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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.
Who really knows where the EU referendum is headed: the pollsters, or the bookies?
A games experts explains the more complex ways to gamble on Euro 2016 and what the risks are.
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.
Computers could help Blackjack players get much better at card counting in the future.
Egg roulette, terrible passing stats and the odd pizza. The psychology that builds success.
Even before the Grand National’s official starting date of 1839, British horse racing saw plenty of drama.
Simply filling out a bracket – even with random or uninformed choices – is enough to boost your confidence in success, and to get you to put more money on the line.
Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. Wanna bet?
Instead of fixating on polling and pundits, you might as well go straight to the bookies.
Fans are entitled to feel ripped off by revelations of match fixing in tennis; the sport’s officials have let us down.
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?
A Deal or No Deal-inspired experiment shows people act with excessive caution when they’re in the limelight.
In-play football bets may prove tempting, but they’re engineered so that the odds fall firmly in the bookmakers’ favour.
Pollsters don’t aim to predict the results, but that doesn’t stop the media trying. Maybe they should ask William Hill who will win instead.
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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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently Vice-Chancellor at MILA University, Malaysia), University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Behaviour & Social Change, University of Technology Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow, CQUniversity Australia
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Lord Kelvin Adam Smith research fellow at the University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Sociology, University of York
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Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle