| It's a game of swings and roundabouts but there's not a bookie in the business who would claim to be behind at the moment. |
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| He's retired now, a bookie at the fronton in Mexico City, and he's the happiest person there. |
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| Appropriately for the son of a bookie, his career has often been about gambling on a long game. |
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| Spread betting is about taking a genuine gamble, and backing your judgement against that of the bookie. |
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| He knew the locations of the sly groggeries, brothels, bookie outlets, and gambling and booze dens. |
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| The millionaire bookie gladly agreed to take the neglected animal into his private sanctuary after it was found emaciated and abandoned. |
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| It's more like a bookie giving odds on how likely he is to win the match. |
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| Now you don't actually need to be at the horse races or by a bookie to wager some bet. |
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| Sportingbet are currently offering one of the best bookie free bets there has ever been. |
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| As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches. |
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| Stopping a horse winning in the old days usually required the involvement of an old-fashioned bent bookie, a breed that has become rare since betting became corporatised. |
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| All to pay the bookie and have enough money leftover to make the next bet. |
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| Their defiance led to the death of Philip Jacobs, also known as Oker, a bookie aged 53 from Whitechapel. |
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| That leads to yet another shouting match between the bookie and Ken as Peter vows never to abandon his son. |
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| Only 18 months ago, Australia's Shane Warne, who is one of Wisden's five cricketers of the century, could have been banned for several years after admitting taking money from a Delhi bookie. |
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| Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box. |
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| With a cellular phone, the local bookie can operate anywhere. |
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| The largest single collection of his works was owned by a bookie, Alfie McLean, an Ulsterman, who bought some and took others in lieu of gambling debts. |
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| In some cases the situation arises when there are very high potential payouts by the bookie, perhaps due to an unintentional error made while quoting odds. |
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| The subjective estimation is usually provided by a bookie, by the collective guesswork of the gambling public, as in parimutuel bets, or by the market forces of supply and demand. |
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| At one stage around 1960 I worked for an unshaven, vile and smelly street bookie, Wingy, who claimed he'd lost his arm in the service of the King on the Somme. |
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| Tommy remembered Uncle Johnny standing up from his chair in the snug and settling his titfer on his head, what made him look as if he were a bookie. |
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