Sportsbook, the Glossary
A sportsbook is a venue where a gambler can wager on various sports competitions, such as golf, football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, soccer, horse racing, greyhound racing, boxing, and mixed martial arts.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: American football, Association football, Bally's Dover, Baseball, Basketball, Betting exchange, Bookmaker, Boxing, Cantor Fitzgerald, Club Cal Neva, Delaware, Delaware Lottery, Delaware Park Racetrack, ESPN, Frank Rosenthal, Gambling, Golf, Greyhound racing, Harrington Raceway & Casino, Horse racing, Ice hockey, Jai alai, Leroy's Horse & Sports Place, Mixed martial arts, Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, Parlay, Point shaving, Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, Professional sports, Sport, Sports betting, Spread betting, Stardust Resort and Casino, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLII, Super Bowl XLVII, Super Bowl XXIX, Super Bowl XXXIX, Supreme Court of the United States, Vigorish, William Hill (bookmaker), 1994 San Diego Chargers season, 1994 San Francisco 49ers season, 2004 New England Patriots season, 2004 Philadelphia Eagles season, 2007 New England Patriots season, 2007 New York Giants season, 2011 NFL season.
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Bally's Dover
Bally's Dover Casino Resort, formerly Dover Downs, is a hotel, casino, and racetrack complex in Dover, Delaware.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Betting exchange
A betting exchange is a marketplace for customers to bet on the outcome of discrete events.
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Bookmaker
A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945.
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Club Cal Neva
Club Cal Neva is a casino and former hotel located in Downtown Reno, Nevada.
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Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
Delaware Lottery
The Delaware Lottery is run by the government of Delaware.
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Delaware Park Racetrack
Delaware Park (also known as DelPark) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing track, casino, and golf course in Stanton, Delaware.
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ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
Frank Rosenthal
Frank Lawrence Rosenthal (June 12, 1929 – October 13, 2008), also known as "Lefty" Rosenthal, was an American professional sports gambler, Las Vegas casino executive, organized crime associate, and FBI informant.
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Gambling
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.
Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track.
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Harrington Raceway & Casino
Harrington Raceway & Casino is a harness racing track and casino (a "racino") located on the fairgrounds of the Delaware State Fair, just south of Harrington, Delaware, south of Dover.
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Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Jai alai
Jai alai is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta.
Leroy's Horse & Sports Place
Leroy's Horse & Sports Place, also known as Leroy's Race and Sport Book or simply Leroy's, was an operator of sports books in Nevada.
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Mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.
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Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, No. Sportsbook and Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association are sports betting.
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Parlay
A parlay, accumulator (or acca), combo bet, or multi is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers, usually seen in sports betting. Sportsbook and parlay are sports betting.
Point shaving
In organized sports, point shaving is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to change the final score of a game without changing who wins.
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Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, also known as PASPA or the Bradley Act, was a law, judicially-overturned in 2018, that was meant to define the legal status of sports betting throughout the United States. Sportsbook and Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 are sports betting.
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Professional sports
In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Sports betting
Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.
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Spread betting
Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds (or money-line) betting or parimutuel betting. Sportsbook and Spread betting are sports betting.
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Stardust Resort and Casino
The Stardust Resort and Casino was a casino resort located on along the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.
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Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States.
Super Bowl XLII
Super Bowl XLII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2007 season.
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Super Bowl XLVII
Super Bowl XLVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Ravens and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2012 season.
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Super Bowl XXIX
Super Bowl XXIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion San Diego Chargers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1994 season.
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Super Bowl XXXIX
Super Bowl XXXIX was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2004 season.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Vigorish
Vigorish (also known as juice, under-juice, the cut, the take, the margin, the house edge or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager.
William Hill (bookmaker)
William Hill is a British gambling company founded in 1934. Sportsbook and William Hill (bookmaker) are sports betting.
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1994 San Diego Chargers season
The 1994 San Diego Chargers season was the team's 35th, its 25th in the National Football League (NFL), and its 34th in San Diego.
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1994 San Francisco 49ers season
The 1994 season was the San Francisco 49ers' 45th in the National Football League (NFL), their 49th overall, and their sixth under head coach George Seifert.
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2004 New England Patriots season
The 2004 season was the New England Patriots' 35th in the National Football League (NFL), their 45th overall and their fifth under head coach Bill Belichick.
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2004 Philadelphia Eagles season
The 2004 season was the Philadelphia Eagles' 72nd in the National Football League (NFL).
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2007 New England Patriots season
The 2007 season was the New England Patriots' 38th in the National Football League (NFL), their 48th overall and their eighth under head coach Bill Belichick.
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2007 New York Giants season
The 2007 season was the New York Giants' 83rd in the National Football League (NFL), their 32nd playing their home games at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and their fourth under head coach Tom Coughlin.
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2011 NFL season
The 2011 NFL season was the 92nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL) and the 46th of the Super Bowl era.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsbook
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