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A British fan of Donald Trump won $124,000 when the candidate won the U.S. presidential election this week.
He claims to have used a special data analysis system, refined over two decades, to calculate the outcome of the election. The results convinced him that he should place a bet.
“I became certain within three days that he would win,” Mappin told CNNMoney. “It’s the first bet I’ve ever placed.”
Since June 2015, Mappin had placed about 30 bets on Trump winning the Republican nomination and then the general election. Mappin estimates he wagered £5,000 ($6,200) on Trump in total.
PaddyPower prematurely paid out Hillary Clinton bettors more than $1 million in a promotion assuming she would win.
“We’re in the business of making predictions and decided to put our neck on the line by paying out early on Hillary Clinton, but boy did we get it wrong. We’ve been well and truly thumped by Trump with his victory leaving us with the biggest political payout in the company’s history and some very, very expensive egg on our faces,” he said.
A new study suggests PASPA gives professional sports leagues unconstitutional powers.
The brief’s author, Florida State associate professor Ryan Rodenberg, argues that PASPAunconstitutionally grants lawmaking powers to private actors — in this case, the sports leagues — by allowing those actors to be the primary, and oftentimes selective, enforcers of federal law.
An English soccer manager was banned from the sport until July 2019 for betting against his own team.
An independent commission found that from September 2014 to April 2016 Bunyard placed 45 bets against Frome and his former club Paulton Rovers.
Football Association rules prohibit “all those involved in the game” from betting on football “that takes place anywhere in the world”.
ESPN Chalk compiled each NFL team’s record against the spread so far this season.
The Dallas Cowboys are not only 7-1 and holding the inside track on home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs at the de facto midpoint of the NFL season, but they’ve also been the best team to bettors with a 7-0-1 ATS record, including seven straight covers.