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A '''Bettor''' is a person who makes [[Gambling|bets]] based on particular information<ref>information</ref>, or [[feeling]], on sporting or other events in the hope of gaining financial [[Profit (accounting)|profit]].

==Types of bettors==
=== ''Low Vs. High-stake bettors'' ===

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==Betting from a historical point of view==

•	Paintings on the walls of Egyptian [[tombs]] dating back to 3500 B.C. depict men in games with astragali-ankle bones of sheep or deer that were used as dice. Evidence of dishonesty in [[gambling]] and social problems related to habitual gamblers is almost as old as the activity itself. ‘Loaded’ bones (dice) have been found in Egyptian tombs, and there is evidence that the Egyptians attempted to control compulsive gambling. 

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	Three hundred years before Christ was bornAround 300 BC the bettor was classified by [[Aristotle]] with the thief and laws were enacted in pagan [[Greece]] and [[Rome]] for suppression.

==Interesting facts==

•	In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the [[dice]] if there were a police raid.

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==References==
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* [http://www.infobettor.com/]: The Case of Football Betting: Being Informed Versus Being Lucky
* [http://www.ilo.org/]: Resolution concerning the revision of the International Standard Classification of Occupations, adopted by the Fourteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians (October-November 1987)

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