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Applies To All Sporting Events
Cheating is a phenomenon that takes place in all fields of life. Sometime you get cheated and sometimes you can cheat and this applies to sports betting also.
The Art of Rigging
Cheating can be done by rigging a game when you pay any of the players in the team to lose. This is called rigging a game. Almost all sporting events have been known to have been rigged at one stage or other. Football, cricket and horse racing are some of the richest sports bodies in the world and present ideal opportunities for rigging. Here, some members of the team that is expected to win accept money and play to lose the game. This is done to help the betters through the bookies. Since most of the bets will be placed on the team that is rigged, expecting them to win, cheaters who place bets on the other team are likely to make huge profits.
Spreading Like Cancer
Such cheatings have spread like cancer to almost all the major sporting events. Even horse racing is prone to such rigging. In horse racing, punters are known to have doctored the horse or the jockey, so as to lose the race.
Using the Time Lag to Maximum Advantage
Another method of cheating is to lay the bet, when you are sure of the winner, or even after you have known the winner. This is done by making the bet seconds before the results are declared. In these days of mobile online betting it is very easy for those who are present at the event to make a mobile online bet in lightning time between the event and the declaration. The bet is in fact made after knowing the result but he wins the money. This can be best done in horse racing, cricket, football etc.
Betting Cues that are not true
Sometimes the bookies will give out betting cues that are not true. This will lead to the bets going the wrong way and consequently, very little bets will be placed on the winning side. Those who have laid bets on the winning side could walk away with huge profits.
Beware of Fake Online Bookies
Some criminal bookies may try to cheat you out of your bet by suggesting that the bet placed by you is much less in value than the bets you placed, thereby cheating you out of your winnings. Some online bookies will accept your bet, but will not pay you your winnings. If you approach them they will make some excuse and delay payments. Then one fine day you will not find the online bookie on the web anymore.
Professional World Wrestling - An Ideal Sports Betting Arena
Professional world wrestling is another arena where cheating takes place on an alarming scale. Most of the games are rigged and bets are placed accordingly. And wrestling is a crowd gatherer.
Even World Cup Events Face the Threat
Even high profile events such as the world cup matches are not spared, and you will find cheating is rampant even in these matches. We have heard of so many matches that were rigged. Rigging can be done by ball tampering in cricket or by compromising the players. Rigging is done with the express intention of unfairly making large monetary benefits.
Cheating at Sports is now a Criminal felony
Cheating in sports betting has been prevalent since the beginning of time. Every sport has its niche methodology by which either the bookie or the players cheat. Irrespective of the game, if you want to cheat in sports betting then you could try your hand at it. But cheating at sports is now a criminal offence so take care.
