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Bettor
{{Wikify|date=August 2011}}
A '''Bettor''' is a person who makes [[Gambling|bets]] based on particular information, or [[feeling]], on sporting or other events in the hope of gaining financial [[Profit (accounting)|profit]].

==Types of bettors==
===Low Vs. High-stake bettors===
(contracted; show full)0 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.

•Around 300 BC the bettor was classified by [[Aristotle]] with the thief and laws were enacted in pagan [[Greece]] and [[Rome]] for suppression.


==Interesting facts==
{{Trivia|date=August 2011}}
•	In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the [[dice]] if there were a police raid.

•	The most famous horse betting  event is the Royal Ascot Meeting in UK. Every year it is attended by more than 300 000, who drain a staggering 60 000 bottles of champagne.⏎
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==Legality==
The profession “bettor” is still not recognized by the International Labour Organization. However, in most countries it is absolutely legal to be a bettor. Of course, there are some exceptions like [[Taiwan]], for example, where the fine is up to 5 years imprisonment for betting on [[sports]].

==Bettor related films==
•	''[[Eight Men Out]]'' (1988) – a true story about 8 baseball players from Chicago White Sox, who were bribed by a mob to lose the series;

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==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [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)

[[Category:Gambling terminology]]