Games | Sports Betting

Handicapping

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. The word also applies to the various methods by which the advantage is calculated. In principle, a more experienced player is disadvantaged in order [...]
Scoring in tennis

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Score during Andy Roddick vs Cyril Saulnier at the start of the third set
A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, and games, in turn, consist of points.
Matches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player who wins [...]
Darts scoring

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

A double bullseye.
The standard dartboard is divided into twenty numbered sections, scoring from one to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire. Circular wires within the outer wire divide each section into single, double and triple areas.
Various quite different games can be played [...]
Ancient football games

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

A revived version of Kemari being played at the Tanzan Shrine.
Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.
It describes a practice known as cuju (Traditional Chinese: 蹴鞠; Simplified Chinese: [...]
Darts

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Darts in a dartboard
Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game [...]
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

HTML clipboardFixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) are computerised machines normally found in betting shops which allow players to bet on the outcome of various games and events with Fixed Odds. They were introduced to UK shops in 2002, shortly after the abolition of the Betting Tax in October 2001.The most commonly [...]
History of baseball

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

The New York Giants baseball team, circa 1910.
Origins of baseball
The distinct evolution of baseball from among the various bat-and-ball games is difficult to pin down. However, it is mainly agreed that modern baseball is an American development from earlier British games, such as rounders, with possible influences from cricket.
1886 baseball [...]
Parimutuel betting

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Parimutuel betting (from the French language: pari mutuel, mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.The parimutuel system is [...]
Betting strategy

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Betting strategies or betting systems are approaches to gambling intended to increase the odds of winning.
Independent Events
The following betting strategies have been recorded as being applied to games which operate on independent events. For such games, the odds of a particular outcome are identical for every bet played. No such strategy can [...]