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"bookmaker" Definitions
  1. a person whose job is to take bets on the result of horse races, etc. and pay out money to people who win

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In December 2015, the Northern Territory licensed sports bookmaker, the NT Racing Commission, issued a five-year sports bookmaker licence to Lottoland, it confirmed to Mashable Australia.
LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - British bookmaker Ladbrokes reported a better-than-expected 34 percent rise in first-half operating profit on Thursday, helped by some bookmaker-friendly sporting results.
He has agreed to a number of promotional gigs, too, most recently an advertising campaign for a bookmaker in which his bit centered on highlighting how frequently the bookmaker paid out on wagers.
The bookmaker has sponsored the event since the 2014 tournament.
"It's a bad day for Truthiness and Bookmaker," he said.
The U.K. bookmaker pared some losses, closing 1.5 percent down.
On Tuesday alone, £1.3 million was placed with the bookmaker.
Bookmaker GVC rose 2.3 percent on its first day of trading.
FanDuel Group is owned by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair PLC.
GVC is set to take over Britain's largest bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral.
"It's a bad day for Truthiness and Bookmaker," Lester told BuzzFeed.
The bookmaker also announced a 500 million pound share buyback program.
Courtsiding can give a gambler an edge on even the bookmaker.
The Irish bookmaker took a six-figure loss on the game.  
That's the highest over-under ever for a playoff game, Bookmaker.
He defied bookmaker odds of around 90 percent for a hung parliament.
Now, BookMaker has to shell out a reported $276,424 in total wins.
At the bookmaker William Hill, wagers are expected to reach $1.3 million.
And as a bookmaker, he foresees the N.F.L. continuing to cede ground.
You can, of course, bet on where Romo will wind up. Bookmaker.
Since then, it has done more online business than any other bookmaker.
That performance helped catapult McIlroy to outright favorite with at least one bookmaker.
The odds translate into an 84.6 percent chance of winning, the bookmaker said.
GVC bought bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for up to 4 billion pounds in 2018.
Currency traders also hit sterling, homing in on narrowing bookmaker odds on a Brexit.
BookMaker Sportsbook is reassessing its predictions for the Patriots' season opener against the Cardinals.
This would come after sometimes months of the gambler being put through bookmaker checks.
"It's a pretty standard Super Bowl prop," Scott Cooley, a spokesman for Bookmaker, said.
Yes. My father, a dentist who became a book designer and bookmaker, loved classical music.
Disappointing results from the fourth-largest supermarket group Morrisons and bookmaker William Hill also weighed.
The probability that Britain votes to stay in the EU also increased, bookmaker odds showed.
You can talk to any bookmaker, any bettor—they don't want to see fixes happen.
GVC agreed to buy bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for up to 4 billion pounds in 2017.
In December, GVC agreed to buy bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for up to 4 billion pounds.
A top global bookmaker also suspended betting on a suspicious match at the Australian Open.
Another bookmaker, Boyle Sports, is taking bets on categories like the baby's godparents and weight.
A bookmaker placed odds that Shaw would eat a pie during a match on Monday.
IRMA BOOM: BOOKMAKER (Monday) Bard Graduate Center hosts a talk with Irma Boom, who is widely considered the world's pre-eminent bookmaker and whose diverse list of collaborators includes Bard, as well as luminaries like the architect Rem Koolhaas and the artist Olafur Eliasson.
Australian online bookmaker Sportbets opened betting markets on a variety of Pokémon Go-related topics Tuesday.
The bookmaker was "making sure we keep Marine Le Pen's as short as possible," he said.
Graham Sharpe, from bookmaker William Hill, said it was no surprise pollsters got it wrong sometimes.
Many factors are considered when making a total, said Scott Cooley, an odds consultant for Bookmaker.
With Trump's chances of winning plummeting, an Irish bookmaker is already paying out bets on Clinton.
British bookmaker William Hill has Clark as the favorite, followed by Jeremic, Bokova, Guterres and Turk.
Ricci, who left Barclays in 2013, was also recently named chairman of Irish online bookmaker BetBright.
Until 2002 no Premier League football club had a bookmaker as a shirt sponsor; now nine do.
Britain's bigger bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral made about 800 million pounds of revenue from gaming machines in 2016.
These are the favourites (according to one major bookmaker) and they don't exactly fill you with confidence.
A "match alert" regarding suspicious betting was sent to the integrity unit by the Russian bookmaker Fonbet.
At the Australian Open this year we see that [bookmaker] William Hill is one of the sponsors.
In many countries, including the United Kingdom, tennis is second only to soccer in terms of bookmaker revenue.
We checked the British legal bookmaker Ladbrokes and found some other unlikely events, listed in order of improbability.
The online bookmaker PointsBet is giving bonus bets as a refund to those who wagered on the Saints.
One prominent bookmaker is an official partner to the Australian Open and some players have questioned the relationship.
One group firmly on the side of those caught up in this bookmaker clampdown are Justice for Punters.
A "match alert" regarding suspect betting was sent to the sport's watchdog body by the Russian bookmaker Fonbet.
The top end explicitly assumes a subsequent takeout by Tabcorp or another suitor, such as a foreign bookmaker.
"Smart guys are going to bet it under," said D. J. Fields, head trader at the BookMaker website.
French retailer Casino Guichard and bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair both fell more than 5 percent following poor earnings updates.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is currently predicting there's a 33 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc.
If the bookmaker doesn't adjust in time, it can end up taking big losses or winning more than expected.
O have abandoned merger talks, leaving the British bookmaker struggling to find a partner in a fast consolidating industry.
Both Dublin-based Paddy Power Betfair and British bookmaker William Hill had previously expressed an interest in the stake.
Though there are still three weeks left to the presidential election, one prominent bookmaker already has called the race.
