The Benefits of Internet Gambling

One of the best offshoots of internet gambling is the development of odds-comparison sites. These allow punters to obtain the best available price for their chosen selection. These websites simply show every event currently being quoted by their participant firms – it is a bit like the Racing Post’s Pricewise boxes – and they highlight which company offers the best odds on each selection. This should in the long run improve the return of the online punters.

One of the features of these sites, which is mutually beneficial to punters, comparison sites and bookmakers alike, is the click-through feature. Put simply, this means that punters can click on the price in the table they are interested in, enter their details onto a form, and place their bet straight away, without having to visit the firm’s site independently.

Some people argue that internet betting is no quicker that tele-betting. However, there is no denying that it is quicker than hotfooting it down to the betting shop when the urge takes you to place a wager. Depending on how user-friendly the betting site is you are playing on, you should be able to make your selection of what you want to back, enter your stake or wager, and confirm your bet within a period of no more than two minutes.

One of the main advantages of internet betting is that the speed of the transaction is largely down to you, the user. Whilst the speed of a telephone bet can be faster, you need to allow for bank clearance, and you are dependent on getting a call centre employee who can spell your name, find the event you are interested in and get your stake right the first time. Computers are often maligned by many in the business, but they seldom have a problem with regional accents!

Computers also allow you to make last minute adjustments to your bet or carry out some last minute research before placing your bet. Should it strike you in the middle of a betting shop that you haven’t checked the course form of a certain golfer or looked for the team news of a rugby league side there’s not much you can do about it except abandon the bet entirely or place it without knowing all the facts. If however, the same thought occurs to you when placing your bet on a internet gambling site, you would simply open up another browser window, select an appropriate site, and the missing information will be right there at your fingertips

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Hats & Eyeglasses – A Family Love Affair With Gambling

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Martha’s work has appeared in magazines as diverse as the original DETAILS, The New Yorker, Fashions of the New York Times, Japanese and German Men’s Vogue, The Goodguys Gazette, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Movieline’s Hollywood Life. She has been an on-air contributor to VH1′s Sexiest Movie Moments, Entertainment Tonight, and Inside Edition.

For the past fifteen years Martha has been the co-host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a Sunday morning radio talk-show on WDST in Woodstock, NY. The host of the show, Doug Grunther, has been another mentor to her.

Martha can also take claim to having been the moderator of the Actor’s Dialogue, winner of a NYFFA Award in creative nonfiction, was the 1997 Philip Morris Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, and the 2003 Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster, where she taught a class in memoir writing.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Gambling Addiction/affair & women…”A mania that holds one’s life hostage”

A quote from Martha’s book HATS & EYEGLASSES!

Some of you will raise an eyebrow when reading that comment.Unfortunately once you have read about Martha’s affair with poker then on-line gambling, you will not feel so in doubt of the reality of women & gambling!

HATS & EYEGLASSES is a phrase taught to Martha by one of her uncles when she was a child. It’s meaning, which unfolds throughout her memoirs, stayed with her all of her life. Hence the importance of using it as her title.

What is it like being raised in a family of gamblers and betters? Is a gambling addiction something that can only happen to the other person?

These answers, you will find out as you turn the pages of this very witty, humorous not to forget, written with a sense of purpose book . Martha’s talents shine through her work as she captivates you and holds you until the last page. Her story is a must to read!

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