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Originally Posted by SageDonkey
How many women do you see betting in betting shops or at the race track, surely the race track is not an intimidating environment. How many female armed robbers/bank robbers are there?
Have no idea if you mean the sports book or something else...if the book, the basic issue isn't being risk averse as much as it likely is not taking the time to be informed at the level necessary to make a lot of the bets without the bet being -EV. Ironically, when I was in Vegas, I found some books that would not take bets or put lines out for the Women's College World Series...their reason being that they didn't know enough about the sport. I did find lines downtown and did extremely well precisely because I DID know the sport (having played helps with evaluating teams).
Race tracks...been a while since I was at either a horse track or a dog track. Found the horses boring but liked the dogs. Unfortunately, the dog track closest to where I was at the time ceased to be a viable entity. But there were plenty of women in lines placing bets at both...whether they were there because of the love of the animals, the sun, the after-race shows or to get their gamble on, I have no idea. It was an afternoon of cheap entertainment for me with a chance to maybe make a few hundred bucks...
Robbery defendants are increasing...often at pharmacies, but that gets into a whole different rationale and demographic.