"the programme content and sold the advertising time. The station sign-on time at dusk varied between summer and winter to allow maximum benefit to be gained from a skywave propagation at night that covered the British Isles, although reception was stronger in northern England. By restricting the service to night-time, the sales representatives were able to sell most of the available airtime both for spot commercials and for sponsored programmes. One spot commercial that became burned into the minds of every Radio Luxembourg listener was for Horace Batchelor's ""Infra-Draw Method"" of winning money on football pools, turning the previously obscure"
"he left just under £150,000. ""An Audience with Horace Batchelor"" by playwright Kevin Cattell and starring Roland Oliver played at Tobacco Factory Theatres in July/August 2013, and was revived for the Salisbury Playhouse in April 2014. Horace Batchelor Horace Cyril Batchelor (22 January 1898 – 8 January 1977) was an English gambling advertiser. He was best known during the 1950s and 1960s as an advertiser on Radio Luxembourg. He advertised a way to win money by predicting the results of football matches, sponsoring programmes on the station. His spelling out of Keynsham, a town in western England where he operated,"
"offered larger jackpots. Some pools offer additional ways to win, based on scores of football matches at half-time, or football matches in which a particular number of goals is scored. The football pools did not fall under gambling legislation (specifically the Betting and Gaming Act 1960 and its predecessors) because they claimed to be competitions of skill, rather than chance; however, their rules typically stated that all transactions were ""binding in honour only"". Typically, between one-quarter and half of the entry fees taken would be returned to the players as prizes. Companies organising football pools were heavily taxed; in 1991"
"a new money-making idea that Moores heard about John Jervis Barnard, a Birmingham man who had latched onto the public's growing passion for two things: football and betting. Moores had always been an avid football fan from when he was very young. Moores used to go and watch Manchester United with his father, a United supporter and season ticket holder, from the age of seven or eight. Barnard had devised a 'football pool', where punters would bet on the outcome of football matches. The payouts to winners came from the 'pool' of money that was bet, less 10 per cent"
"predictions are also awarded. The Intertoto Cup football competition was inaugurated by the football pools companies of central Europe to provide matches for their toto coupons during the summer months. The pools feature prominently in the British films ""Easy Money"" (1948) and ""Home and Away"" (1956) starring Jack Warner. Football pools In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as ""the pools"", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches taking place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, with the potential to win a very large sum"
"the odds of winning a major prize are increased because fewer predictions are required to complete a coupon and, also, fewer individuals play each coupon. Some notable UK football pools winners: Competitions for predicting the results of football matches are older than the football league itself. For example, the ""Cricket and Football Field"" newspaper, in its edition of September 10th, 1887, offered a prize of one guinea to ""the Competitor who predicts the results"" of four football matches to be played the following Saturday. Readers were invited to cut out and fill in a coupon printed in the newspaper, which"
"a points-based scoring system. Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters were the largest pools companies. Littlewoods was the first company to provide pools, selling them outside Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground in 1923. In 1986, a syndicate of players became the first winners of a prize over £1 million. The pools business declined after the introduction of the National Lottery in 1994. Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters were brought together in 2007 by Sportech under the brand 'The New Football Pools', now known as 'The Football Pools'. They offer other small stake, high prize games such as Premier 10 and Jackpot 12. The"
"into effect as an emergency measure targeting blackjack and roulette devices. The wearable computer was co-developed with Claude Shannon between 1960–61. The final operating version of the device was tested in Shannon’s home lab at his basement in June 1961. His achievements have led him to become an inaugural member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. He also devised the ""Thorp count"", a method for calculating the likelihood of winning in certain endgame positions in backgammon. Since the late 1960s, Thorp has used his knowledge of probability and statistics in the stock market by discovering and exploiting a number of"
