Sports Betting

‘Feast or Famine’, and the other ways students are gambling their student loans

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How are students gambling, and is it possible to actually make a success out of it? Nina Minogue spoke to a few gamblers to find out in a story originally published by Critic Te Arohi, the Otago University student magazine.  Between 2017 and 2018, New Zealanders lost nearly $2.4 billion on gambling between the TAB, … Read more

‘They don’t chase wins, they chase prices’: why the fixing stench still clings to cricket

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An international gambling industry source has told The Spinoff that World Cup warm-up matches are prime targets for the vast subcontinental fixing machine. Warm-up games in the Cricket World Cup are a match-fixer’s paradise, a veteran international gambling industry source has told the Spinoff. The combination of big names and high publicity means a lot … Read more