William Hill, however, rose nearly 3 percent after Rank Group and 888's bid for the bookmaker broke down.
"Overall, we are in line with market expectations for 13," said the bookmaker which operates around 2,370 betting shops.
"The most common [bookmaker] you'll see is Bet365, where [the tipster] will get 30% of client losses," says Chris.
"Whatever Alabama wants to beat them by, they'll beat them by," said Ray Mitchell, head live trader at BookMaker.
The bookmaker said non-UK markets now contribute a third of online revenue, helped by the acquisition of Mr Green.
A look at the last 249 Super Bowls that had line movement, using opening and closing lines provided by Bookmaker.
British bookmaker William Hill said Cracknell's inclusion has steered Cambridge from 11/10 outsiders to firm favorites at 1/5.
Meanwhile, William Hill shares jumped 2.78 percent after the bookmaker confirmed that it was in merger talks with Canada's Amaya.
Gyp DeCarlo operated mainly out of Hudson County/Hoboken area and he was known as a loan shark and bookmaker.
"There are always customers who try to game the system," says John Baron, a spokesman for sports betting website BookMaker.
Fully 72% of the total money accepted so far by William Hill, a bookmaker, has been on a Remain victory.
THE bookmaker on Aldgate High Street, on the fringes of London's financial district, attracts its fair share of risk-takers.
GVC agreed in December to take over leading British bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for up to 4 billion pounds ($5.61 billion).
British bookmaker GVC rose 3.9% after raising its full-year core earnings forecast for the second time in three months.
One of London's main betting companies, bookmaker Ladbrokes said on Friday that leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson is the favorite.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes listed Johnson as the favorite, ahead of Home Secretary Theresa May and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, according to Reuters.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair declined 2.2 percent, the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, after Investec downgraded the stock to "sell".
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has slashed the odds of a June election to 13/2, from 6/1 before Monday's vote in parliament.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair declined 3.2 percent, the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, after Investec downgraded the stock to "sell".
Bookmaker favorites for the new Prince of Cambridge include Arthur, Albert and James Come back every weekday at 8:30 a.m.
My father was a taxi driver, but he was also a bookmaker and a bit of a gambler on the side.
Mr. Hodges, an opal dealer and bookmaker who also ran the local abattoir, wore the dentures in the 1960s and '70s.
The bookmaker said the odds of a British exit had improved to 2/1 from their previous price of 12/5.
He also spent four years as a bookmaker at Tom Waterhouse, where he learned the ins and outs of handling bets.
They are adamant, though, that while what they do does break bookmaker terms and conditions, they are not committing criminal fraud.
Pinnacle, the first bookmaker to suspend betting on the Dolgopolov match, reported that the two matches appeared coordinated in the markets.
Indeed, as Bookmaker eventually discovered to its chagrin, the Patriots have called heads every time for at least two full seasons.
" He said that if the call was indeed "heads" on Sunday, Bookmaker would lose a sum "in the low five figures.
British bookmaker William Hill also felt the heat, tumbling over 3 percent after HSBC and Credit Suisse cut their price targets.
At the time of the recording, Del Balso was a notorious bookmaker and high-ranking member of Montreal's infamous Rizzuto crime family.
Bookmaker William Hill said she was now second-favorite to succeed Cameron, behind interior minister Theresa May, who supported the "Remain" campaign.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has cut the odds of a June election to 7/2, compared with 6/1 before Monday's vote in parliament.
But one bookmaker was so confident about Arthur that it paid out on the name for anyone who bet before 7 p.m.
Victoria earned the top spot at 8/1 within the first minute of the baby news announcement, according to bookmaker William Hill.
One gambler in Nevada placed an $85,000 bet on Woods that could cost bookmaker William Hill $1.2 million if it pans out.
The son of a bookmaker, Finney was born May 19843, 1936, and grew up in northern England on the outskirts of Manchester.
British bookmaker Ladbrokes has Milan the 2-1 favorite to secure the EMA, with Bratislava on 3-1 and Amsterdam 7-1.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair rose 2.5 percent, with traders citing relief after England was knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia.
Betfair is not the only European bookmaker to target the United States, where momentum for legalizing sports betting is at a high.
British bookmaker William Hill was a decent performer after it posted its latest figures for the first 17 weeks of the year.
At the Australian Open, a global bookmaker suspended betting on a mixed doubles match after unusually large amounts were bet on it.
Even so, bookmaker Ladbrokes predicts full UK cannabis legalization is more likely than not—giving VICE odds of 250-4—by 2024.
A deal for Ladbrokes Coral would have marked a departure for GVC into betting shops because the bookmaker has about 3,600 sites.
"The early betting, close to 90 percent came in on L.S.U.," said Pat Morrow, the head oddsmaker at the online bookmaker Bovada.
"Clemson was so fortunate to beat Ohio State in the semifinal," said Marco Blume, the trading director at the online bookmaker Pinnacle.
"I'd vote for a donkey with a red rose on it," said Jason Vardy, a bookmaker, referring to the symbol for Labour.
The current favorite for the role, bookmaker Ladbrokes told CNN, is Jim Broadbent -- who's closely followed by fellow Oscar winner Gary Oldman.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is currently predicting there's a 27 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc in the upcoming referendum.
Pinnacle, the bookmaker, ultimately suspended bets 13 hours before the match pitting Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero against Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot.
Bookmaker Paddy Power narrowed its odds on a Brexit to 7/4, or 36 percent, from 2/1, or 33 percent, on Monday.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is currently predicting there's a 29 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc in an upcoming referendum.
The house, or bookmaker, sets a line that's meant to convince an equal number of bettors to take each side of a wager.
Victoria jumped to the top spot at 8/1 within the first minute of the baby news announcement, according to bookmaker William Hill.
The bookmaker added that it had been hit for more than £4 million ($4.96 million) by punters who'd backed Donald Trump to win.