"game was the Treble Chance, now branded the Classic Pools game. Players pick 10, 11 or 12 football games from the offered fixtures to finish as a draw, in which each team scores at least one goal. The Player with the most accurate predictions wins the top prize, or a share of it if more than one Player has these predictions. In addition, there is a special £3,000,000 prize or share of it for correctly predicting the first ten of the offered fixtures where both teams score. Players can win large cash prizes in a variety of other ways, under"
"Brittens in 1946. There was also Sherman's Pools of Cardiff, taken over by Littlewoods in 1961. The Treble Chance game was inaugurated in 1946; prior to this the Penny Points and Penny Results were the most popular games. The Treble Chance was popular because it offered a potential large jackpot at a time when no other form of gambling in the United Kingdom did; premium bonds were not offered until 1957 and never offered a jackpot which was as high. The popularity of football pools in the UK declined dramatically after the introduction of the National Lottery in 1994, which"
"involve individuals picking specific dates in which someone, who can be either a celebrity or friend, gives birth. Contestants predict the outcome of sporting events that take place at a later time. The concept was introduced in 1923 by Littlewoods Pools where it was known as ""Uri"" and based on football matches. Today in England, sports lotteries are more commonly referred to as football pools. American sports lotteries often do not require contestants to purchase a lottery ticket or make an initial wager. Hockey pools are common in North America and footy tipping in Australia. In the United States the"
"to win up to an additional $250 by playing the ""Lightning Round"", in which the civilian contestant on the prevailing team tried to guess five passwords within 60 seconds from clues given by his/her celebrity partner. $50 was awarded for each correctly guessed password (increased to $100 from 1973 to 1974). The Lightning Round was among the first bonus rounds on a television game (along with the scrambled phrase game on the original ""Beat the Clock""). On the ABC version from 1971 to 1974, immediately after completing the Lightning Round the player was given a chance at ""the Betting Word,"""
"to the football pools. Players marked a playslip to state how many lines they wanted to play. Tickets were £1 per entry. The lottery terminal allocated 10 football fixtures on the player's ticket, and the player attempted to match these fixtures that resulted in a score draw (1–1, 2–2, 3–3 and so on). To win, players had to match at least five fixtures which resulted in a score draw; this always won £5. Matching six won between £6 and £530, depending on how many total score draws there were in total over all the fixtures played. Matching seven score draws"
"The title was chosen in honour of Horace Batchelor, who had been referenced in previous Bonzo Dog Band recordings. In the early 1960s, Batchelor became known through his regular advertisements on Radio Luxembourg for his football pools prediction service. When giving his contact address, he would slowly spell out 'Keynsham' letter by letter, and this became an amusing feature for many young listeners. Keynsham Festival, which started in the late 1990s, takes place in the Memorial Park each July, and attracts around 16,000 people. There is also a Victorian evening held in the town each November. Keynsham and Saltford local"
"would award second and subsequent dividends, splitting smaller proportions of the prize pool among players who had submitted lines scoring nearly as many points; at its peak, the Littlewoods Treble Chance game would offer up to six dividends. During the Northern hemisphere summer, when football leagues were not in operation in the United Kingdom, competitions were based on the results of football matches taking place in Australia. As well as this scoring system, the current Classic Pools game has an available top prize of £3 million; this is not based on who can get the most points, but is split"
