Betting parlour

A betting parlour is a location where people gather to place bets (often with a bookmaker or pari-mutuel operator).^[1]^[2]

In jurisdictions where betting is illegal, or legal only in regulated places, a betting parlour may be an illicit establishment.^[3]^[4]

In jurisdictions where betting is legal, it may refer to an area at a racecourse or an off-track betting venue (typically for horse or dog racing),^[3]^[5]^: 35–36 a sports betting area inside a stadium^[1] or casino^[6], or a dedicated betting shop.^[2]

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Mather, Victor (2019-10-03), "Washington Arena to Offer Hockey, Hoops and Sports Betting", The New York Times website, archived from the original on 2019-10-03, retrieved 2026-02-05, The Capital One Arena, home to the N.B.A.'s Wizards and N.H.L.'s Capitals, will be the first major team sports facility in the United States to have a betting parlor.
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Schoenfeld, Bruce (2019-01-29), "Will Sports Betting Transform How Games Are Watched, and Even Played?", The New York Times Magazine website, archived from the original on 2019-01-29, Inside a storefront, a crowd was making noise. It was the betting parlor, Leonsis learned. The phrase didn't carry any connotation of disrepute, as it would in America.
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Rashbaum, William K. (2002-06-09), "A Day Before the Big Race, 10 Are Arrested in Raids on 6 Brooklyn Horse-Betting Parlors", The New York Times website, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, retrieved 2026-02-05, Detectives raided six illegal horse-betting parlors in Brooklyn on Friday, a day before the Belmont Stakes, and called them the first such gambling dens uncovered in the borough in nearly a decade, officials said yesterday.
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Kolpack, Dave (2005-01-18), Betting parlor handled $99M in illegal wagers, Associated Press, archived from the original on 2026-02-06, retrieved 2026-02-05 – via ESPN website, Racing Services was licensed to provide broadcast signals from out-of-state horse races, such as the Kentucky Derby, to betting parlors in the state. But the company was not licensed to run its own betting parlor, authorities said. Only charities and other nonprofit organizations may run such establishments in North Dakota.
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Beale, David; Goldman, Clifford (1974), "Background Paper", Easy Money, The Twentieth Century Fund, ISBN 87078-133-2, LCCN 74-21880, Off-track horse race betting is America's newest form of legal gambling. The first off-track pari-mutuel window opened in 1971, and by 1974, the OTB corporation was operating over 132 parlors plus a telephone betting service. The daily betting handle has reached approximately $2.5 million.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)
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Corasaniti, Nick (2019-06-29), "Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is the Sports Betting Capital of the Country", The New York Times website, archived from the original on 2019-06-29, retrieved 2026-02-05, Though other states have embraced legalized sports betting since the Supreme Court's decision, New Jersey has been at the forefront, with racetracks and casinos in Atlantic City opening betting windows within days of Gov. Philip D. Murphy's signing the formal regulations into law.

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