Favorites in boxing do extremely well and Floyd Mayweather Jr. certainly matches that criteria in his fight against Juan Manuel Marquez Saturday night at the MGM Hotel in Vegas.
Mayweather Jr. was now priced at -450 at BetUS.com. Marquez, on the other hand, would pay 3/1 odds.
But BetUS.com analysts advise that there is so much "uncertainty" [...]
Bwin are known for their fearless innovation within the online gambling market, and recently have expressed this by taking out a majority shareholding in UnitedGames, the EU Massively Multiplayer Online Game developer & Publisher.
This deal follows closely the recent deal carried out with Gioco Digitale, the Italian Poker & Casino operator and is Bwin’s first [...]
Despite the ridicule generated by the ban on Tweets by the International Tennis Federation imposed recently the National Football League in America has followed the same course.
The NFL has announced a ban for players, coaches and the media on the use of social networking services such as Twitter on game days over fears that they [...]
Moving on from its clash in the courts with the national sports leagues the state of Delaware has released details of what sort of sportsbetting it will offer as it debuts the new sports lottery service this week.
Minimum wagers in the new lottery will be $2, with maximum wagers capped at $3000, depending on the [...]
Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin has scored a major coup and some formidable positioning in the Italian market following an agreement to acquire the Italian group Gioco Digitale. With hopes high for an imminent and positive regulatory system in Italy the agreement is especially valuable and significant.
Closely held Gioco boasts it is Italy’s first independent [...]
Through 10 episodes, the 2009 WSOP has earned an average rating of .75, which translates to 741,311 household impressions. That is up about 3 percent from 2008’s .73 rating through this time period, which translated to 704,826 household impressions, according to ESPN.
The real test will come with the "nearly live" World Series of Poker final [...]
Leading online poker room PokerStars.com has announced that its virtual school at PokerStars.net has signed up to be the official sponsor of the all-women High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT). Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the HHPT was created in 2007 to empower women that had a desire to become world-class poker players. Its next event, [...]
Police in the small Utah city of Murray raided an Internet cafe on Sunday evening and arrested over 50 people on allegations that they were conducting and participating in illegal online gambling activities. The Murray City Police Department revealed that it had conducted several undercover operations at The Fortune Cyber Cafe in the Salt Lake [...]
Online gambling group Party Gaming has released its first half results, showing a 6.5% fall in operating profit, which management has attributed to competitive pressures and the consumer slowdown.
However, the group offered the more encouraging news that trade in the last three weeks had been strong. In the three weeks to August 18, the average [...]
Writing in the UK poker magazine Inside Poker this week, Alun Bowden asked some interesting questions about the future of high stakes poker and the development of the game on Internet nosebleed tables.
Following a week of particularly big pots and frenetic action on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker.com it’s a timely examination [...]
