bookmaker

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Unlike traditional sports wagering, where odds are set by a bookmaker, sports-related event contracts are priced based on how other traders are betting in the market.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wales were not looking like a team that had lost 23 out of their previous 25 games, who had come into this as no-hopers with the bookmakers.

From BBC

For bookmakers, DSG is "giving their bettors some tools, like statistics and reference material over a period of archives, so they can take decisions on that", said Rajesh D'Souza, its business director.

From Barron's

It is, according to bookmakers, the unlikeliest Super Bowl match-up of modern times.

From Barron's

The bookmakers predict a similarly leisurely final quarter for Wigglesworth and his team on Saturday, though.

From BBC