An ad for a full-time Trump bookmaker was posted last week, and hundreds of applicants have applied for the job, Price said.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is currently predicting there's a 33 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc at the upcoming referendum.
Ladbrokes, a bookmaker, has cut its odds on her winning a third consecutive term for her party; it gives her a 69% chance.
So sure is Irish bookmaker Paddy Power of the outcome of Saturday's fight that they have already paid out on a Mayweather victory.
British gambling firm GVC Holdings forecast higher cost synergies following its £4 billion ($5.4 billion) acquisition of bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral late last year.
Its rivals have expanded through mergers with the tie-up between Ladbrokes and Coral toppling William Hill as Britain biggest high street bookmaker.
On Sports Gambling LAS VEGAS — Jimmy Vaccaro has spent four decades as a bookmaker watching money move through an increasingly lucrative sports market.
Depending on the bookmaker, the team is still the fifth favorite or so to win it, behind only Germany, Brazil, France and Spain.
But a source at a major bookmaker told Reuters under the condition of anonymity that it is ultimately up to the authorities to act.
Bookmaker William Hill suspended betting on which year May would leave office and narrowed its odds on a second Brexit referendum to 6/4.
It was joined by bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair, which dropped 4.3 percent after Credit Suisse began coverage of the stock with an "underperform" rating.
Outside of the blue chips, bookmaker William Hill surged 4.8 percent after confirming it had received a takeover bid from Rank and 888 Holdings.
Websites such as Betfair, owned by high-street bookmaker Paddy Power, work as peer-to-peer gambling exchanges so punters bet with each other.
The bookmaker announced a 22 percent increase in its 2016 operating profit but registered an overall pre-tax loss of £204.3 million last year.
The Foxy Bingo owner's announcement on Thursday, the third time in a year it has been in talks with the bookmaker, was a surprise.
His father, Louie, who had been brought to the United States as an infant by his Lebanese parents, made his living as a bookmaker.
The bookmaker William Hill, based in London, has become a dominant operator of sports books in Nevada, where betting on games is already legal.
While it is impossible to corroborate with total certainty, both Smith at ESIC and Blume believe Pinnacle to be the world's largest esports bookmaker.
Bookmaker Paddy Power said on Thursday it had cut the odds of a second election taking place in 2016 to 6/4 from 4/1.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair was another big faller, dropping over 3 percent after Credit Suisse began its coverage of the stock with an "underperform" rating.
Shares of Ladbrokes Coral topped the Stoxx 600, up just over 29 percent after bookmaker GVC Holdings offered to buy the firm for £3.9 billion.
Bookmaker Paddy Power is one of the stocks expected to be promoted into the FTSE 100 during the LSE's quarterly review of the index's constituents.
L is considering merging its U.S. business with fantasy sports company FanDuel to target the U.S. sports betting market, the Irish bookmaker said on Wednesday.
His sister Maureen McManus was married to Michael J. Spillane, a bookmaker, loan shark and, by all accounts, gentleman gangster who was known as Mickey.
William Hill sank over 6 percent, making it Europe's worst performer, after the U.K. bookmaker rejected a revised takeover proposal by Rank Group and 888 Holdings.
A British bookmaker, William Hill, has spent years building facilities there to offer gambling—itself a big bet that the American ban would be struck down.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is currently predicting there's a 33 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc in an upcoming referendum on June 23.
After speaking to both the Gambling Commission and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), both agree that the licenced bookmaker is ultimately responsible for the affiliate's behaviour.
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power on Tuesday said 91 percent of bets on the election in the last two days have been backing Trump, the Republican nominee.
He spent nearly four years at bookmaker William Hill, in Australia, during which time he helped boost betting on NBA games with new products and promotions.
And even with Fisher reportedly in talks for a contract extension, some bookmaker websites list him as the favorite to become the season's first fired coach.
"All Square" is a comedy-drama about a bookmaker in a slump that's directly related to the environment in which he's forced to ply his trade.
"When I started, it was loose-leaf notebooks and colored pens," said Roxy Roxborough, a legendary bookmaker who began working in Las Vegas in the 23s.
This form of wagering, which accounts for 22 percent of sports bets worldwide, according to the bookmaker William Hill, is becoming increasingly popular among N.F.L. fans.
It also has reduced its sponsorship agreement with William Hill, a bookmaker whose logo is no longer on display on courts at this year's Australian Open.
Another British bookmaker, William Hill, which put Thunberg at odds of 8/13, said Wednesday that 96% of Nobel Peace Prize bets had been placed on Thunberg.
According to bookmaker Betfair the odds on Britain staying in the EU have swung to 75 percent since Barack Obama gave explicit backing to the Remain campaign.
Disappointing results from the country's fourth largest supermarket group Morrisons and bookmaker William Hill weighed, although battered tobacco firm Imperial Brands provided support after a reassuring update.
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - British bookmaker William Hill said on Thursday its chief executive, James Henderson, was stepping down with immediate effect, without giving any further details.
Depending on which bookmaker you frequent, if you like McGregor to win, you can get anywhere from 6-1 to 10-1 on the proposition right now.
The bookmaker said betting odds indicated there was now a 69 percent chance of Britain remaining in the EU with a 31 percent chance of Britain leaving.
As the Duchess of Cambridge labored in the hospital, an aircraft hired by bookmaker Ladbrokes circled low overhead, towing a banner listing odds on the baby's name.
The strange tale involves a Cinderella team, a bookmaker eager for publicity and, most important, a portly, middle-aged goalkeeper with a taste for meat and potatoes.
It already makes profit from Dream Team, a fantasy football game, and soon The Sun will become a bookmaker, with Sun Bets expected to launch this year.
Shaddick explained that the odds are based on how much money the bookmaker receives: the more money it receives for a vote to remain, the lower the odds.
