BetUS's new wagering interface, in development for over a year, is dynamic and extremely user friendly. It maximizes your online sports betting possibilities and your chances to win. I have checked out the new site and anyone who loves ease of use, tons of information and loads of extras from a respected Sportsbook, BET US has done a fantastic job with their new facelift in their sportsbook sect ...  read more

Who are the nine poker players who will be seated at the 2008 WSOP final table come November? Let's meet them.

The chip leader heading into the World Series of Poker final was Dennis Phillips with 26,295,000 chips.

53-year old truck salesman from Cottage Hills, Illinois, is the oldest to be seated at this year's World Series of Poker final table.

He won his way into the Main E ...  read more

I enter my 17th as a pro capper this season, and when I started out it was the Big 8, and now the Big 12, which is my specialty conference. Off another 65% ATS in this conference, and a sweep of the bowl games with Big 12 teams last year, I once again look at this conference as a major player in the national title hunt in 2008. Numerous teams may surprise you this season, with some new blood at ...  read more

Following last year's massive drop in attendance, the 2008 World Series of Poker has witnessed a surge once again, continuing the trend that was in force prior to passage of an online poker prohibition in October 2006.

The top prize at the main event of the World Series of Poker will be $9.12 million this year, and 666 players will get some piece of a $64.3 million prize pool, tournament off ...  read more

Courtesy of Bodog Press with comments from Tony George

April 21, 2008 - Calvin Ayre, the internationally noted billionaire playboy founder of Bodog, will be retiring from his largely ceremonial role as the face of Bodog.

Additionally he will no longer be involved in Bodog operationally. In mid 2007 he successfully transferred ownership of the Bodog brand in North America to the Morris ...  read more

In an interview with Erin Neff of the Las Vegas Review Journal Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain, made it clear that an all out ban on Internet gambling is a very low priority for his future administration.

"The economy is what's hurting the gaming industry in Las Vegas today," McCain said. "It isn't sports betting or Internet gaming."

On Internet gaming, McCain was just o ...  read more

Most like working in the "grey area" and even the "dark area". That's the consensus from online gambling operators based mainly in Costa Rica, the hot spot for targeting the North American market. Costa Rica is the largest single domicile for such businesses in the world.

While European Internet gambling firms have been showing politicians with money through their lobbying efforts, Costa ...  read more

In 2008, I enter my 16th year in professional sports handicapping, and the changes I have seen overall in those numerous years have been both good and bad, but in all essence changes for the better at days end. I thought I would sum up the new business model for Tony George Sports and my takes on the marketplace in today’s ever changing world.

PHONE SERVICES DECLINE – A Good Thing < ...  read more

As first reported by Gambling911.com last week, subpoenas have been sent to some advertising venues that work in conjunction with Bodog Life, and online gambling website. This has nothing to do with current legislation related to the Internet gambling industry but rather involves an ugly patent lawsuit.

Last year, 1st Technology and its principals were successful in having the once dominan ...  read more

The Internet gambling payment processing problems continue one year after major money transfer firms like Neteller and MyCitadel eCommerce abandoned the U.S. market. And nowhere could this be felt more than during last week's Super Bowl Sunday.

"We thought we had a processor put in place that could handle all our new traffic (customer deposits) for Super Bowl Sunday," said one sportsbook o ...  read more

Floridians vote on slots this week, (in addition to casting their vote for the next President of the United States) while New Jersey residents will have a chance to vote for whether they want sports betting in Atlantic City, making the seaside resort only the second town in the US with legalized sports betting.

Just don't hold your breath folks from NJ.

Tom Hester of the Newark St ...  read more

Publicly traded online poker firm, PartyGaming, may end up paying the US government $20 million, assuming US officials plan on being especially generous. That number is based solely on Party's $138.9m in 2006 pre-tax profits and discounts the previous few years it accepted bets from US citizens. The number is also based on the US government wanting 15 per cent back in tax monies.

PartyGa ...  read more

Online gambling website, WagerWeb.com, refuses to pay one of its customers over $37,000. The sports betting firm, based in Costa Rica, claims the customer in question past posted his bets.

