4 story (“a number of myths have developed which don’t fit with the facts”). And to make his point, Mike Smithson uses an odds [...]
Britain–Iran War prediction markets, anyone??
Reuters:
[...] Iran seized the 15 British sailors and marines at sea last week, saying they were inside Iranian waters. Britain say the personnel were in Iraqi waters.
How the hell can you kidnap soldiers???
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Warning:
TradeSports is unregulated in the Netherlands Antilles. — InTrade is unregulated in Ireland.
TradeSports / InTrade are not members of the Independent Betting [...]
UK–Iran War prediction markets, anyone??
CNN:
Satellite tracking data shows that a group of 15 British military personnel captured by Iran last Friday never strayed outside Iraqi waters, according to Britain’s Ministry of Defence. [...]
Psstt… Tell me something. How the hell is it possible to kidnap military people??? I just don’t get it.
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Warning:
TradeSports is unregulated in the Netherlands Antilles. — [...]
If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file):
International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008.
Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair.
“New Understandings in Sports Betting”
Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind invitation to speak to you today. I have once before been asked by sport to address it, as a [...]