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By ERIC PFANNER

PARIS — Is online gambling coming in from the cold?

When the U.S. Congress cracked down on Internet betting in 2006, the big, publicly traded European companies that had dominated the business closed up shop in the United States. Growth in the booming industry shifted away from these companies, once the darlings of the [...]

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The recession is hitting many people and places hard.  Las Vegas is among the hardest hit and this week came the shocking news that Elvis Presley (a Vegas icon for years) is now being evicted.
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, a group of investors who had planned on creating a $475 million Elvis Presley-themed [...]

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“Your money is no longer good here”
The Answer (Allen Iverson) has been banned from two different Detroit casinos, because of his “boorish” behavior. Considering how bad he is at gambling, we must be talking about some serious boor activity.
The NBA is looking into an incident involving one of Iverson’s bodyguards at the Greektown Casino.   Apparently [...]

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Michigan State vs. North Carolina NCAA Championship odds opened at North Carolina Tar Heels -7 ½ with the total remaining at 152.5 across the board and have remained there 24 hours later.
“We don’t see too much of a shift other than a half point either way at other online sportsbooks,” expressed Scott Martin of Bookmaker.com.
North [...]

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During the height of March Madness 2009, the Costa Rican-based Tradewinds post up arm, JustBet.com, has been down almost the entire time.
“Players who typically join ‘fly by night’ outfits might be a little scared about this new brand, but in truth JustBet.com is associated with a group that’s been offshore longer than most, around 15 [...]

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BookMaker.com announced today its acquisition of BetJoint.com. Effective immediately, BetJoint players can login to Bookmaker.com using their BetJoint.com username and password.  All player balances are 100% secured but BetJoint players will need to comply with a 3 time rollover on their transferred balances before any withdrawal requests can be made.

BetJoint players will have access to [...]

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(Reuters) - Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg all sought ways on Friday to fend off a global crackdown on tax evasion by making concessions on bank secrecy.
The trio held talks through the night with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which sets international standards for tax and data sharing and compiles a blacklist of [...]

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Despite winning a two month reprieve to restructure debts, auditors raised ’substantial doubt’ in whether MGM Mirage could continue operations. MGM Mirage, largest casino owner on the strip, has reported a painful $1.15 billion fourth-quarter loss after writing down properties because of shrinking gambling revenue.
The auditor’s comments increase the likelihood MGM Mirage will seek bankruptcy [...]

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Las Vegas’ colorful mayor, Oscar Goodman, wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying that companies shouldn’t visit Las Vegas using tax payers money.
“What’s a better place, as I say, than for them to come here,” Goodman told KLAS-TV. “And to change their mind and to go someplace else and to cancel _ and at [...]

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By Selena Roberts and David Epstein

In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.
Rodriguez’s name appears on a list of 104 players who tested [...]

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Betting77.com has your 2009 Super Bowl results and some of the payouts associated with winning bets. The Steelers win 27-23 but the Cardinals cover, a good result for bookmakers who would have been clobbered on the moneyline with an Arizona outright win.  The total in this game went over.
One of the bigger bets of the [...]

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That all important Cardinals vs. Steelers Super Bowl line had some value for anyone looking to place a bet on the Pittsburgh Steelers.  As a -6 ½ favorite at Bookmaker.com, a touchdown win by the Steelers would mean a winning bet as opposed by a “push” (no win, no lose) available at most online sportsbooks [...]

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Another alleged ponzi scheme has wiped people out of millions and this one reportedly has ties to gambling.
According to Jonathan Dienst of MSNBC, Nicholas “Nick” Cosmo is the founding president of Agape World Investments, and late Monday afternoon, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
On Friday, Cosmo received a police escort from the office after [...]

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The BCS Championship game betting odds opened at Florida Gators -3 and heading into game day Thursday, nearly all the books had this one at Florida Gators -5 vs. the Oklahoma Sooners. BetCris.com was one lone exception, offering Florida early this morning at -4 ½ for our European readers.
The two teams earned their spots in [...]

