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Table-Tennis and Darts Emerge As Betting Corruption Risks

The story of betting’s latest moral hazard begins not in Vegas or London, but in a steamy Lagos gym, where a young Nigerian table-tennis player named Adebowale Akinyemi Wilson lost a first-round match that nobody outside the venue should have cared about. Yet five thousand miles away, in a New Jersey sportsbook, a cluster of sharp-eyed gamblers had piled heavy money on his opponent—a rank underdog. Within hours, trading algorithms … Read more

Paddy Power Removed Odds on Obama Assassination

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor Irish online sportsbook Paddy Power received a great deal of criticism for releasing odds on U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama’s assassination. Due to a slew of complaints and suggestions that the odds might prompt a bettor to assassinate the president while in office, the website has discontinued these betting facilities. The odds were not necessarily that the president-elect would be assassinated, but that he … Read more

Is Bodog in More Trouble Than We Imagined?

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor More complaints about Bodoglife.com have arisen, as customers say their payments have slowed down significantly following the recent payment processing difficulties. According to Gambling911.com, the processing troubles that have hit the entire market have specifically hurt Bodog in the recent months. “Processors won’t go near Bodog,” a source told Gambling911.com, regarding the Department of Justice’s recent seizure of Bodog’s funds. Payment has become … Read more

What You Need to Know About UFC Betting (to win!)

UFC Betting is the fastest-growing segment of the sports betting industry today, and for good reason. The fights are amazing adrenaline blasts themselves: add money to the cocktail and it becomes an unbelievable experience that feels so good that god will probably smite us it. When your fighter wins the fight, and you win money from it, the high is euphoric enough it ought to be illegal. UFC fights are … Read more

Best Damn Poker Show

Yeah, they’re calling it the Best Damn Poker Show and it’s on Monday nights on FSN. I caught the second episode tonight. This is hardly a poker show. This is a venting booth for two of the biggest promotional sluts in poker to air their loins. I mean really, I trudged through more than half of this episode and I definitely saw more talk between Hellmuth and Duke than I … Read more

Late Tournament Pushing

In the few books I’ve read on late tournament play (and coming off a conversation with my buddy Durden in regards to the subject), the subject of how to play a short stack late in a tournament to stay alive and/or steal blinds has come up several times in the past few days for me. The logic on what kind of hand is good to try to take control with … Read more

Chris Ferguson challenge

So, if you haven’t seen, Chris Ferguson has an interesting experiment going on over at Full Tilt. His goal was to start with $0 and build it up to $10,000 by playing (at first) freerolls, and slowly building his stack. By winning small prizes here and there, and slowly increasing his stakes, he’s already turned the $0 into $20,152.67. Pretty awesome. Here are some of his guidelines the site has … Read more