Another issue that may have contributed to the miss is the relatively similar mindset among bettors generally, according to Joe Crilly, a press officer for bookmaker William Hill.
William Hill Plc was considering a sale of its Australian business after the British bookmaker complained that a regulatory crackdown will put pressure on profits in the country.
An online gambling house called BookMaker took bets on how many "false statements" Trump would make in his eight-minute speech, with the over-under set at 3.5.
Paddy Power, a large bookmaker in the United Kingdom and Ireland that had been offering odds on the show's final season since August, has stopped taking bets, too.
DraftKings rival FanDuel Inc, which recently merged with Irish bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair PLC, has a sportsbook at Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey, but no online product yet.
The company, Britain's largest high street bookmaker, has expanded through partnerships and of late has been focusing on the sports-betting and gaming opportunities in the United States.
Sticking with the sector, bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair fell to the bottom of travel and leisure, closing 3.35 percent down, with rival William Hill also ending sharply lower.
In the late 1800s, his firm, Kelly and Bliss, ran betting halls in Manhattan and was the chief bookmaker at New York tracks like Morris Park and Sheepshead Bay.
On Saturday, bookmaker Betfair cut the odds of a vote to stay, after the ORB poll, giving a probability of 70 percent, down from 78 percent earlier this week.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair rose 3.4 percent to the top of the FTSE 100, with traders citing relief after England was knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia.
In Bed-Stuy, "obtaining a legitimate mortgage became a kind of underground enterprise like locating a bookmaker," Milton Galamison, a civil rights leader and prominent minister, wrote in 1963.
Still on the earnings front, forecast-beating third quarter results drove up shares in Finnish tyre maker Nokian Tyres by some 6 percent, while British bookmaker Paddy Power PPB.
The bank has a former CEO of a major Irish stock market company among its ranks, deputy chairman Patrick Kennedy, who led bookmaker Paddy Power from 2006 to 2014.
Ladbrokes Coral — which de-throned William Hill as the country's largest bookmaker after a merger last year — made about 800 million pounds of revenue from gaming machines in 2016.
The ultimate aim for any affiliate tipster is to get you to sign up for an account with a major bookmaker through their link, and start following their tips.
Former world number 187 Nick Lindahl appeared in court just hours after a top global bookmaker suspended betting after heavy gambling on a mixed doubles match at Melbourne Park.
Power is a multimillionaire, but for Cheltenham he stands on a box and writes tickets beneath the banner of Richard Power Bookmaker, the company his grandfather started in 1898.
Bulgarian authorities have been unable to create a proper law governing sports betting for a long time with Eurofootball being the sole bookmaker in the country for many years.
The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said Tuesday that 6900 percent of the bets it took in over a 2628-hour period this week were laid behind the GOP nominee.
Buying shares in his stock might also be a way for fans to place an unconventional bet on the potential success of the Falcons, without going to a bookmaker.
When Bookmaker was ready to post the odds again on Sunday, it considered making heads an 53-1 or even a 10-1 favorite, before settling on 6-1.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former London mayor and leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson is the favorite to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister, bookmaker Ladbrokes said in a statement on Friday.
British bookmaker William Hill will pay 27.8 million pounds ($8.7 million) as a penalty for breaching anti-money laundering and social responsibility regulations, the Gambling Commission said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The odds of Britain leaving the European Union shortened on Sunday after reports that influential London mayor Boris Johnson would back the 'leave' campaign, bookmaker Ladbrokes said.
On the STOXX 600, Europe's best performer was William Hill, ending up 10.6 percent, after the U.K. Bookmaker announced that its CEO James Henderson was stepping down with immediate effect.
No matter how fun it is to root for the underdog, it's still not too late to run to your friendly bookmaker and put down a punt on the Dubs.
The company, which sealed a deal to buy Britain's largest bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral last month, said it expects full-year net gaming revenue from Ladbrokes of around 1 billion euros.
An Irish bookmaker, Paddy Power, was so confident of his chances that it paid out £400,20123 ($640,000) two days before the election to people who had bet on Mr Obama.
LONDON (Reuters) - British bookmaker odds indicated a 17 percent probability that Prime Minister Theresa May would call a snap general election after media speculation she could go to the polls.
They are so fascinated about him, in fact, that one of the largest betting companies here is hiring a full-time bookmaker just to handle the crush of Trump wagers.
The affiliate accounts are only currently regulated by the bookmakers, with the ASA not having a test case for bookmaker affiliate marketing and the Gambling Commission not actively policing them.
William Hill rejected a 3.16 billion pound ($4.11 billion) bid by smaller rivals Rank Group and 888 Holdings on Tuesday, saying a 16 percent premium "substantially undervalued" the British bookmaker.
DUBLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Paddy Power Betfair is to challenge tax bills from Germany and Greece worth a combined 55 million euros (49 million pounds), the bookmaker said on Wednesday.
Paddy Power, a British bookmaker, is the sponsor of the 2018 version, arguably a more appropriate backer than the one behind the 2016 tournament, the United Fishing Industrialists of Abkhazia.
A men's doubles match at Wimbledon last week — Marrero and Fernando Verdasco's loss to João Sousa and Leonardo Mayer — was reported to anticorruption investigators after a bookmaker observed suspicious betting.
He complained about the news media coverage of his campaign to Joey Pisacano, a former bookmaker, and Anthony (Bowat) Baratta, a one-time reputed captain in the Lucchese crime family.
"Bet365 does not sponsor the FA or the FA Cup and does not have any direct commercial agreement with the FA," the bookmaker said in a statement to the BBC.
Allegations of match-fixing surfaced at the Australian Open when a top global bookmaker suspended betting on a mixed doubles match last Sunday after unusually large amounts were bet on it.
