Hmm… Probably just one of Calvin’s antics in making us think there’s something new with NewBodog.

Except from the somewhat very straightforward new name of the ‘’sportsbook formerly known as Bodog,'’ NewBodog is still the same online casino and sportsbook operated by that one guy who we are really REALLY tired of but can’t seem to get rid off, Calvin Ayre.

In case you didn’t know, Bodog a.k.a. NewBodog, is an online casino and sportsbook founded by Calvin Ayre that aims to bamboozle you of yer own mon… er… I mean, give you the best online betting experience there is today.

Yep, no kidding. So why the change from the acceptable ‘’Bodog'’ moniker to the somewhat ridiculous ‘’NewBodog'’ tag? Apparently, Calvin Ayre got into some sort of legal dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name.

According to Mr. Ayre, they are currently fighting this dispute and they are confident that they will be stuck with the moniker NewBodog, for a fucking long time. He he… No seriously, these morons are confident that they can win this…

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We’re all getting cranky with this UIGEA, and I know that in countries where online casino gambling is banned, the sentiments are the same.

But like Michael Crichton said, “Life will always find a way.” Now I know he meant it to describe how gigantic dinosaurs can spring back to life, which we don’t want to happen, but it can be applied to other stuff as well. Like online gambling.

They may invent every crazy ways of sending online gaming to extinction, but they won’t necessarily cut off its head. Players and industry players will only find better ways to keep Internet casinos alive. So to say it loudly, we keep getting smarter while the enemies keep getting dumber.

For example, have you heard of “proxy betting“? Somewhere in the northern tip of the Philippines, Internet gaming companies allow players from all over the world to bet on their favorite games, like black jack and baccarat, via proxies. How? With Web Casinos.

Games and tournaments are video streamed online where players can watch from where they are. At the same time, their “proxies” do the betting for them based on their instructions using a VOIP (voice over Internet protocol).

Make no mistake, web gambling is still banned in the Philippines as well as…

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I just don’t get guys who find amusement in cockfighting.

Throw two cocks in a ring and they go at each other ’til one of them falls to the ground ready to hit the pan.

Maybe it’s the fried chicken lover in me. I know I like to eat them, but I don’t like watching my feathered friends suffer a bloody blow just so I can have my crispy treats.

Not that I have evidence the losing cock is sent to the deep frier, it’s just my twisted theory. Because I haven’t seen a cock cemetery and if the cockers really treat their fighters as beloved pets there would be one, right?

The World Slasher Cup for one is an event where men show off their prized gamecocks pitted against another’s. I believe it’s held in the Philippines every year and cockfighting aficionados travel in this part of Asia to either watch or participate in this very manly, oozing with machismo, spectacle.

Participants this year include cockers from Guam, Australia & Mexico Not sure if there’s one coming from the US.

As you know cockfighting is an illegal form of gambling in many parts of the States. Here you have at least two enemies, the gambling-hating politicians and PETA. Just recently Arkansas police raided a cock fighting arena and arrested, like…

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James Bond likes his martini shaken, not stirred, while playing his favorite Baccarat casino game.

Baccarat is hugely popular in European casinos as Blackjack is in the US, I guess. You can correct me if I’m wrong, no sweat. But this game has also become the favorite game for Asian gamblers, particularly the hotshot Chinese casino players.

To give you a brief background: Baccarat (say Bah-Caw-Rah) is actually an Italian reference to "zero", it’s a table game played with eight decks of cards. In this game, you are not competing against the dealer or the other players as you are in black jack. Quite specifically, you are betting on the cards. The object of the game is to obtain a two-card hand (in some cases, up to a three-card hand) with a total value that is closest to 9.

Go to any of your favorite online casino sites and you will always find baccarat on its roster of games. Although it’s highly popular, it’s not as easy game to play as your favorite black jack. With so many cards involved and pretty complicated set of rules at first sight.

Plus many players who indulge in this game are the whales, or those high roller dudes.

Online gamblers from Asia and Europe are welcome to play. Folks from Italy will be happy to hear that by next year online gambling in their country will be legalized. Therefore they can freely…

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Your credit card companies won’t let you use your plastics to play your favorite casino games online? Well that’s their loss because online gamers can simply switch to e-wallets.

Because of the anti-online gambling climate prevailing in the US, credit companies would rather get to the safe side lest they face litigation from the federal government. Credit card companies are banning transactions related to online gambling, causing online gamblers to look to other options for their online gambling needs.

