If the government legalized sports betting and became the bookie, and it's $3 billion a year and the bookie takes 10 percent?
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"There are a lot of people who would like to bet on sports, but don't know a bookie or want to deal with a bookie," Mr. Draper said.
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She and the children's stepfather, a bookie, raised the children.
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But again, that's just the cold eye of the bookie.
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Katz was a handicapper; he was calling his bookie, in Massachusetts.
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During Super Bowl weekend, a bookie could easily make several grand.
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Bookie doesn't see the long-running night ending any time soon.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Henry Adamson is breaking up with his bookie.
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"Globalization, Europe, and where has that got us?" scoffs the bookie.
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Unfortunately, a bad case of tinnitus has kept Bookie from regularly attending.
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Sports talk radio legend Mike Francesa plays Ratner&aposs foul-mouthed bookie, Anthony.
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Bookie T "Hennessy on Ice" Oh hey, I found your Friday night party jam.
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His main client, Mike Pegram, was a former college bookie turned McDonald's franchise mogul.
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Patterson told Cheddar he considers the project a "bookie," or a book meets a movie.
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It's this arms-length distance that prevents it from being a straight bookie/bettor relationship.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, meanwhile, gives the narrative a kind of textural grit.
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"Teer is like an addiction so people can't stop playing," said one Shillong-based bookie.
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" Just then, his car passed a billboard for a casino that read "Fire Your Bookie.
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So we talked to a sex worker, a bookie, and a female magician/fortune teller/hypnotist.
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If your bookie fails to pay out your winnings, you have no recourse, legal or otherwise.
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"The worst night we had with a so-called big act was Meredith Brooks," Bookie remembers.
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But if you owe your bookie $1 million, you're like, I guess I'm just gonna die.
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Each terminal (restricted to four per shop) on average takes in £50,000 a year for a bookie.
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As a result every state gets to decide if it wants to get into the bookie business.
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Breslin brought Queens characters like the bookie Fat Thomas or the arsonist Marvin the Torch to life.
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Were I a bookie, I would offer better odds on the folks waging the War on Christmas.
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The poor man from the Bronx had lost most of his winnings to a bookie who skipped town.
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He was the prime suspect behind the killing of a Thai bookie called Chaiwat Palangwattanaki in March 1988.
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On Sunday, 1.8 million Americans plan to bet on the game illegally, through a bookie, the association said.
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It's like if you owe your bookie $1,000, you're like, oh yeah, I gotta pay this dude back.
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"Those who used to play for Rs. 5000 came down to Rs. 500 a day," the bookie adds.
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Tim Mara, the bookie who founded the Giants, and Art Rooney, who founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, were proud gamblers.
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Before you rush out to meet your favorite bookie, though, it's worth noting that the game is hardly infallible.
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Mike Francesa plays Ratner's bookie, though he might as well be playing himself, the way he barks about sports.
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The bookie wants the gambler to keep betting, and so may extend credit to keep the player in the game.
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He was also in Mr. Cassavetes's "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976), "Opening Night" (1977) and "Love Streams" (1984).
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A paragraph taken almost at random: The first bookie I ever met ran a candy store in Bellmore, Long Island.
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That's where I learned the hustle, working as a 'writer' who collects betting slips and delivers them back to a bookie.
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At the end of the day, a bookie would have tons of little pouches of mackerel worth between $1.15 and $1.35.
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How they repeatedly scouted the daily movements of their intended victims, the wayward bookie, Rudy Marfeo, and his bodyguard, Anthony Melei.
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"The first year was kind of hit and miss, because I was still learning how to book a club," explains Bookie.
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American bookie William Sean '5Dimes Tony' Creighton has been found dead in Costa Rica nearly a year after he was kidnapped.
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I threatened to cast Timothy Carey, who was in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
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I ask bookie Chris Waldron why what just happened sets the Grand National apart from thousands of other races across the globe.
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The wayward bookie caught it from three feet away, his unused gun clattering to rest a few inches from his outstretched hand.
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"On the day Foo Fighters' There Is Nothing Left To Lose came out, everyone surprised me," Bookie recollects with a childlike excitement.
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This is a means of setting and enforcing the terms of an agreement without a middleman—no lawyer, notary, bookie, or referee.
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The remainder — roughly 16 million — will bet with a bookie, in a pool or squares contest, or casually with family or friends.
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In one, in which Mr. Allen starred, Mr. Aiello was cast as a bookie in the 1950s blacklist drama "The Front" (1976).
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After working as a bookie for Eddie Wingate, a big numbers man notorious for his ruthlessness, she struck out on her own.
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Even with the restriction of four FOBTs per shop, a lightly manned bookie can still make around £200,000 a year from FOBTs alone.
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Of those bettors, 1.8 million plan to bet illegally through a bookie, and others are expected to place wagers through online offshore books.
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That raises the issue whether a bookie-gambler relationship is enough to show the type of beneficial exchange needed to establish insider trading.
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How he was first through the door, the one who hit the bookie, the one who killed the bodyguard trying to slip away.
