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Casino business - Betting and Gambling

Casino business - Betting and Gambling

Card counting, cheating, betting and gambling - poker and blackjack

Card counting, cheating, betting and gambling - poker and blackjack

Blackjack - card counting, betting and gambling

Blackjack - card counting, betting and gambling

Poker, Betting and Gambling

a collection of articles about gambling and sporting events

Decision Making - and Thinking in Bets

a collection of articles and videos about decision making

The Lottery (USA)

a collection about the lottery

Sports Betting and Gambling

Sports Betting and Gambling

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Article

Flutter Entertainment, a betting behemoth, is on a roll | The Economist

Flutter, the largest global gaming company. Brands: Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars. Can its hot streak last? | Business (2021)


Article

NBA Top Shot, the new crypto highlight phenomenon, explained - SBNation.com

Everyone is buying highlights ... but why? (2021)


Article

Card counting - Wikipedia

Card counting is a casino card game strategy used primarily in the blackjack family of casino games to determine whether the next hand is likely to... (2021)


Article

Record $564 Million Bet on Trump vs. Biden Presidential Race at Betfair, Double 2016 Election

Check out Darren Rovell's story about the betting odds and market for the 2020 Presidential Election. (2020)


Article

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code - Bloomberg (2019)

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the... (2019)


Article

Bought Mega Millions Tickets? Here’s What You Could Have Made If You Invested That Money Instead | Time

The average American spends about $223.04 per year on lottery tickets. Here's what that could yield if invested in an index fund or CD (2019)


Article

How to Win at Texas Hold 'Em: A Free MIT Course | Open Culture

In 2015, we featured a short MIT course called Poker Theory and Analytics, which introduced students to poker strategy, psychology, and decision-... (2019)


Article

The Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World - The Ringer

How a Twitch-streamed no-limit hold’em player found himself at the heart of one of the most fascinating gambling controversies in years (2019)


Article

The Future of Sports Betting: A Battle Among Industry Players | Fortune

Casinos, leagues, teams, and more are working to resolve disagreements to support the multi-billion-dollar U.S. sports betting industry. (2019)


Article

The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions - Bloomberg

Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse. (2018)


Article

Bet money on yourself with Proveit, the 1-vs-1 trivia app – TechCrunch

Pick a category, wager a few dollars and double your money in 60 seconds if you’re smarter and faster than your opponent. Proveit offers a fresh ta... (2018)


Article

What Is Augur?

What Is Augur? Augur is also the first major decentralised application (Dapp) developed using Ethereum ... (2018)


Article

Market for illegal sports betting in US is not really a $150 billion business - The Conversation

Many states are pondering making gambling on sports legal after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal ban. But is the industry really worth as ... (2018)


Article

The U.S. has a lottery problem. But it’s not the people buying tickets. - The Washington Post

States enact lotteries to avoid hard choices between program cuts and tax increases. (2018)


Video

POKER CONCEPTS in Action: Ranges, Bluffs, Bubble Play and getting All In

We show all the big hands from a recent WSOP Online Poker Tournament Circuit Event and discuss Ranges, Bluffs, Bubble Play, ICM, going ALL IN and m... (2023)


Video

MIT: Introduction to Poker Theory and Analytics (course)

MIT 15.S50 Poker Theory and Analysis, IAP 2015View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/15-S50IAP15Instructor: Kevin DesmondAn overview of the c... (2023)


Video

How to Outthink Your Competition -- with a Lesson from Sports | Rasmus Ankersen | TED

Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football e... (2022)


Video

How to Beat the Casino, and How They'll Stop You

How to Beat the Casino, and How They'll Stop You How card counting works… (2021)


Video

The Lottery: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Nov 9, 2014 State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens. But are they? (Sp... (2018)


Video

Daily Fantasy Sports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Nov 15, 2015 Daily fantasy sports sites claim they are not gambling enterprises, but they seem awfully…gamblish. I... (2018)


Podcast

Baseball's Big Swing At Sports Betting: How It's Shaping The Future Of The MLB | On Point

Major League Baseball's embrace of the billion dollar American sports betting business. Will it sully the game? Or could it save it? (2021)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets – Andreessen Horowitz

Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage — and every individual, whether for themselves or others — makes countless decisions ... (2019)


Book

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and traili... (2019)


Website

PredictIt

PredictIt is a New Zealand-based prediction market that offers prediction exchanges on political and financial events. PredictIt is owned and opera... (2020)


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6 Videos
2 Podcasts
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