Commentary|Soccer Bookies Recruits Students as Junkets

The lion share of the gaming and wagering industry is dominated by the sports betting segment. As the FIFA kicks off this Friday, bookies continued to recruit students as their junkets. XingCai covered two cases of bookmakers roping students as agents in Malaysia and Thailand. I had given her some background about Malaysia to help her in covering the Malaysian case.

Football fever is here. The bookies must have recruited agents like crazy. These agents are now spamming our forum with links to betting sites. Soon the thread will be talking football. I look forward to tips and comments from decembergod. His unorthodox choice is always entertaining. The best part is most of his choices were winners.

As you guys know, I don't bet ball because I don't even watch football. Without any knowledge of the team, it is hard to make a reasonable bet. To some extent, I will not get the overconfidence syndrome most sports bettors do. My advice is to watch it when you place your bets with a lion's heart.

Pay attention also to the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines. Once you go overboard there is no turning back unless you are willing to let whysee (our rehab guy) help you.

XingCai's article is very timely for this FIFA World Cup season. She looked at traps sport bettors fell into for the past season and I was able to highlight two of the pitfalls above. More on XingCai's Webpage.