"as The Pools or Soccer Pools) was a national lotto-type game, administered by SA Lotteries. Rather than being drawn at random, the winning numbers were selected based on the results of association football matches, either in Australia (typically state leagues) or the northern hemisphere depending on the time of year. Six winning numbers were selected from 38, but only one supplementary number. Draws closed on Saturday afternoon where Australian games are used, or Saturday evening in the case of Northern Hemisphere match weeks. Entries cost $0.50 per game plus agent's commission. Matches were drawn from a match list and numbered"
"Ready Money Betting Act. Following a court appearance, he was convicted. However, as his company never accepted cash, only postal orders that were cashed after the football results and the winning payout had been confirmed, his appeal was upheld. In 1928, Moores' younger brother Cecil devised a security system to prevent cheating. The breakthrough came when the owner of the coupon printing company Arthur Bottomes suggested that he took his exact expenses out (plus a bit extra) before calculating the winning payout. Eventually the pools took off, becoming one of the best-known names in Britain. In January 1932, Moores, by"
"includes a large number of fixtures, spanning the weekend. This is the same as the old 'Treble Chance' which has been renamed and rebranded under new ownership. New pools game variants include Jackpot 12, Premier 10 and Soccer 6; these are all games in which the player must correctly predict ""home win"", ""draw"" or ""away win"" for twelve, ten and six (mainly Premier League) football matches. These new pool games all offer large estimated pool sizes with low stakes; it is possible for people to win tens of thousands of pounds, staking as little as 50p. Scoring schemes have varied"
"40s, and 1950s. It garnered endorsements from Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler and tennis star Jack Kramer during the 1950s. Lucky also sponsored a well-loved popular music radio show called ""Lucky Lager Dance Time"". It ran with local DJs but the same playlist across California, so people could listen to the same music while they were driving. It also sponsored various sports recaps and other programs. In the 1960s, Lucky Lager Brewing Company sponsored the Lucky International Open. Lucky's 1963 McCann Erickson ad campaign included the song ""Go Lively: Get Lucky"", by Richard Adler.[4] Lucky, like most other beer brands"
"ascertained, however, he was never on the staff of Radio Luxembourg, even though his picture appears on several Radio Luxembourg fan websites. At about this time he registered the personal car number plate RAD 10 which became available in Gloucestershire. The arrival of ITV (commercial television) in 1955 brought many new opportunities, including as the announcer on Michael Miles's popular networked game show ""Take Your Pick"" (1955–68) and its successor programme, ""Wheel of Fortune"" (1969–71) – not to be confused with the later (1988–2001) game show of the same name. At BBC radio he was one of the regular presenters"
"football pools companies have traditionally been charitable, donating over £1.1 billion to sports-related causes. Several companies, the largest being Littlewoods and Vernons (both based in Liverpool), as well as Zetters (of London), Copes (London), Murphy’s (Edinburgh), Shermans (Cardiff), Empire (Blackpool), and Brittens (Leicester), have in the past organised similar games, the most famous of which was known as Treble Chance. Players were given a list of football matches set to take place over the coming week and attempted to pick a ""line"" of eight of them, whose results would be worth the most points by the scoring scheme; traditionally by"
"Keynsham (album) Keynsham is the fourth album by the Bonzo Dog Band, originally released in 1969, on the Liberty label. In 2007 the album was re-issued on CD by EMI with five bonus tracks. The bonus tracks were not actually performed by the Bonzo Dog Band, but were from later solo projects performed by individual members of the group. The album title is a reference to Horace Batchelor, a football pools predictor who regularly advertised his service on Radio Luxembourg in the early 1960s. He would spell out the town's name carefully and deliberately when giving his contact details. The"
"crossing specific boxes on a printed coupon. A proportion of the players' combined entry fees was distributed as prizes among those whose entries were worth the highest scores. In 2007, the Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters companies came together to form The New Football Pools, now known as The Football Pools. The new company provides classic football pools games alongside other pools variants with coupons containing a smaller number of football matches. These games are all offered on-line. Entries were traditionally made by post, or via agents or collectors who received a percentage (usually 12.5%) of the money as a fee."
