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Hubdub Hot Predictions This Week

Written by Ryan on June 22, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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.
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On Sunday Tehran was relatively quiet compared to the past weeks street violence, [...]

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BetFair’s brand-new bet matching logic

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 9, 2008 — 7 Comments

BetFair:
Betfair Customer Services 06 Jun 15:55
We held a forum Q&A session in March in which we announced that we were working on an improved version of bet matching. This would allow us to match bets across selections, and to match those bets at better prices than requested where possible, as [...]

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BetFair-TradeFair fights corruption, while TradeSports-InTrade does not.

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 26, 2007 — Leave a Comment

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BetFair-TradeFair is legal and has ethics, while TradeSports-InTrade is not and has none.
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Via Steve Roman who provides the recap and another excerpt, The New York Times:
[...] At the center of the investigation is Betfair, one of the largest so-called online sports exchanges, which matches bettors directly against each other, rather than against the house, as [...]

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