Paddy Power’s forthcoming PaddyPowerPoker’s report Poker 2006: The State of Play reveals that:
Over 50% of all poker players have played the game naked or in their underwear.
More than 10% have injured themselves playing poker.
Around 33% would forfeit their partner for $1 million.

Christmas Day is winding down, can’t help but entertain some thoughts for the incoming new year – what’s in store for Oddjack in 2006? Here’s a short list that belong to the MUST, WILL HAPPEN, DONE ALREADY category.

dump MovableType… go to WordPress MovableType blogging software sucks. Migrating an MT blog from different servers SUCK! I mean, the Gawker folks did their best and were very accomodating – but after a week of tweaking, installing plugins and submitting suport tickets – this mt install still doesn’t hyphenate URL’s and directories. Thus I need to post entire stories – and if people follow links – those are all broken links.

Merry Christmas y’all! What to do on Christmas day? What else but fire up that computer and make lots of moolah playing poker online. Here’s a rundown of some online poker tournaments scgeduled for today – Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005.
Bodog Poker
$100,000 Guaranteed $100.00 buyin $9.00 fee No rebuy. 2:00pm$6,500 Guaranteed $15.00 buyin $1.00 fee [...]

To many people, the holiday season culminates in waking up on Christmas morning and th entire family opening presents. After sifting through gifts good and the disappointments set in, there’s often a sense of "What do we do next?".

Thank Santa for gambling options abound even on Christmas Day! As long as there are sporting games, and as long as odds are available – sports betting will be one of the things to do while trapped at home waiting for the day after Christmas.

These televised Christmas sporting events are a holiday cheer for TV networks. Millions of people are watching, allowing the networks to charge top dollar for advertising slots. Even online bookmakers are expecting a huge betting turnaround this season due to blockbuster matchups in the NBA, NFL, college football and even in some European football games.

Condolences to Tony Dungy and family on the death of James Dungy [Indianapolis Star]. The COLTS are visiting the Seattle Seahawks as 10-pt underdogs (opened at 7.5). Colts fans are worried, just when things looked so promising for the Colts, steamrolling to a 13-0 start until the San Diego Chargers pulled an upset (some credit to the Bolts but Tony & Peyton made surprisingly lackluster and questionable decisions) in Week 15 action. Is this another post season meltdown in the making?

The defending Super Bowl champions have been written off since pre-season through NFL Week 14 – when Dillon, Givens and Faulk rejoined the roster from injuries.

There’s a huge Oscar buzz for this new gay movie, Brokeback Mountain. One thing this movie does is push the limit, what with the two main characters being buffalo-riding cowboys from the heartland.

Thirty years ago even the �ber sexy tandem Robert Redford and Paul Newman won’t get away with it. And until today the Republicans and the Vatican aren’t exactly sitting on their bums and shushing the gay equality issue away.

For all ya’ll red-blooded wrestling fans, ya’ll very well know by now that Vincent K. McMahon, owner and chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) bought his competition by purchasing both the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and, more importantly, the World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

With Vince McMahon in sole control of professional wrestling, the WWE had a monopoly of sorts when it comes to professional wrestling, rendering wrestling fans without any alternative whatsoever.

A new sex tape (rumor has it) is on the verge of surfacing this time involving Yahoo’s top search item in 2005 – "pop sweetheart – gone – wild – newly – minted – MILF" and her couch-hogging (reportedly) spouse.

Britney Spears was reported by ET Online as filing a lawsuit against Us Weekly magazine for running a story with the headline "Brit & Kev: Secret Sex Tape?".

Pardon the Alan Moore allusion but something tells me I’m about to don a mask and and put on a show. I mean this literally: I’m being told I might be off to Vegas next year. Not only does this news bring back memories of sleepless inebriated nights, it also makes me wonder if the seafood buffet I once regurgitated in Fremont was all worth it.

I don’t even want to talk about Las Vegas gambling. Too easy. It’s there; take it, leave it; move on. I’m sitting on what is there outside of gambling. More to the point, I am thinking up so-called Las Vegas attractions that might come off as vulgar as my coining the term �berkill just now; and then decide whether or not I look forward to going.

Cole Turner, awwww godammit I bit my tongue! I mean, Calvin Ayre…yes, that gorgeous hulk of a bookie… doesn’t he and Bodog just have a thing for celeb babies?

He and his Bodog oddsmaker gang are the trend-setter in celebrity baby propositions. And why not, after all a majority of people love talk about those soft, cuddly little creatures (not to be confused for a bunny), it doesn’t hurt that the parents are celebrities!

In the latest set of props they want you celebrity suckers to bet whether Marilyn Manson and his wife will have a baby in 2006 (only the dudes from Hell’s bowel would care)? Or will Donald Trump and Melania Knauss have a boy or a girl (really, we don’t care!)?