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There are many of us who are old sufficient to remember the time when sports betting effectively meant betting on the outcome of either a horse race or possibly a greyhound race. By "outcome" in this context one means simply which runner could be the winner, or understanding which may come in placed.

It was not unheard of for someone to place a bet on a football match or even an important boxing bout. Nonetheless the grim, smoky street corner bookmaker's shop was essentially synonymous with horse racing approximately to the exclusion associated with any other sport.

Today the matter is a great deal different. Walk past the now more inviting frontage of the bookmaker's and also you will be brazenly invited to predict the score of the next major soccer game and also the name of the first or perhaps the last player to score a goal. Costs are offered on many sports and "long list" coupons are every bit as freely accessible for soccer punters as the small slips are for the better traditional horse racing enthusiasts.

Of course by far the largest transformation in the culture of betting accompanied the arrival of the web as the means through which we now spend most of our time communicating with the outside world. Not just do all the traditional high street bookmakers such as Ladbrokes, William Hill, Coral and Paddy Power all have a serious online presence, however they are in company of the large US-facing offshore sportsbooks such as Pinnacle, and also of some much smaller and more obscure outfits whose budgets had never stretched to a chain of shops but who all of the same will be able to manage a site.

Online sports betting has drastically altered the culture of gambling for all time. Hobbyists and professionals alike can now place wagers at the click of a mouse, and may also even where necessary lay their selections at one of the betting exchanges to lock in a guaranteed profit.

Not simply are there quite literally hundreds of times more sportsbooks available to the everyday punter today than was the case ahead of the Internet intervened, but the array of sports that can be covered has mushroomed similarly. Whereas at the old betting shop the focus was largely on horse and greyhound racing with a smaller emphasis on football and perhaps a few of other big sports when the occasion arose, customers of the internet sportsbooks can select from between a very substantial array of lines on sports as diverse as soccerrugby union, rugby league, cricket, boxing, volleyball, motor racing, darts, snooker and US sports (football, hockey, baseball and basketball), as well as current affairs, politics, stage and film awards and reality TV. Some of the continental books also offer prices on such enormously well-known sports as trotting, bandy and innebandy.

And not only is there such a selection of sports available, but additionally, there are all kinds of available options within each selection. So with a soccer match, for example, for various bet not only on the winner of the fixture but in addition on the range of goals scored, the name of the very first scorer, the total number of goals, the time of the first goal, the total range of corners taken and the number of bookings to name but a few.