Australia's gambling industry has seen much change this year with the country's biggest bookmaker Tabcorp Holding buying lottery owner Tatts Group for $4.7 billion this month to create a gambling powerhouse.
William Hill fell 3.1 percent to the bottom of the index after the bookmaker said it would remodel its retail business after warning that full-year profit will fall 15 percent.
LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The odds of Britain leaving the European Union shortened on Sunday after reports that influential London mayor Boris Johnson would back the 'leave' campaign, bookmaker Ladbrokes said.
Ladbrokes Coral, which dethroned William Hill as the UK's largest bookmaker after merging with Coral in 2016, said it expects full-year net gaming revenue to be around 1 billion euros.
The mom-and-pop employees ducked as the nimble gunman found his target, a bookmaker who had defied Raymond L. S. Patriarca, the coal-eyed head of New England organized crime.
Daily fantasy sports company and bookmaker DraftKings reached a deal to merge with Diamond Eagles Acquisition group in December, allowing the company to become public while forgoing the typical IPO process.
Juppe's London bookmaker odds of between 7-to-1 and 12-to-1 give him an implied chance of winning of just 9.1 percent on average, according to Betfair web site.
With one British bookmaker reportedly offering odds of 3-1 on the Spaniard not seeing out the season, the driver moved to reassure fans that he had no intention of walking away.
"On the eve of the referendum the odds are still firmly implying a 76 percent chance of a vote to remain," Naomi Totten, spokesperson for bookmaker Betfair, said in a press release.
A gambling site is paying out thousands of dollars to people who correctly bet that President Donald Trump would tell more than 3.5 lies in his Oval Office address on Tuesday. Bookmaker.
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is known for its PR stunts and it did not hold back when the then presidential candidate Trump visited his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, in June 2016.
The Times Britain's biggest bookmaker, William Hill, insisted that it had a strong independent future yesterday after rejecting a 3.2 billion pound joint takeover bid from Rank Group and 888 Holdings. bit.
"We've picked up a lot of interest from (French) expats who can have a bet here but can't have a bet in Paris," said Graham Sharpe of William Hill, a British bookmaker.
GVC Holdings said that it is "detailed discussions" to acquire a majority stake in rival British bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral Group, in a deal that could value Ladbrokes at upwards of $5.2 billion.
British bookmaker William Hill Plc and Amaya abandoned merger talks in October, after the deal was thrown into doubt when a leading investor in William Hill said it would oppose the plan.
"Bettors perceive these teams as two of the most potent, pass-happy teams in the league, and they witnessed them score 65 points in a Week 8 shootout," Scott Cooley of Bookmaker.
Other digital media brands like Barstool Sports are making plays for betting audiences, as are traditional media companies like Fox, which partnered with a Canadian bookmaker to launch a sportsbook this year.
Joe Asher, CEO of William Hill US, the American arm of the British bookmaker that runs several sportsbooks in this country, said the league's request is a solution in search of a problem.
Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Alexander and Chairman Lee Feldman together sold 3 million GVC shares at a discounted price of 666 pence, seen by investors as a lack of confidence in the bookmaker.
Britain's largest high street bookmaker said the impact of the new regulations on core earnings would be 21 million pounds ($20.7794 million) in 2020, lower than its earlier estimate of 145 million pounds.
I rose 6.7 percent after the bookmaker said it was in discussions regarding a potential combination of its U.S. business and fantasy sports company Fanduel to target the prospective U.S. sports betting market.
An Irish bookmaker was left red faced on Wednesday morning after its decision to pay out early to customers who had bet on a Hillary Clinton victory in the U.S. election proved costly.
LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - British bookmaker William Hill will pay 6.2 million pounds ($8.7 million) as a penalty for breaching anti-money laundering and social responsibility regulations, the Gambling Commission said on Tuesday.
Hammond is the person most likely to replace George Osborne as finance minister at 2/7, according to bookmaker Ladbrokes, followed by Chris Grayling at 4/1 and Sajid Javid at 6/1.
LONDON (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen is now second-favorite to win power in next year's presidential election, just behind conservative Alain Juppe, British bookmaker William Hill said.
They included online gambling company GVC's purchase of bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for as much as 22018 billion pounds ($21 billion) and Hammerson's 20.7446 billion pound acquisition of rival shopping centre operator Intu Properties.
They included online gambling company GVC's purchase of bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for as much as 22018 billion pounds ($5.24 billion) and Hammerson's 3.4 billion pound acquisition of rival shopping center operator Intu Properties.
One local bookmaker says it has already paid out A$500,000 to punters who backed world number two Federer to retain the title he won in a thriller against Rafael Nadal last year.
William Hill became the first "official wagering partner" of the Australian Open last year, and this year advertisements for the British bookmaker adorned the three main showcourts at Melbourne Park for the first time.
For instance, Reuters reported that bookmaker Betfair had calculated at the weekend a 70 percent probability of a vote to remain (although this was down from a 78 percent probability earlier in the week).
British oddsmakers are already predicting names for the royal baby, with Victoria jumping to the top spot at 8/1 within the first minute of the baby news announcement, according to bookmaker William Hill.
Tabcorp jumped 1.94 percent at $4.72 per share, after The Mail on Sunday reported that British bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral planned to make a 33 billion pound ($2.5 billion) bid for the Australian betting company.
Bookmaker odds, which rarely wavered this year showing 'Remain' as the most likely outcome, have lengthened on an exit even further and now show only a 20 percent chance of a vote to go.
The consortium, also including Morgan Stanley Infrastructure and First State Superannuation Scheme, has the advantage of not needing approval from the competition regulator, which is closely examining the offer from Tabcorp, Australia's biggest bookmaker.
After all, the name of his show, "My Guys in the Desert," came from a phrase he uttered often to signal this was what his bookmaker friends here were thinking about the upcoming game.
