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The Alderney Gambling Control Commission: you follow the rules but you still don’t get paid. Why bother with regulation at all?
Online gambling regulation by accountable governmental bodies is a good thing for one reason and one reason alone: it offers protection to the player. There are many reasons why it’s good for the industry in terms of profit and image, … Continue reading
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Tagged actual law prohibiting such terms, Alderney, Alderney Commission, Alderney Gambling Control Commission, bank, Channel Islands, Ethics, European Union, Gambling, GBP, Guernsey, Guernsey government, laws, Leicester, Malta Lotteries And Gaming Authority, online casinos, online gambling, online gambling operations, PKR, PKR Limited, Player, Regulations, State Office of Alderney, United Kingdom, USD
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In a blow to the French, BetFair choose Bastille Day to premiere the revised version of the bet-matching logic of their prediction markets. — IMPROVEMENT MEANS BETTER LIQUIDITY FOR THEIR EVENT DERIVATIVE TRADERS.
- BetFair: Improvements to Betfair’s bet matching logic today, Monday 14th July: What’s changing? We’ve improved the code that matches bets. As well as matching backs against lays as we’ve always done, we’ll also try to match your bet against … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Liquidity, Mechanism Designs
Tagged basketball, Bastille Day, bet matching, bet matching logic, bet-matching engine, bet-matching process, bet-matching system, BetFair, boxing, cricket, football, Germany, horse racing, ice hockey, manager, market designs, Market Liquidity, matching bets, matching trades, Mechanism Designs, Oxford, Player, prediction markets, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, RugBY League, Rugby Union, Sheffield, snooker, soccer, Spain, tennis, trading engine, Volleyball
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BetFair’s message to the UK’s Gambling Commission on betting and the integrity of sports
Via Medemi (109 comments on their thread, and still growing), BetFair (PDF file): 3 August 2007 Integrity in Sports Betting Issues Paper Consultation Co-ordinator Gambling Commission Victoria Square House Victoria Square Birmingham B2 4BP Dear Sir/Madam, INTEGRITY IN SPORTS BETTING … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged advocate, Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, BetFair, Betting, Birmingham, David O'Reilly, Ethics, Gambling Commission, Gambling Commission. sports, GBP, Great Britain, integrity, legal counsel, Player, prediction markets, sports governing bodies, sports results, UK's Gambling Commission, United Kingdom
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Independent production company seeks deep throats to spill beans on online poker industry and BetFair Poker.
Betting Market: I am a researcher employed by a leading award winning UK based independent production company, that specialises in factual programmes. We are currently researching the online poker industry, for a forthcoming documentary that will look at the broader … Continue reading
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Tagged BetFair, BetFair Poker, online gambling industry, online poker, online poker industry, Player, poker, prediction markets, researcher, United Kingdom, web.de
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One trader’s view on BetFair’s new bet-matching logic
He/She LOVES it!!!!! POLL: should betfair keep the new bet matching logic WITH BEST EXECUTION ? – K J J – 17 Mar 17:48 I say YES. Such a system has been long overdue. Say for example, in a market … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading →