Betting and gambling through sports has become a major concern
for our society today. It has become an issue of serious concern
for the lawmakers on how to monitor and curtail unauthorized
betting through sports. Lawmakers have been thus penned down to
make tough new measures to crack down on corruption in sports
related betting. Bets are placed on individual player's
performances, the winning team, scores in the game, etc.
Technology aids available Today you can bet on the Internet, at
casinos, through national lottery and also on cell phones.
Growth of Internet betting exchanges has made sports more
vulnerable to fraud and match fixing. Now betting is done with
the help of GPRS technology, which is a more faster and reliable
way for account holders to place their bets. Users are charged
for the volume of data rather than the time spent using the
service. But the police are now resorting to the use of
electronic surveillance techniques to track down the alleged
racket.
Advantages over other sports Precisely betting on a football
game has been an extremely popular form of winning big money for
years, producing far better prize money amounts for relatively
low stake money. Today a punt on the football pools or spot the
ball for a quid could win you thousands upon thousands. A bet on
a horse cannot produce the same odds. This is perhaps a clue to
the nature of betting on a football. Complete change in the
lifestyle for a stake that he can afford to loose and demand for
no work in return is what allures an aspiring punter to football
betting. This is the lure for many working class punters, both
male and female regardless of their taste for football. Football
betting is the most appropriate technique to make money for
those who want to skip the hurdles and mushroom their profits
without taking any pains.
Thus the lawmakers have called for various sports governing
bodies to have a say in the type of bets offered to punters and
to make bookmakers set up "audit-trails", something the new
betting exchanges already do, to allow suspicious betting
patterns to be traced. Lawmakers have also called for the
governing bodies of various sports to devise common standards on
who may bet on their sport, types of bets that can be placed on
the concerned sport and what the other logistics for placing a
bet on their sport should be.
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