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Hot to trot: Lucky streaks happen but they are not the result of luck.
One punter wins her sixth bet in a row GAMBLERS, by definition, are optimists. They can win only by beating the odds, and—over the long term—the odds cannot be beaten. But what about the short term?
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Organised crime launders 100 billion euros through gambling, report
Eighty per cent of the world's bets on sport are illegally carried out, according to researchers from Paris's Sorbonne University and the Doha-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS).
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Good Poker Players Aren't Lucky
An Idaho court rules that poker is a game of skill, not a game of chance like craps or roulette. If card players are lucky, maybe the Justice Department will take the same view.
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How Gamblers Get Hot
A study by researchers at University College, London, seems to confirm the existence of one of gambling’s most destructive theories.
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How a team of students beat the casinos
When it comes to gambling, everyone knows the casino always comes out on top - right? But in the 1990s a group of students proved the punter didn't have to be the loser. This is the story of the MIT Blackjack Team.
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Amaya Gaming In Deal To Buy PokerStars For $4.9 Billion
One of the most high-stakes, controversial and intriguing business stories in the history of the modern gambling industry is heading toward its conclusion. PokerStars, the world’s biggest online poker company, has agreed to sell itself for $4.9 billion to Amaya Gaming, a small publicly-traded Canadian supplier of gambling equipment.
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The richest man in Vegas has declared war on internet gamblers
In February, an attack ad titled "Don’t Let the Games Begin" started popping up in online gambling forums. The ad opens on two shadows shaking hands in a dark city alley. We see a distraught mother at her laptop, a young child at a computer in a dim bedroom, police cars with sirens. A narrator with a scaly voice comes on. "An established al-Qaeda poker network could extract enough untraceable money from the United States in just a few days to fund several 9/11-sized attacks," he says.
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Inside the Viper Room: Hollywood’s Most Exclusive Poker Game
How did a 26-year-old cocktail waitress end up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers, including the likes of Leo, Ben, and Tobey? In an adaptation from her new memoir, Molly Bloom, who has since gained notoriety as “the Poker Princess,” recalls her lucky break, at the infamous Viper Room; the millions that crossed her table; and the biggest winners—who could also be the worst losers.
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Henry Orenstein: The Holocaust Survivor and Inventor Who Forever Changed Poker
Henry Orenstein is one such individual, a man who survived the horrors of the Holocaust through sheer guile, registering himself and his three brothers as mathematicians to ensure their usefulness and delay extermination long enough to be liberated by Allied forces.
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Why Opening a Casino Is a Terrible Idea
A number of smaller towns are opening up casinos in the hopes of emulating the success of Las Vegas and Atlantic City. This is the worst idea.
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Meet The American Poker Exiles Who Gamble All Day And Party All Night In Playa Del Carmen
An American online poker posse in exile is living the dream in Mexico's Playa del Carmen.
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On Vegas Strip, Blackjack Rule Change Is Sleight of Hand
Casino operators are changing blackjack payouts to give the house an even greater advantage. Is this a sign that Vegas is on its way back from the recession, or that the Strip’s biggest players are trying to squeeze some more cash out of visitors before the well runs dry?
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APNewsBreak: Trump sues to get name off casinos
Donald Trump has a message for the two Atlantic City casinos that still bear his name, five years after he gave up anything to do with running them: You're fired. The real estate mogul and reality TV star, who presided over a casino empire in the glory days of Atlantic City, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday demanding that his name be stripped from the remaining two.
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Slot-machine science: How casinos get you to spend more money
Author Natasha Dow Schüll talks about the evolution of slot machines, exploring how and why they've become so addictive.
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A Good Way to Wreck a Local Economy: Build Casinos
Baltimore is a troubled city, as you know from The Wire. Like many troubled cities, Baltimore has turned to casino gambling as its solution. On August 26, a new Caesar’s casino will open on the site of an old chemical factory, a little more than 2 miles from the famous Inner Harbor and Camden Yards baseball stadium.
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The Sportsbook guide on how to bet online for the NFL 2014 - NFL WonderPunter Sports
With the 2014 NFL season quickly approaching, it can only mean one thing… big money! As we all know, football is king in America and this year will be even bigger with the addition of the College Football ranks showcasing their new playoff format at the end of the season to crown an undisputed …
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The mystery Vegas casino you can only visit once every two years
Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the United States. It is home to, per About.com, about 200,000 slot machines across about 1,700 licensed gambling locations. Those "licensed gambling locations" aren't necessarily "casinos," though -- you can find slot machine at the airport, for example, as well as random other places throughout the area. If you really want to gamble in Vegas, it's pretty easy to find someone who will take your money. It can be a very lucrative business.
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English Soccer Has a Gambling Problem
On December 3, 2005, Harry Redknapp resigned as manager of Southampton Football Club. Five days later, he turned up some ten miles away in the city of Portsmouth, where he announced that he had become the new manager of Portsmouth Football Club. Redknapp has a reputation for courting controversy, to put it lightly, and in that sense, this move was about right.
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'Why I bet £900k on the Scottish referendum'
An anonymous man bet £900,000 on a "No" vote in the Scottish independence referendum. He won. Here he talks through his thought process. This was not a reckless gamble. Losing this money would have seriously hurt. But I wouldn't have lost my house - although maybe my wife would have had something to say about it.
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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
Blind to the mathematical odds, we fall to the marketing gods.
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