SOFIA, March 25 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's gambling commission on Wednesday suspended the licence of the country's first private bookmaker Eurofootball for three months, citing unpaid taxes to the state between December 2014 and December 2019.
LONDON (Reuters) - British bookmaker William Hill said on Monday it was offering an "In" vote at the shortest odds since the date of next month's referendum on European Union membership was announced in February.
Shares of U.K. bookmaker William Hill surged as much as 11 percent after online gambling group 888 Holdings and casino operator Rank Group said they were joining forces to make a bid for the company.
"If this had gone through 10 years ago, it would have made a difference," Marisa Lankester, a former bookmaker whose memoir, "Dangerous Odds," is being turned into a movie starring Margot Robbie, told Fox News.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Having inspired thousands around the world to protest for climate action, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg has become the favorite to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, according to Britain's leading bookmaker.
"We lost an awful lot of money on the general election last year and that was because we relied too much on the polls," Matthew Shaddick, Head of Political Odds at bookmaker Ladbrokes , told Reuters.
At Ladbrokes, the only major bookmaker betting on the No. 2 slot, Mr. Christie's odds of being the Republican nominee for vice president were 8 to 1 before a few bets alerted it to the endorsement.
"As with George and Charlotte, [William and Kate] chose close and trusted friends and aides, rather than immediate family members," Jessica Bridge, a representative for British bookmaker Ladbrokes, said in a statement, according to People magazine.
UK bookmaker Ladbrokes says some of the people who bet on Trump and Brexit — and reaped the rewards — are trying their luck again with Le Pen, despite the strong lead enjoyed by centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron.
LONDON, May 79.2 (Reuters) - British bookmaker William Hill said on Monday it was offering an "In" vote at the shortest odds since the date of next month's referendum on European Union membership was announced in Feburary.
British bookmaker William Hill rose 0.5 percent after saying its adjusted operating profit for 2017 would rise 11 percent year-on-year, beating analyst expectations, thanks to strong trading in recent weeks and favourable sporting results.
One bookmaker, Sky Bet, told The Associated Press it paid out 4.6 million pounds ($6.8 million) to bettors who picked Leicester to win the title, with 128 putting money on the team at those enormous odds.
Outside of the blue chips, bookmaker Ladbrokes surged 6.5 percent after the British competition regulator said that Ladbrokes and Gala Coral would have to sell between 350 to 400 shops to win clearance for their merger.
But while one British bookmaker, William Hill, has said it is on the hook for about 2 million pounds (about $2.9 million) in payouts, some Leicester backers will not get a full return on their wagers.
Bookmaker GVC Holdings has offered to buy Ladbrokes Coral for up to $5.2 billion to create a global online and high street betting giant able to take on rivals and cope with a tougher regulatory environment.
Shares in the British bookmaker were up nearly 20.7510 percent at 144 pence by 1110 GMT, as analysts at Deutsche Bank said market forecasts for full-year operating profit were likely to increase 5-8 percent.
Outside of the blue chips, bookmaker Ladbrokes surged 10.9 percent after the British competition regulator said that Ladbrokes and Gala Coral would have to sell between 350 to 400 shops to win clearance for their merger.
" While United States-based customers are unlikely to be prosecuted for making offshore bets, Wallach, an attorney and founder of Wallach Legal LLC, says, "No regulated bookmaker in the U.S. would accept those kinds of wagers.
L has agreed to merge its U.S. business with fantasy sports company FanDuel to target the U.S. sports betting market that is set to open up in the coming years, the Irish bookmaker said on Wednesday.
He was living on the streets of Toronto and checking pay phones for change when a bookmaker named Bertie Mignacco took Mr. Bozic under his wing, enlisting him as an errand boy and, later, a debt collector.
The bookmaker has priced him at 4/1 to be re-elected come 2020, 20/1 to build a wall spanning "the entirety" of the U.S.-Mexican border, and evens to make Russia his first international visit.
Cineworld agreed a $3.6 billion reverse takeover of U.S. cinema business Regal Entertainment while online gambling company GVC also disclosed it was holding in-depth talks about a potential 3.9 billion-pound acquisition of bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral.
Bowcock and his team will have the job of turning around the bookmaker which has struggled to keep pace with the rapid growth of online gambling and missed out on consolidation in the sector in recent years.
If you fancy a bet, the John Gosden-trained colt Without Parole is the favorite at 6-4 at UK bookmaker William Hill, followed by Gustav Klimt at 5-1 and Beat The Bank at 6-1.
Back in November, when Trump surprised the world by beating Hillary Clinton, U.K. bookmaker Ladbrokes gave odds of 3-1 (a 10003 percent chance) that Trump would leave office via impeachment or resignation during his first term.
Back in November, when Trump surprised the world by beating Hillary Clinton, U.K. bookmaker Ladbrokes gave odds of 3-1 (a 25 percent chance) that Trump would leave office via impeachment or resignation during his first term.
As of Monday afternoon, bookmaker Paddy Power had Winfrey at odds of 10-85033 to win the 2020 presidential election — second only to Trump himself, and the same odds offered for Vice President Pence, Biden and Sen.
While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one-point lead over Fianna Fail, bookmaker Paddy Power said on Tuesday that it made Fianna Fail slight favorites to win the most seats at the next election.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes said the ORB poll had caused it to shorten its odds on Brexit to 9/4 from 11/4 previously, implying a rise in the likelihood of a 'Leave' vote to 30 percent from 27 percent.
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Bookmaker GVC Holdings has offered to buy Ladbrokes Coral for around 3.9 billion pounds ($5.2 billion) to create an online global betting giant that brings together some of the biggest brands in the industry.
LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - British bookmaker William Hill said it remained firmly opposed to engaging with 888 Holdings and Rank Group after the two companies set out more details of their unsolicited 3.16 billion pound ($4.11 billion) approach.
