Lee Westwood Even Odds to Win Players Championship

Lee Westwood’s odds of winning the 2010 Players Championship were now at +137 at Sports Interaction.  The payout would be $13.70 for every $10 bet and it appears as if he has a great shot.  This bet could have great value.

Westwood watched a two-shot lead turn into a two-shot deficit. Over the final hour, Robert Allenby picked up three shots on the last three holes, while Heath Slocum dropped four shots on the last six holes.

The day ended with Westwood hitting a daring shot with a 6-iron through a gap in the trees for a par on the 18th hole for a 2-under 70 to finish the third round with a one-shot lead, same as he started. H

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May 5th, 2010
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Sabotage Not Ruled Out In Wall Street Plunge: Bettors React

President Obama has not ruled out sabotage in Thursday’s shocking near 1,000 point loss on the Stock Exchange after rebounding later in the day.

The president announced Friday morning that a full review is being conducted, and Gibbs said Obama is waiting to hear the results of a review before ruling out what might have caused it, including the possibility of sabotage, The Hill reported on Friday afternoon.

"I wouldn’t rule anything in or rule anything out," Gibbs told reporters in his West Wing office Friday.

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May 5th, 2010
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RedKings.com giving away WSOP packages – Online Casino News

Gibraltar-licensed online casino RedKings.com has announced that it will be holding six weekly events between now and June 6 with each awarding a package to the main event of the upcoming World Series Of Poker.

RedKings.com revealed that each prize package for its six Online Finals events is worth $16,000 and consists of $13,000 to cover the buy-in and hotel accommodation alongside $3,000 in travel and spending money.

The online casino stated that it will also hold a free $5,000 World Series Of Poker warm-up tournament on July 5.

“There is always a huge interest in the World Series Of Poker among RedKings.com players, so we have added more Online Finals to satisfy the many requests we have had from our players interested in playing alongside the regular Team RedKings.com members,” said Jenny Clarke, Live Events Manager for RedKings.com.

As well as the six extra qualifiers for seats at the main event of the Las Vegas extravaganza, RedKings.com is also offering three packages into side events 51 and 56. (Read the full post about ‘RedKings.com giving away WSOP packages – Online Casino News’…)

Apr 30th, 2010
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CardRunners.com set to lose South – Online Casino News

Instructional online poker website CardRunners.com has announced that Cole ‘CTS’ South is set to resign as its lead instructor and part-owner after the 22-year-old stated that he felt being ‘spread too thin’.

South is an economics student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and has also been juggling three full-time occupations.

He was primarily responsible for medium to high-stakes no-limit hold’em videos and created 22 over his tenure at CardRunners.com, often mixing heads-up and short-handed play.

“I have had an amazing experience as a lead instructor with CardRunners.com over the past few years but today I am announcing my departure from the company,” read a statement from South.

“At the end of April I will be moving on both as an instructor and as an owner of the business.

“I am sure there are people who will ask questions or speculate about my departure from CardRunners.com. (Read the full post about ‘CardRunners.com set to lose South – Online Casino News’…)

Apr 30th, 2010
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Australian Families of Crime

Australians are lapping up their weekly, almost daily, dose of crime and all matters of vice.

Media Man and Gambling911 continue their probe into both real crime and TV entertainment drama down under.

Australian viewers can’t get enough of crime TV, so it appears, with Network Nine Australia doing a first showing of the ‘Australian Families Of Crime’ featuring Melbourne underworld figure, Carl Williams, on the very same day as his real life death in HM Prison Barwon.

Williams was bashed to death by two inmates using a blunt instrument.

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Apr 15th, 2010
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InterCasino to Blast One Lucky Player into Space

The promotion means he or she will join an elite group of 445 human beings who have experienced weightlessness.

The InterCasino Space Race promotion will run for the next 13 weeks. The trip to outer space is just one of the prizes on offer in the casino’s benchmark promotion.

Until the end of May, anyone playing at InterCasino will earn stars which will count towards a variety of different promotions on offer.

The water cooler promotion is the ‘Win a Trip to Space’ offer. Every time a player wagers at InterCasino, they will earn a star and every star is worth one entry into a prize draw where one player will win the chance to fly into space.

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Apr 15th, 2010
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Become the next Team VictoryPoker.com Pro – Online Casino News

US-friendly virtual poker room VictoryPoker.com has launched a new promotion that is giving amateur players the chance to win $100,000 in tournament entries alongside cash, a car and a condo on the Las Vegas strip. Full details of this exciting promotion can be seen on this video and by keeping an eye on the Victory Poker website.

VictoryPoker.com launched in early-February and is a member of the Everleaf Poker Network. It also boasts its very own squad of 19 sponsored players in Team Victory, which contains Antonio Esfandiari, Danny Wong, Brian Rast, Andrew Robl, Sander Lylloff, Keith Gipson, Dan Bilzerian, Paul Wasicka, Lee Markholt, Alec Torelli, David Chicotsky and Playboy Playmate Of The Year 2007 Sara Underwood.

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Apr 10th, 2010
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Indian casinos against internet gambling bill defeated

The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States.

The Morongo, in concert with Californian commercial poker rooms, had hoped to marshall tribal support to halt the Frank bill, clearing the way for it to set up an exclusive legalised Internet poker system within California.

Reporting on the proceedings of the National Indian Gaming Association conference this week, the publication Indian Country Today said that the divisive debate on Internet gambling closed with an anti-climatic vote to delay action on the Morongo resolution opposing the Frank bill.

“Tribal members of the National Indian Gaming Association voted 27-6 with one abstention to table what was intended as a compromise resolution in response to proposed bills by Rep.

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Apr 10th, 2010

Major New York online sports betting bust with 38 arrested

Online sports betting is once again under the spotlight in New York following police raids that have culminated a prolonged investigation by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and his now experienced enforcement team. Two online sports gambling rings, one believed to be centred on the Jazz Sports website, are alleged to have taken in nearly $178 million in bets around the country in less than three years, prosecutors charged Wednesday after arresting 38 persons on enterprise corruption charges.

Suspected money collectors, agents and bookies were arrested in Nevada, Louisiana, Florida, New York and Arizona after a three-year investigation led by the New York Police Department’s organised crime division.

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Apr 5th, 2010
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Liberation for French online gambling market

Despite determined left wing political resistance, the French National Assembly has passed a bill to legalise online gambling and open up the French market to international operators. Virtual poker machines and games of chance are not included in the law because they are considered too addictive to be legalised.

On Tuesday the National Assembly passed the bill, which provides for regulation in a frame work described by observers as the strictest in Europe, reports the publication France24.

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Apr 5th, 2010