LONG NIGHT OF THE SHARKS
In a land where gambling is illegal, the World Cup has given gamblers something to cheer aboutat least if they win. In gambling dens across Indonesia, the bets on the teams battling it out in Japan and South Korea range from tens of thousands of rupiah to hundreds of millions.
June 4, 2002
TEN gamblers gathered in a house last Friday. Their mission: to watch television. The station they tuned to was broadcasting the World Cup match between France and Senegal. Now it is history that the Africans scored an upset and put through the only goal of the match. It was not just an upset for the competition. It also upset the market in the betting world. The wise money was on France, the World Cup holders, winning the match against their
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