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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It seems like only yesterday. 

We were completing our Super Bowl trifecta, cashing winning-tickets on the Steelers, the Under, and Pittsburgh on the money line versus Seattle. Yet, here we are, less than a week, getting ready for another season of big plays, hard hits, NFL betting and money-making opportunities.

Here comes the annual question for online NFL bettors: How did that NFL football line originate? Why is that line the way it is?

Las Vegas’ odds makers are experts at using their self created NFL betting lines and point spreads to keep betting action divided for Vegas’ purposes. You see these numbers each week during the NFL season. By making adjustments on any given line or point spread odds makers can sway NFL bettors to place a wager on one team or another.

To make enough winning NFL football picks to compete with Las Vegas’ football lines over the long run, one must analyze Las Vegas football lines  with respect to how they are influenced by the performance of various NFL teams and players including how football lines are influenced by stats and trends. And additionally how NFL lines are influenced by the money flow of the sports betting public and insiders.

Las Vegas’ NFL odds lines and NFL point spreads are the oddsmakers’ instrument for dividing the monetary betting action in half for a given game– or in any other percentage break up they may desire. By setting NFL odds and NFL lines at…

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With the basketball playoffs done and NFL football season still weeks away, there’s really not much activity going on in the betting world.

In the US, online bettors ever so creatively found a way to amuse or busy themselves via the latest props to hit the Internet — hurricane betting.

Hurricane gamblers have several options for placing bets. One is how many hurricanes will hit the United States. Another is how many will hit Florida and what category they will be.

For the many victims of last year’s hurricane Katrina, this form of betting is downright appalling. Mainstream media are crying bad taste. But gamblers will bet on how many times President Bush will say "nucular" in a speech if they have nothing else to bet on.

And this season, betting on hurricanes is the  hot stuff.

Oddsmakers use meteorological data, including Colorado State University professor William Gray’s annual forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season, as well as historical data to determine the likelihood of storm strikes.

One major sportsbook, BetCRIS.com posted .25-to-1 odds that at least two Category 3 storms will hit the US. To be fair, the betting only involves whether or not a hurricane will hit a certain area. Or how many of mother nature’s destructive moods will strike the country.

No one is offering odds on death tolls or…

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This is not a great news for the Great One.

Actress Janet Jones has been indicted for placing bets with a sports gambling ring.

The A Chorus Line star, who is  married to hockey great Wayne Gretzky, was implicated in the illegal New Jersey gambling venture, which has allegedly been financed by Rick Tocchet - her husband’s long-time buddy and fellow coach at the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team in Arizona.

The actress’ career was just taking off again after landing a part opposite Justin Timberlake in new movie Alpha Dog. Jones has been married to Gretzky, a former owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, for almost 18 years. When asked Tuesday about his wife’s possible involvement, Gretzky would not comment. Police say the gambling ring had an active operation during the…

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Gambling 911’s sassy-assed reporter Jenny Woo spent the weekend at some race car event and had lots of pictures taken of her in various poses with older, married gentlemen who want to do naughty things to her when they’re drunk. Jenny Woo also wrote a column about what turns her on. Wee.

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So, still confused about this whole internet thing and wondering how you can blow all your money with one gentle keystroke? Fear not, young credit destroyer! The lovable scamps at Gambling 911 offer up a handy how-to today about the best online gambling sites and how to go about opening account.

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Our good friends at Gambling911 may have their own perfectly timed controversy on their hands in the wake of the whole Carolina Panthers cheerleader lesbo bathroom romp thing as their hot-ass free pick "expert" Lisa Perry, who appears in this month’s Playboy as its "Employee of the Month" feature, has a very interesting interview regarding her former stint as an Indinanapolis Colts cheerleader.

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From our hurricane-rattled chums at Gambling 911, comes a report that Australians are not just a bunch of dudes chucking boomerangs and wrestling crocodiles. Nope, they also bet on horses. A lot. At the start of Emirates Melbourne Cup Day, betting traffic was so heavy that the betting web sites of both the Victorian TAB and their NSW TAB division were down for at least part of the day.

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Kajillionaire gambling huckster Wayne Allyn Root values his own opinion a lot. So much that he has a book out called "Millionaire Republican: Why Republicans Get Rich–And How You Can Too", which, we’re assuming is 400 pages of asshole-dom pruned very heavily by an editor in order to get to that elusive point that proves so vital to most books. Ahem. Anyway, Root is also a columnist for Gambling 911 and in his third column this week, Root tackles the problem of NBA stars dressing like thugs and their objection to the dress code. His tricky navigation between outright bigotry and socioeconomic snobbery is quite disturbing, if not very telling of Root’s mindset. Oh and he also manages to plug his book every third paragraph.

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One more reason to stay away from gaming expos–liver-stopping viruses. According to Gambling 911, at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas held Sept. 13-15th, one of its attendees was manning a free ice cream booth whilst in the final stages of hepatitis A–an ugly, but not neccessarily fatal liver disease. Reports say that up to 25,000 people may have been exposed to the disease during the conference. The Clark County Health District is now in the midst of its investigations. Those of you in the industry should make it a point to stay away from the yellow-tinted people the next few days–even though they look really cool.

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