This is wild. Who knew you could bet on who'd win the 5th game of the 2nd set of an obscure doubles match.
This is wild. Who knew you could bet on who'd win the 5th game of the 2nd set of an obscure doubles match.
rojo wrote:
This is wild. Who knew you could bet on who'd win the 5th game of the 2nd set of an obscure doubles match.
You've just described how most sports betting is done.
rojo wrote:
This is wild. Who knew you could bet on who'd win the 5th game of the 2nd set of an obscure doubles match.
This is called spot fixing. It’s the white collar crime of match fixing. It’s huge in Britain where sports betting available to all.
Some examples:
Matt Le Tissier famously detailed in his autobiography that he bet on the timing of the first throw-in in a soccer match. He failed when an unaware teammate kept his underhit pass from going out of play.
Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir intentionally bowled no-balls on specific deliveries. It was so obvious that they were doing this and they were banned for a number of years and jailed. Serious stuff.
Snooker player Stephen Lee was banned for match fixing. It’s quite easy to deliberately lose a particular frame in snooker but still win the match. Players have been known to collaborate on this (perhaps agreeing to lose one specific frame each and competing properly in the remaining match).
Can anyone think of a way spot fixing could be done in running or athletics? Maybe you could bet on a foul jump, a false start, or Suzy Favor Hamilton falling over at the end of the Olympic 1500m final (although this was due to a mental health blip rather than spot fixing)?
Seems like this "spot fixing" is for ripping off really dumb people who bet on stupid easily fixable subplots.
If there's anybody betting on who false starts or trips in a race, I don't care if they get ripped off. The world is better off if someone like that goes broke.
This probably happens in England, and they go broke, then smash their Foster's bottle and slash their mate's throat with it. Whatever, what happens in England stays in England.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Seems like this "spot fixing" is for ripping off really dumb people who bet on stupid easily fixable subplots.
If there's anybody betting on who false starts or trips in a race, I don't care if they get ripped off. The world is better off if someone like that goes broke.
This probably happens in England, and they go broke, then smash their Foster's bottle and slash their mate's throat with it. Whatever, what happens in England stays in England.
Foster's is weak p*ss. Stella Artois is the go-to for violent behaviour.
Tennis is one of the most crooked sports for a number of reasons.
As an individual sport, it is inherently easy to fix.
The structure of matches makes it very, very easy to throw a match. All one has to do is lose a few games on one's serve and convincingly lose on the other's serve all the time and one loses the match. An entire match might turn on a few points.
The difference in earnings between the top 10, the top 50, and the top 200, say, is huge. For those in the 50-200 range there are huge incentives.
There has been a lot of match fixing in recent years. The only difference here is that it occurred in a particularly high profile event.
You'd probably be surprised to learn that sumo wrestling is very crooked too.
Foster's is Australian for beer, mate.
oldschoollrc wrote:
Foster's is Australian for beer, mate.
I think it’s long been established that no country wants to claim Fosters as its own.
with mericans claiming budweiser, aussies claiming fosters is a no brainer. the rest of us are quite happy, we wouldnt go near the filthy stuffs.
I am Sam wrote:
rojo wrote:
This is wild. Who knew you could bet on who'd win the 5th game of the 2nd set of an obscure doubles match.
You've just described how most sports betting is done.
Do you ever get out?
No, he doesn't.
Are you surprised?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Seems like this "spot fixing" is for ripping off really dumb people who bet on stupid easily fixable subplots.
If there's anybody betting on who false starts or trips in a race, I don't care if they get ripped off. The world is better off if someone like that goes broke.
This probably happens in England, and they go broke, then smash their Foster's bottle and slash their mate's throat with it. Whatever, what happens in England stays in England.
Did you bet on 2600?
Latest: Source “ Journal Le Monde du samedi 5 juin 2021« (paper today)
« A Russian tennis player was arrested Thursday, June 3 in Paris, in an investigation into suspicion of rigged bets during a doubles match of the 2020 edition of the Roland-Garros tournament, according to police sources and the prosecution. from Paris.
Yana Sizikova, 26, was taken into police custody Thursday evening after a match in the tournament, as part of the investigation opened on October 1 for "sports corruption" and "organized gang fraud" and entrusted to the central service of races and games (SCCJ) of the judicial police, said the prosecution, confirming information from the Parisian. She was released Friday evening without prosecution at this point, the prosecution said.
This investigation, unveiled in October by the German newspaper Die Welt and the sports daily L'Equipe, concerns the women's double that pitted Yana Sizikova and her American partner Madison Brengle against the Romanians Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig, on September 30, during the first round of the 2020 edition of the French international tournament.«
Doesn't Putin have a video of this player with Trump; on his last business trip to Moscow ?!?
Anyone shocked it's a Russian ? They are unscrupulous,which is
why they get along so well with the morally bankrupt American
orange buffoon.
Joe Biden's son Hunter got a 3 million payoff from the Moscow mayors wife....
I wonder how much he had to kick up to Joe...
Who knew? Practically everyone
This is why Russian table tennis is the fourth biggest sport bet on in Colorado
It’s fast action
opens door walks in sees whats happening wrote:
oldschoollrc wrote:
Foster's is Australian for beer, mate.
I think it’s long been established that no country wants to claim Fosters as its own.
Foster's is the #4 selling beer in merry old England and here is PROOF
I was unaware before that there is a Smirnoff and Jack Daniels beer. A little window into the English mind perhaps.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/britains-biggest-alcohol-brands/10-biggest-alcohol-brands-in-the-uk/569270.articleNo biggie! It wasn't something major like refusing to do pressers for mental health reasons or being a woman player.