Sportsbook Review issued the following statement:

A player won $37,451 making over 60 football wagers through the month of October. At the end of October, the player requested his funds and was give ...  read more

The following statement may be attributed to Joe Brennan Jr., Chairman of the Internet Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA).

"We are encouraged by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker’s decision to uphold Americans’ First Amendment when using the Internet. Judge Crocker was absolutely right to prevent an unwarranted government search into the book purchases and reading habits of ...  read more

It became official on Saturday morining at 9:34 AM, as I drank my first cup of coffee. Athletic Director Dr. Tom Osborne dropped the hammer on Bill Callahan after the Buffs from Colorado hung 65 points on Nebraska's vaunted Blackshirt (I call them pink shirts this year) defense. The Husker faithful could take no more, and while AD Steve Pederson was fired last month and Ozzy was brought back i ...  read more

Couresty from our friends at www.gambling911.com

Massachusetts residents are up in arms over that state's Governor, Deval Patrick, threatening to jail people up to two years for playing online poker while he works hard to legalize land-based casinos in the state.

"It's an outrage!" cried one Massachusetts resident, who wished not to be named. "Patrick needs to be held accountable for ...  read more

That’s right folks; the Kansas Jayhawks sit atop of the overall Big 12 Standings at 9-0 and ranked 4th in the nation. No, this is not basketball we are talking about, it is football. The Jayhawks just hung a basketball score on my beloved Huskers this past weekend scoring 76 points against the blackshirts (or pink shirts), in a serious ass whipping of the hated Huskers, once the Goliath of the B ...  read more

While trying to catch my breath in College Football with one of the wildest years on record with top teams falling down all over the place, it should be noted it has been 3 weeks between reports. Or perhaps it is my utter shock at how my beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers have fallen from grace, and how my prediction of Missouri taking the Big 12 North has come to fruition, with a small glitch, called ...  read more

When Gambling911.com's Tony George predicted his Nebraska Huskers would perform poorly this season, he took it on the chin. But reality set in Monday as the Nebraska Huskers fired Athletic Director Steve Pederson. The news comes only two days after an embarrassing 45-14 loss to Oklahoma State. The team has also fallen during two consecutive weeks.

Pederson, who had held the positio ...  read more

Richard Lee, the poker pro who finished 6th in last year's World Series of Poker, will be charged with operating an online gambling site. The website in question took sports bets.

According to CardPlayer.com, the district attorney’s office of Bexar County, Texas, and the San Antonio police department have been investigating Lee for more than a year. They claim Lee and four business part ...  read more

Online gambling operators, shareholders, poker players, sports bettors/punters, media: These groups and any others dependent on the i-Gaming industry must support the Poker Players Alliance Washington DC initiative this coming October 22 thru October 24. Gambling911.com will be covering this event.

Sue Schneider, one of the co-organizers of this year's i-Gaming Expo and Congress in Barcelon ...  read more

You see a lot of articles from cappers, industry insiders and gaming editors talking about how the public is wrong. It is always an intriguing situation as I watch football during the day myself, and bet against late line moves and even halftime. Because of this business I cannot post these plays in time for sales and money making opportunities for my clients due to time constraints, but I t ...  read more

It is online appropriate that the Internet gambling sector will usher in the month of October with a much anticipated conference taking place October 1 thru 3. Industry representatives from all over the world will descend upon Barcelona for the three day event. Gambling911.com will be speaking at The European I-Gaming Congress & Expo, now as part of the media segment during Day 1.

There is ...  read more

There were some REAL shockers in the Big 12 last week, some good, some bad, some downright ugly. As a Husker fan, it was a long weekend to say the least, as USC came to Lincoln and beat the living tar out of the once mighty Huskers. You might think with ESPN Gameday in town, both radio and TV, that might inspire the Huskers to tackle, execute, and prove to the nation they are returning to glor ...  read more

Thought that headline might grab your attention folks! Looking at this past weekend, the contrarians handicapper or sports bettor, fared much much better than the conventional sports handicapper who looks at stats, past results and injury reports. Unfortunately I was the latter this past weekend, and as always, I tell it like it is, and call them like I see them. I would be remised in my report ...  read more

By Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher

The NFL Week 2 results are in and the bookies made out really big thanks to three of the most bet on teams losing. Actually, the three most bet on teams were pummeled this week.

