NBA’s Silver Says Legal Sports Gambling in U.S. Is Inevitable
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Legalized sports gambling in the U.S. is likely to spread and the National Basketball Association expects to profit from it, league Commissioner Adam Silver said. The NBA joined other U.S. professional sports leagues in opposing a…
Trader Using NFL Algorithms to Defend $2 Million Betting Crown
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — By day, David Frohardt-Lane puts his math skills to use as an algorithmic trader for 3Red Group in Chicago. Away from work, he uses them to cash in on the National Football League. Frohardt-Lane is seeking…
Fresh start for PokerStars may revitalize N.J. gambling
By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The online gaming community believes PokerStars’ planned entrance into New Jersey’s Internet wagering market in October is the fuel needed to kick-start the state’s stagnant gambling activity into overdrive. The tainted European betting giant…
Tennis Study Finds Unusual Bet Patterns in 3 Wimbledon Matches
Alex Duff, Bloomberg · September 1, 2014 at 6:10 am (Bloomberg) — Swings in betting odds suggest an average of 23 professional tennis matches might be fixed each year, according to a study that found suspicious patterns in three matches…
Video Poker Questions from a Novice
I have really been enjoying my foray into VP as a second casino game and I have some questions. First, do any of you have betting strategies for the game? I don’t mean the strategy cards. Those are everywhere. I…
IS POKER A SPORT?
During a recent poll on Reddit, 460 people were asked to vote on whether 53 different ‘fringe’ games were actually sports and I take a look at how poker faired. Is Poker a Sport?Is poker a sport? According to the…
DANIEL NEGREANU HAS TO CONQUER THE ONLINE WORLD TO BE THE BEST
Daniel Negreanu has come under fire from some quarters of the online poker world this week after his BIG ONE for ONE DROP play prompted one member of the community to say he couldn’t even beat 5/10 online at PokerStars….
PRIVATETABLE.COM TO OFFER REAL-MONEY ONLINE POKER IN CALIFORNIA BY MONTH’S END
A California tribe says it will begin taking real-money wagers on its online poker site later this month. The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel made waves last month when it announces the launch of PrivateTable.com, an online poker site operated…
PAYPAL RETURN TO US IGAMING SOIL SOLIDIFYING; COINBASE DECLARES ONLINE GAMBLING ILLEGAL IN THE US
PayPal’s return to the US iGaming space is looking ever more likely, and the timing couldn’t be better. Chris Grove, of OnlinePokerReport, was the first to break the news that PayPal may be eyeing a return to the regulating iGaming…
Part 3: Legal questions arise for fantasy day game biz
Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games. Since 2011, the billion-dollar fantasy market has been infused with dozens of daily and weekly games. Those games allow players to…