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  2. Odds, lines, payouts: A guide to Super Bowl betting lingo - AOL

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    For example, if the team is +150, the decimal would be 150/100, or 1.5. So a $10 bet would pay $10 plus $15. Sports books typically use the odds to guarantee themselves a percentage of every ...

  3. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Odds boards in a Las Vegas sportsbook. Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies". The term "book" is a reference to the books used by wage ...

  4. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    Decimal odds are a single value, greater than 1, representing the amount to be paid out for each unit bet. For example, a bet of £40 at 6 − 4 (fractional odds) will pay out £40 + £60 = £100. The equivalent decimal odds are 2.5; £40 × 2.5 = £100. We can convert fractional to decimal odds by the formula D = (b + a)⁄b.

  5. Spread betting - Wikipedia

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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. A point spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome will be ...

  6. Sports betting is exploding. Here’s how it works - AOL

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    As the Super Bowl nears, legal gambling on sports is booming. Wagers have gone beyond scores and point spreads to include such beyond-the-game prop bets as how many songs Usher will sing at halftime.

  7. Over–under - Wikipedia

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    A variant of over-under betting, known as Under Over, [5] is a dice game played at various festivals. The object of the game is to predict whether the dice will roll to a total of under 7, over 7, or at 7. The game is typically played with 2 dice. A player typically places a wager on one of three spaces. These spaces are: Under 7 (usually pays ...

  8. NFL Week 5 betting: 7 best lines, props and more, including ...

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    Thursday night: Falcons favored over Buccaneers. The Atlanta Falcons are very, very close to being 0-4. In one win, the game would have been over if Eagles running back Saquon Barkley caught a ...

  9. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    A martingale is a class of betting strategies that originated from and were popular in 18th-century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins the stake if a coin comes up heads and loses if it comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double the bet after every loss, so that the first win ...

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