#1: Bengals(Cincinnati) Point Spread

#2: Saints(NewOrleans) Point Spread

#3: Colts(Indianapolis) Point Spread

Sure, the Colts won outrigh ...  read more

Some interesting non-conference happenings in the Big 12 conference the past 2 weeks in college football open up our 2007 edition of the Big 12 reports for this season. My record of 64% ATS or better in this conference in each of the past 6 seasons will be tested this season, as the South and North have plenty of parity in them, and the South looks to be the best division of the two of them as ...  read more

Lets get right down to it. A wild and wacky week in College football with numerous surprises and disappointments and eyebrow raising "WTF?" games results had everyone scratching their heads somewhat! It looks like early on you simply lay the points with big named teams and watch them come in against the number with ease. I managed a 3-2 ATS record this week and had plenty of nervous moments a ...  read more

My weekly review of what went wrong and right in NCAA Football is a feature here. While I am never one to say I told you so, I simply must refer back to my August 21st article telling all who would take the time to read my article that the pre-season rankings bear little meaning in terms of pointspread expectations. I mentioned the huge number that USC was laying, who was clearly the #1 team i ...  read more

After a 12-4-1 ATS preseason effort for my clients, I have received numerous e-mails from guys with money in their pocket ready to UNLOAD in week 1 of the NFL. Oddsmakers and books are well documented on the record as saying week 1 is one of their biggest weekends of the season because of the hype and build-up. Sports bettors are hungry to get back into the mix, who passed on baseball (which is ...  read more

Yes the NCAA Football polls have been released, and anything but ranking USC #1 in purely speculation by nameless and faceless writers who know as much about the game as my 8th grader in some cases. How important are the polls to head coaches in Division I? Not very, unless they are a BCS school in the running at mid-season, because 90% of division I coaches have their under studies vote the p ...  read more

Now that the king of all sports wagering is upon us, that being football, it is time to maximize profits and minimize losses for the smart player. As a professional handicapper it is not only my job to pick winning selections for my clients, but to help them maximize their profits with those selections. I have written about the flat betting technique I use (equal amounts of money on each bet), ...  read more

As I look at the Super Bowl odds for the teams in the NFL there are a few prop bets worth taking, which I have made some preseason wagers on, and I will tell you who they all are. My process for these prop bets, and I had the Colts last year at 3 to 1 early to win it and cashed a ticket, is one of elimination. That means I look at teams that have NO chance of winning the Super Bowl like Cleve ...  read more

Do not let football fever set in too early folks. While numerous handicappers and scamdicappers will be throwing out plays and pick for sale like mad men, capturing the fever of football betting, I again use caution. Football is the KING of all sports wagering, I have a few takes about my theory for the preseason which has worked well over my past 16 years in the professional handicapping busi ...  read more

I guess trading away QB Matt Schaub was premature and ill advised at best for Atlanta. It is going to haunt them all season. Some of the motivation was new head coach Bobby Petrino counting on the versatile Mike Vick to make big plays and flourish in a new scheme, and the other was salary cap issues. Vick's numbers do not exceed now starter Joey Harrington in any glaring fashion other than th ...  read more

In a follow up to my article "NBA ref scandal Black-eye for Gaming Industry", I have found new information like the rest of you about this scenario that is more disturbing than even the the overtone of the gambling issue that clouds this scenario. More and more information and leaks are showing up in the national press, as well as TV shows giving this tons of time on the air, not only ESPN and ...  read more

I will be breaking down some teams of interest in the NFL this season versus going with the standard conference rankings and reviews, as I look for little gems in the NFL this season that might provide not only a few surprises in terms of winning games, but more importantly from my perspective, covering some spreads, which is where the money is made. After an outstanding year in the NFL last year ...  read more

