Bookmaker
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A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays off bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.
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See also
- Bookies – a German film
- Fixed-odds gambling
- Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers
- List of bookmakers
- Match fixing
- Organized crime
- Mathematics of bookmaking
- Numbers game
- Off-track betting
- Parlay
- Point shaving
- Problem gambling
- SP bookmaking
- Sports betting
- Sportsbook
- Vigorish
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