As far as the bookie thing goes, it's academic now anyway, since today,
he
had a big argument with the management about working hours and such, and
has
now given notice to quit ! Now, just a question then. There is plenty of
horse racing and other 'bettable' sports in America, so how do you
actually
place a bet, if you can't go into a shop to do it ?


You find a Bookie via word of mouth, friend's recommendation, someone in a
pub, don't really know for sure since I don't even buy scratch off lottery
tickets


So there is no 'official' (legal?) way to place a bet on a horse race ? If
that's the case, what is the point of having the races there ? How does
anyone make any money from them ? I guess it must be legal in Vegas and
Atlanta and Reno and so on, is it ? I've never really looked into the sports
book areas of the casinos, as it all looked a bit too complicated for me,
but do you place bets on horses there ? Is it a straight 'place to win' bet,
or can you do 'each way' and 'rollup' accumulator bets ? I'm really
interested in this, as I would not for one minute have expected that the UK
was more liberal than the US, in something like betting. Someone put me
straight on how it all works over there, please.

Arfa