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There’s a famous scene in the World War II movie “Patton” where tank forces commanded by U.S. General George Patton and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel are engaged in a battle in North Africa.
Patton correctly predicts the strategy and tactics Rommel is to use and thus wins the battle easily.
Afterwards, Patton gleefully explains how he [...]

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Bookmaker.com has released its early betting odds on the NFL Division Playoffs.
Betting77.com was a little surprised to see the line so low on Chargers vs. Steelers.
“We would have opened this game with a line of -9 at a minimum,” expressed Bookmaker Manager, Scott Martin.
Baltimore Ravens vs. Tennessee Titans falls more in line with what we [...]

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By Erik Matuszewski
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — Las Vegas oddsmakers have made all four visiting teams favorites in the opening round of the National Football League playoffs for the first time, citing the New York Giants’ championship run last year.
In the previous seven years, only four road teams were picked by oddsmakers entering their first-round playoff [...]

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This year, 1,681 people have been charged with illegal gambling over the Internet in South Korea compared to just 248 this year.  The rationale behind this:  In a struggling economy desperate people will be looking for those big wins.
Sometimes they get lucky.  Just look at the number of online poker millionaires the industry churned out [...]

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Heading into the Baltimore Ravens vs. Dallas Cowboys Saturday night showdown, nearly 80 percent of the public action was going the Cowboys way.
Bookmaker.com had dropped the Dallas line down to -5.5 from -5 with this rather lopsided action.  Betting77.com is reporting that approximately half the online sportsbooks had Dallas at -4 ½/5/5.5/6 during the am [...]

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This Navy vs. Wake Forest EagleBank Bowl betting preview is courtesy of Bookmaker where College Football Bowl Game Betting includes special Bowl Bonuses :
The Bookmaker Opening Line: Wake Forest -  3 ,  Total  41.5
The college football bowl season begins on Saturday morning with a regular season rematch as Navy takes on Wake Forest.  The teams [...]

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The 2009 Allstate BCS National Championship Game
Monday, January 08, 2009 - 7:00 PM
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
One game, one opportunity to step into gridiron greatness. For the top two schools in the country, [...]

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Glenn Haussman of Hotel Interactive spells it out:
“For the first time ever, the casino gaming industry is discovering they’re subject to the same immutable laws as the rest of the hotel business. In what was widely proclaimed to be a recession-proof industry, casino gaming executives are suffering through a wake-up call of billion dollar proportions.”
The [...]

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Did disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich really work as a bookie?  That’s what one informant is telling authorities.
A man who was once a mafia attorney and then became a federal informant claims that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich paid the mob to run a bookmaking operation in Chicago’s North Side, according to a Fox News report.
Robert Cooley, a [...]

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Tiger Woods, still ranked No. 1 in the world even though he hasn’t played since winning the 2008 U.S. Open in June, is the favorite at +175 in Bookmaker.com  Masters Betting Odds.
The 2009 Masters, slated for April 6 to 12 at Augusta National Golf Club, is one of several major sporting events in 2009 that [...]

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Betting77.com reports that a resolution sponsored by Senators Raymond J. Lesniak and Jeff Van Drew which would urge Congress to lift the federal ban on sports wagering was unanimously approved by the Senate Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee today.
“At a time when New Jersey is working to overcome chronic revenue shortfalls and the effects [...]

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Bookmaker.com, the oldest established online sportsbook in the world since 1986, has placed odds of -9 ½ for Texas to win the 2009 Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State January 2.
These two teams have played each other only twice with the away team winning both times.  Ohio State has won once and lost by only 3 [...]

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Whichever team loses in Sunday’s Bills vs. Jets game probably won’t be getting into the Playoffs, though this division remains extremely tight.  Let’s put it another way, this is a “must win” situation for the Bills if they stand a chance to make the Playoffs.  The Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets betting odds opened [...]

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Saturday 13 December 2008,
White Hart Lane

Kickoff: 17:30
 

Tottenham Hotspurs
The Spurs come into this match [...]

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