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  2. Sky Betting & Gaming - Wikipedia

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    Sky Betting & Gaming is a British -based gambling company, owned by Flutter Entertainment, with headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire and offices in Sheffield & Solihull. Sky Betting & Gaming consists of five core brands: Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Poker and Sky Bingo. In 2015, Sky plc sold an 80 per cent stake in the company to CVC ...

  3. Sports betting - Wikipedia

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    Odds boards in a Las Vegas sportsbook. Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies". The term "book" is a reference to the books used by wage ...

  4. Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of traditional and popular bets offered by bookmakers in the United Kingdom.The 'multiple-selection' bets in particular are most often associated with horse racing selections but since the advent of fixed-odds betting on football matches some punters use these traditional combination bets for football selections as well.

  5. Each-way - Wikipedia

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    The odds paid on the place part of the bet are usually a fraction (commonly 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 3, 1 ⁄ 4 or 1 ⁄ 5) of the win odds. The trade-off being that one has a greater chance of making one's bet in trade for getting less payoff for doing so. Examples are domestic football knockout competitions (e.g. FA Cup) where the quoted place terms ...

  6. EFL League Two - Wikipedia

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    The English Football League Two, simply known as League Two in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet League Two, is the third and lowest division of the English Football League (EFL) and fourth-highest tier overall in the English football league system . Introduced for the 2004–05 English football season as Football League Two, it ...

  7. EFL Championship - Wikipedia

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    The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, [ 1] is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League, and is currently contested by 24 clubs.

  8. Football pools - Wikipedia

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    In 1946, Italy introduced a state-run pool for citizens to bet on football, called the Totocalcio. It was the only form of legalized football betting in the country until the late 1990s. For fans to win, they needed to correctly pick the outcome of 12 games. [42] A thirteenth game was added in 1951, and a fourteenth (but still called Thirteen ...

  9. 2020–21 EFL Championship - Wikipedia

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    2021–22 →. The 2020–21 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th season of the EFL Championship under its current title and the 29th season under its current league division format.