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"The Definitive Guide to Betting on Football" is a distillation of "Racing Post" expert Kevin Pullein's extensive knowledge on how to make money when betting on football. His weekly column in the "Post" is hugely popular with sports betting fans. In this masterwork Pullein explains how you can work out what is likely to happen during a football match and how you might be able to exploit this knowledge profitably by betting. In each chapter there will be both theory and practice, in separate but...

Computer-based forecasting methods are no longer restricted to the traditional statistical methods. Knowledge-based approaches, which utilise the knowledge gained from human experts in their construction, and machine learning methods in which the computer learns from available examples without significant human intervention are now in general use as forecasting tools. This book examines the application of these methods to the domain of horseracing in Great Britain and overseas and provides a det...

This is the most detailed & comprehensive book available on the subject of sports-arbitrage. It has been written by an expert with 15 years of trading experience who sets out towards two goals: to teach the novice reader all there is to know before embarking on his or her sports-arbitrage trading project, and to teach experienced traders some of the more complex techniques used by professionals. Over 100 pages of this book are devoted to divulging methods to find arbitrage opportunities manually...

As legalized gambling continues its march across America, governors are in the curious position of managing enterprises that have long been the dominion of gangsters. Until the 1960s, legalized gambling in modern America was limited to Nevada and racetracks, but once governors got a taste of lottery revenue, it set off a stampede for more. Today, every state except for Hawaii and Utah has some form of legal gambling. Gangsters to Governors tells the stories of a constellation of remarkable pers...