Category: Wagering (Page 7 of 8)

Sports betting – Moneyball or instinct?

October 15, 2014 / Bullz-Eye Staff

If you love your sport, the chances are that you also enjoy the odd wager here and there; this adds a little excitement to games you may not otherwise hugely care about.

Interestingly, the chances are also that you’ve generally lost money in this endeavor over the years, despite having the odd big win here and there. This is the pattern most sports fans see across different sports over the history of their gambling activity over a number of years. The bookies aren’t in business to give away free cash and their careful mark-up of the odds is generally designed to put you in a slightly disadvantageous position, statistically speaking, before the game or race etc., gets underway.

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Ronaldo v Rafa: Let Battle Commence

October 14, 2014 / Bullz-Eye Staff

What happens when two giants of sport collide? They play poker of course.

Between them they’ve won the world’s biggest competitions, earned millions of dollars, and have earned hero status amongst fans across the globe, but they’ve left their respective sports aside for Rafael Nadal takes on soccer legend Ronaldo on the green velvet.

It’s not the first time the pair have met on the poker table, with them meeting just under a year ago in Prague with the tennis star serving up a few aces to defeat not only the Brazilian but Dutch hockey player Farima Moreira de Melo and six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu.

This time the venue is London. But how will they fair in the capital?

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A Trio of Tremendous Poker Movies

September 22, 2014 / Bullz-Eye Staff

When the chips are down, a good old-fashioned card game may be all you need to straighten out your luck

The best poker movies tend to blend action, suspense and of course, actual poker playing, into one enthralling mix that keeps viewers both entertained and excited. It would be foolish to assume that everyone in a general audience consensus would willingly sit through a two hour game of poker, but when you factor in plot lines, love interests and character motives, it makes for captivating viewing. With that said, here’s our top picks that manage to mix bluffing with brilliance.

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The future of mobile gambling, what we can expect

September 15, 2014 / Bullz-Eye Staff

The popularity of gambling has increased significantly in recent years and experts in the industry are pointing to a number of reasons why. Most agree, however, that the biggest single factor is the prevalence of mobile technology and the new-found ease of access to online gambling sites this has provided. These developments are not only aimed at seasoned long-term gamblers, they are also attractive to people who have always wanted to take part in this sort of activity, but were unable to do so because of a number of restrictions, both practical and cultural.

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Building up casinos

September 11, 2014 / Bullz-Eye Staff

In the casino business, especially in Las Vegas, people often get the idea that corporations just come in and build huge complexes from the ground up. While this certainly does happen from time to time, the reality is that many people started small and gradually built their casinos up, expanding them for years, or even decades, to get to where they are now. This gradual growth allowed them to invest money as they made it, so they did not have to start out with a huge amount of capital. For example, you can see exactly how Steve Wynn did this, starting out with a bingo business in Maryland.

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