The recent headlines for the NBA with referee Tim Donaghy must be a hard pill to swallow for NBA commissioner David Stern, who HATES the gambling industry. For the NBA it is an "integrity issue", much like baseball had with Pete Rose pertaining to gambling, and now with the on-going steroid issue. Wayne Gretzky's wife was recently involved or mentioned in a Hockey betting ring this past year a ...  read more

As I have already posted up the Big 12 North for you with Missouri on top followed closely by my alma mater Nebraska, I will repeat myself again. October 6th is Judgment Day in the Big 12, with Nebraska and Missouri playing in Columbia for the northern bragging rights and a probable trip to San Antonio on the line, while Texas and Oklahoma will battle it out in Dallas at the annual Red River Shoo ...  read more

I have been asked by friends of mine over the years, radio station managers, programmers, IT Internet guys, people I meet on the street, and guys I meet in sportsbooks, "what exactly is a sports service?" With football fast approaching, and the little magazines showing up in your mailbox with the Nevada rotation sheets in them with ads for the Lock of the Year on October 6th already, although n ...  read more

Once again my specialty conference will be a player in the BCS Bowl picture in 2007. Not to throw away and dispense with all the trials and tribulations of a season long struggle by 12 teams top reach the pinnacle of the championship game in December, however October 6th is judgment day for the Big 12. North division front runners Missouri and Nebraska clash in Columbia, Missouri on that day, as ...  read more

A lawsuit today was filed in US District Court against Alberto Gonzales, The United States Attorney General by The Interactive Media and Entertainment Gaming Association (IMEGA). Earlier in June the IMEGA filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department of the US Government claiming that the Unlawful Internet Gabling Enforcement Act infringes upon basic constructional rights, (which it does) and t ...  read more

This has always intrigued me, irritated me, and lumped me into a scenario that I have tried to avoid my entire 15 year career in sports handicapping. I will explain this in detail to further explain my plight to those who think one sports handicapper is just like all the others. I have never claimed to be the all saints savior to the marketplace in sports picks. I have however maintained a so ...  read more

While it is a no brainer 3 games into the NBA finals that the Spurs will win it all, it is simply a matter of it happening in 4 or 5 games at this point. This dominance brings to light a serious problem in the NBA. The Eastern Conference of the NBA is at a serious disadvantage in terms of the ability to compete, thus losing viewers for David Sterns NBA product. It makes for easy profits as a ha ...  read more

It is always a decision making point at this time of year for Sports Bettors to try moneyline wagering, for their sports junkie fix. With the NBA winding down here, there is no sports betting on a pointspreads this time of year till football other than WNBA or Arena football, which are not all that popular, so you are left with baseball. In my opinion one of the easiest sports to win money at, h ...  read more

I am ranting again, obviously falling on deaf ears, as American Sports bettors and people offshore who take their betting action continue to be at risk by US authorities determined to continue to violate our civil liberties. This "Witch Hunt" by the Justice Department, who continue to arrest and indict people for offshore bookmaking, a process totally legal in the countries in which they reside, ...  read more

With anti-gambling legislation in force on the Internet, and recent developments in a recent bust and 4 arrests in Phoenix AZ, it is apparent the governments efforts have once again clouded the sports gaming scene with the stark reality that gamblers are forced to seedy outlets for their wagering in lieu of going offshore in a controlled and regulated environment, and a good system of checks and ...  read more

After 4 straight years of 67% ATS or better in the NBA post season and 15 years of experience in this business, I have become accustomed to public opinion usually being wrong, which is why I have had great success going against public opinion and winning some cash for myself and clients over the years, especially as of late. This proves again, like in football, oddsmakers base a lot of the lines ...  read more

Isn't our society getting alittle bit touchy and alittle over the top when it comes right down to it? As I watch the news, or read articles on-line, not only from sports gaming sites, but mainstream sports websites, as well as regular headline news, I am sickened by what our society has become. Politicians who are overzealous, money grubbing, egotistical idiots who have no idea about what thei ...  read more