Many online gambling companies in return are working around this issue by taking online checks and online payments through e-wallet services like NETeller. Neteller for its part is helping these casino and sportsbook sites in trying to boost real money depositors through promotions.

Betonline Sportsbook Casino for one will grant new players 30% Free Play on their First Deposit of $300 or more through NETELLER.

Same with Golden Palace Casino who gives new users $300 Sign-Up Bonus when they use Neteller for initial deposit into their…

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WAKE UP. Every Casino has a built-in EDGE.

Yup, no matter how good you are in gambling, casinos have a built-in edge on every gaming option. THAT means, casinos ONLY offer games which insure that they will WIN more money FROM players than they will lose TO players.

Yup, and that, my friend, is a fact. And that built-in profit that allows casinos to become a profitable business is what they call the dreaded CASNO EDGE.

Whaddaya’ think, that casinos are there to give ya’ll money? Of course not. If casinos do that, then why did they put up this kind of business anyway?

So what do you do to beat this casino edge?

Easy.

Just play the games that have the LOWEST casino edges. Yup, that means, these are the games that give the player, or the gambler if you will, the BEST chances of winning.

You can’t force the casino to play by the rules, giving itself a mere 50-50 chance of beating you or that other guy throwing the dice like a jackass as if he’s Peyton Manning or…

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Don’t play fair.

That’s what you have to do to rack up those wins online. People think that for one to be successful in poker, or online poker for that matter, a combination of skill and luck is THE winning recipe for big profits in cyberspace.

I’m telling ya’ll now that THIS is not the case.

Let me tell you an example, you and your buddy are playing online poker and you, being the more experienced poker ‘’superstar'’ wondershow in the hell did your buddy, a stupid moron on the poker table, got more chips from the table than you?

The answer my friend to that very simple inquiry is this, your friend is simply colluding with another player at the ‘’virtual table.'’ By playing together as a conniving tag-team, they can grab all them ‘’virtual chips,'’ no matter how stupid they are at poker.

Simple.

There are many ways you can exploit the online environment. Collusion is just one thing.

One also needs to understand what kind of poker player you are playng against, whether…

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… And I still get my ass handed to me at the office when we play poker.

Yup, I don’t know squat about being a top poker player but I sure know some to be good enough to win some hands. Being good in poker does not necessarily mean that you have to spend hours in front of the PC, playing online poker.

And no, trips to Las Vegas a year or playing poker every Friday does not necessarily turn you into a good poker player either. It helps, but not entirely.

Like basketball for example, playing five-on-five basketball does not make you the next Michael Jordan. Yeah I know, I told you here in OddJack that Dwyane Wade is the next in line but that’s not even the point.

To excel in one sport, you have to practice all the fundamentals of the game. In basketball, you practice passing the basketball just right, having that perfect shooting stroke that suits you, and yes, a little defense won’t hurt. In poker, it’s the same.

I guess you would say that poker is JUST a game where you wait until you get lucky enough to land those…

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$18,972 for a domain name?! Oh yeah, before anything else, lemme’ just introduce myself.

This here is Syndc8, OddJack’s official man in charge of finance. Aside from dealing drugs and pissing people off who just plain irritate us, we sure have a lot of finances (bets to collect and gambling debts? kidding) to take care of and there’s where I come in.

On that note, let me tell you what an asshole did to me recently.

Freepicks.com was being auctioned recently and yours truly ALMOST got it.

Lo and behold, some jackass outbid me.

Not that I’m bitching about it or anything but, the site says Freepicks.com for crying out loud, and who better to have that domain name than OddJack? Jeezuschrist, we are the NO.1 HANDICAPPER IN SEDGECOURT and…

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Now, upon reading the title, you ask, ‘’How in the heck can you predict basketball games with math?!?'’

It’s possible.

Or so says business executive Charles Allen.

Charles Allen works in a high-rise office with leather chairs, valuable paintings and a breathtaking but expensive view of the city. Allen, a forty-something family guy, is a respected executive in his company, well, wearing a sharp suit will certainly earn you that.

However, in this same office, Allen turns it into something else whenever it’s time for some NBA action. With a full slate of NBA games, the entrepreneur turns into a gambling tycoon.

With $15,000 riding on a Cleveland - Minnesota game, he blurts out, ‘’LeBron James nails a three-pointer! LeBron, you cockroach!'’ Allen needs the game to fall under the total point line of 183 but with just 9.2 seconds left, Ricky Davis ruined everything with a shot from downtown.

And he wasn’t even…

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