In early March, Feldman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Alexander together sold 3 million GVC shares at a discounted price of 666 pence per share, which was seen by investors as a lack of confidence in the bookmaker.
Britain's secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nicky Morgan said in a tweet here "things have moved on since the contract was signed" and hoped the governing body would reconsider its relationship with the bookmaker.
In August, the bookmaker cut its forecast for underlying core earnings or EBITDA to 460-480 million pounds ($353 million) from 20183-495 million pounds due to the introduction of additional taxes and losses from its growing U.S. business.
GVC shares tanked in March after CEO Alexander and Chairman Feldman together sold 3 million shares of the company at a discounted price of 666 pence, a move seen by investors as a lack of confidence in the bookmaker.
Of the state's potential betting sites, Monmouth Park Racetrack, near the Jersey Shore, is the furthest along, having partnered with a British bookmaker, William Hill, years ago to build a sports bar in anticipation of sports betting being legalized.
Among mid-caps, bookmaker William Hill rallied 10.6 percent, recovering its post-Brexit losses, after the company fired Chief Executive James Henderson because the bookmaker's board said he was failing to deliver enough growth in online and international gambling.
Quarterly revenue was flat on constant currency terms as the company said customer activity in its main market of Britain and Ireland was hit by a sustained period of bookmaker friendly sports results and a high level of racing fixture cancellations.
The deal is set to be officially announced on Tuesday after the service was rolled out late last week in New Jersey, where FanDuel, a unit of Irish bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair PLC, has the largest market share of all sportsbooks.
LONDON, May 33 (Reuters) - Bookmaker William Hill has cut its odds of Britons voting to remain in the European Union in a June 23 referendum to 1/6, the shortest odds to date and indicating a probability of 85 percent.
LONDON (Reuters) - The chance of British voters opting to leave the European Union has risen 3 percentage points to 34 percent following finance minister George Osborne's warning that a Brexit would cost each household thousands of pounds, bookmaker Ladbrokes said.
He's forced to use these alias accounts because, thanks to his record, he is either banned from every major online bookmaker or so limited that he can't put close to enough on to contribute to his £2,500 per match total bet.
These are ships on which, in 1786, the poet Robert Burns booked and then canceled passage to Jamaica, where he intended to take up a job as a bookmaker on a slave plantation — changing his mind only when his poetry found success.
A swing in bookmaker odds towards Britain choosing to remain in the EU, following the murder of a British lawmaker last week, helped boost currencies like the Australian and New Zealand dollars, considered riskier investments because of their ties to commodity prices.
Revenue from online channels — a key area for the company — was up 5 percent on strong growth in the UK. However, first-half pretax profit fell 11 percent as the bookmaker had to pay out on wins for well-backed soccer teams.
Betfred, a bookmaker, is giving odds of 2/5 that he will triumph on the Court Philippe Chatrier—an implied chance of about 71%, though bookies tend to exaggerate these by a couple of percentage points in order to guarantee a profit.
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of hedging against sharp swings in sterling surged to its highest in almost six years on Wednesday, three months before a June referendum on Britain's European Union membership, and coinciding with narrowing bookmaker odds on a vote to leave.
LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - The chance of British voters opting to leave the European Union has risen 3 percentage points to 34 percent following finance minister George Osborne's warning that a Brexit would cost each household thousands of pounds, bookmaker Ladbrokes said.
A swing in bookmaker odds toward Britain choosing to remain in the EU, following the murder of a British lawmaker last week, helped boost currencies like the Australian and New Zealand dollars, considered riskier investments because of their ties to commodity prices.
Britain's biggest bookmaker at the start of 2015, William Hill is set to lose its leading market position in the gambling sector as rival Ladbrokes Plc overtakes it in number of betting shops when it merges with Gala Coral later this year.
The bookmaker grew full year earnings by 21.25 percent, ahead of its guidance, and said the full integration of its businesses following a 21 merger would free up resources to develop new products either side of key trading at June's soccer World Cup.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Top Australian bookmaker Tabcorp Holdings said it will sell a small compliance unit to address antitrust worries about a A$6.4 billion ($2016 billion) takeover of rival Tatts Group, sending both firms' shares up as investors bet the deal will proceed.
The accusations amount to one of the largest scandals to hit the New York Police Department in recent years, a throwback to corruption dating to the 29s, when a Brooklyn bookmaker enlisted officers as muscle for his $20-million-a-year operation.
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power says odds are now 13-1 that Trump will be impeached before the end of his first term, with treason (10-3) the most likely reason, followed by tax evasion (21-2100), perjury (21-21000) and bribery (21-216).
This week, he wrote about the first legal sports book set to open in the country outside of Nevada, where Monmouth Park racetrack and William Hill US, a bookmaker, invested $3 million in their business in 2013, five years before it would operate.
LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Online gambling firm GVC is nearing a deal to acquire British bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for as much as 3.9 billion pounds ($5.2 billion) and could announce it as soon as Friday, two sources familiar with the matter said.
GVC's offer values Ladbrokes Coral at 160.9 pence per share, equating to a total equity value of around 3.1 billion pounds, plus a contingent fee of up to 42.8 pence a share, meaning the bookmaker could be valued at as much as 3.9 billion pounds.
The company, which is scheduled to report second quarter earnings Thursday, announced separate agreements with a European bookmaker and a U.S.-based regional casino operator that will give it technological expertise and market access in several states where it doesn&apost already operate casino-resorts.
"So sure-footed for so long, Mr Osborne was widely regarded as Cameron's natural and chosen successor, but recent blunders seem to have dealt him a serious blow to achieving that outcome and punters have begun defecting from him to Boris," bookmaker William Hill said.
LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) - British bookmaker Betfair has slashed the odds on French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon winning next month's election to 11/1 from 979/1 last month, the company said on Tuesday, as the far-left candidate surges in the polls.
