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Getz's Underdog Theorem a fresh approach to betting pro football

One of the most unique and refreshing new "how-to" bet pro football books to hit the stores in many a year is Eddie Getz's The Underdog Theorem: How to Bet on the NFL and Win While Outperforming Wall Street (214 pages, paperbound, $14.95). Well-priced and under-hyped, the book may be the sleeper of the year. Getz takes a rational approach to risk-taking and betting - "You should never risk more than you can afford to lose" - and examines both the upside and downside of gambling, while emphasizing that without money management all is lost in the end run...read more

Denmark's Hidden Jewel

TV2, a state-owned broadcaster in Denmark, has become the country's first domestic company to provide online skill games with real-money wagering. No hostile response is expected from the government or the gambling monopoly, Danske Spil, because games of skill are not covered by national gambling laws. TV2's games Web site, Spil.TV2.dk, provides a variety of games in which players can wager that they will defeat their competitors in a game or tournament...read more

Around the WSOP: Former detective nets a bracelet in Seniors Championship

Dan LaCourse spent his entire career as a detective sitting at a table and trying to read what the person across from him was thinking. On Wednesday night, he did it again, except this time it was under different circumstances and the end result was a victory in the $1,000 Seniors World Championship at the World Series of Poker that netted him a coveted gold bracelet and a $368,832 pay check...read more

Online gambling bill defeated

The House Financial Services Committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have prohibited the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve from proposing and implementing regulations to enforce the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act...read more

Around the WSOP: Players to watch in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

For an event that has been around for just two years, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship has certainly made its mark on the World Series of Poker. And this year's third-annual edition of the event – which begins on Wednesday evening – will carry even more reverence for a couple of reasons...read more

A full house at the right time

Winning a World Series of Poker event for the first time was a monumental achievement in the career of David Singer. But if his pregnant fiancee, Erin Warner, had gone into labor during the final table, Singer was ready to pick up his chips and walk away from the game. Luckily, Samuel Koster Singer waited a day for his arrival, allowing dad to collect $214,122 by winning the $1,500 buy-in pot-limit hold'em event early in the tournament, topping a field of 713 players. "A lot of people were betting that Erin would go into labor, wanting to see if I would really do it," said Singer, 41, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. Singer is a former environmental law attorney who moved to Las Vegas two years ago to be closer to his 5-year-old son, Anton. "I was her Lamaze coach...read more

Herbst taps new directors

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Herbst Gaming appointed two independent directors to oversee any potential restructuring opportunities for the financially troubled casino operator. Attorneys John O'Reilly and John Brewer will entertain, evaluate and negotiate all restructuring proposals for Herbst Gaming, which is facing a potential bankruptcy because of mounting debt...read more

U.S. Response to I-Gaming Probe Stings EU Operators

The European Commission, as part of its investigation into whether United States policy on Internet gambling violates international trade rules, sent a questionnaire to various government offices and agencies in the United States. The document poses 32 questions, but Susan C...read more

Around the WSOP: Woo 'The Manificent ' hauls in a bracelet

David "The Magnificent" Woo finally has a World Series of Poker bracelet to help him back-up his nickname after the 30-year-old native of South Korea captured the ultra-popular $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship on Monday night. David Woo earned his first WSOP bracelet by outlasting a massive field of 2,720 entries...read more

AsianLogic in J.V. with Parent Co. of Cagayan Freeport Master Licensor

AsianLogic Ltd. is seeking to further extend its reach into Asia through a joint venture with Leisure and Resorts World Corporation, a company that operates bingo parlors in the Philippines and also happens to control the master licensor for online gambling in the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport. Leisure and Resorts, a public company, has disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that it will "enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with AsianLogic ...read more