Are regular bettors and the house helped or hurt when deep-pocketed, high-volume computer-assisted bettors are wagering? Mathematicians used game theory to model this new wrinkle in parimutuel betting.
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Computers could help Blackjack players get much better at card counting in the future.
Online wagering is likely to be very harmful to a new generation of gamblers who habitually use mobile devices. It has the capacity to be very high intensity.
The desire to fritter away our pay packet on the roll of a dice may not be hardwired at all. So where does it come from?
Lottery-linked accounts helped England wage its Nine Years’ War in the 17th century. Could it help the rest of us save more money today?
Why two-thirds of the adult population in the UK bet on this annual horse race.
The controversy over gambling companies and sport masks a much bigger problem most of us seem ok with.
Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.
The tennis world is the latest sport to be rocked by allegations of corruption, this time by reports of match fixing. So who are the winners and losers when such allegations are made?
A mathematician looks at the odds.
Online in-play betting is likely to be a big growth area for the bookies, and consequently for TV stations. If legalised, what harm might this bring?
Harm minimisation policies should seek to reduce the poker machine gambling of everyone, not just problem gamblers.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn that plans to use Australian consumer law to argue that poker machine operators are engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to trick gamblers into using poker machines.
For many, the marriage of two American pastimes – gambling and sports – can be almost impossible to resist.
Australians seem uniquely vulnerable to the siren call of poker machines. Here are 15 reasons that suggest why this is so, what impact it has, and what can be done about it.
Some clubs provide genuine benefits to their communities. Unfortunately, clubs have developed significant poker machine dependency – an average of about 60% of total revenue.
The basic characteristics of pokies, combined with constantly refined game features, provide a stimulus to the brain that, in many cases, leads to a form of addiction.
Did you know Scotland were going to lose, or was it just hindsight bias?
You are now three times less likely to win the big prize. So why don’t we run for the hills?
The favourite in the betting won has almost every single US presidential election since 1868 and more recently the Academy Awards. But how well can the market predict the Nobel Prize winners?
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently CEO and Senior Vice President of the PETRA Group), University of Nottingham
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer (Geographic Information Systems), Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol
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James Doughney es Amigo de The Conversation.
Emeritus professor, Victoria University
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Principal Research Fellow, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Director, Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Clinical Psychologist, University of Sydney
