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  2. Gambling in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Congress later banned sports betting under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, but a grandfather clause allowed Oregon to continue the game. [24] The state legislature ended Sports Action after the 2006-07 NFL season, as a condition of being allowed to host games in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship .

  3. Mathematics of bookmaking - Wikipedia

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    E.g. £100 each-way fivefold accumulator with winners at Evens ( 1 ⁄ 4 odds a place), 11-8 ( 1 ⁄ 5 odds), 5-4 ( 1 ⁄ 4 odds), 1-2 (all up to win) and 3-1 ( 1 ⁄ 5 odds); total staked = £200 Note: 'All up to win' means there are insufficient participants in the event for place odds to be given (e.g. 4 or fewer runners in a horse race).

  4. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), () describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers. This means that there are 6 - n losing numbers, which are chosen from the 43 losing numbers in ( 43 6 − n ) {\displaystyle {43 \choose 6-n}} ways.

  5. Sports betting odds explained: How they work and how to ... - AOL

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    A quick rundown of how UK bookmakers’ odds work, as well as how to read them and how to use them when placing bets Sports betting odds explained: How they work and how to read them Skip to main ...

  6. Recap: Last-second field goal pushes Oregon football past ...

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    Score: Oregon 34, Boise State 34 ... Oregon vs. Boise State betting odds. Consensus game lines and odds as of Friday: Spread: Oregon by 19. Over/under: 61.5. Moneyline: Oregon -1000, Boise State +700.

  7. How hard is it to win the lottery? Odds to keep in mind as ...

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    In 2015, the Powerball lottery lengthened the odds of winning from 1 in 175.2 million to 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions followed two years later, lengthening the odds of winning the top prize ...

  8. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  9. 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".