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Mississippi’s revenue commissioner suggested legalized sports betting could generate $88 million to $100 million in additional tax revenue each year statewide.
“I know these things are very politically controversial with our conservative Christian friends, and I respect their positions, but I’m putting it all into consideration,” Frierson said.
Las Vegas bookmakers discussed the outcome they had with the Cubs winning the World Series.
This year, with the Cubs the favorites, even more bets showed up at the windows. Three and four times more bets were placed on the Cubs to win the World Series than on any other team. And, yet, Las Vegas still won.
“We actually needed the Cubs in the Series and in Game 7,” Esposito, now the sportsbook director at the Sunset Station casino, said. Esposito, a Chicago native and lifelong Cubs fan, watched Wednesday’s Game 7 at Brando’s, a Las Vegas sports bar that caters to Chicago fans. He said the bar went silent when Cleveland Indians centerfielder Rajai Davis tied the game with a two-run home run off Cubs reliever Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning.
Sideline reporter and Cubs fan Craig Sager finally cashed in on his annual $1,000 bet for the Cubs to win the World Series.
The eternal optimism that Sager has shown throughout his professional life, especially during his public battle with leukemia over the past few years, has made him even more endearing to millions of fans all over the world. The loyalty he has shown to the Cubs after all these years will finally pay off as well.
The betting public has been betting against the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers this season.
“People can’t wait to bet against Cleveland and San Francisco,” William Hill sports book director Nick Bogdanovich said. “It was like a feeding frenzy for the masses.”
Professional poker player Phil Ivey lost an appeal against a London casino and had to forfeit £7.7 million in winnings due to his use of “edge sorting.”
Genting, which owns more than 40 casinos in the UK, said edge-sorting, which Ivey used to gain a competitive advantage, was not a legitimate strategy and the casino had no liability to him.
The tactic allows players to predict whether a card may be high or low – and therefore beneficial to their hand – by finding tiny irregularities in the back of each card.
The manufacturing process in some decks of cards causes tiny differences on the edges of playing cards. Some cards printed for the Genting Group have this characteristic, as the machine that cuts them leaves a pattern – a white circle broken by two curved lines – that is more pronounced on some cards than others.
Genting claimed that Ivey’s exploitation of the printing differences defeated the essential premise of the game of baccarat, thereby invalidating the gaming contract at best, or cheating at worst.
Hillary Clinton’s odds to win the 2016 presidential election have shrunk, but still have her ahead going into Election Day.
Following further revelations about her email usage and amidst an FBI investigation, Hillary Clinton is now predicted to “win fewer states” than rival Donald Trump, but still come out on top and be crowned the 45th president of the United States according to the world’s largest sports spread betting business that takes some of the largest bets on political and entertainment events.
An Eagles fan lost a bet to his wife, who is a Cowboys fan, and she won the opportunity to kick him in the crotch.
An Eagles fan didn’t take that advice on Sunday, and he got blasted by his Cowboys-fan wife this week after Dallas beat Philadelphia 29-23 in overtime.
The Eagles fan and his Cowboys wife had a simple bet: If the Eagles won, she was going to have to wear an Eagles jersey and take a picture of herself in it. On the other hand, if the Cowboys won, the man was going to have to let his wife kick him in the crotch.
Although that seems like an unfair bet that no one should ever accept, the husband agreed to those terms, and after the Cowboys won on Sunday night, he paid off his bet.