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Beat the odds: A brief look at the history of sports betting

A brief look at the history of sports betting.

A general view of a silhouetted horse© Reuters
One could say that since there was sports there was also sports betting at the same time. Early evidence of sports betting dates back as many as 2000 years when the already sport-enthusiastic Greeks first started putting sports into a global competition which we all know today as the Olympic Games. From there a chain reaction started and sports betting went from Greece to ancient Rome, where it was quickly legalised and at just the same pace had a great base of players that both loved sports and the thrill of betting.

Especially for competitions like the famous Gladiator games in Rome sports betting, added a lucrative source of income for what we can consider the earliest bookmakers on the planet.

Even after the Gladiator games were retired, the fascination of sports betting prevailed and is still present today, only on a much larger scale.

Interestingly enough, already in the medieval times there were several groups of people opposing the idea of sports betting. Especially religious leaders were part of said offenders, which ultimately led to an illegal underground gambling scene forming within the first Century A.D.

A signed and waxed paper declaring the odds and the amount would be the maximum one would get as proof of their bet, at times even just a writing on what you could compare to a modern day chalkboard.

Jumping a bit further into the future, the British found their passion in gambling mainly with the back then (and to this day) highly popular horse races. Again a written form of documentation would be used as the main proof of bet in these times. From there on the largest move of sports betting was certainly when the United States were introduced to it.

In a rather quick yet step-by-step progress, sports betting was spread all over the globe and everywhere it went it seems to have stuck to this very day.

In general, the whole concept of sports betting was constantly evolving from the start, from early days where simplified odds were stated to today, where most bookies offer a very complex variety of betting ways. These include but are not limited to multiway betting, handicap betting, timed/live bets and many more forms.

Another huge advancement to the sports betting scene was the internet as well as online banking services.

These days a deposit or withdrawal from a bookie is a process that takes a matter of seconds. The need for paper proof of tickets is also getting less and less, as with online bets the ticket is simply saved under a ticket code that is available even months after the ticket itself expired.

Attractive bonuses and a vast amount of betting varieties are offered by almost all bookies to day to keep up with their competition. Finding the right bookie can therefore certainly be a tricky task at times.

To figure out the right bookie to choose, pages like ​https://bookmakers.net/​ can help as they put a vast amount of them into comparison, show different bonuses as well as user feedback. Another difference in bookies can be odds. It can often be worth the time to compare the offered odds of a bet at different bookies. This way you can maximise the profits on the desired bet by choosing not to rely on just a single bookie, but be registered to a small portfolio of them and thus also grabbing more than just one lucrative welcome bonus.

So anybody looking to find their right bookie (or bookies) might have to put in some research, but the experience itself is so simplified that this might even be the biggest task one has to face, prior to placing their desired bets.

To sum up, you can say that sports betting had a place in the past, has a place in the present and will certainly keep its place in the future. It has gone a long way, from a signed and waxed piece of paper to the fully digital solutions we have access to today.

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