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Pop Culture Betting

From the tacky and tasteless to the riveting and exciting, the online casinos and betting sites offer up a huge selection of interesting bets that go far beyond the world of sports. Although sports betting is, by far, the most popular sector of the betting industry, bettors really just love the nature of betting and many are willing to take the betting industry to a new level with pop culture and political betting. The US presidential elections a year and a half ago created widespread betting all over the world as bettors watched the odds and bet on who they thought would take the title as President of the United States. Then there’s the current betting that’s captivating pop culture bettors hitting the online casinos and betting sites, the likelihood that Posh Spice and UK football darling David Beckham will split.

Seems trite? Well, it just might be, but that doesn’t mean that the online casinos and betting sites are too proud to offer up odds on the likelihood of a split from this media-hungry couple. Becks and Posh light up the headlines on a regular basis and Paddy Power has taken the situation to a new level with the announcement that the proposition betting has opened up and the odds have been updated most recently to reflect rumors abounding that Becks and Posh are not actually on the cusp of a breakup. Like we said, pretty riveting information for the online casino gambling industry.

On the other side of the entertainment and politics betting is a bit of a darker side – when the online casinos and betting sites take the betting too far. The most notable incident of betting companies overreaching into distasteful territory were the bets on whether then-presidential nominee Barack Obama would get assassinated during his run for the presidency. Those bets were up for a brief period of time before the gambling site took the bets down and issued an apology. Betting on a split for Posh and Becks? Ok. Betting on assassination? Not ok.