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Bookmaker
Organization or person that takes bets on sporting events / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about bookmaking in the sense of gambling. For other uses, see bookmaker (disambiguation). For other uses of "bookie", see bookie (disambiguation).
A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.
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