To save labor of entry work when betting the focus of a specialist and tipster as it is.

Using a focus code being set by every expectation subject in an expectation medium of a newspaper and printed on the space, a purchase card is entered with this focus code as it is. By reading such a purchase card as being entered of the focus code, the code is converted into a group number more than one that the expectation subject has expected according to a preset transformation rule to issue a betting ticket corresponding to the expectation group number.