- Place your Belmont bets today| Leave a Comment
The Belmont Stakes - the final leg of the Triple Crown - sees its 133rd running on Saturday, June 7. The Bodog Racebook has all your Belmont Stakes odds - but before you place your bets, be sure you read up!
Big Brown - 1/3 - Big Brown captured the Kentucky Derby two weeks before exploding to victory in [...]
- Woody Harrelson Wins Celebrity Poker Event| Leave a Comment
One of the highlight events at Cannes each year is the Charity Poker Game organized by the Partouche Group, owners of the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes, and this year was no disappointment, with top stars and big drama.
The lineup consisted of six American actors–Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper, Goldie [...]
- US gambling revenues up 5.3 percent| Leave a Comment
Americans spent more money gambling in 2007 than on movie ‘tickets’ or ‘candy’, but the steady growth of commercial casinos in the past decade could take a hit next year because of a slumping economy and setbacks in building new places to play.
A survey released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association showed that U.S. commercial [...]
- Swiss casinos boost casino profits| Leave a Comment
Very good economic times have led to a nice year for Swiss casinos, according to the country’s industry association.
Gaming profits for Switzerland’s 17 casinos reached SFr908.8 million ($861.34 million) in 2007, a 5.4 per cent increase over the previous year. More than three quarters of this revenue came from slot machines and the rest from [...]
- Support disaster relief in Burma| Leave a Comment
Join the recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist cyclone victims in Myanmar. Your donation to either of these organizations will help survivors of the cyclone and other natural disasters rebuild their communities, and their lives.
Donate to UNICEF:For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been the world’s leading international children’s organization, working in over [...]
- World Series of Poker finals moved back| Leave a Comment
The final table for the Main Event of the World Series of Poker has been moved to November, casino company and WSOP owner Harrah’s announced this week. The 117-day pause in the action will enable ESPN to provide a possibly same-day telecast, as opposed to past years in which the Main Event concluded in the [...]
- World Series of Poker at Titan Poker| Leave a Comment
Titan Poker is offering an exciting prize package to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this July. The Executive Package is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any poker player. It includes a $10,000 buy-in to the Main Event as well as registration fees and a 14-night accommodation (July 3rd - July 17th) for [...]
- Calvin Ayre has quit at Bodog| Leave a Comment
Calvin Ayre announced Monday on Bodog’s website that he has quit…..!!!!????
Calvin Ayre - now 47, became involved in the online gambling industry in the late 1990-s, and introduced Bodog in 2000. By 2006 - Bodog-company was generating more than $7 billion US in wagers, making it the seventh-largest online gambling company in the world.
(That same year - Forbes [...]
- Kentucky Derby Betting| Leave a Comment
From now until May 3rd, you can pick Kentucky Derby winners and make the most exciting two minutes in sports payoff with insider horse racing information now available at the Bodog Racebook.
*The Kentucky Derby can only include a select number of horses each year. In order for officials to decide on who will be racing [...]
- March Madness Surprising Results| Leave a Comment
The surprising results of the NCAA tournament games have ruined numerous brackets in office pools and Online contests across the country. However - for the first time ever, all four number one seeds in the tournament, North Carolina - Kansas - UCLA and Memphis, are among the final four teams competing for the Division I basketball championship.
North Carolina [...]
- WSOP main event satellites by Doyles Poker Room| Leave a Comment
Doyles Poker Room announced last Tuesday they are in the process of launching lucrative WSOP main event satellites - something all online poker players can get mighty excited about.
2008 WSOP promises to be more monumental than ever before. Filled with dozens of events, the 2008 WSOP packs the power to transform relative unknowns into the next [...]
- Kevin Spacey in the film 21| Leave a Comment
The gambling drama 21 won big at the US box office last weekend, earning $23.7 million in its opening three days to top the chart. The film stars Kevin Spacey - Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess as maths geniuses who adapt their skills to the blackjack tables of Las Vegas. It is loosely based on Ben [...]
- Roland Shuster winning a $20,000 prize package| Leave a Comment
Roland Shuster will play at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo 2008 after winning a $20,000 prize package at the popular online poker room Titan Poker.
Roland Shuster -43- from Germany, landed a coveted seat to the exclusive European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo after winning Titan Poker’s Super Satellite on March 16th.
Roland is thrilled about [...]
- Neil Channing won the 2008 Irish Poker Open| Leave a Comment
The 2008 Irish Poker Open was loaded with talent - including Doyle Brunson and Sorel Mizzi. All of the well-known poker players were knocked out earlier in the tournament, allowing names such as Donal Norton, Thomas Dunwoodie and Kai Paulsen to shine at the final table.
Neil Channing overcame a field of 667 poker players to take [...]
- Anna Falco won $9 million on the weekend| Leave a Comment
Anna Falco - 53-year-old woman from Woodbridge was playing the Megabucks machine at Casino Rama on Saturday. Steady play on a slot machine for under an hour Anna Falco won a record of $9 million.
The machine takes a minimum $1 bet but she was wagering $3 a spin to qualify for the jackpot, which starts at $1 [...]
- Vegas Poker Fantasy at Doyles Poker Room| Leave a Comment
Doyles Poker Room is offering players a unique opportunity to win prize packages that include a legendary Las Vegas experience that could be your best shot at poker immortality. The Vegas Poker Fantasy 2008 prize packages is a 13-day excursion to Sin City that includes enrollment into the 3-day WPT Boot Camp Champions Event on May 23. [...]
- NCAA Mens Basketball Championship| Leave a Comment
This year’s tournament will begin March 20 and conclude with the championship game April 7. (March Madness will be a little bit wilder around Phoenix).
For the duration of the NCAA games, Cox will offer one additional channel: 86. All games will be broadcast on Cox channels 5, 705, 85 and 86. Also, beginning March 27, [...]
- Casino smoking restrictions| Leave a Comment
New Jersey casino operators moan that smoking restrictions in Atlantic City have caused many of their best customers to flee to the smoker-friendly casinos of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. But a legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos - which claim that smoking restrictions would [...]
- Gambling in Thailand| Leave a Comment
Gambling is coming. It is coming on a worldwide basis - and there is not much politicians who are stuck in the dark ages can do to stop the movement. It seems as though every day, another country is legalizing some form of gambling. It is no longer just a practice for underground crime. It now [...]
- 2008 WSOP at Full Tilt Poker| Leave a Comment
Starting this week at Full Tilt Poker - you will be able to qualify for a number of different WSOP events through FTP - including the $10k main event and the $50k HORSE event.
Full Tilt Poker will once again have their *$10 Million Main Event Mania* promotion this year. If you qualify for the WSOP main event [...]
- Legal action against Greece and Netherlands| Leave a Comment
The European Commission on Thursday gave Greece and the Netherlands a final warning before court action over restrictions in their gambling markets. The countries have two months to reply. Failure to do so or a response deemed inadequate could mean they face the European Court of Justice.
The agency objects to Greek restrictions on gambling and advertising, [...]
- Legalized gambling in bars| Leave a Comment
The state Senate has voted for more gambling in Indiana. The pull tabs currently available are sold by the Hoosier Lottery. They cost a dollar or less and you can win hundreds. Bar owners want to sell them and they got a step closer Wednesday in being able to do so.
Bar owners seeking to sell [...]