"was originally conceived and employed by Arthur Flegenheimer (also known as Dutch Schultz) alongside various rackets he had running at the racetrack. The system has since taken his name. The strategy can pay dividends when gamblers successfully reduce the potential winners of an event to a select few from the field or when information about runners not expected to perform well does not reach the market (so as to affect the odds), making it profitable to back the rest of the field. Dutching can also be used to reduce the price of the commission you would pay at a betting"
"another €250,000 ball to the final game, the ""Fortune Globe"". The extra black €250,000 balls won on ""Around the World"" were placed into the large bubble machine, along with a large number of other balls numbered €10,000, €12,000, €15,000, €20,000, €30,000, €40,000, €50,000, and €100,000. Eventually, after a certain length of time, one ball was selected from this machine, and the player had its amount added to their final total. Fame and Fortune (TV series) Fame & Fortune is a game show broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights between 1996 and 2006. Presented by Marty Whelan (who signed off"
"victory of 1955, and in the European Championship victories of 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1954. Dodds also represented Britain in the first Bermuda Bowl (1950), and the European Championships of 1952, 1953 and 1955; won the Gold Cup in 1938, 1949, 1956, 1960 and 1961 and the Master Pairs in 1955. His bidding system was CAB, one of half-a-dozen natural systems developed in Britain during the 1930s. CAB, invented by G.G.J. Walshe, was further developed by Dodds, who became its 'prophet'. The system featured ace-showing in response to the artificial game-forcing 2C opener plus Blackwood and strong 1NT openers. Jump"
"had to be sent to the newspaper's offices by the Friday before the matches. If more than one ""Couponnier"" predicted all four exact scores correctly, the prize would be shared between them. There was no charge for entry beyond postage; in fact readers were allowed to submit multiple ""coupons"" together, presumably in order to encourage them to purchase multiple copies of the newspaper. Littlewoods football pools was founded in 1923 by John Moores. The first football pools coupons were distributed to football fans outside Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground in 1923. Vernons was founded in 1925, Zetters in 1933, and"
"Football pools In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as ""the pools"", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches taking place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, with the potential to win a very large sum of money. Entries were traditionally submitted through the post or via collector agents, although it is now possible to play online. Agents would have a specific area in which they collected entries; traditionally, they were paid a set share of every ticket they sold. The traditional and most popular"
"the late 1970s used computers in their shoes to win at roulette. This is an updated and improved version of Edward O Thorp's approach, where Newtonian Laws of Motion are applied to track the roulette ball's deceleration; hence the British title. In the early 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo believed that casino roulette wheels were not perfectly random, and that by recording the results and analysing them with a computer, he could gain an edge on the house by predicting that certain numbers were more likely to occur next than the 1-in-36 odds offered by the house suggested. This he did at"
"and Zetters in 1933. The National Lottery, which was introduced in 1994, offered higher jackpots. This led to the decrease in popularity of the football pools. The number of football-pool players declined from a peak of 10 million in 1994 to 830,000 in 2006. Subsequently, Vernons closed its doorstep collectors operation in February 1998, but ran a partnered lottery-base game with National Lottery during the 1998/99 football season. This helped it resume its business operations thereafter. In 2000, Littlewoods Pools was acquired by Rodime as part of a £161 million deal Littlewoods Gaming. Rechristened Sportech, the company's Littlewoods brand bought"
"offered a £500 wager (equivalent to about £ in present-day terms) in a magazine advertisement to anyone who could demonstrate a convex curvature in a body of water such as a river, canal, or lake. Wallace, intrigued by the challenge and short of money at the time, designed an experiment in which he set up two objects along a six-mile (10 km) stretch of canal. Both objects were at the same height above the water, and he mounted a telescope on a bridge at the same height above the water as well. When seen through the telescope, one object appeared"
"that he became fascinated by blackjack and its inherent strategies after meeting professional gambler Al Francesco in a poker game. Francesco had recently launched the first ""big player"" type of blackjack card counting team, and he recruited Uston to be one of his main team players. Their system was that members of the team would play at different tables around a casino, counting cards. When a count became extremely positive, they would flag the ""big player"" member of the team who would come in and place large bets. This technique would prevent the increased bet spread from being noticed by"
"Labouchère system The Labouchère system, also called the cancellation system or split martingale, is a gambling strategy used in roulette. The user of such a strategy decides before playing how much money they want to win, and writes down a list of positive numbers that sum to the predetermined amount. With each bet, the player stakes an amount equal to the sum of the first and last numbers on the list. If only one number remains, that number is the amount of the stake. If bet is successful, the two amounts are removed from the list. If the bet is"