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Yes that makes sense. They just need to have something every month for people to be hyped about betting on.

Sports betting sites capitalized on this by introducing "live betting" (aka in-game betting).

So not only can you bet on winner/loser - over/under....but you can bet play by play. "Team A will fumble the ball X times", "Team B will be next team to score", etc...

This has produced lots of interesting situations for bettors who may pick Team A to win, but upon seeing a bad first quarter, will then hedge against them by betting that Team B will have higher half-time score. Or sometimes bettors may bet for Team A to win, but also hoping that they fumble the ball X number of times so that their multi-layered bets can all hit....

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Good points.

You can buy and sell shares during an event on a prediction market which makes it more like day trading than sports betting. Sports betting offers a much wider variety of outcomes to bet on though.

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