What Is A Bookies Job

  
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Alternative titles for this job include Bookie, turf accountant, betting shop manager. Bookmakers organise gambling activities in betting offices, at racetracks and online. Bookies are set up with companies in the pay per head industry because these companies allow bookies to pay a per player a week fee in order to use their software and website. Bookies Runners Clock. Runners clocks like this were used in bookies from the 1920s until the 1960s. At that time, the only way to place a bet on the horses or dogs was by either placing it on the racetrack,.

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Employee Duties & Responsibilities

1) Manages establishment to receive pay off bets placed by horse racing patrons.

2) Prepares and issues lists of approximate handicap odds on each horse prior to race, from knowledge of previous performance of horse under existing conditions of weather track.

3) Determines risks on each horse to refuse additional bets after maximum desired limit of liability has been reached.

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4) Records bets placed over counter or by telephone or teletype.

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5) Issues betting receipts.

6) Pays off bets on track parimutuel basis.

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7) May supervise and coordinate activities of Cashiers, Gambling amuse. rec. .

8) May balance betting accounts keep records as required by state or municipal authorities.

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9) May place customers bets with cooperating Bookmakers amuse. and rec. to limit liability apportion risk.

10) May be designated Sports Bookmaker amuse. rec. when taking bets on sports, like football, boxing, baseball, and hockey..

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