Midas Oracle .ORG » sport corruption http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ex-BetFair Mark Davies on sport corruption and betting fraud http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/09/13/ex-betfair-mark-davies-sport-corruption-betting-fraud/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/09/13/ex-betfair-mark-davies-sport-corruption-betting-fraud/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:14:14 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=21749

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/09/13/ex-betfair-mark-davies-sport-corruption-betting-fraud/feed/ 0 Ex-BetFair Mark Davies defends betting in the wake of the latest sport corruption affair. – [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/08/30/mark-davies-defends-betting/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/08/30/mark-davies-defends-betting/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:46:29 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=21744 Excellent.

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PS: Give me the name of the idiot who booted Mark Davies out of BetFair.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/08/30/mark-davies-defends-betting/feed/ 0 BBC’s Panorama, the most famous investigative TV news show of British television (the equivalent of CBS’s 60 Minutes in the US), will air a segment on sport corruption and insider trading in the world of betting, on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/07/26/bbc-panorama-betting/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/07/26/bbc-panorama-betting/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:52:43 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=7808 Continue reading →]]> Panorama:

BBC One
Panorama
Wed 30 Jul, 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm 60mins

Nearly six years after its award-winning expose of corruption in horse racing, Panorama returns to the sport of kings to investigate the world of betting. Paul Kenyon reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting large sums of money on horses not to win, but to lose. [*] While ordinary punters risk their cash on picking winners, those in the know are playing a different game altogether.

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[*] A mechanism made ultra convenient by the arrival of “betting exchanges” (real-money prediction exchanges), like BetFair and Betdaq.

Thanks to our commenter for the tip.

Will somebody help us (who don’t live in the United Kingdom) to get to know what will be said that day on the Beeb?

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UPDATE:

- BBC

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- Guardian

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