| 1 | A bigger reason, however, is America' s prohibition of online gambling. | |
| 2 | Bored living alone in a little farmhouse, he came up with a model for a betting exchange. | |
| 3 | "The lottery corporations all insist that their games are safe because they are vetted by outside companies," Srivastava says. | |
| 4 | About a quarter of his positions are 'shorts', while the rest are 'long' positions in sectors such as gambling and luxury goods. | |
| 5 | Tentative as it was, the race meeting in November was a significant move towards opening the country' s vast betting market. |