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The one who looks like a racetrack bookie, all stuffed pockets, darting eyes and razor stubble: He's still padding around from the '60s.
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"From '95 to 2005, at the height of alternative music, there were a lot of Jimmie's Chicken Shacks," Bookie says with a laugh.
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She'd thumbed her nose at his poker dens and bookie operation, signed her name to a boatload of student loans and declared independence.
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LaMotta attacked bullying schoolmates with an ice pick, and he beat a neighborhood bookie into unconsciousness with a lead pipe while robbing him.
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These profess not to limit winning accounts and accept much bigger bets (Pinnacle, an influential bookie, often has a $1m limit for major events).
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Indeed, one of them — a bookie with its roots in the Iron Throne's real-world home, Northern Ireland — has suspended betting on Bran altogether.
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I'd make 20 or 25 percent off the top, or $1.25 cents off a $5 bet, no matter whether the better or the bookie won.
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As a DJ for 102.1 CFNY-FM, Bookie also had the airwaves to plug showcases during shows like Live In Toronto and The Indie Hour.
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As alternative rock reached a fever pitch and labels were literally signing any act that fit the bill, Bookie found reps knocking on his door.
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He does, indeed, appear to be Japheth Dury, the abused preacher's son turned predatory census-taker and part-time leg-breaker for a local bookie.
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His notoriety as a Queens bookie with a rap sheet was long forgotten, and in Las Vegas he lived a respectable life as a sharp bettor.
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TheScore, a newcomer to sportsbook operations based in Toronto, is the only media outlet in North America to say that it will become a bookie itself.
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If you've ever seen the 1976 Cassavetes movie The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, you'll recognize that plot, even down to the names Rachel and Cosmo.
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DUBLIN — Ever since the first bookie stood on a step ladder and scrawled odds on a chalkboard, betting on horse racing was just about picking winners.
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While covering the cricket market in India for his book Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, Hawkins learned how easy match fixers can get in on a game.
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Considering Trump currently has similar bookie odds to what Brexit did just before the vote, it raises the question of what the bets might actually be forecasting.
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Bookie odds are influenced by the amount of money placed on a particular outcome, and right now, betting sites around the world put Clinton in the lead.
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It was unclear if regular column characters such as Fat Thomas the bookie, the arsonist Marvin the Torch and Klein the Lawyer were real, composites or fictions.
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In the 1982 movie "Diner," the character played by a young Mickey Rourke is struggling with paying off money owed to a bookie on past lost bets.
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But before you Patriots loyalists rush out to meet your bookie, it's worth noting that when it misses the mark, it does so by a pretty wide margin.
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His real name is John Pratt, but he went by Big Bad John for years, when he was a drug user, a dealer, a pimp, and a bookie.
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This approach helps sports fans avoid the crisis of "going to meet your bookie on a Tuesday morning with an envelope full of hundred dollar bills," he said.
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Upon his release in 1965, he eventually fell in with the Irish mob in South Boston and worked his way through the ranks as a bookie and loanshark.
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The fact is that bookie odds will always be affected by public opinion polls: Bettors place calculated bets based on all of the information at their disposal, including polls.
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So while you might have to wait a bit before your state acts, it might be a good time to start figuring out how to dump your bookie gently.
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When a major affiliate with over 200,000 Twitter followers had their account suspended, Sky Bet – the account's affiliated bookie – tweeted out where their followers could find a temporary account.
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The bookie noted that it made a similar called shot in 85033, paying out two days earlier to gamblers who put money on President Obama winning his reelection bid.
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In the past, he used a bookie, but he prefers legal betting because it is safer and winners can cash out at the counter as soon as the game ends.
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And you don't need to be a bookie in Vegas to understand why so many men like me spend our time this way: we want to know what will happen.
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So you've got all this gambling on games going on, and the government won't step in and become the bookie, and all this illegal money is being transferred on sports betting.
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It factors in the bookmakers' edge and can be used as a means of eliminating any advantage the bookie attempts to retain when expressing the true odds of an event occurring.
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This emotional fact in turn bears upon the adapted plot of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, because it gives the narrator a reason to act in nihilistic and violent ways.
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Using William New's Elvis Mondays night at local bar El Mocambo as a template, Bookie sought to present his own weekly showcase of up-and-coming local, national and international talent.
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Lankester worked under infamous bookie Ron "the Cigar" Sacco in the 1980s and &apos90s in a sophisticated horse racing and sports betting operation that was considered the biggest bookmaking operation in history.
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When some men made the ill-conceived decision to rob a bookie operation linked to a high-ranking mafioso, it was Lerner, along with Kelley, who was dispatched to straighten things out.
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"Five bucks on horse two to place in the fourth race," I tell the teller/bookie man on the other side of the dried-piss-colored counter I'm standing in front of.
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Mr. Godfrey said that continuing to prohibit sports betting was shortsighted and that Mississippi should provide the chance for gamblers to place their bets with licensed casinos instead of with a bookie.
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A visit from the former Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett (playing himself, convincingly) alters his plans, as do huge bets placed with a bookie (Mike Francesa) and with the Mohegan Sun casino.
