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Punters are more cautious than the polls, suggesting this election might be closer than the media is reporting.
Debate about gambling has raged throughout the AFL season, but it’ll take a cultural shift for there to be any meaningful change.
They've been right so far – and the crowd is now forecasting another Article 50 extension.
Matt Hancock wants a new levy to tackle gambling harms, but it's a lost opportunity unless you spend it the right way.
There have been 'Jeopardy!' greats who can easily answer all the questions, who have mastered the buzzer and who bet big on the Daily Doubles. But Holzhauer possesses an unprecedented level of daring.
About 47 million adults in the US are expected to gamble on March Madness this year. A growing share of the bets will actually be legal.
There's a strong case to ban gambling as it's rapidly becoming a public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa.
Some football bets are 50 times more harmful than others.
When you engage in recreational gambling, you're not simply playing against the odds – you're battling an enemy trained in the art of deceit and subterfuge who uses human nature against you.
Online gambling collects a huge amount of data. But instead of personalising offers to keep you hooked, real-time data can be used to prevent problematic gambling behaviour.
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 much as some say it is?
But those hoping for a boon in tax revenues could be sorely mistaken: Sports betting isn't as lucrative as it's often portrayed to be.
Never mind three more years – some people think just one might be a tall order.
With a proposition bet, the odds are always against you.
Hitting a moving target is hard, and young people don't always do what's expected.
There were red faces all round after the wrong film was given the award for Best Picture. But stranger things have happened.
If you want to know who's going to win the Oscars, your best bet is the bookmakers.
Fixed odds betting terminals attract all the attention, but something alarming is being overlooked.
There were 1.39m gambling ads on television in 2012.
Top contributors
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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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Professor of Computer Science and Provost/CEO/PVC, University of Nottingham
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Postdoctoral fellow, CQUniversity Australia
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Statistics, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Associate Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Research Fellow; Journalist, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social Science, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology, University of York
