The online sports betting customer placed his 50p Canadian – total cost £13 – and then watched as winner after winner came home. After the fifth and final selection had passed the post first, the calculators came out and the final payout was £83,245,80! ibid.
An anonymous woman from Nottingham secured odds of well over 3,000,000/1 for her 5p accumulator bet. She predicted 5 results correctly to take home £153,644.40. ibid
We’ve taken the money from the last show and we’re going to put it one race, we’re going to put it one horse here at Doncaster … £10,000. Mark Thomas Comedy Product s1e6, Channel 4 1996
Tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? Mitt Romney to Rick Perry, cited How to Lose the Presidency
‘Profits from match fixing and gambling are at least as high as profits from the drug trade.’ The Bet – In the Grip of the Gambling Mafia, 2017
Little by little a creeping illness has taken hold of international sport: gambling fraud. The fight against it – a war in a different dimension. Highly technological and bewilderingly complex … Soccer has been hit the hardest. ibid.
The gambling machine is fuelled by games – games right across the globe twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. ibid.
Low profile matches in the lower divisions with badly paid players – that’s the stuff gambling fraud is made of. ibid.
Some German youth matches have been fixed. ibid.
The Asian gambling market: here different rules apply. ibid.
22 July 2014: Bill Ackman, CEO Pershing Square Capital Management: ‘This will be the most important presentation that I have made in my career … You’re going to learn why Herbalife is going to collapse … This is the largest fraud.’ Betting on Zero, Netflix 2016
This is about Bill Ackman’s business model; this is about blatant market manipulation. ibid. CEO Herbalife
An organisation is deemed to be a pyramid scheme if the participants obtain their monetary benefits primarily from recruitment rather than the sale of goods and services to consumers. ibid. Peter Vander Nat, senior economist Federal Trade Commission
For two years hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman has been managing a massive short position in Herbalife, betting the company will fail. ibid.
You pay $55/100 to get a starter kit. ibid. Ackman
This is an ingenious fraud. ibid.
Gambling is now a huge business. Nearly half of all adults in the UK gamble losing more than £14 billion a year to the betting companies and some people think we’ve got a real problem: are the Bookies playing fair? Can you win in the long term? Can You Beat the Bookies? Lloyd Griffith reporting, BBC 2019
Bet365: they made over £2,000,000 in 2018 and their CEO Denise Coates paid herself £265,000,000. ibid.
‘Did that feel like £200 of entertainment to you?’ ibid.
The world of the new breed of data gamblers. ibid.
The betting business is booming in Britain. But is it problem gamblers who are paying the price? We meet the punters who’ve lost everything. The gamblers who don’t know when to quit. And we ask, Are betting companies doing enough to protect problem gamblers? Panorama: Addicted to Gambling, BBC 2019
Around 0.7% of the population is thought to be addicted. That’s approximately 430,000 people, but there could be many more. ibid.
Britain is gambling more than ever before. ibid.
You’re sending collectors to fuck with me at my office? Are you out of your fucking mind? … The watch they took from me is worth $20,000: I want that deducted from the $100,000. Uncut Gems 2019 starring Adam Sandler & Lakeith Stanfield & Julia Fox & Kevin Garnett & Idina Menzel & Eric Bogosian & Judd Hirsch & Keith Williams & Jonathan Aranbayev & Noa Fisher & Abel Tesfaye & Mike Francesca, How on dog-n-bone
That’s a million dollar [black] opal you’re holding. Straight from the Ethiopian Jewish town. This is old school. Middle Earth shit. ibid.
Bookie: It’s the dumbest fucking bet I ever heard of.
Howard: I disagree. ibid.
Kick Bishop Brennan up the arse … I lost the bet, Dougal. Father Ted s3e6: Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse, Ted’s challenge, Channel 4 1998
Britain’s online betting boom. But are we gambling with addiction? And will government reforms do enough to reduce the risk? Tonight: High Stakes: Britain’s Betting Boom, ITV 2023
There’s an uncomfortable marriage we can no longer afford to ignore … Football & Gambling: who’s really winning out of these deals? And at what cost? Now the law on gambling is up for review. Dispatches: Football’s Gambling Addiction, Channel 4 2021
An estimated 1.4 million aged 16-34 gamble regularly on football, mainly online. ibid.
So how did we end up with this 24/7 football betting culture? ibid.
Allegations against one basketball ref [Tim Donaghy] of betting on and even tilting the outcome of games is rocking the NBA. Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul, Netflix 2024
I was well aware of the rules that referees were not allowed to bet on anything. ibid. wife
Tim was going to be a major playing in a very very significant undercover operation. Tim would be wired up … There was a leak in the press. ibid. FBI dude
I’m stupid. I shouldn’t have done it. I should know by now … I shouldn’t have done it. I should have done the 4 o’clock … Play for Today: Bet Your Life by Les Blair, gambler Ches, BBC 1976
Shrink: Tell me about your problem in your own language.
Ches: I bet too much … If I can’t borrow money, I take it. ibid.