The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has weighed in on what the LHC will find first.
Now, at least one online bookmaker is letting bettors speculate on Pope Francis' future.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes has warned that trading was worse than expected in the first three months of 2013.
The bookmaker cannot be sure, but some of the smart money may be coming from the clergy.
Bookmaker Paddy Power has reported "another strong year" after seeing a rise in both profits and revenue.
The UK's largest bookmaker, William Hill, has reported rising profits, helped by revenues from online and in-play betting.
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The 27-year-old allegedly passed on team information to a bookmaker during a one-day series in India January 2007.
He is right: the state has no business to be running a commercial bookmaker, even at arm's length.
There are 30 bookmakers in Medway and each bookmaker is allowed to have four FOBT machines in each shop.
No legal bookmaker in Britain takes bets on the specific timing of no-balls, so no bookmaker can have been defrauded.
"Mr. Bennett was a man of integrity, intelligence, courage, perseverance and he was an East End bookmaker, " the actor says.
When you factor in the bookmaker's "vig"--the charge taken on bets--and the "wisdom of crowds, " breaking the bank is highly unlikely.
After leaving school at 15 the bookmaker's son had a variety of jobs, among them milkman, gardener and apprentice garage mechanic.
Former skipper Maurice Odumbe was handed a five-year ban last August after being found guilty of receiving money from a bookmaker.
U.K. bookmaker Gala Coral Group now thinks it is more likely it won't rain during the opening ceremony than it will.
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Surprisingly, he was not initially banned for admitting to doping horses, but for offences such as giving information to a bookmaker.
Victor Chandler, a leading independent British bookmaker, has responded by transferring its telephone-credit business to Gibraltar, offering low-tax betting to high-rollers.
As a teenager, he met Leslie Bennett, a local bookmaker who also ran a chain of menswear shops where Mr. Marsan worked.
Bookmaker William Hill said betting patterns indicated punters were convinced Marsh would be first out with the result "all over bar the counting".
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Former owner and off-course bookmaker Owen Churchill was excluded for eight years after being found guilty of all four charges brought against him.
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As for the amateurs this year, Steven Fox is the favorite to win the Silver Cup at 5-2, according to online bookmaker Bovada.
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Bookmaker IG Index and Stagecoach transport tycoons Brian Souter and Ann Gloag are among those reported to have made claims against Mr Levene.
One British bookmaker is even offering 10, 000-1 odds that disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong will be chosen to head up the church.
All is not lost for Mr Cable, though: Paddy Power, a bookmaker, reckons his odds of getting the HSBC job are a sporting 100-to-1.
They used to say in Britain that if you want to own a recession-proof business you should buy a pub or become a bookmaker.
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Cricket corruption has been in the spotlight since April 2000 when former South African captain Hansie Cronje admitted receiving money from an illegal Indian bookmaker.
Perhaps belying Ratzinger's prediction, UK bookmaker William Hill has Canadian Marc Ouellet and Ghanaian Mark Turkson are showing as favorites so far, at 7-2 odds.
The bookmaker did, however, list odds on finding the deity itself.
He was banned for passing on team information to a bookmaker during a one-day series in India in January 2007, but still denies any wrongdoing.
Interestingly, almost every online bookmaker is extending the capabilities of these reports and alerts in order to make their software and, by extension their operators, more "clever".
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