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Nibbling Your Way to Cheltenham Betting
In horseracing calendar, Cheltenham Festival is deemed to be one of the most important events of the year. This will run for four days featuring the best of the races. Punters from all over UK and Ireland flock together to witness this prestigious event. Free bets and other special offers will surely bring in millions of pounds in horse racing betting. Cheltenham Betting highlights the four championship events with grade 1 races and handicap runs.
Cheltenham betting offers a whole lot of opportunity to paying customers as well as offline and online bookmakers. These bookmakers provide different forms and methods of betting so to give the best opportunities to everyone. Special offers have attracted a lot of customers, both old and new, over the years since this event has been making its record. Punters crowd around retail stores and online sites to check updates and place their bets over winning horses.
Most people, especially businessmen, prefer to do their betting over the telephone or online perhaps. This saves them the hassle of swarming over betting shops just to open their account in preparation for the event. Bookmakers, on the other hand, have developed secured applications that can be downloaded by punters. Through which, customers can place their bets over the different races at their most convenient time.
As for the chief money makers, bookmakers compete with one another as they run through their different marketing strategies. Each bookmaker utilizes extensive advertising offering their individual betting opportunities in the market. Gambling industry can be very competitive most especially when millions of pounds are at stake.
Cheltenham betting has become an avenue for bookmakers in making big money out of horse racing events. Punters are able to create big opportunity for themselves as they pick their runners well and place their bets over sure win horses. The strategy for each bet is to know your runner as well as getting to your form guide. These things will help you determine your chances of winning.
Special offers and free bets have become the brilliant scheme of each bookmaker. This is one way of attracting customers to place their bets over races of different categories. It is also considered as an effective future investment as these paying customers would still continue to place their bets in the future, thus considering this strategy as “loss leader”.
Though these popular betting companies cover wide range of sports, Cheltenham betting centers more on individual races. Strategically, punters would mostly take advantage on free bets as this betting technique guarantees potential win with no risk at all. They can absolutely get the best value of their betting without taking chances of losing their own money. Betting entails knowing your chances and getting updated with the latest Cheltenham festival news. You must also learn how to take advantage on the biggest free bets available. As for starters, get aid from those odds comparison tables available online and open an account with a bookmaker to instantly get your free bet.
1977 World Series of Poker
The 1977 World Series of Poker was the eighth annual World Series of Poker. It was held at Binnions Horseshoe. The number of preliminary events increased to 12, up from seven the previous year.
One of the most notable additions to the preliminary events was the $100 Ladies Seven Card Stud. The event was won by Jackie McDaniels, making her the first ever WSOP champion in a ladies only event. It was also the smallest buy-in with the smallest prize pool of any event in the history of the tournament. McDaniels walked away with a cash prize of $5,580.
The big winner from the preliminary events was Bobby Baldwin. He won both the $10,000 Deuce to Seven Draw and the $5,000 Seven Card Stud, landing him cash prizes of $80,000 and $44,000 respectively. Baldwin was in his late twenties at the time of the tournament, which was relatively young by poker standards in those days.
Doyle Brunson was the second-biggest winner from the preliminary events. He won the $1,000 Seven Card Stud Split tournament which was good enough for a cash prize of $62,500. Unheralded Louis Hunsucker earned the third-most money from the preliminary events. He won $34,200 in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament.
From 1975 to 1976, the number of participants in the Main Event increased from 21 to 22. That number increased substantially in 1977. There were 34 players who agreed to pay $10,000 to play in the No Limit Holdem Main Event at the 1977 World Series of Poker. Just six years earlier, at the inaugural Main Event, there were six entrants in the Main Event. With all 34 players paying the $10,000 entrance fee into the tournament, the prize for first place was at a hefty $340,000. No money was awarded to second- and third-place finishers.
The amount of players slowly dwindled down until there were three players left: Doyle Brunson, Gary Berland, and Milo Jacobson. When Jacobson was eliminated, Doyle Brunson had just one more adversary to take care of in his quest to become the first person to repeat as Main Event champion (Johnny Moss won the first two WSOPs, but there was no Main Event when he won the first one in 1970).
His opponent, Gary “Bones” Berland, was a tremendous poker player and Brunson could not afford to take him lightly. He stuck around on the poker scene for a long time, ending up with five WSOP bracelets and a third-place finish at the 1986 Main Event.
In one of the most amazing coincidences in poker history, Brunson was dealt a ten-deuce. Just one year earlier, Brunson had won the 1976 Main Event with the same hand. Brunson called Berlands all in bid after the turn card when he had a pair of 2s and a pair of 10s. The river card was a 10, giving Brunson the same 10s over 2s full house that won him the Main Event one year earlier.
Brunson won the mammoth cash prize of $340,000 and secured himself a spot in poker history as one of the greatest to ever play. In the decades since he won the 1976 and 1977 WSOP, the ten-deuce hand is still known as “the Doyle Brunson.”