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But when pressed about whether such a bump could help real GDP hit 3 percent growth, Bernanke lapsed into the phraseology of a Las Vegas bookie: "I would take the under on that."
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If you loved the "Game of Thrones" premiere, you're definitely not the bookie who got crushed on 'GoT' prop bets -- and all signs point to bettors taking advantage of the episode accidentally leaking early.
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The jaggedness of Idina Menzel's laugh (she plays Howard's wife) is a nervous thrill, and Mike Francesa, a professional shouter on WFAN for three decades, plays an aggrieved bookie, convincingly deadpan and casually loud.
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Irish betting house Paddy Power, who's been offering odds on Trump's impeachment since he was sworn in, announced it now has a bookie designated entirely to the burning tire fire that is the Trump administration.
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Eddie may be a prisoner, but he's also a bookie, and he was doing what bookies everywhere were doing in the lead-up to the biggest betting event of the year: worrying about the betting line.
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I do think that the financial numbers are small, but in every town in America, you can go to a sports bar and talk to somebody, and there's a local bookie, and you can put a bet down.
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"Insurance isn't very different from being a white-collar bookie, where the house's rake is too high and the dollars at stake are in the hundreds of billions in the U.S. alone," says co-founder and CEO Karn Saroya.
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While recent polls range from predicting Hillary Clinton has a 75 percent chance at clinching the election to putting her neck-and-neck with Trump, bookie odds are more consistent, giving Clinton a notable edge over the GOP nominee.
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In 254 the state legalised betting on horse races, allowing punters to slake their thirst for action dozens of times a day rather than once every four years, without any risk that a bookie would fail to pay out.
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So, the character's motivation has been borrowed from one work of art—Giselle—and transposed into another work of art—The Killing of a Chinese Bookie—to create a core emotional principle of the fictional essay, The Complete Ballet.
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Both Ebby and her parents' beloved valet, Leo, turn out to have committed murder; and her brother Potsie isn't just a gambler with a candy addiction, but a bookie who runs in a sleazy circle that includes their miscreant cousin Perry.
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Instead of working for the CIA, Simmons' jobs during that period included nightclub doorman, bookie, manager of a rent-by-the-hour hot tub business, mortgage broker and defensive back for the National Football League's New Orleans Saints, the statement said.
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The Horseshoe's then-owner Ken Sprackmen asked Bookie who should take over the bookings, and he recommended Jeff Cohen and Craig Laskey of Against the Grain, who now operate as Collective Concerts and co-own the Horseshoe and Lee's Palace.
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This bake-off is treated as intense competition in the UK; it even had its own bookie scandal, when booking agents refused to take bets on the grounds that the show was filmed ahead of airing and the winners were known.
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And Mr. Pearce is supported by a crack cast that includes Marta Dusseldorp as Irish's mostly off-again journalist girlfriend, Linda; Roy Billing as Harry, Irish's bookie and occasional employer; and Aaron Pedersen as Harry's enforcer and Irish's reluctant sometime accomplice, Cam.
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Mike Francesa, the sports-radio fixture, plays a bookie; Wayne Diamond, an astonishingly tanned fashion designer, plays a high roller; Keith Williams Richards, a former longshoreman, plays a tough guy—his first acting job, though possibly not his first time acting tough.
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Online bookie BetDSI, mainly known for its sportsbook, recently released its 2020 Presidential Election Betting Odds on some famous faces: The site uses in-house oddsmakers that specialize in U.S. politics and in particular the 2020 presidential election to set the numbers.
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It was the actual bookie who had to sneak into the education wing of the place, where the copy machines were located, and find a way to distract the staff and make copies of the cards listing the odds for all the day's games.
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Exactly like that guys said [in the episode], you can't go to Charlse Schwab and put 10 grand on the stock market, but you can walk up to an illegal bookie and put 10 grand on the Bears, and then lose all your shit.
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Bulger was a ready-made caricature of this nation's prototypical gangbanger—a bookie, a loanshark, a protect-the-business-by-any-means-necessary kind of guy—and he had an origin story seemingly prewritten for a true wise guy, or at least for a Martin Scorcese flick.
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"There are about 500 to 600 counters and an almost unlimited number of bookies in Shillong alone, where the bets can go up to Rs. 5003 crores on a single day," said a bookie in Shillong, who asked not to be named as several bookies operate without a license.
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This time Irish's noble instincts are aroused by Big Pharma; as always, Mr. Pearce is part of an Australian all-star cast that includes Marta Dusseldorp, Roy Billing and Aaron Pedersen as the girlfriend, bookie and enforcer, respectively, who have weak spots for Irish even though they know better.
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He had been in the city for only a few days—he had just met Panthers in Harlem, and was angling to date some of the female Party members, who seemed more self-possessed than any women he'd ever met—when a bookie accused him of trying to rob him.
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The Raiders will play in Oakland for at least two more seasons, giving the owners time to revisit their rules and bring them more in line with the reality that gambling has become far more ubiquitous than the days when gamblers had to place bets through a bookie or at a racetrack.
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