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on April 12, 2006
Once again, a sportsbook has pulled a reality tv betting market because of suspicious betting activity.
Bodog.com has decided to suspend betting on Survivor:Panama when a series of suspicious maximum...
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on March 27, 2006
Employees for the Hong Kong Jockey Club are so busy, they don't even have a chance to take a leak - and are asking their bosses to employ more people to give them that break.
Some operators have...
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Betting
on March 12, 2006
Its the final 12 in this season's American Idol and as usual its a field day for the bookies - unless you can find the gem in this year's crop of young and not-so-young singers. A somewhat sur...
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Betting
on March 10, 2006
He used to sell fruit on the prairies in Canada and now he's the cover star of the latest Forbes Billionaire isse.
He also runs a multi-billion dollar company from Costa Rica that is basically i...
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on March 8, 2006
NASCAR is another American phenomenon that is less than appealing outside the country. However, whilst the rest of the world marvels at the riches and luxury of Formula One, the blue collar world of a...
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on March 6, 2006
Its difficult to explain to a non-American exactly what is the phenomenon of March Madness. It's so big, the game console manufacturers all have their own March Madness titles
Basically, March Ma...
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on March 5, 2006
Well it's nice to start things off with a positive result. Things can only go down from here! Clooney, pictured above receiving his Oscar, won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a CIA ag...
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on March 5, 2006
OK, I've been mulling this over for a while and my first tip of the night is Best Male actor to cry during his acceptance speech at the 2006 Oscars - 8/1 (PaddyPower)
My second tip, is George C...
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on February 24, 2006
Bodog.com, an online casino gambling group has reported record levels of interest in gambling on political propositions. Currently they are taking bets on whether or not it will be revealed this year ...
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on February 17, 2006
With 24 semi-finalists ready to vie for the American idol and put themselves out to the public vote, bookies have already begun to offer up early odds for the winner.
Pinnaclesports.com have put Ace...
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on February 10, 2006
Despite being one of the most popular sports events in the World, the Winter Olympics rarely offers any good betting opportunities - probably because a lot of the skiers, skaters and sledders are pret...
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Betting
on February 9, 2006
As the tocchet/wayne gretzky betting scandal begins to infiltrate the masses (2500 articles on google news and counting), MSNBC has kindly taken the time to educate us naive readers on the current law...
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on February 7, 2006
As if hockey hasn't been dragged through enough in the last couple of years, with a year long lockout and now a gambling bust that includes Assistant Coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, Rick Tocchet and...
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on February 3, 2006
Its the biggest sports weekend in the US - and arguably the biggest betting weekend ever as Seattle take on Pittsburgh in this Sunday's superbowl.
And if its superbowl weekend, that means its tim...
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on February 1, 2006
A South Australian MP who is known for his tough anti-gambling stance is looking for the government to put a stop to SMS/text betting start up txt2bet alleging that this 24/7 betting option is more li...
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on January 31, 2006
Brokeback Mountain is the buzz film of the year - picking up 8 oscar nominations in all the major categories. Its also odds on to win Best Picture and Best Director - to the tune of an untouchable 1/2...
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on January 25, 2006
When India face their biggest rivals, neighbours Pakistan, cricket sites on the web see a tenfold increase in traffic. Not too surprising, but when this increase also includes a bet, its worth sitting...
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on January 23, 2006
With the biggest game of the US football season just 2 weeks away, Vegas bookies have made Pittsburgh Steelers 3.5-4 point favourites to beat the Seattle Seahawks
"Seattle's going to have th...
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on January 9, 2006
Irish horse-racing is on the increase. Over �230 million was bet last year at race meetings with �176m bet on course, whilst courses saw record attendances.
Irish horse racing chief exec Brian Kavan...
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on January 4, 2006
Its a new year and a new bunch of reality shows are about to hit the airwaves. Whilst American Idol takes time to warm up before you can get an idea of the potential winners (and lets be honest, the a...
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, Poker
on December 29, 2005
Most online gambling sites have long ignored the Apple Mac user - but with poker seeping into most people's minds, many of the smart online poker websites are starting to offer their games to Mac ...
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on December 19, 2005
Betbug.com, the world's first true person-to-person betting network, along with their partner, gamebookers, have purchased basketball star, Vladimir Petrovic of Greek League 1 basketball team Aris...
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on December 14, 2005
So hands up if anyone is surprised there's a betting scam involving reality TV shows. Anyone? Anyone? Is that a hand I see? No? thought not.
It seems some of the biggest reality shows in the UK h...
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on December 5, 2005
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on November 3, 2005
After a seemingly neverending saga of politics, police intervention and gambling, it appears as if Tasmania have finally offered UK betting exchange, Betfair, a license in their state.
And the pessim...
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, Poker
on November 1, 2005
- Seems like 888.comis finally putting some optimism back into the online gaming world and have released their 3rd quarter results that has put the boom back into poker stocks. They showed a 56% incre...
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on October 25, 2005
One of the things that internet betting has done to the industry is create ever more 'special event' markets - by this I mean - if you can think of a betting event, there'll be an online b...
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on October 6, 2005
Sports betting movie, 'Two for the Money' gets released this weekend in the US to so-so reviews.
The movie is about a former college football star who seems to have a knack finding winners. ...
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on September 28, 2005
The Chinese authorities have sentenced an online bookie to 2.5 years in prison and fined almost $4000.
Gu Lianbo ran possibly the biggest online soccer betting sites in Beijing, handling $74 million ...
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on September 22, 2005
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