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Betting on the Cricket Twenty20 World Cup

Sports and betting go hand in hand because as people are passionate about sports, they like to wager on their favourite team and try their luck at winning. Cricket betting is mostly indulged in those nations which play this game and which have their national team playing international matches. Large amounts of bets are placed on important clashes like the Ashes Series, Cricket World Cup, Australia-New Zealand and the India-Pakistan matches.

If you have ever tried football betting, you will not find much difference between football betting and cricket betting. You first have to register with a bookmaker/online betting site and deposit the funds – at many sites you can even find free bets when you first sign-up. You can place a bet on different cricket events after choosing a particular match. Once you click on that series you will get a Betslip which lists different options. You can make your selections against the odds offered for the particular match and place your bet. There are different types of matches being played all round the year like test matches, one day matches and Twenty20 matches which are of limited over and get finished pretty soon. One day matches and Twenty20 clashes have greater following as they are of shorter duration and provide lots of excitement to spectators.

You can get different options while betting on cricket. You can place a bet on match result after analysing which team will team. Other bets available for one day matches are top run score of both teams, highest opening partnership, first over runs, team to score the most sixes, first ball of match, method of first dismissal, highest score in first 15 over, team of top batsman and which team will win the toss. You have other such bets for test matches too and if you are able to make the right guess, you win big.

Online bookmakers such as bwin offer odds for important event well in advance of the series or match. You can easily get odds for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 fixture, Ashes Series 2010/11 or the Cricket World Cup 2011 as bookies offer odds and let you place bets quite early. The odds for the World Twenty20 series given by bookies for different countries are Australia 5/1, South Africa 7/2, India 9/2, Sri Lanka 9/2England 10/1, Bangladesh 40/1 and Ireland 500/1. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of these events and sometimes you can win big by supporting the underdogs.

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Gambling Affiliate Launches Online Blackjack Money Tool

An online gambling affiliate has released a program that will find blackjack players the top free money promotions that can be claimed at casinos online. The affiliate portal, which appeared in summer 2009, has developed the new system to help blackjack players discover the deals that don’t carry any catches.

Gaming Supermarket displays only the secure online gaming portals, including the likes of Will Hill and Ladbrokes, and already has over Eighty Pound in completely free cash offers , which gamers can take right now. What differentiates the system from the many other affiliates which offer a similar bonus finder… Gaming Supermarket only gives gamers the deals which do not need an initial deposit to be made.

Jason Smith, Manager of Gaming Supermarket, said:

“With our innovative functionality, players can clearly see where they can claim free money without having to make any initial deposits”.

At the same time as Gaming Supermarket develops systems for online gamers, a college student from Dundee has created a system which, he claims, should help defeat card counting at bricks and mortar casinos… which we reported last week.

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Maths student develops anti card counting system

A recent news story, released by the BBC, said that a university student, who studies in Dundee, has developed a computer application that can monitor blackjack tables with such precision that it can spot card counters or mistakes made by the dealers. The computer programme watches the dealers card distribution and assesses the decisions that are made by the players at the blackjack table.

In the movie 21 (starring Kevin Spacey), derived from the Novel ‘Bringing Down The House’, a group of maths students make a vast amount of money from counting cards at blackjack in Sin City casinos. 21 suggests that card counting is done through a number of complex maths calculations based on the cards which are already dealt by the dealer. While not an illegal activity, counting cards can often result in casino players being banned from premises.

Counting Cards is still a much followed practice and several known groups that attempt to count cards throughout the UK. The maths student who developed the system that could put a stop to card counting is set to attract worldwide attention and is expected to be put before many of the biggest gaming operators in the near future.

A manager of a top London casino has meanwhile stated his staff are trained to “ignore” card counters unless they are visibly seen to be using a mechanical device.

With the suggestion of card counting at casinos is likely to come to an abrupt end it would be no surprise to see even more elaborate, and probably illegal, ways of beating the casinos showing up just around the corner

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