Still in the matter of corporate governance, LSE added 0.1 percent after a push by activist hedge fund TCI to oust its chairman was heavily defeated on Tuesday, and bookmaker William Hill was up 0.4 percent after it named Roger Devlin its chairman-designate.
Paddy Power Betfair rose 6.3 percent after the bookmaker said it was in discussions to combine its U.S. business and fantasy sports company Fanduel to target the U.S. after a Supreme Court ruling on Monday paved the way for states to legalise sports gambling.
I. GVC's offer values Ladbrokes Coral at 164.4 pence per share, equating to a total equity value of around 3.2 billion pounds, plus a contingent fee of up to 42.8 pence a share, meaning the bookmaker could be valued at about 4 billion pounds.
Last week, Irish bookmaker BoyleSports suspended wagers after the odds on Bran shortened from 2-to-1 (which implies about a 33 percent probability of winning) to 1-to-4 (an 80 percent implied probability of winning) in the space of just two weeks.
Bookmaker Paddy Power said large amounts of money was being bet on odds of 6/4 that Trump will resign, forcing the company to cut the odds to even money (where the profit on the bet will be the same as the amount staked).
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bookmaker FanDuel has signed a deal with Switzerland's Sportradar AG to allow sports fans to place wagers on a game while they are watching it on a mobile app, company executives said on Monday, a first for the nascent U.S. sports betting market.
One theory holds that the Brexit market was swayed by a small number of big bets by optimistic "remain" voters, who tended to be richer than those who supported "leave" (indeed, Ladbrokes, a bookmaker, has said that the majority of individual wagers were placed for "leave").
English soccer's governing body agreed a media rights deal with IMG in January 3653 and bookmaker Bet365 then acquired the rights to show FA Cup games live from the 2018-19 season, before the FA had ceased all commercial agreements with gambling firms in June that year.
A Brooklyn-born former boxer and bookmaker nicknamed Little Nicky — he stood 28 feet 21929 inches tall and weighed 2100 pounds — Mr. Scarfo was known for a volatile temper and a penchant for wanton violence and vengeance as he rose to become a feared organized-crime figure.
He anticipated that digital sports betting would become legal, and he agreed with Jason Robins, the DraftKings chief executive, that the gaming-industry giants everyone assumed would dominate the U.S. market — the English bookmaker William Hill or maybe Bally's or Caesars — were actually at a disadvantage.
With the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power putting Mr. Sisi's odds of losing at 20133 in 500, most Egypt watchers are already looking past the vote that starts Monday to his next challenge: whether he can change the Constitution to extend his rule beyond the current eight-year limit.
I've got online accounts with pretty much every major bookmaker, I'm a member of a couple of the casinos in Leicester Square, a couple of poker clubs, and have been to Vegas enough times that I could have probably put a down-payment on a house with the airfare alone.
Joe Asher, the chief executive of William Hill US, a bookmaker, cautioned that it might take a few years for the big advertising money to find its way to national channels like ESPN, Fox and NBC, as states need to go through the legislative process to legalize and regulate sports betting.
As a young priest, he was assigned to the Church of St. Vito in Mamaroneck, N.Y. He quipped that "Vito, a name that seemed more appropriate for a bookmaker than for a martyr, was the patron saint of broken legs," Mr. McDonald wrote in his book "Last Call at Elaine's" (2008).
"In the 30 years since launching the award we have occasionally considered but never ultimately awarded, a dead heat but the (six) judges found it impossible to separate these two jointly deserving but very different books," said award co-founder Graham Sharpe, who recently retired after working for the British bookmaker for 45 years.
There are four types of sports-betting operators in the US today, Kansal said:Daily-fantasy-sports companies like FanDuel and DraftKingsEstablished European operators that are pushing into the US, like William Hill, Bet365, and 888 HoldingsIncumbent casinos defending their grounds in gamingOther players like the media-bookmaker hybrid TheScore and the online sportsbook operator PointsBet.
"The quality of the data, the speed of the data and in some instances the data may allow us to offer prop bets that other people can't have," said Robin Chhabra, the chief executive of Fox Bet, a bookmaker created by a deal between Fox Sports and The Stars Group, which runs several gambling brands.
The Times Britain's biggest bookmaker William Hill Plc said it would listen to any proposal that might be forthcoming after receiving a "highly preliminary approach" over the weekend, but cautioned: "It is not clear a combination of William Hill with 23 Holdings Plc and Rank Group Plc will enhance William Hill's strategic positioning or deliver superior value to William Hill's strategy." bit.
The chances that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE will be impeached are rising, according to one Irish bookmaker, one day after Trump refused to denounce Russian meddling in the 2016 election following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Here is where they put the probability as of Sunday of each candidate winning the election: PredictIt, an online trading platform jointly run by Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm Aristotle International Inc: Clinton - 81 percent Trump - 20 percent Iowa Electronic Markets, winner-takes-all trading market: Clinton - 71 percent Trump - 28 percent UK-based Betfair, internet betting exchange: Clinton - 83 percent Trump - 18 percent UK-based Ladbrokes, online betting platform: Clinton - 83 percent Trump - 22 percent Ireland's Paddy Power, bookmaker: Clinton - 83 percent Trump - 18 percent Probabilities were as of roughly 6:30 p.m.
British citizens are due to vote on June 23 on their country's future relationship with the EU. In an interview from Washington on Friday, British finance minister George Osborne told CNBC that "leaving would cause an economic shock and a long-term economic cost for the U.K." Osborne added that the referendum is "a big democratic exercise" that helped to resolve uncertainty about the U.K.'s role in the EU. He told CNBC that he hopes Britain will remain in the union and then "get to work on reforming the EU." Bookmaker Ladbrokes is predicting a 33 percent chance that Britons will vote to leave the European bloc.

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