When Butterflies Sneeze: How Coronavirus impacts the Sporting World
I always like to tell people that I see betting as just another type of investment. I go on and tell them that it is in no way correlated to any other asset class and...
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World Cup competition. $1,800+ worth of free bets to win
Thanks to the guys at Topsport, I have a total of $1,800 worth of free bets to give to you guys during the 3 Australian group games. They have also given me $500 for each game...
What’s been happening: Minimum bet laws, data access and industry news
The blog has been pretty quiet this year as I spend most of my time on the new website. Apart from the monthly updates and the Dailytrades and Dailyprofit puff pieces, there hasn’t been much...
Introducing Dailytrades.com.au (1 week free trial)
The other week I talked about how much it cost to build and run my new product. But I did not say what the product was. Today I’ll introduce you to Dailytrades and give everyone free...
Sign the petition for minimum bet laws
In late 2015 I created a petition to make sure that minimum bet laws were looked at for the then upcoming review into the Interactive Gambling Act. 475 of you cared enough about the issue...
Sportsbet punts workers as quickly as winning customers.
We all know that in their greed to make ever increasing profits, Sportsbet are the quickest to kick out (or fire) any winning customers. They have huge teams and automated systems that track everything and...
SA Point of consumption tax – my view
$117,000,000.00. That’s just Sportsbet’s profit for the last financial year. That is after paying all taxes, product fees, wages, so on. Where does that $117 million mostly end up? not in Australia’s economy, but back...
How bookies win by telling you they lost: & how Laurie Oakes unwittingly gave Sportsbet millions in free advertising
Getting one up over the bookies is a story that is retold over and over again in the media. The PR managers at bookmaking firms are endlessly pitching stories to media outlets to get their...
IGA Review and Sports Betting Research
Don’t forget to put in a submission to the Department of Social Services about the IGA review. It only takes a few minutes and I know they are reading every single submission and taking them...
An open letter to Christian Porter and Barry O’Farrell
Dear Scott and Barry, It was great to hear there will be a review of the Interactive Gambling Act. It was passed at a time (2001) when the Internet and online betting were in their infancy...
