People love to bet on the favorite, ask any Vegas Bookie and they will tell you.
By the way, don't call your bookie just yet: court was not in session on Friday.
Because you have to go somewhere to place your bets, and the bookie has to be somewhere.
Owing money to anyone or any entity (the mob, a bookie, a student loan lender) never feels good.
Adventurous gamblers might prefer a broker to a bookie, but they are probably better off just betting on a coin flip.
Obviously it is now very clear that if a match is fixed it's between two people, a bookie and a player.
The police have published a tape recording of a telephone conversation, apparently between Mr Cronje and a bookie, to back their claim.
Tomorrow morning tens of millions of people across Asia will do what they do every day: go and see their bookie and place a bet.
As a result, per head shops popped up where any barroom bookie can pay to login to their own domain where their customers can place bets.
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Ditto for your extra large bookie in the bar corner.
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Even five to six years ago, there were three main ways to bet outside of Nevada: the barroom bookie, online sports books and regulated license books in Europe.
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Hansie Cronje was sacked as captain of South Africa's cricket team after admitting that he had accepted money from an Indian bookie for forecasting the result of a match.
Butt told India's NDTV in the wake of his side's win that "there is loud and clear talk in bookie circles that some English players were paid enormous amounts of money to lose".
The system is marked by trust and informality, and operators are as sketchy with their records as any bookie--they have nothing but a scribble of first names or code words and a few details of the transaction.
Zakaria: I think when you read the SEC's case carefully, frankly the civil case against Goldman is very weak, because what Goldman Sachs did was act as a bookie between two people who wanted to make bets.
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