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If you are a sports fan, odds are very good that at one point or another you’ve got engaged in some form of sports betting. You may are already involved in a fantasy pool, you could have bet a beer with a buddy, you could even have placed a few of bets on the outcome of the Super Bowl or March Madness.
Although sports gambling is so common it really is almost natural (in reality, it has been a part of human culture for as long as sport itself), the fact is that many forms of sports gambling we engage in are in reality illegal. This is particularly true if you are living in Canada or the United States Of America.
The big argument against gambling on most sports in these countries is a belief that betting on sports has the possibility to undermine the integrity of the game. Although within the past this tended to hold true with all sports, today it is more a problem with minor sports and collegiate level athletics than the professional leagues.
The reasoning due to this, as always, is fairly clear-cut. Athletes who are receiving little if any money for playing their sport will be more susceptible to bribes from individuals with a vested monetary interest within the game they are playing. Whenever you are playing for nothing though the joy of it, the offer of a couple of thousand dollars to throw the game can be very tempting. Sports history is rife with examples of athletes both minor and pro that have succumbed to this temptation.
Legalities aside, it really is fairly obvious that sports betting is still a significant part of our culture. In reality, it really is quite rare to hear of circumstances through which anyone beyond those directly involved with the game even get in trouble for engaging in sports betting. Those involved would include coaches, officials, and players, rarely those betting on the game itself.
In fact, you can state that sports quality gambling is just about an “open crime” these days. Odds and money lines are posted on all of the major sports channels, and bookmakers operate online with relative impunity. You can find little if any efforts to stop mass betting on sports, which seems to indicate that in the end the laws prohibiting the activity will be done away with for good.
Within the meantime, even though, if you want to get a piece of betting action on a sport but want to stay well in the law, you can find a couple of ways to do it. Let’s take a quick look.
Pari-mutuel betting: There are actually certain sports in which the government actually endorses betting. This type of betting is known as pari-mutuel, or revenue shared, gambling. Strictly regulated, it applies only to dog and horse racing, and jai alai. All of these events are quite short, and thus harder to rig in terms of results. And, the federal government gets a cut of all bets!
Go to Vegas! Nevada will be the one state through which sports betting is legal and practiced as well. Again, who knows the real reasons, but you’ll find Nevada bookies ready to take bets from people from coast to coast.
Go online: In most of the rest of the world, sports betting is regulated and not seen as an issue. That suggests that because of the internet, people from North America can place their bets with well known bookies throughout the world. Bookmakers out of Vegas, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, and any number of other countries have a presence online. Just ensure that they are going to take your hard earned money; some are leery of American bettors do to the government’s ambiguity on the issue of sports gambling.
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