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Sports betting could be legalized in Delaware just in time for the new football season, if Governor Jack Markell has his way. The sports betting proposal is expected to enter the legislative process in the state next week, after Markell made true on his promise to have the sports betting bill as one of the first pieces of legislature introduced in the local Senate after the lawmakers reconvene this year. If passed, Delaware will be the first state on the East Coast with legalized sports betting. The proposed bill will legalize a sports betting lottery-style, i.e. people will be able to wager parlay style bets on sporting events. Reports also suggest that the sports betting lottery could be up and running before the 2009 NFL season begins this fall.
“Our policy on this issue has been consistent for decades. We have been an active proponent of federal and state legislation that prohibits the spread of legal sports gambling. We do not want our games used as bait,” was the comment NFL spokesman Greg Aiello gave ESPN about the possible legal sports betting in Delaware. The League is one of the most fierce opponents of sports betting, claiming the wagers would interfere with the integrity of the football games. Many believe, however, that the real reason NFL opposes legal sports betting is because the League will not be able to get a piece of the pie but I think that all might change in the near future, everyone needs more money in this type of economic times, even the NFL.
Here is my favorite poker quote from blogger Yakshi: He plays .02 poker which is almost like free poker.
I am a sort of superhuman. It’s a gift and a curse at the same time. Immune from cancer, hangover and writer’s block, possessing rubber bones, and trained since birth in the ninja-ic arts, I have the speed of a leopard, the dexterity of a chimpanzee, the snout of a walrus, the hunting prowess of a native Idahoan, the protective shell of a sunflower seed, the hearing ability of a librarian, the dental work of a meth-head, the ethical system of a lawyer, the brainpower of a mildly retarded dolphin, the desperate eyes of a stripper and the singing ability of Stevie Wonder.
I think I have finally had it with boring online casinos, I want to start playing exclusively at live dealer casinos instead. It really is the perfect compromise between playing online and going to a land-based casino. Especially because there are no land-based casinos near me. I would have to travel at least an hour and a half, with gas prices as high as they are that actually takes away from my gambling stake. I think I will continue to pursue my goal of finding online live dealer roulette and then I might never visit a brick and mortar casino again!
Ok so the internet revolution has made it really easy for me to get my gambling fix. I used to only do live poker games and live casino roullete but now I find that I play mostly online because of convenience but I still really miss being at a live casino with real live dealers - I really enjoy the banter and friendliness of this interaction. Some of my friends would always prefer to not have a live dealer but that is because they are kind of anti-social. Now I just have to do a search on the web for a live roulette casino list so I can enjoy my second favourite game.
BodogLife.com (formerly Bodog.com), the rags-to-riches-to-rags story is playing out because of DoJ troubles with payment proccessing.
Forbes.com reported last month that the US Government seized $24 million from bank accounts linked to Bodog (BodogLife.com). And while Bodog was not the only online gambling firm with monies tied to Zip Payments - the subject of a U.S. attorney’s office out of Baltimore - the company has not had the same degree of success setting up new processing means compared to their counterparts. Of greater concern are the rumors that have been circulating that Bodog also set up shell corporations in the state of Nevada to help facilitate transfers of funds, though Gambling911.com has not yet been able to confirm these stories.
The court papers detail an elaborate international structure put together to allow Bodog to collect money and write checks to winning gamblers in the U.S. One affidavit by Randall S. Carrow, a special agent with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, said that $248 million involving entities linked to Bodog was processed through Wachovia Bank, from which $11 million of the $24 million was seized.
According to Carrow’s detailed sworn statements, the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division started looking at Bodog in 2003 and opened a formal probe in 2006, around the same time the US Government began severely cracking down on high profile online gambling companies the likes of BetonSports and Neteller, another payment solutions business that deals exclusively in online gambling.
This week, www.Gambling911.com learned that Bodog laid off nearly 300 employees with more terminations likely in the coming weeks. The company has been trying to break into the European market, however, they do not have a proper license to advertise in the United Kingdom. Bodog’s new Dublin, Ireland office is said to be so quiet you can hear a pin drop.
One source from within the company told us: “The situation is horrible. Nobody wants to process payments for us.”
Bodog’s inability to maintain a low profile has been at least partially to blame. I would say Arye has learned his lesson but probably now!
Gambling can save your life, Arkansas’ highest court ordered an inmate off of death row on Thursday, citing a 1940 court decision that gave an escape clause from an aggravated-robbery conviction to people trying to recover gambling losses.
Justices ordered a new sentencing hearing for Michael B. Daniels, who said he was attempting to recover $20 he lost in a game of three-card monte when he stabbed and killed James Williams, 52, on Jan. 8, 2006. Daniels claimed during the trial that Williams had cheated in the game.
Justices cited a 68-year-old ruling that said someone couldn’t be convicted of aggravated robbery while trying to recover gambling losses. Aggravated robbery was the underlying circumstance when a jury ordered Daniels to die for Williams’ death. The split court reversed Daniels’ aggravated robbery conviction and the capital murder charge linked to it, but upheld his conviction for premeditated and deliberate capital murder.
In the majority opinion, Associate Justice Robert L. Brown acknowledged that some could argue the 1940 case was not in the public’s interest, but said, “it is nonetheless still good law in Arkansas.”
Daniels’ attorney, Teri Chambers, said Thursday’s ruling “makes sense because you have to be able to commit a theft in order to commit a robbery. You have to be taking someone else’s property to commit a theft.” It was unclear whether the ruling had been used to get anyone else off of Arkansas death row.
During the trial, Daniels’ attorney admitted that his client stabbed Williams in the head, chest and stomach with a Bowie knife. The attack was recorded on surveillance video. Prosecutors said there was no evidence that Williams cheated during the card game. I always told my momma that gambling was a good thing!
Ok, this one was very painful because I made it to the last table in a $3.40 tourney on PokerStars - I had pocket 5’s and there was a couple of decent raises pre-flop and 4 of us saw the flop. The flop came Q-Q-5, I already had the full house and was planning on making a killing. The person to my right bet 5k and I raised it to 10k. There was another caller in between us. The turn was another 5 giving me four fives!!!! I checked, the person bet 5k, next player calls and then me just calling. Last card was a 10. Person to my right went all-in 12k more and I called (only had 11k left) the last person folded. The pot was huge!!! — around 70k and would have put me in the lead by about 22k…..anyways the other player had pocket queens!!! OMG, I was totally shocked!!! Now that is a very, very bad beat!!
Playing Omaha the flop is 7-7-10 and I have pocket 10’s. I check the flop to see if I can spot someone with a 7 and maybe they will bet and I will make some cash. Nobody bets the flop and a K comes on the turn, the first player bets $200 and I raise all-in, an extra $290. We open and sure enough he had 7-K. The river comes and low-and-behold it is a 7….bad, bad beat. This is a friendly cash game and bad beats ussualy get a scratch-and-win lottery ticket but there was none left.
I was thinking I maybe should have bet $100 on the flop but I would have gotten called by the same player because he had trips and no matter what I bet on the turn (if I had more cash) he would have had to call, so I guess I was destined to lose that hand. Feel free to leave comments about your own bad beats.
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