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Online Sports Betting Flourishes
The rapid growth of online sports betting is due to the high quality of bookmakers operating in the sector. Other reasons for the massive demand for online sports betting include the incredible convenience of being able to bet from home or work, without leaving your seat to traipse to a sleazy betting shop or tired racecourse.
Betting online from home is certainly cheaper than supporting your sports betting selection in the flesh. The majority of sports betting turnover in the UK is generated by the most widely followed sports, horse racing and football, both of which have costly course admission or ticket charges. And cost wise, that's before you've splashed out on a programme and/or invariably sub standard over priced on site refreshments etc.
You could save money and go to the betting shop, but why pay for the petrol and the parking if you don't live in the town centre when you can bet online?
It is no coincidence that pizza places offering home delivery have enjoyed a boom in these straightened circumstances while medium priced restaurants are struggling to make ends meet.
Online sports betting also has the additional advantage of being unaffected by the smoking ban which has had a negative effect on betting shop revenues. Persecuted smokers are at least allowed to puff away in the privacy of their own homes, for now anyway.
There's a betting gender balance that's benefited from the online betting upsurge too. Women who are either stuck at home with the children or simply unwilling to enter the often intimidating and seedy male dominated domain of the betting shop can now anonymously place their punt online.
In February 2010, Britain's largest bookmaking firm, William Hill Bookmaker, were rated as a buy by the UK's leading consumer investment magazine, primarily because their online betting operations were growing fast.
William Hill have made strategic alliances to secure and increase their market share of online betting activity and are actively seeking involvement in online betting markets outside the UK. In October 2009 they were one of a select group of firms bidding to acquire an online licence for betting in India.
In the same month, they were watching closely as legislation was being prepared to facilitate online sports betting across the channel in France. Being proactive and vigilant in the online betting stakes made them appear to be a good bet for investors who prefer selecting stocks and shares for a return rather than sports betting.
Investing in companies is a lot like sports betting. It's all a question of balancing risk and return. You need to do your research, assess the teams or players or runners, look at the prices in the betting market and, of course, pick the winners. Investors sadly just don't get the thrill, excitement and/or frustration of watching their wager perform 'in running' or 'in play'.
Conventional investors tend to have a slightly longer timescale for collecting their winnings too.
Whatever the sport or individual contest result, online betting is seen by the investment gurus as the gambling sector's greatest area of potential growth.
Firms involved in sports betting of any kind are grouped along with alcohol and tobacco companies as 'Vice Stocks' in investment speak. Traditionally seen as relatively recession proof along with utility companies, the experts now claim that betting and gambling revenues generally mirror consumer spending and are consequently as vulnerable to downturns in economic activity as other companies exposed to consumer spending trends.
In September 2009, to prove the newly amended theory, Paddy Power were the first company to sound the alarm bells on betting revenues with other UK heavyweights soon echoing their call with reports of reduced sports betting revenues. The situation was worsened by appalling weather in early 2010 that disrupted a large percentage of sporting fixtures, critically both horse racing and football. In such trying economic and climatic times, there is a widely supported theory that a higher percentage of the remaining punting pounds is now proffered online.
Looking at all the factors, online sports betting is on an upward curve that mere global recession cannot curtail. Convenience, speed and the high-quality of well-regulated online betting companies with trusted and recognisable brand names have all helped the massive growth of online sports betting.
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